Chapter Summaries

Meng Li fought Gu Yue, revealed his Angel Martial Soul, and helped her join Class Five, Year One. After training and sharing a meal with Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie, Meng Li brought water to the exhausted students as Xie Xie called him inhuman.

• Meng Li used his Feather Transformation skill to turn Gu Yue's elemental attacks against her, then shielded her when the attack overwhelmed her defenses.
• Wu Changkong accepted Gu Yue into Class Five, Year One after she explained her Elemental Envoy Martial Soul and presented her recommendation letter.
• Gu Yue showed interest in Tang Wulin and befriended Meng Li, who invited her to a meal that Tang Wulin and Xie Xie also joined.
• Wu Changkong replaced theory class with physical training, then summoned Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue after dinner.
• Xie Xie called Meng Li inhuman for staying unfazed during training, and Meng Li approached carrying water and challenged him.

Meng Li trained with Wu Changkong’s group, honed his saber skills, and then led Year One Class Five to an overwhelming victory in the Promotion Tournament’s opening match. The class advanced to challenge Year One Class Three the following day.

• Meng Li studied Wu Changkong’s martial arts manual while Wu Changkong sparred with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue.
• Meng Li forged a new blade named Murasa and trained in saber techniques while the others took Spiritual Power tests; a faulty first reading gave him a score of 99,999 before the next test showed twenty.
• Three months later, Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie entered the Promotion Tournament as Year One Class Five.
• Meng Li moved so quickly that he defeated all four Year One Class Four students before his teammates could act, securing Class Five’s victory.
• The referee announced that Class Five would remain in its class until the tournament ended and would challenge Year One Class Three the next day.

Meng Li spent time with Gu Yue before helping his team win their Promotion Tournament matches. The next morning, he ambushed Guang Biao, a Soul Emperor and Mecha Brigade captain, at the academy gates and held a blade to his throat.

• Xie Xie invited Tang Wulin out, but Gu Yue and Meng Li went shopping and to a movie with Tang Wulin instead; Meng Li wondered about Na'er and told Gu Yue he felt he knew her.
• Meng Li used his Double-barreled Firearms to shoot down three opponents with eagle wings, while Tang Wulin's group defeated the student on the ground, and the team won its afternoon match as well.
• After Wu Changkong gave the class a day off, Xie Xie told Meng Li that punks were blocking the academy gates and demanding that the school hand over him and Tang Wulin.
• Meng Li went outside and swiftly sneaked up on Guang Biao, pressing Murasa to the Soul Emperor's throat and cutting through his Soul Power barrier.
• Meng Li demanded compensation for the injuries he and his friends had suffered, while Guang Biao warned that the Mecha Brigade would retaliate if Meng Li killed him.

Meng Li and Wu Changkong drove off Guang Biao’s group after Meng Li collected two million in compensation, and Meng Li later comforted Tang Wulin, who was grieving over his missing parents. Tang Wulin accepted Meng Li as his big brother, and they returned to their friends with their future still ahead of them.

• Meng Li demanded two million from Guang Biao’s group, and Wu Changkong drove the gang away with the Sky Frost Sword.
• Meng Li shared the compensation with his friends and continued his peaceful days at the academy.
• Before the Promotion Tournament, Tang Wulin asked Meng Li to take a walk and confessed that he missed his parents, who had left him money and an all-continent pass.
• Meng Li comforted Tang Wulin over a meal, encouraged him about his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, and told him the story of Tang San.
• Tang Wulin asked Meng Li to be his big brother, and Meng Li agreed while cautioning him about responsibility and his offer to match Meng Li with Gu Yue.

Meng Li and his classmates prepared to challenge Class One until a typhoon suspended the tournament and classes for a week. As Tang Wulin left to seek a way to grow stronger, Meng Li and Gu Yue planned to train together, and Meng Li offered to practice a Fusion Skill with her before sparring with Xie Xie.

• Xie Xie warned Meng Li, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue that Class One had three powerful two-ring Soul Grand Masters, making their chances of winning slim.
• A broadcast announced that a typhoon would suspend classes and the Promotion Tournament for over a week, giving the students time to train.
• Tang Wulin left to become stronger and break his seal, while Meng Li assured Gu Yue that he could protect her.
• Gu Yue asked Meng Li to spar, and he persuaded her to bring supplies in case they had to stay in the indoor training grounds during the typhoon.
• Meng Li learned that Tang Wulin would be staying elsewhere for a few days, then agreed to spar with Xie Xie after practicing a Fusion Skill with Gu Yue.

