Chapter Summaries

Gu Yuena decided to return to Spirit Pagoda headquarters, and Meng Li insisted on accompanying her despite the danger there. They traveled with Ya Li and Na Nali to Shrek City, where Meng Li kept his reason for disliking the city secret.

• Gu Yuena told Meng Li she needed to return to Spirit Pagoda headquarters, and after he offered to go with her, she warned him that people there wanted to harm him.
• Gu Yuena agreed to travel with Meng Li after he mentioned that he could purify Evil Soul Masters, and she introduced herself to Na Nali as distinct from Na'er.
• Meng Li told Ya Li and Na Nali that they had to leave Skysea City for Shrek City, and the group took the Soul Tool Train.
• The group arrived in Shrek City and headed for Spirit Pagoda headquarters as Meng Li thought of Leng Yaozhu and Ya Li recalled the city with mixed feelings.
• Na Nali noticed Meng Li's resistance to Shrek City, but he refused to explain that Qiangu Zhangting lived there.

Tang Wulin told Yun Ming that Ya Li had become involved with Meng Li, leaving Yun Ming shocked and desperate to see her. Meanwhile, Meng Li, Gu Yuena, Ya Li, and Na Nali were stopped at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters after Meng Li's identification card showed he had been blacklisted.

• Tang Wulin explained that Ya Li was in the Star Luo Empire and had grown close to Meng Li, and Yun Ming reacted with disbelief and anger.
• Yun Ming insisted that Ya Li still loved him and demanded to see her, so Tang Wulin agreed to take him to find her.
• Tang Wulin left the Sky-Piercing Spear alone in his room so Yun Ming could have time to himself.
• Meng Li, Gu Yuena, Ya Li, and Na Nali tried to enter Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, but the gatekeeper checked Meng Li's card.
• The identity machine declared Meng Li blacklisted, and the gatekeeper ordered the group to leave.

Meng Li and his companions faced an armed response at Spirit Pagoda headquarters after a guard accused him of slandering the organization. The confrontation ended with Leng Yaozhu joyfully reuniting with Meng Li, her disciple, before demanding an explanation from the Mecha Brigade.

• Gu Tian told Meng Li that Spirit Pagoda had blacklisted him for destroying a branch, and Meng Li said he had only known its occupants were Evil Soul Masters.
• Gu Tian triggered the alarm, bringing a Mecha Brigade that surrounded Meng Li, Gu Yuena, Ya Li, and Na Nali.
• Nanyang recognized Gu Yuena as Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Envoy, ordered his Mecha Masters to disarm, and apologized for Gu Tian’s conduct.
• Gu Yuena told Gu Tian to apologize to her friend, and Gu Tian begged her for forgiveness.
• Leng Yaozhu emerged from Spirit Pagoda, embraced Meng Li, and reunited with him as his master.
• Leng Yaozhu released Meng Li and coldly asked the Mecha Brigade what was happening.

Leng Yaozhu punished Gu Tian for bullying Meng Li and brought Meng Li’s group into Spirit Pagoda, while Qian Gu Dongfeng and Qiangu Zhangting plotted against Meng Li. At Leng Yaozhu’s office, she recognized Na Nali as her sister’s former friend and asked whether she knew anything about Leng Yulai.

• After Nanyang explained what happened, Leng Yaozhu expelled Gu Tian from Spirit Pagoda and permanently blacklisted him.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng watched Meng Li return to Spirit Pagoda and shattered his glass in anger.
• Qiangu Zhangting told Qian Gu Dongfeng he wanted to kill Meng Li, but Qian Gu Dongfeng said they should use Na Nali to drug Meng Li and first protect Spirit Pagoda’s reputation.
• Qiangu Zhangting contacted an associate who had arranged for an expelled Shrek Academy student to share information about Meng Li.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng smashed things in his office, while Yun Ming grew weaker after learning Meng Li was with Ya Li.
• At Leng Yaozhu’s office, she recognized Na Nali as Dark Bell, her sister Leng Yulai’s former friend, and asked whether Na Nali had heard from her.

