Chapter Summaries

Meng Li killed an Evil Soul Master who had come to avenge his younger brother, then took Gu Yue to a hotel in Shrek City and rented a room for a year. After spending time gaming together, they prepared to go out for food.

• An Evil Soul Master confronted Meng Li in Shrek City, but Meng Li’s Mythical Spear killed and absorbed him within seconds.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue reached the area near the Spirit Pagoda and checked into a hotel after passing its identity scan.
• Meng Li paid to rent the hotel’s last deluxe room for a year, and he and Gu Yue settled in on the thirtieth floor.
• Meng Li suggested playing poker, but Gu Yue misunderstood him and chose to play King of Soul Fighting instead.
• After playing for two hours, Meng Li and Gu Yue decided to go out to eat, and Gu Yue changed into a white dress while Meng Li got ready.

Meng Li and Gu Yue went out to find food, but Gu Yue wanted to enter a King of Soul Fighting tournament that had already closed registration. Meng Li sponsored a new tournament with a million Federal Coins, and Ayane arranged the competition as the crowd rushed to sign up.

• Meng Li took Gu Yue through Shrek City's crowded night market, where she spotted a King of Soul Fighting tournament and asked to join.
• After learning registration had ended, Meng Li offered Ayane a million Federal Coins to organize a new tournament for him and Gu Yue.
• Ayane verified that Meng Li's card held several billion Federal Coins and arranged food while preparing the tournament.
• Ayane suspended the current matches, announced new registration, and raised the prize pool, requiring teams to have held King rank for a full season.
• When Ayane asked about special privileges, Meng Li said she should make sure nobody competed with Gu Yue for Xi Shi.

Meng Li sponsored a gaming competition and joined the first match with Gu Yue and Xiao Liang. Meng Li and Gu Yue dominated their opponents, though two opponents were genuinely trying to win and had begun to suspect their teammates were throwing.

• Meng Li hired Xiao Liang to recruit two teammates for the competition and promised them rewards for each win.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue attended the opening ceremony, then took the stage as the first team in the 64-team bracket.
• Meng Li picked Hou Yi and teamed up with Gu Yue's Xi Shi, whose coordinated attacks quickly gave her several kills.
• The enemy players argued over whether their teammates were deliberately losing, while Zhao Yun also gave up a kill after Meng Li and Gu Yue countered his attack.
• Luban No. 7 complained about Old Master's repeated deaths and took one of Xiao Liang's kills, as he and Master Luban continued trying to win.

Meng Li and Gu Yue won their tournament match, went to a late-night horror movie, and then encountered a wounded Evil Soul Master on the way to their hotel. Meng Li gave her healing medicine and returned to the room with Gu Yue, who stayed beside him while he wrote in his diary.

• Meng Li and Gu Yue won their match quickly, and Ayane congratulated them before they left the plaza.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue watched a horror movie, where Meng Li was repeatedly startled and climbed into Gu Yue's arms.
• On their way to the hotel, Meng Li and Gu Yue passed an Evil Soul Master fleeing Federation pursuers, then found her wounded in an alley.
• Meng Li gave the wounded Evil Soul Master a bottle of healing medicine and continued to the hotel with Gu Yue.
• Back in their room, Meng Li began writing in his diary while Gu Yue stayed beside him.

Meng Li and Gu Yue discovered a hidden stone gate that transported them into a golden chamber, where Meng Li saw a vision of an angel defeating a giant lizard before waking in a tent. He realized the Gu Yue beside him might not be real when he noticed she was missing her ring, and the world distorted again.

• Meng Li and Gu Yue completed their final King of Soul Fighting in Shrek City and traveled toward the remote location described in a letter.
• Meng Li dug into a treeless clearing and uncovered a rune-covered stone gate that opened with golden light.
• Meng Li lost control of his body and entered the gate, and Gu Yue followed him into the light.
• Inside a sealed chamber, Meng Li saw murals of angels and experienced a vision of himself wielding a sword as an angel against a giant lizard.
• Meng Li woke in a tent after Gu Yue said he had fainted the previous day, then noticed the ring on her hand was gone and realized she was fake.

Meng Li completed two stages of the Angel Trial, gaining powerful soul bones and enduring a month of simulated battles. He returned to the forest with Gu Yue, who remembered only a brief visit to the small world, and they set off for Shrek Academy.

