Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin was ambushed by a mysterious woman in black who sought the Golden Dragon King Essence and stole a portion of it after overpowering him. She left him gravely wounded, and Ye Xinglan found him hours later.

• A silver-haired woman warned three soul beasts not to leave the northwest without her orders.
• A woman in black ambushed Tang Wulin in Shrek City and wounded him with a spear that suppressed his healing.
• The woman revealed that she wanted the Golden Dragon King Essence, then transported Tang Wulin to another world and demanded to know how it entered his body.
• Tang Wulin refused to reveal the secret, so the woman took ten percent of the Golden Dragon King Essence and abandoned him.
• At two in the morning, Ye Xinglan found Tang Wulin badly wounded beside an abandoned warehouse.

After a mysterious woman gave Gu Yue ten percent of the Golden Dragon King Essence, she passed it to Meng Li, where it became a pattern on his palm. In Ao Xia City, Ya Li replaced their failed challenge assessment with a task to earn one million Federal Coins, and Meng Li confidently accepted.

• Ye Xinglan found Tang Wulin gravely injured, treated him, and called for help; Wu Changkong judged his attacker stronger than himself.
• A mysterious woman placed ten percent of the Golden Dragon King Essence into Gu Yue, who woke to find the power within her.
• Gu Yue gave the Essence to Meng Li, but it marked his left palm instead of entering his body.
• Meng Li learned from the group chat that Tang Wulin had been injured and heard Xie Xie's ominous report about the God Realm and the Book of History.
• In Ao Xia City, Meng Li and Gu Yue failed to find opponents for their assessment, so Ya Li changed their task to earning one million Federal Coins.
• Meng Li called the new task easy, and Ya Li challenged him to prove it.

Meng Li finished his battle armor designer assessment and explored Ao Xia City’s night market with Gu Yue and Ya Li. After buying a strange silver bracelet, he used his golden blood on it and watched it transform into two orbiting fish.

• Meng Li earned money designing battle armor blueprints for an ordinary man, then completed his assessment in an hour; Gu Yue passed shortly afterward.
• Meng Li, Gu Yue, and Ya Li visited an Ao Xia City night market, where Meng Li identified a supposed ancient vase as a chamber pot.
• Meng Li bought a silver bracelet carved with two fish for eighty Federal Coins, and Gu Yue sensed it might be a treasure but could not identify its power.
• Back in his room, Meng Li dripped his golden blood onto the bracelet, which broke into silver liquid and formed two unconnected fish that circled one another.

Meng Li and Gu Yue reached Mingdu for the final stage of their assessment at Sun Moon Royal Academy, but a confrontation with Federation mechas turned their arrival into a chase. At the academy, Leng Yaozhu and Ya Li revealed their overwhelming strength, leaving their would-be attackers stunned.

• Meng Li learned that he and Gu Yue had only sixty assessment points left and needed to complete the final exam at Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Federation mecha pilots tried to detain the group after demanding identification, so Gu Yue drove away while Meng Li fired Soul Tool Rockets at their pursuers.
• Gu Yue raced through Mingdu and brought the group to Sun Moon Royal Academy, where Federation mechas and academy students surrounded them.
• A middle-aged man ordered the group arrested and targeted Leng Yaozhu, but she and Ya Li revealed six black and three red soul rings each, stopping everyone.

Meng Li, Gu Yue, Ya Li, and Leng Yaozhu challenged Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, whose staff arranged a public match against its strongest students under twenty. While they waited for the broadcast arrangements, Meng Li chatted with Ya Li and Gu Yue.

• Meng Li played Wu Changkong's recording to challenge Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy's strongest students under twenty on behalf of Shrek Academy.
• The academy's middle-aged staff member grew angry but escorted the group inside after Leng Yaozhu dispersed his threatening aura.
• Meng Li observed the academy's mecha-manufacturing facilities as the staff member led them to an office on the sixteenth floor.
• The staff member explained that students of the same age would compete before the academy and that the match would be broadcast on large screens across Mingdu.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Meng Li whether he was nervous, and he privately joked with Ya Li about his looks, age, and hidden past.
• While they waited two hours for the broadcast arrangements, Meng Li asked Gu Yue to smile, and she talked with him for the rest of the wait.

Meng Li and Gu Yue entered the Great Soul Arena for their match against Sun Moon Royal Academy, whose crowd loudly supported the home team. The match began with Meng Li summoning Dragon Sparrow, but his attempt to summon the Fire Sword was interrupted when Long Chen revealed four purple soul rings.

• A middle-aged man led Meng Li, Gu Yue, Ya Li, and Leng Yaozhu to the waiting area and then toward the arena.
• Sun Moon Royal Academy's crowd jeered at Shrek Academy, prompting Ya Li and Leng Yaozhu to release their pressure and quiet the stands.
• The referee announced the match rules, and Meng Li asked which academy would pay for damage to the arena; the referee said Sun Moon Royal Academy would.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue introduced themselves to Long Chen and Xue Liushuang before both teams took their positions.
• The match began, and Meng Li summoned Dragon Sparrow, but Long Chen stepped forward with a dragon's roar and revealed four purple soul rings as Meng Li tried to summon the Fire Sword.

Meng Li defeated Sun Moon Royal Academy’s Long Chen and Xue Liushuang by collapsing their arena, then returned to Shrek Academy after the holiday had begun. Meanwhile, Ya Li struggled with her feelings and learned the Black Market had suffered heavy losses, as an unidentified speaker accused someone of betraying their organization for a woman.