Meng Li explained the limits of his fused healing skill to Leng Yaozhu, who hoped it might help her sister, Leng Yulai. At Leng Yaozhu’s home, Ya Li confessed her love for Meng Li and promised his master she would remain devoted to him.

• Meng Li told Leng Yaozhu that Angel's Heal could restore only Evil Soul Masters who had not committed unforgivable crimes, while the others turned to ash.
• Leng Yaozhu said she wanted Meng Li to try the skill on her sister, Leng Yulai, and then invited everyone to her home.
• At Leng Yaozhu's home, Na Nali learned that the girl in an old photograph was Gu Yue, who had appeared disguised when she was young.
• Ya Li joined Leng Yaozhu in the kitchen and admitted she had fallen in love with Meng Li and filed for divorce registration from Yun Ming.
• Leng Yaozhu doubted Ya Li would remain devoted to Meng Li, and Ya Li promised to prove her love for the rest of her life.

Ya Li confessed to Leng Yaozhu that she loved Meng Li and had considered dying because their love seemed impossible, but Leng Yaozhu persuaded her to live and pursue him. During a family dinner, Meng Li said he planned to settle nearby and cultivate toward reaching the God Realm.

• Ya Li swore that she would love only Meng Li and admitted to Leng Yaozhu that she had never confessed her feelings to him.
• Ya Li said she might die to end everyone’s suffering, but Leng Yaozhu urged her to live and pursue Meng Li instead.
• Ya Li and Leng Yaozhu prepared dinner together, and Ya Li recognized that Leng Yaozhu had learned her cooking style from Meng Li.
• Meng Li, Gu Yuena, Ya Li, Leng Yaozhu, and Na Nali shared a meal, while Gu Yuena filled Meng Li’s bowl with food.
• Meng Li told Leng Yaozhu that he planned to settle nearby and focus on cultivating until he reached the God Realm.

After moving into Leng Yaozhu’s home, Meng Li worried about the distance between himself and Gu Yuena and decided to seek answers from Qiangu Zhangting. He teamed up with Na Nali to kidnap him, and they began their operation by destroying the Spirit Pagoda’s surveillance room.

• Leng Yaozhu invited Meng Li, Ya Li, and Na Nali to stay at her home, where Meng Li found an old photograph of himself, Gu Yue, and Leng Yaozhu.
• Meng Li asked Na Nali to help kidnap Qiangu Zhangting so he could learn about Gu Yuena’s relationship with the Spirit Pagoda, and she agreed because of her grudge against him.
• Meng Li and Na Nali planned to disguise themselves as Evil Soul Masters, disable the Spirit Pagoda’s surveillance, and capture Qiangu Zhangting that night.
• Meng Li carried Na Nali at tremendous speed to the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where they destroyed the surveillance room.

Meng Li and Na Nali attacked Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and kidnapped Qiangu Zhangting. Qian Gu Dongfeng launched a search and asked the Holy Spirit Cult for help, while Gu Yuena realized Meng Li was involved.

• Meng Li and Na Nali used the chaos at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to reach Qiangu Zhangting and immobilize him with Na Nali’s bell soul skill.
• Meng Li and Na Nali tied Qiangu Zhangting inside a sack and escaped, while Gu Yuena recognized Meng Li’s aura in the rain and tried to contact him.
• Meng Li ended Gu Yuena’s call, and Qiangu Zhangting suspected the voice he heard belonged to Nana.
• Meng Li chose a forest park as their destination so Qiangu Zhangting’s capture would not endanger bystanders.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng discovered his grandson was missing, ordered a continent-wide search, and threatened punishment for failure.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng called Ghost Emperor, who denied the Holy Spirit Cult had taken Qiangu Zhangting, and Qian Gu Dongfeng asked the cult to help search.

