Chapter Summaries

After defeating Shrek Academy’s Inner Court, Meng Li returned home exhausted with Na’er, where Gu Yue caught Na’er kissing him. Gu Yue left hurt and decided to let Meng Li choose between them, with the result determining whether she absorbed Na’er or departed.

• Meng Li left the arena after his victory, reunited with Na’er, and learned Gu Yue was still at the Spirit Pagoda.
• Na’er brought Meng Li home, where he quickly fell asleep while she watched over him.
• Na’er kissed the sleeping Meng Li, and Gu Yue arrived and caught her.
• Gu Yue woke Meng Li and accused him of making excuses before storming out with Na’er.
• Gu Yue accepted that Meng Li might not have known about the kiss and resolved to let him choose between her and Na’er.

After waking from a dream about choosing between Gu Yue and Na'er, Meng Li learned he had to write a ten-thousand-word self-criticism for challenging the Inner Court. Leng Yaozhu checked that he was unharmed, warned him about the dangers his strength might attract, and arranged for Ya Li to help create his Two-Word Battle Armor.

• Meng Li woke in his dormitory, ate the breakfast Na'er had prepared, and wondered about Gu Yue's strange words from the previous day.
• Wu Changkong told Meng Li that Elder Cai had ordered him to write a ten-thousand-word self-criticism, then praised him for defeating the Inner Court students.
• Leng Yaozhu examined Meng Li, warned him that powerful people and Evil Soul Masters might target him, and asked what soul skill he wanted for his Two-Word Battle Armor.
• Meng Li chose a recovery soul skill, and Leng Yaozhu agreed to bring in Ya Li to help.
• Ya Li met Meng Li at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where Leng Yaozhu brought out the prepared materials for his battle armor.

Meng Li completed his Soul Forged Two-Word Battle Armor and registered it at Spirit Pagoda headquarters. The evaluation confirmed its red grade, marking a major step toward his future as a powerful Battle Armor Master.

• Meng Li completed his pale-gold-and-white Two-Word Battle Armor after three days of forging and gained the inherited soul skill Angel's Heal.
• Ya Li congratulated Meng Li, and he promised to help her if she ever needed it.
• Leng Yaozhu tested the Battle Armor's soul skill, amplification effects, and impact resistance, then took Meng Li to register it.
• Leng Yaozhu brought a group of Spirit Masters to Sky Dragon's Roar, where Shui Yu arranged Meng Li's Battle Armor evaluation.
• Meng Li summoned his complete Battle Armor, and the evaluation identified it as Soul Forged and red grade.

Meng Li registered his red-grade Battle Armor as Moon Carp and became a Two-Word Battle Armor Master. He then agreed to lead the second-years while Wu Changkong entered seclusion, but struggled to understand his teaching guide and went to seek Shen Yi's help.

• Meng Li named his Battle Armor Moon Carp, disappointing Leng Yaozhu, and officially became a Two-Word Battle Armor Master.
• Wu Sidao told Meng Li that Wu Changkong had quit teaching and wanted him to lead the second-years during his year in seclusion.
• Meng Li agreed to teach after learning he and Shen Yi would alternate teaching days and that he could use Shrek Academy's books and consult its teachers.
• Wu Sidao gave Meng Li a fifteen-hundred-page teaching guide, and he spent five hours struggling through its opening lessons.
• Meng Li closed the guide and went to Shen Yi's room to ask for help; she opened the door shortly after he knocked.

Meng Li received help from Shen Yi to prepare for his new role as a Year Two teacher at Shrek Outer Court. After teaching his first class, he shared his combat insights with the students, who welcomed his guidance.

• Meng Li asked Shen Yi for help understanding the Teacher's Crash Course Guide, and she gave him her teaching insights and tutored him for a day.
• Shen Yi accompanied Meng Li to his first Year Two class, where the students greeted him as Shrek Outer Court's youngest-ever teacher.
• Meng Li taught a lesson on Soul Masters and Production, then announced that the next class would be practical combat training.
• The students discussed Meng Li's teaching and wondered whether he would make them fight him during practical training.
• Meng Li offered his written combat insights to the students, then distributed copies for them to study.