• An unseen voice began the Angel Trial and told Meng Li he had to pass its stages to see Gu Yue.
• Meng Li failed thousands of times on the trap-filled Reincarnation Road before finally completing the first stage and gaining the Angel God's torso soul bone.
• In the second stage, Meng Li fought waves of simulated Evil Soul Masters while resisting the urge to attack unarmed innocents.
• After enduring the battle for a month, Meng Li completed the second stage and gained the Angel God skull bone, which greatly increased his Spiritual Power.
• The trial voice admitted Gu Yue had never been held captive, and Meng Li was teleported back to the forest with her.
• Gu Yue remembered only looking at a painting before being teleported out, and Meng Li decided they would return to Shrek Academy.

Meng Li agreed to enlist in the Blood God Legion after Leng Yaozhu promised that Gu Yue and Na'er could accompany him as military dependents. With one month to prepare for the dangerous five-year posting, he began commissioning a powerful custom gun and gathering supplies.

• Leng Yaozhu asked Meng Li to enlist and explained that Gu Yue and Na'er could join him as military dependents, so he accepted.
• Leng Yaozhu told Meng Li that the Blood God Legion guarded a secret realm, fought Abyssal Creatures, and expected him to serve for at least five years.
• Meng Li decided to forge a black-and-gold tracking sword gun inspired by a game from his previous life and secured a powerful energy core through the Spirit Pagoda.
• Meng Li finished arranging the weapon's construction and began stocking food and daily necessities for his deployment.
• Meng Li called Boss Lin at a wholesale outlet in Heaven Dou City to begin buying supplies.

Meng Li stocked up on long-lasting supplies and set out with Gu Yue and Na'er for the Blood God Legion, whose journey served as part of its selection assessment. After ten days on the road, they reached the Great Desert’s edge and paused to rest and sample the local cuisine.

• Meng Li ordered fifteen years' worth of supplies for three people and the soul beasts in the Feather World, and Boss Lin agreed to prepare the goods.
• A month later, Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er departed for the Blood God Legion in a Soul Tool Off-road Vehicle.
• After ten days of travel through storms and difficult terrain, the three reached the Great Desert’s edge and decided to stay for a few days.
• Meng Li booked two rooms at a hotel and took Gu Yue and Na'er to a crowded local restaurant.
• Meng Li encouraged Gu Yue and Na'er to try fried scorpion, and Gu Yue said it tasted good while Na'er wondered whether it was poisonous.

Meng Li and his companions rested before crossing the Death Desert, where he showed Gu Yue his powerful custom weapon, Sword Absolute. They camped beneath the stars and continued toward Blazing Basin, with Meng Li keeping watch through the night.

• Meng Li shared a roasted scorpion with Na'er, and the three enjoyed a meal before returning to their hotel to rest.
• Meng Li showed Gu Yue Sword Absolute, an energy gun with Angel, Destruction, and Life powers that could pierce the toughest materials and unleash light swords.
• After five days of rest, Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er set out to cross the Death Desert toward Blazing Basin, and Gu Yue's aura kept spirit beasts away.
• The three camped in the desert, took a photograph beneath the starry sky, and ate a simple meal.
• Meng Li cultivated and monitored the area through the night with his Spiritual Power, then got up to prepare breakfast when Na'er said she was hungry.

Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er reached the Blood God Legion after crossing the snow mountains, where Meng Li used an interference device to evade surveillance. Long Yuxue came to meet them after soldiers were tied up and was struck by Meng Li’s appearance.

• Soldiers in the Blood God Legion’s camp speculated about their incoming platoon commander and discussed the dangers of serving there.
• Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er traveled through Blazing Basin and continued toward the legion’s snowbound military camp.
• Meng Li disabled nearby surveillance with an interference device, allowing the three of them to fly over the mountains unnoticed.
• The legion’s monitoring staff detected the surveillance blackout, and Long Yuxue suspected the newly arriving Meng Li was responsible.
• Long Yuxue went to meet Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er, found three of her soldiers tied up, and stared in surprise at Meng Li’s handsome face.

Meng Li confronted Major Long Yuxue after tying up Blood God Legion soldiers, then followed her to the camp for his assessment. Long Yuxue changed the assessment rules to punish him, and Meng Li accepted as they arrived at a building occupied by soldiers in white uniforms.