Meng Li, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie defeated Ye Yingluo’s class in the Promotion Tournament final, winning Class Five the Class One position. The chapter ended with Ye Yingluo’s students frozen on the arena and Xie Xie and Tang Wulin wondering why they felt useless after the victory.

• Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie waited for Tang Wulin, who arrived just before the final match began.
• Wei Xiaofeng attacked Meng Li, while Tang Wulin knocked Wang Jinxi down and Gu Yue bound Zhang Yangzi; Xie Xie defeated another opponent and joined the fight.
• Meng Li saw three opponents rushing Xie Xie through the black mist and sent them flying back with a single slash.
• Gu Yue illuminated the black mist with fused Light and Fire Elements, and Meng Li surrounded the opponents with a Soul Power wind wall that strengthened her Ice Cones.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi fused, but Meng Li and Gu Yue’s attack froze all four opponents, and the referee declared Wu Changkong’s class the winner and the new Class One.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin complained that they felt useless despite winning.

Meng Li, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin celebrated their promotion to Class One at a restaurant, where Meng Li drank heavily and mourned Na'er. The evening ended with Gu Yue destroying Xie Xie's recording of Meng Li's drunken confession about Na'er.

• Xie Xie teased Gu Yue and Meng Li on their way to dinner, and Gu Yue attacked him with Ice Cones.
• The group celebrated at a restaurant, where Xie Xie provoked Gu Yue until she struck his forehead with a wineglass.
• Meng Li agreed to cover the restaurant's damages and lost revenue as Gu Yue and Xie Xie continued fooling around.
• Meng Li drank an entire case of Wheat Wine and began calling for Na'er while Gu Yue watched him.
• Xie Xie recorded Meng Li's drunken words and joked that he had a sister complex, but Gu Yue took his Soul Tool Communication Bracelet and burned it.

After Eastsea Academy promoted their class and established Class Zero, Meng Li focused on cultivating in his new dorm. Gu Yue brought him dinner and noticed photographs of a silver-haired girl on his desk.

• Meng Li woke embarrassed after his drunken behavior, while Gu Yue recalled how he had protected her when he mistook her for Na'er.
• Tang Wulin admired the school beauty Ouyang Zixin, and Xie Xie teased him about his interest in her.
• Long Hengxu announced their promotion to Class One and the creation of Class Zero, offering its members Academy support in exchange for signing a confidentiality agreement and staying at Eastsea Academy.
• Meng Li, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi signed the agreement, while Wei Xiaofeng chose to leave.
• After moving into a single dorm room, Meng Li meditated through dinner until Gu Yue brought him a Grade A Meal and saw three photographs of a silver-haired girl on his desk.

Meng Li and the other Class Zero students learned about mechas and second professions before Wu Changkong tested their combat skills. Meng Li and Gu Yue fought together against him, but his overwhelming strength defeated their attacks.

• Meng Li welcomed Gu Yue into his dorm room, where she noticed a long-kept letter as he told her about his experiences.
• Wu Changkong introduced mecha studies and second professions to Class Zero, and Meng Li immediately chose Mecha Designer.
• Wu Changkong criticized the students' teamwork and had Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi attack him together, but they were quickly defeated.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue fought Wu Changkong together, combining their abilities while he used his Sky Frost Sword and soul skills against them.
• Meng Li cut Wu Changkong's ice wheel in half while protecting Gu Yue, who followed up with a massive Ice Cone that Wu Changkong scattered.

Meng Li and Gu Yue battled Wu Changkong in a classroom, where Meng Li revealed his Flowing Radiance soul skill and ultimately froze after running out of Soul Power. After recovering and completing a week of special training with Gu Yue, Meng Li faced Class Zero’s physical tests, with his Spiritual Power result still to be revealed.

• Meng Li shielded Gu Yue from Wu Changkong’s Sky Frost Slash, then used Flowing Radiance while Gu Yue attacked with a fireball.
• Wu Changkong countered with Condense Frost, and Meng Li fell from exhaustion after staying in front of Gu Yue and freezing into an ice sculpture.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue joked around a barbecue spit with the recovering Meng Li before academy staff carried him away.
• Meng Li recovered in three days, then trained with Gu Yue for seven days and reached level forty-seven as their teamwork improved.
• Class Zero began physical fitness tests, and the students’ Spiritual Power scores were recorded before Meng Li sat down at the testing device.

Meng Li dominated the students’ tests and led their training before Class Zero visited the Spirit Pagoda. There, his remarks about Tang Wutong’s divine parentage startled Gu Yue and seemed to awaken something within her.