Meng Li led his students through a combat lesson, teaching them how to fight while handling their attacks with ease. Afterward, Shen Yi offered to treat Meng Li and Na'er to noodles, but she learned that Na'er planned to eat thirty bowls.

• Meng Li met Bai Hanying and the Third Years at the arena, and both classes split the training grounds without challenging each other.
• Meng Li had Ning Dezhi, Zhou Huixi, and Yan Yun attack him in a group and corrected their combat mistakes as they fought.
• Meng Li finished class exhausted, and he told his students he would reveal his Soul Power Level when they surpassed him.
• Shen Yi praised Meng Li and invited him and Na'er to Jianyi Noodle House for a meal.
• Na'er said she could eat thirty bowls, and Shen Yi realized the meal would cost six hundred thousand Federal Coins.

Meng Li and Gu Yue shared a meal and arranged to go out together after Gu Yue finished her urgent work. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin learned the Tang Sect wanted to investigate a mysterious figure with a Golden Dragon Claw, and he resolved to uncover the truth despite Old Tang’s warning; Gu Yue considered the obstacles keeping her from being with Meng Li.

• Meng Li invited Gu Yue for a stroll, and they agreed to go the day after tomorrow after she finished work.
• Gu Yue gave Meng Li a lunchbox of his favorite dishes, and they shared the meal together.
• At the Shrek Seven Devils’ dormitory, Tang Wulin and the others discussed visiting Meng Li for grilled fish and Jianyi noodles.
• The Tang Sect called Tang Wulin about investigating a mysterious person whose Dragon Transformation arm resembled his Golden Dragon Claw, and Tang Wulin agreed to visit.
• Old Tang warned Tang Wulin that the mysterious person was not his father and that the truth could endanger him, but Tang Wulin decided to investigate anyway.
• Gu Yue reflected on the dangers surrounding Meng Li, Na'er, and her experiment, and concluded that they could not be together yet.

Meng Li and Gu Yue went on a date to a forest park, where they met Su Tong, a girl begging for money to treat her seriously ill father. Meng Li promised to help cure him for free and followed her toward the hospital, which was still hours away on foot.

• Meng Li chose to spend the day with Gu Yue instead of joining Xie Xie, and the two went for a walk in a forest park.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue saw Su Tong begging for help because her father was seriously ill and her family could not afford his treatment.
• Meng Li offered to cure Su Tong's father for free if her story was true, and Su Tong called him an angel.
• Su Tong led Meng Li, Gu Yue, and a crowd of onlookers toward the hospital, explaining that it was more than two hours away on foot and that she walked there to save money for her father's treatment.

After Meng Li finished his year as a teacher, Wu Changkong returned from a year of seclusion and reunited with his former students. Over hotpot, Wu offered Meng Li an easier job at Shrek Academy as a librarian, and Meng Li considered taking time to rest first.

• Meng Li paid for Su Tong's father's hospital treatment, then spent the day with Gu Yue and returned to the dormitory.
• Meng Li's teaching term ended after a year, during which his time with Gu Yue dwindled and he grew closer to Na'er.
• Wu Changkong emerged from a year of seclusion and surprised Meng Li's class, where his former students eagerly welcomed him back.
• After class, Wu Changkong, Meng Li, and Shen Yi shared hotpot and discussed Meng Li's future after teaching.
• Wu Changkong offered Meng Li an easy librarian position at Shrek Academy so he could read its accumulated books.

Meng Li learned that Shrek Academy wanted him to join the Inner Court as a teacher, with Na'er tied to his decision. He planned to refuse for now and focus on cultivating before considering the Inner Court.

• Wu Changkong returned from seclusion at rank seventy-eight, and Meng Li declined a librarian position while confirming he had become a Two-Word Battle Armor Master.
• After Wu Changkong resumed teaching, Meng Li slept through the afternoon and worried when he could not find Na'er.
• Na'er returned and explained that her former master had asked her to persuade Meng Li to join the Inner Court, promising she would join if Meng Li agreed.
• Na'er told Meng Li he would enter as an Inner Court teacher, and Meng Li decided to seek Yun Ming out the next day.
• Meng Li resolved not to enter the Inner Court for at least a year or two, intending to cultivate, pursue Four-Word Battle Armor, and eventually seek a path to godhood.