• Long Yuxue questioned Meng Li about capturing Blood God Legion soldiers, and he admitted he had tied them up after they pointed guns at him and his family.
• Long Yuxue ordered her subordinates to free the soldiers and warned Meng Li that he had to impress her in the assessment.
• Long Yuxue escorted Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er through the camp to an assessment room, where a lieutenant explained that fewer than one-third of candidates passed.
• Long Yuxue changed Meng Li's assessment so he could not choose a weapon and she would serve as chief examiner, making refusal grounds for losing his qualification.
• Meng Li accepted the terms and followed Long Yuxue into the camp's tallest building, where dozens of soldiers in white uniforms wore the Snow God Eagle emblem.

Shen Yi brought the delayed candidates to Shrek Academy, where they learned their assessment would be harsher and they could only enter as Work-Study Students. The group arrived at a circular hall beneath a mural of a gigantic black dragon, whose pressure made the others tremble.

• Meng Li called Shen Yi his Martial Aunt and tried to win her favor, while Xu Xiaoyan also praised her.
• Tang Wulin woke after absorbing the Golden Dragon King Essence, and the group set off for Shrek Academy with Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi explained that the candidates would face a harder, tighter assessment and would have to work for Shrek Contribution Points as Work-Study Students.
• Meng Li remembered Zhou Hansheng's card and suspected it held Shrek Contribution Points.
• The group entered a circular hall in Shrek Building, where the others felt the pressure of a lifelike black dragon mural.

Meng Li and his classmates arrived at East Sea Soul Tool Technology Park for the year-end assessment, where he was sent into Hero Hall for an extremely hard trial. He faced a powerful, seemingly evenly matched opponent and opened with his Judgment skill.

• Gu Yue questioned Meng Li about his visit to Aolai City, then accepted the steamed buns he had saved for her.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi transferred schools after Wang Jinxi could no longer perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhang Yangzi, leaving Tang Wulin feeling guilty.
• Tang Wulin treated Meng Li to a meal, then took Ouyang Zixin out to eat and encountered Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Wu Changkong brought Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and another classmate to a high-tech building in East Sea Soul Tool Technology Park for the year-end assessment.
• Meng Li entered Hero Hall alone and began an extremely hard trial requiring him to hold out for thirty seconds against a refined young man with a blue thunder dragon Martial Soul.
• Meng Li summoned his Sacred Winged Angel Martial Soul and used Judgment, stopping his opponent in place as a golden sword descended from the sky.

Meng Li defeated Ba An and faced Mo Mei during his Blood God Legion assessment, revealing the power of Sword Absolute. Mo Mei fled into the cave after his weapon pierced her defenses, leaving the assessment near its end.

• Long Yuxue believed Meng Li somewhat, but remained wary because he had tied up her subordinates.
• Meng Li easily defeated three Six-Clawed Bats and then smashed Ba An’s head with his fists.
• When Ba An spat purple flames at Long Yuxue, Meng Li shoved her aside and shielded her, then emerged unharmed.
• Long Yuxue confirmed that Meng Li had earned the qualifications to enter the Blood God Legion, and Mo Mei appeared from the central hole.
• Meng Li used Sword Absolute to pierce Mo Mei with a golden sword and unleash a storm of smaller swords, forcing her to flee deeper into the cave.

Meng Li agreed to join the Blood God Legion after Leng Yaozhu promised that Gu Yue and Na'er could accompany him. With a month to prepare for the dangerous five-year posting, he began commissioning a powerful custom weapon and arranging supplies.

• Leng Yaozhu asked Meng Li to enlist in the Blood God Legion, explained its elite soldiers faced Abyssal Creatures, and offered to list Gu Yue and Na'er as accompanying family members.
• Meng Li accepted the offer and learned he had a month to prepare before reporting for at least five years of service.
• Leng Yaozhu told Meng Li to maintain his cultivation and visit the Spirit Pagoda for a Spiritual Power test using its new repair machine.
• Meng Li decided to build a black-and-gold tracking sword gun inspired by a game from his past life and obtained a forbidden energy core from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Meng Li began gathering food and daily necessities, then called Boss Lin at the Heaven Dou City wholesale outlet.