Qian Gu Dongfeng threatened the Holy Spirit Cult while its leaders discussed the danger posed by Meng Li. Meanwhile, Meng Li and Na Nali abducted and brutally beat Qiangu Zhangting in revenge for the Spirit Pagoda’s attack on Shrek City, leaving their identities concealed.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng threatened to destroy the Holy Spirit Cult unless it helped with Qiangu Zhangting, and Ghost Emperor agreed to assist while warning that their relationship was not close.
• Ghost Emperor and Nether Emperor discussed their negotiations and planned to eliminate Meng Li, whose abilities powerfully suppressed Evil Soul Masters.
• Meng Li took Na Nali and the captive Qiangu Zhangting to a secluded forest, where Na Nali used her bell to let Zhangting speak while keeping him restrained.
• Meng Li and Na Nali beat Qiangu Zhangting, first kicking him in the groin and then striking him with sticks for half an hour.
• Meng Li told Qiangu Zhangting that the beating was revenge for the Spirit Pagoda’s role in the attack on Shrek City, without revealing his identity.

Meng Li and Na Nali escaped after confronting Qiangu Zhangting, who was soon found injured, prompting Qian Gu Dongfeng to order an investigation. Back at Leng Yaozhu’s home, they tried to hide their involvement, but Leng Yaozhu turned away investigators and then demanded the truth from them.

• Meng Li threatened Qiangu Zhangting, tossed a knife near his crotch, and fled with Na Nali as the sirens approached.
• Guards found Qiangu Zhangting badly injured, and he vowed revenge on his kidnappers.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng learned of his grandson’s injuries, destroyed a Soul Tool Sedan in anger, and ordered his subordinates to find the culprits.
• Meng Li and Na Nali returned home in normal clothes and claimed they had only gone shopping together.
• A Federation guard and a Spirit Pagoda woman asked Leng Yaozhu to search her home, but she refused and criticized the investigation.
• Leng Yaozhu shut the door on the investigators, then confronted Meng Li and Na Nali and demanded to know what had happened.

Meng Li admitted that he had helped kidnap Qiangu Zhangting, and Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yuena agreed to protect him from the Spirit Pagoda. When Meng Li learned Leng Yaozhu had accepted the Xue Yi position, he warned that she would die if she took it, but a backlash stopped him from explaining why.

• Meng Li confessed that he and Na Nali had kidnapped Qiangu Zhangting because Meng Li disliked him for liking Gu Yue.
• Leng Yaozhu comforted Meng Li and promised to cover for him, while Ya Li and Gu Yuena urged him not to exclude them from his plans.
• Leng Yaozhu told Gu Yuena to stay beside her at the Spirit Pagoda and told Meng Li to remain home while the group reviewed what evidence the Spirit Pagoda might have.
• Meng Li learned Leng Yaozhu had become Xue Yi and objected after seeing a vision of her death on the Abyss battlefield.
• Meng Li tried to explain his warning, but Qian Yuhan told him that revealing what he had seen would trigger fate's backlash, and Meng Li vomited blood.
• Leng Yaozhu agreed to seek a way to decline the position, and Meng Li suggested Vast Sea Douluo Chen Xinjie as a replacement.

Leng Yaozhu considered taking a dangerous job as Xue Yi while Meng Li and Gu Yuena supported her. Meanwhile, Qian Gu Dongfeng sought Ya Li's help to save the badly injured Qiangu Zhangting, but Leng Yaozhu rejected his proposed bargain over the phone.

• Leng Yaozhu said she would consider becoming Xue Yi despite fearing she might die on the dangerous missions.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng arrived to find Qiangu Zhangting gravely wounded, and a healer warned that his lower-body injuries might not be treatable.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng asked those present to find a way to bring the Holy Spirit Douluo to help Qiangu Zhangting.
• Shu Qing failed to obtain Ya Li's phone number because her information was top secret.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng called Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yuena, then offered Leng Yaozhu years without using an overly familiar form of address in exchange for Ya Li's number or her presence.
• Leng Yaozhu refused Qian Gu Dongfeng's demands.