• Meng Li scored the highest in every physical test, with his strength test maxing out the device at 9999.
• After Wu Changkong left with Tang Wulin, Meng Li assigned the others extra-weight laps and trained with Gu Yue.
• Meng Li reached level forty-eight before Wu Changkong took the class to the Spirit Pagoda and explained their weekly Spirit Ascension Platform opportunity, which excluded Meng Li.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Meng Li studied murals of Spirit Ice Douluo and suspected Tang Wulin was Tang San’s son because of their shared Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
• Meng Li told Gu Yue that Tang Wutong was the daughter of Tang San and Xiao Wu and had inherited the Soft Bone Rabbit bloodline, prompting Gu Yue to cry out as though something in her had awakened.

Meng Li entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform while Gu Yue suppressed her rage after learning of Tang Wulin’s connection to Tang San. The chapter left Meng Li facing a ten-thousand-year Southern Moon Elephant King alone.

• Meng Li explained the name and appearance similarities between Tang Wulin and Tang Wutong, prompting Gu Yue to recognize Tang Wulin as the son of her enemy’s disciple and restrain her urge to kill him.
• Gu Yue asked whether Meng Li would side with his younger sister against the gods, and Meng Li said he would treat her enemies as his own.
• Wu Changkong sent the others into the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform and gave Meng Li a rare admission ticket to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Meng Li awoke in a simulated Star Dou Great Forest and began cultivating, while Wu Changkong remarked that the group’s peaceful days were about to end.
• A ten-thousand-year Southern Moon Elephant King charged at Meng Li, who summoned his Sacred Winged Angel Martial Soul and spread its wings to face the beast.

Meng Li killed the Southern Moon Elephant King but recoiled from killing and refused to absorb its spirit soul, then cultivated in the Spirit Ascension Platform until he reached Rank 50. As the riot period and final exam began, Gu Yue joined him, and Meng Li continued to spare the soul beasts, leaving Gu Yue questioning whether they were truly only illusions.

• Meng Li used his fourth soul skill to wear down and kill the Southern Moon Elephant King, then vomited and refused to absorb it.
• Tang Wulin was caught in the Thousand Year Ice Crystal Bear's death blast and shattered into ice fragments, while Gu Yue approached him.
• Meng Li spent more than a month cultivating in the intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform as Spirit Pagoda staff discussed recruiting him.
• Gu Yue found Meng Li just after he broke through to Rank 50 and told him to return for the final exam during the platform's coming riot period.
• Wu Changkong pushed Tang Wulin to enter the platform for the exam, while Meng Li and Gu Yue prepared inside.
• Meng Li left a pile of living soul beasts unharmed and told Gu Yue that he could not bring himself to kill them, even as illusions.

After returning from the Spirit Ascension Platform, Meng Li and Gu Yue joined the Spirit Pagoda, where they received tokens and headed to Meng Li’s dormitory. There, they shared a meal and discussed their dreams, leaving Meng Li determined to protect spirit beasts and find Na'er.

• Meng Li told Gu Yue he refused to slaughter spirit beasts, even if that choice limited his cultivation.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue returned to find Xie Xie and Wang Jinxi had been eliminated from the assessment while Tang Wulin remained inside and was injured by a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
• A Spirit Pagoda representative invited Gu Yue to join, and Meng Li joined as well to help him search for Na'er and pursue alternatives to spirit rings.
• Meng Li cooked rabbit meat and beef brisket noodles for Gu Yue, who loved the food and offered to wash the dishes.
• Gu Yue asked Meng Li about his dream, and he said he wanted his family safe, to find Na'er, and to protect spirit beasts.

Meng Li returned to the Aolai Spirit Pagoda after a strange dream and received a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit from a mysterious masked Spirit Master. After absorbing it and gaining power, he returned to Eastsea City and reflected on his loneliness and his feelings about Gu Yue.

• A woman's voice repeatedly asked Meng Li in a dream whether he craved power and ordered him to return to the Aolai Spirit Pagoda.
• Meng Li took a day off from Wu Changkong and traveled to Aolai City, where a masked female Spirit Master was waiting for him.
• The masked Spirit Master gave Meng Li a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit, saying her clan leader intended to nurture him for a great mission.
• Meng Li absorbed the Soul Spirit, which transformed his body and increased his Soul Power without causing pain.
• Meng Li visited Lin Ximeng at Red Mountain Academy, then returned to Eastsea City and wrote down the day's events.
• Alone in his dormitory, Meng Li thought about his distant family, Na'er, and whether Gu Yue might one day walk beside him.