Meng Li settled into the Blood God Legion camp, learned that he owed thirty thousand military merits, and began his month of new recruit training. Long Yuxue lent him money and guided him through his first lessons, then offered to treat him and his companions to lunch.

• The lieutenant told Meng Li he owed the Blood God Legion thirty thousand military merits for disrupting the surveillance system and would have a year to repay it.
• Long Yuxue showed Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er around the camp and explained that their formal training would begin the next day.
• Long Yuxue lent Meng Li two thousand military merits at five percent monthly interest, then took him to buy daily necessities.
• Meng Li settled Gu Yue and Na'er into their rooms, unpacked, ate his own supplies, and cultivated before bed.
• Long Yuxue began Meng Li's solo recruit training at the training grounds and taught him military housekeeping and rules until noon.
• Long Yuxue offered to treat Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Na'er to lunch, and Meng Li eagerly asked where the cafeteria was.

Meng Li, Na'er, and Gu Yue shared their first meal at the Blood God Legion, where Long Yuxue treated them to the costly food from Window One. After learning how much the meal was worth and how generously Long Yuxue had helped him, Meng Li decided to earn military merit and asked whether he could go to the Abyss ahead of schedule.

• Long Yuxue brought Meng Li, Na'er, and Gu Yue to the cafeteria and treated them to food from Window One.
• Jiang Qiyue joined Long Yuxue and teased her for treating Meng Li especially well and lending money at a low interest rate.
• Jiang Qiyue told Meng Li that a Window One meal was worth the military merit from a low-intensity battle.
• Meng Li realized Long Yuxue had helped him and resolved to repay her while earning enough merit to afford the food for Na'er and Gu Yue.
• Meng Li asked Long Yuxue whether he could go to the Abyss ahead of schedule to begin earning military merit.

Meng Li agreed to train and fight Abyssal Creatures to repay his thirty-thousand military-merit debt, while Long Yuxue took his surveillance jammer to the equipment research institute. After Jiang Wuyue challenged Meng Li to a strength contest, Jiang Wuyue lost.

• Long Yuxue told Meng Li to wait for recruit combat training, where killing Abyssal Creatures could earn him military merits.
• Meng Li gave Long Yuxue his video jammer, and she took it to the Blood God Legion equipment research institute for testing.
• Jiang Wuyue arrived, insulted Meng Li, and challenged him to compete in strength after Long Yuxue defended him.
• Jiang Wuyue wagered that Long Yuxue would wash his clothes if Meng Li lost, while Meng Li offered to pay for the meal if he won.
• After the contest, Jiang Wuyue stared out the window in disbelief that he had lost.

Jiang Wuyue challenged Meng Li to another contest after failing to move him in a test of strength, and tried to recruit him into the Iron Blood Regiment. Meng Li declined, but Jiang Wuyue dragged him to a combat room for a soul-skills match.

• Jiang Wuyue recalled losing to Meng Li and opened his door to find Meng Li there to apologize.
• Jiang Wuyue and Meng Li tested their strength, but Jiang Wuyue could not move Meng Li and admitted he was inferior.
• Jiang Wuyue invited Meng Li to join the Iron Blood Regiment's First Battalion, but Meng Li said he preferred the Special Affairs Department and could not decide his own assignment.
• Jiang Wuyue proposed a soul-skills match with a thousand military merits at stake and warned Meng Li not to pursue Long Yuxue while he had a girlfriend.
• Jiang Wuyue ordered Meng Li to fight immediately and took him to a combat room, paying fifty merits to rent it.

Meng Li fought Jiang Wuyue in the combat room and quickly proved his overwhelming strength with his Martial Soul and two domains. After Jiang Wuyue conceded and paid the thousand military merit points, Meng Li left to take a nap, while Jiang Qiyue learned he was a Soul Sage.

• Jiang Wuyue charged at Meng Li after they entered the combat room and activated his Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
• Meng Li revealed his seven soul rings, summoned the Sacred Winged Angel, and activated the Holy Domain and Fire Domain.
• Jiang Wuyue was overwhelmed by Meng Li's power and conceded the match.
• Jiang Qiyue arrived and questioned Jiang Wuyue for bullying a newcomer, then learned that Meng Li was a Soul Sage.
• Jiang Wuyue transferred a thousand military merit points to Meng Li, who left to take an afternoon nap.