Qian Gu Dongfeng sought Ya Li’s help for his injured grandson, but she refused after learning Meng Li was involved in the kidnapping. At Leng Yaozhu’s home, Meng Li explained the Spirit Pagoda’s past attempts on his life, and Leng Yaozhu decided to leave her post as Vice Tower Master.

• Leng Yaozhu refused to give Qian Gu Dongfeng Ya Li’s contact information or ask her to treat Qiangu Zhangting, and Ya Li declined to help him.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng learned investigators suspected Meng Li had kidnapped his grandson, then vowed revenge and considered seeking the Holy Spirit Cult’s help.
• Meng Li told Leng Yaozhu that the Spirit Pagoda had twice tried to kill him, including by sending the Nether Emperor after him.
• Leng Yaozhu condemned the Spirit Pagoda’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult and decided to speak with her family about resigning as Vice Tower Master.
• Meng Li explained that Ya Li’s martial soul had driven off the Nether Emperor, and Leng Yaozhu thanked Ya Li for protecting him.

Gu Yuena struggled to choose between her plans for revenge through the Spirit Pagoda and a life with Meng Li, while Meng Li decided to create a faction to keep her from returning to it. Gu Yuena remained uncertain but resolved to take things one step at a time and make Meng Li breakfast.

• Gu Yuena admitted she was conflicted about leaving the Spirit Pagoda, and Leng Yaozhu promised to support her choice.
• Meng Li learned Gu Yuena had researched Soul Power and suspected she wanted to use Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirits to advance her goals.
• Ya Li persuaded Meng Li to create a faction, and Leng Yaozhu offered him her support.
• Meng Li decided to go find Gu Yue and ask what she wanted.
• Gu Yuena dreamed of a happy life with Meng Li, then woke and chose to take things one step at a time.

Gu Yuena hesitated over whether to tell Meng Li about her troubles, but he revealed that he had already deduced her identity as the Silver Dragon King and understood her connection to the soul beasts. He reaffirmed that he loved her and would stand by her, while Gu Yuena warned that their future would be difficult and said the soul beasts now needed revenge.

• Meng Li prepared breakfast for Gu Yuena and encouraged her to tell him what was troubling her.
• Gu Yuena warned Meng Li that learning the truth could put him in danger, but he insisted he had already chosen to stand by her.
• Meng Li explained how clues from Na'er, the Golden Dragon King, and Gu Yuena's appearance and abilities led him to identify her as the Silver Dragon King.
• Meng Li said he loved Gu Yuena regardless of what she was and believed the conflict between humans and soul beasts could be resolved.
• Gu Yuena said their future would be difficult and declared that the soul beasts needed revenge.

Meng Li proposed that Gu Yuena pursue her goals by founding the Soul Spirit Company instead of relying solely on her position at the Spirit Pagoda. Gu Yuena agreed to consider the plan, but insisted on controlling the company and returning to the Spirit Pagoda to obtain key Artificial Soul Spirit methods.

• Gu Yuena explained that she wanted to start a war to make humanity understand the consequences of its actions, but did not intend to destroy humanity or kill innocents.
• Meng Li reasoned that Gu Yuena had stayed at the Spirit Pagoda to gain control of Soul Spirits and soul masters, and warned her about the Qiangu Family.
• Meng Li proposed creating the Soul Spirit Company with Gu Yuena's expertise and the support of soul beasts, and Gu Yuena agreed on the condition that the company remain entirely under her control.
• Gu Yuena said she needed to return to the Spirit Pagoda to retrieve methods for creating key Artificial Soul Spirits, and Meng Li warned her to be careful around Qiangu Zhangting and the Pagoda's schemers.
• Leng Yaozhu, Ya Li, and Na Nali joined Meng Li and Gu Yuena for breakfast, where the group discussed establishing the Soul Spirit Company.