Meng Li and his classmates arrived at the year-end assessment site, where he was assigned an extreme solo trial. He faced a powerful young opponent and opened with his Judgment soul skill.

• Gu Yue showed jealousy toward Meng Li, then took the steamed buns he had saved and asked him to make noodles for her at lunch.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi transferred away after Wang Jinxi could no longer use his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Zhang Yangzi, leaving Tang Wulin feeling guilty.
• Tang Wulin treated Meng Li to a meal and later ate with Ouyang Zixin, where they encountered Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Wu Changkong brought Meng Li and the other four students to East Sea Soul Tool Technology Park for their year-end assessment.
• The assessment machine assigned Meng Li an extreme trial requiring him to survive for thirty seconds against a five-Soul-Ring opponent.
• Meng Li summoned his Sacred Winged Angel Martial Soul and used Judgment, summoning a massive golden sword as his opponent froze under its effect.

Meng Li defeated a simulated Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul master in Hero Hall, then lost to an eight-ring Huo Yuhao. After Wu Changkong explained that Hero Hall belonged to the Tang Sect, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie chose to join, while Meng Li and Gu Yue stayed with the Spirit Pagoda.

• Meng Li used his stolen Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon abilities to defeat his first opponent and advanced to the ultimate round, where Huo Yuhao defeated him.
• Meng Li, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue compared their Hero Hall results, and Wu Changkong explained that their opponents were simulations of historical soul masters.
• Wu Changkong revealed that Hero Hall was a Tang Sect training system and invited the group to join the organization.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie joined the Tang Sect, while Meng Li and Gu Yue declined because they had joined the Spirit Pagoda.
• On the bus ride back, Meng Li told Gu Yue that the Tang Sect's ideals did not suit him and that he preferred acting according to his own wishes.

Meng Li spent the winter break longing for Na'er, while Gu Yue left for home and Na'er watched him from afar without approaching. The chapter ended with Na'er returning to Meng Li’s window as he slept and calling him “Big Brother.”

• Meng Li and Gu Yue drank together before winter break, and Meng Li drunkenly confessed that he liked her a little while repeatedly calling for Na'er.
• Gu Yue left Eastsea Academy, and Meng Li cultivated alone until he reached Rank 51 on the tenth day of vacation.
• Meng Li sensed Na'er's familiar fragrance and searched the city, while Na'er watched him secretly and resisted going to him.
• A woman with a red umbrella told Na'er to leave, and Na'er went away as the snow began to fall.
• Meng Li returned to his dorm, dreamed of spending happy days with Na'er, and Na'er later pressed her hands to his window and called him “Big Brother.”

Meng Li spent the holiday cultivating and celebrated the Spring Festival with Gu Yue, whose return brought them closer. After he welcomed new student Xu Xiaoyan to the academy, Xie Xie returned before the new term and challenged Meng Li, who easily defeated him.

• Meng Li cultivated through the holiday until Gu Yue returned, then gave her lucky money and cooked a welcome feast with her.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue set off fireworks in the snow, and the next morning Long Hengxu asked Meng Li to meet Xu Xiaoyan at the academy gates.
• Gu Yue accompanied Meng Li to meet Xu Xiaoyan, then took the new girl to Room 503 while Meng Li left.
• Before the new term, Xie Xie returned and challenged Meng Li, but Meng Li's Soul Power shield repelled his attack and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Meng Li invited Xie Xie to treat him to dinner and suggested they soak their feet afterward, just as Gu Yue arrived and asked who wanted to go.

Class Zero welcomed transfer student Xu Xiaoyan, then tested its students and held a team battle. Meng Li’s replicated Golden Dragon King attack exposed Tang Wulin’s hidden power, and Meng Li’s team defeated the others in the end.

• Xie Xie teased Gu Yue and Meng Li about their relationship, then treated them to dinner while Tang Wulin was absent.
• Xu Xiaoyan introduced herself to Class Zero, and Wu Changkong gave her a month to prove she belonged.
• Meng Li placed first in the physical tests except for Spiritual Power, while Xu Xiaoyan asked to have her Spiritual Power tested again that night.
• Wu Changkong paired Meng Li and Gu Yue against Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan in a combat test.
• Meng Li replicated Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Claw, shocking the group and making Gu Yue realize Tang Wulin carried the Golden Dragon King Essence.
• Meng Li stopped Xu Xiaoyan’s ambush on Gu Yue, and his team eventually defeated Tang Wulin and Xie Xie after they ran low on Soul Power.