Meng Li agreed to join Shrek Academy’s Inner Court on the condition that he remain a student, enroll a year later, and bring Gu Yue with him. A year later, he entered the Inner Court and prepared to face the challengers eager to defeat him.

• Meng Li told Yun Ming that Na'er had given him the decision, then accepted the Inner Court’s offer with three conditions, which Yun Ming approved.
• Meng Li spent the following year cultivating, aiming to upgrade his battle armor, but discovered he had run out of Federal Coins.
• Meng Li entered the Inner Court with his household, where Xie Xie and the others welcomed him and Yuanen Yehui warned that students would challenge him to restore the former learning system.
• Meng Li confidently dismissed concerns about the challengers and began preparing food for his friends.
• Liu Sheng came to Meng Li’s dormitory and demanded a challenge, but Meng Li put him off until the next day, prompting Liu Sheng to wonder if Meng Li could cure his unknown condition.

Meng Li ignored the Inner Court students gathered outside to challenge him while he prepared a meal and celebrated his arrival in the Inner Court with friends. When he finally went out to meet the challengers, he revealed his Two-Word Battle Armor and healed them after warming them from the hail.

• Inner Court students gathered outside Meng Li’s dormitory to challenge him, but his soundproofing system blocked their shouts.
• Meng Li cooked a large meal, and Xie Xie joined Yue Zhengyu and Xu Xiaoyan in helping themselves before the group celebrated Meng Li, Yue, and Na’er moving into the Inner Court.
• The challengers kept waiting through heavy rain and hail while Meng Li and his friends ate inside.
• After Tang Wulin and the others noticed the shivering students outside, Meng Li went to meet them and found they still insisted on fighting that night.
• Meng Li donned his Two-Word Battle Armor, warmed and healed the challengers, and surprised the others with his Battle Armor and healing ability.

Meng Li reached the Inner Court arena and accepted a one-on-one duel with Wang Yidao, a rank-sixty-nine saber wielder. As Wang Yidao unleashed a massive blade strike, Meng Li prepared to meet it with Dragon Sparrow.

• Xie Xie told Meng Li that Na'er had once swept through the Inner Court and earned the title Dragon Spear Goddess, and Na'er admitted it was true.
• At the arena, an Inner Court student proposed that Meng Li fight everyone at once, but Wang Yidao stepped forward to challenge him one-on-one.
• Meng Li introduced himself as a rank-sixty-nine Battle Soul Master with the Sacred Winged Angel martial soul, and Wang Yidao introduced himself as a rank-sixty-nine saber wielder.
• Wang Yidao revealed that his name came from defeating opponents with a single blade strike, and Meng Li drew Dragon Sparrow and claimed few could withstand his sword.
• Wang Yidao activated Heaven and Earth Slash, enlarging his saber into a forty-meter blade and bringing it down toward Meng Li.

Meng Li defeated every Inner Court challenger and healed Wang Yidao after breaking his saber, while Na'er struggled with the knowledge that her fading clone would soon disappear. The next day, Meng Li heard about the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention and said he would join only if Gu Yue participated.

• Meng Li shattered Wang Yidao's Tiangang Saber with the Dragon Sparrow, then used Angel's Heal to restore Wang Yidao and his saber.
• Meng Li defeated all the Inner Court challengers by three in the morning, then left with Na'er and Gu Yue.
• Na'er realized her clone could no longer sustain her consciousness, but she desperately wanted to stay with Meng Li and cried over their memories.
• Meng Li felt inexplicably sad as his silver pendant grew warm, and he could not sleep that night.
• Xie Xie told Meng Li and the others that the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention would take place next month, and Meng Li agreed to participate if Gu Yue did.
• Meng Li threatened Xie Xie when he teased him about winning Gu Yue's heart, prompting Xie Xie to apologize.

Meng Li asked Gu Yue whether she would attend the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention, but she put off deciding. Na'er asked Meng Li to take her to the seaside in Aolai City, and the two traveled there alone while Gu Yue watched them leave.