Gu Yuena and her allies divided their tasks while Qian Gu Dongfeng and Qiangu Zhangting plotted revenge against Meng Li and Na Nali. Qiangu Zhangting proposed a Martial Arts Tournament for Marriage to lure Meng Li into a trap, but Gu Yuena refused when Qian Gu Dongfeng brought the idea to her.

• Leng Yaozhu stayed at the Spirit Pagoda to address Xue Yi's identity, while Gu Yuena worked on plans for the Soul Spirit Company and Meng Li took Na Nali to meet two soul beasts.
• Qiangu Zhangting woke and learned that he might not recover fully, then told Qian Gu Dongfeng how two hooded attackers had incapacitated and beaten him.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng identified Meng Li and Na Nali as the likely attackers and explained that capturing them would require the Qiangu Family's divine artifact and a chance to lure them out.
• Qiangu Zhangting proposed a Martial Arts Tournament for Marriage to provoke Meng Li and draw him into the divine artifact's trap, and Qian Gu Dongfeng agreed to approach Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena rejected Qian Gu Dongfeng's proposal because she was already married to Meng Li.

Gu Yuena refused Qian Gu Dongfeng’s matchmaking proposal and copied Spirit Pagoda research materials as she prepared to leave. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian confronted Meng Li and declared that he must defeat them before they would discuss the future of soul beasts.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng offered Gu Yuena access to the Spirit Pagoda’s highest-floor library and promised to help her refuse the matchmaking event if she declined.
• Gu Yuena refused the proposal, rejected Qian Gu Dongfeng’s warning about her future in the Spirit Pagoda, and copied spirit soul research materials after he left.
• Meng Li and Na Nali traveled toward the center of the Star Dou Great Forest, where powerful auras darkened the forest and surrounded them.
• Di Tian and three companions appeared, and Di Tian told Meng Li that soul beasts distrusted humans because spirit souls had become a form of enslavement.
• Di Tian demanded that Meng Li defeat them to prove he could protect soul beasts, while explaining that Meng Li’s defeat would leave them no choice but to oppose humanity.

Meng Li and Na Nali fought Di Tian’s soul beasts in a test of Meng Li’s strength, with Di Tian deliberately holding back. The battle continued as Meng Li and Na Nali faced Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, and Zi Ji.

• Xiong Jun challenged Meng Li and Na Nali to attack together, and they accepted the fight.
• Na Nali’s fourth soul skill briefly froze Xiong Jun, allowing Meng Li to strike his shoulder with the Mythical Spear.
• Meng Li used the Life Goddess’s divine skill to make the Myriad Demon King’s eye-covered vegetation turn its yellow beams against him.
• Na Nali stepped in front of Zi Ji’s attack, and Meng Li shielded them both with his Angel Wings, which Zi Ji repeatedly slashed.
• Meng Li dodged Zi Ji’s attack with Na Nali, then clashed with Xiong Jun’s dark-gold claws as Di Tian watched without intervening.

Meng Li and Na Nali fought Zi Ji, Xiong Jun, and Myriad Demon King, whose attacks were disrupted by Na Nali’s bell and Meng Li’s strange power. After the battle, Myriad Demon King was convinced by Meng Li, while the fight continued with Xiong Jun and Zi Ji attacking them.

• Na Nali used her bell to daze the three soul beasts, while Meng Li refused to use his spiritual domain and fought alongside her.
• Meng Li redirected Myriad Demon King’s crystalline yellow beams toward Xiong Jun, trapping him in an illusion that made him attack his teammates.
• Myriad Demon King used his domain to help Zi Ji evade Xiong Jun’s attacks, then explained that his Evil Eye had gone out of control.
• Xiong Jun recovered and blamed Na Nali for the disturbance, but Meng Li admitted that his power had affected the yellow-eyed trees.
• Xiong Jun and Zi Ji resumed attacking Meng Li and Na Nali, while Di Tian praised their strength and Myriad Demon King became convinced by Meng Li.