• Meng Li discussed the convention with Xie Xie and admitted he thought his chances with Gu Yue were only ten percent.
• Na'er told Meng Li she would join the convention, then blushed when he teased her about liking someone.
• Meng Li asked Gu Yue whether she would participate, and she said they could talk about it later.
• Na'er asked Meng Li to take her to the seaside in Aolai City, insisting that this time it be just the two of them.
• Meng Li and Na'er left Shrek Academy and took a train toward Aolai City while Gu Yue watched them depart, disappointed that Meng Li had not told her about the trip.

Meng Li and Na'er returned to Aolai City after traveling through three days of heavy rain, where they stopped an Evil Soul Master’s attempted bombing at the station. They arrived home safely, and Meng Li planned to stay with Na'er until he needed to return for the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention.

• Meng Li and Na'er rode the train through three days of heavy rain before arriving in Aolai City.
• At the station, a man crashed into Na'er and demanded five hundred thousand Federal Coins from Meng Li.
• The man revealed himself as an Evil Soul Master wearing Level 8 Soul Tool Bombs, but station security killed him before he could detonate them.
• Meng Li and Na'er took a taxi to their residential complex, collected their keys, and returned to their unchanged home.
• Na'er looked at the photograph of her and Meng Li from her first birthday, and Meng Li agreed to stay until he needed to return for the Sea God Fate Blind Date Convention.

Meng Li tried to comfort Na'er while she hid her worsening secret, then took her to the beach to surf. When enormous waves rose, Meng Li rode them with the help of his wings, and Na'er leaped into the air to join him.

• Meng Li noticed Na'er was acting strangely and urged her to confide in him, but she refused to reveal what was wrong.
• Meng Li silenced Wu Changkong's call from Shrek Academy and spent the evening at home with Na'er.
• The next morning, Meng Li made breakfast and took Na'er to the beach, where she watched him prepare to surf.
• Meng Li struggled to surf at first, then used his wings to keep his balance and ride the waves.
• Massive waves suddenly rose, and Meng Li fearlessly surfed forward as Na'er leaped into the air to join him.

Meng Li and Na'er spent the day surfing and relaxing at the beach, where Meng Li built Na'er an eighteen-meter sandcastle. As night fell, they ordered grilled fish, and Na'er said she wanted to go back rather than stay at a hotel.

• Na'er joined Meng Li on his surfboard, and they surfed together before relaxing beneath a parasol on the beach.
• Na'er asked Meng Li to build a sandcastle, and he used a video and special materials to make one eighteen meters tall.
• After night fell, Meng Li and Na'er went to a busy stall and ordered fifty grilled fish.
• When Meng Li suggested they eat at a hotel, Na'er said she wanted to go back.

As Na'er prepared to leave Aolai City, she and Meng Li spent their remaining time together, while he grew increasingly worried that her departure would be permanent. On the night before they were due to leave, Na'er gave Meng Li homemade cookies, and he became dizzy, realizing she had made her move.

• Na'er stored fifty grilled fish in the Spatial Soul Tool Meng Li had given her, then asked him to sing “the sea” as he drove her home.
• Na'er and Meng Li ate grilled sea fish together, and the next day she took him to Red Mountain Academy to visit her teacher.
• Meng Li worried over Na'er's impending departure and the silver pendant growing hot, stayed awake cultivating, and wondered why Gu Yue's love might cost him his family.
• On the night before they were due to leave Aolai City, Na'er brought Meng Li fruit and homemade cookies, and he grew dizzy as he realized she was still going to leave.

Na'er secretly drugged Meng Li and spent the night with him, then stayed with him the next morning while he feared she had left. After noticing her changed aura, Meng Li walked home carrying Na'er, cherishing their closeness as they prepared to return to the academy.

• Na'er made Meng Li fall asleep, comforted him as he cried, and hooked pinkies with him before he passed out.
• Meng Li woke to find Na'er still there, embraced her, and promised compensation to the neighbors whose ears his shout had hurt.
• Na'er blushed when Meng Li asked what had happened the previous night and kept the details secret.
• Meng Li noticed Na'er's changed walk and aura, then agreed to walk home with her instead of taking the car.
• Na'er asked Meng Li to carry her and sing 'The Sea,' and he carried her home while singing.