• Meng Li and Gu Yue faced Long Chen and Xue Liushuang, and Meng Li brought down the arena with pillars of flame, forcing the referee to rescue the defeated pair.
• Meng Li photographed the damage and sent it to Wu Changkong before he and the others drove back to Shrek Academy.
• Ya Li returned to Yun Ming but concealed the emotions stirred by Meng Li’s bloodline and resolved to keep her distance after helping him with the Black Market.
• Meng Li found Shrek Academy deserted after the end-of-term review and messaged Na'er, who said she could see him in two days.
• Ya Li learned from her informant that the Black Market had only two Three-Word Battle Armor Masters and five Two-Word Battle Armor Masters left, then passed the intelligence to Leng Yaozhu.
• An unidentified speaker accused a supposed brother of leaking a secret and betraying their organization for a woman.

Meng Li visited the recovering Tang Wulin, who was warned by Old Tang that the Golden Dragon King Essence taken from him was on Meng Li, though Meng Li likely did not know about it. After Gu Yue left for home, Meng Li joined Ya Li and Leng Yaozhu on a masked mission at Midnight Bar, where they sought to do business.

• A Black Market informant died after being stabbed, regretting that the information he had delivered to Ya Li might have been wrong.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue visited Tang Wulin in the hospital, where Old Tang told him the missing Golden Dragon King Essence was on Meng Li and advised him to keep his distance.
• Tang Wulin told Meng Li he could not remember what happened, and Meng Li chatted with him before returning home with Gu Yue.
• Meng Li woke from a dream warning that his time was running out, then found Gu Yue's farewell letter and breakfast after she had gone home for vacation.
• Ya Li left Yun Ming and joined Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu in Heaven Dou City to investigate Midnight Bar.
• Meng Li, Ya Li, and Leng Yaozhu wore masks and approached the bar's owner, and Meng Li said they had come to do business.

Ya Li, Leng Yaozhu, and Meng Li were lured into a trap in the Black Market and forced to face thousands of coerced prisoners. Ya Li used her Three-word Battle Armor to knock down the attackers with holy light, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ya Li led Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu into the Black Market, where the owner revealed a hidden passage to its underground prison and city.
• The owner brought them to a sealed hall and revealed that he knew Ya Li was Holy Spirit Douluo Yali.
• The owner trapped them inside and summoned thousands of debtors and other captives, ordering them to attack.
• Meng Li urged Ya Li to knock the innocent people unconscious instead of killing them.
• Ya Li summoned her Three-word Battle Armor, Holy Thoughts Cloud, and used Angel's Holy Radiance to make the approaching Soul Masters collapse.

Ya Li tried to surrender herself to save the imprisoned Federation mecha pilots, while Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu resisted the Black Market boss’s trap. The standoff continued as Ya Li held a sword to her own neck and Meng Li pleaded with her to stop.

• The Black Market boss deployed a Mecha Brigade and offered to free the pilots if one of the three surrendered.
• Ya Li agreed to stay in exchange for the pilots’ freedom, and the Black Market boss ordered the attackers to stop.
• Leng Yaozhu rejected the deal and used her Four-word Battle Armor and Heavenly Phoenix True Fire to destroy the attacking mechas.
• Ya Li blamed herself as Leng Yaozhu’s attacks killed mecha pilots, and Meng Li blocked Ya Li from approaching the enemy.
• Ya Li pressed a sword to her neck to force Meng Li to let her go, but he pleaded that her life mattered more than the enemies’.

The Black Market boss forced Ya Li to choose between Meng Li and the prisoners, and Ya Li shattered her sword rather than kill Meng Li, leaving the prisoners to die from poison gas. As the Black Mechas attacked, Leng Yaozhu revealed herself and fought back while Meng Li restrained Ya Li to keep her from making a desperate choice.

• The Black Market boss offered to release the prisoners if Ya Li killed Meng Li, then showed the prisoners suffering in poison gas as he began a countdown.
• Meng Li urged Ya Li to kill him, while Leng Yaozhu watched and the Federation Mecha Brigade demanded his death.
• Ya Li shattered her sword instead of stabbing Meng Li, and the poison gas killed the prisoners as the Black Market boss condemned her choice.
• The Black Market boss ordered the Black Mechas to attack, and Leng Yaozhu revealed herself as the Heavenly Phoenix Douluo and defeated two Purple Mechas.
• Meng Li tied Ya Li to his back to prevent her from acting rashly, and Ya Li demanded that he let her go.

Meng Li, Ya Li, and Leng Yaozhu defeated the Black Market’s mechas, but the Black Market boss summoned a huge force of armored Soul Masters. Leng Yaozhu prepared to face the overwhelming enemy while Meng Li protected Ya Li.

• Meng Li carried the injured Ya Li into battle and destroyed a Purple Mecha with his spear, while she bit his shoulder out of guilt.
• Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu defeated the final Black Mecha, and Ya Li healed Meng Li’s injury.
• The Black Market boss dropped his barrier and summoned dozens of armored fighters, including twelve Three-Word Battle Armor Masters and twenty-eight Titled Douluo.
• Leng Yaozhu told Meng Li to protect Ya Li and said she could handle the enemy forces.
• The Black Market boss recognized Meng Li, demanded that Leng Yaozhu and Ya Li surrender, and ordered his fighters to reveal their martial souls and domains.

Meng Li and Ya Li fought alongside Leng Yaozhu against the Black Market boss and his forces, but both were mortally wounded while saving each other. Leng Yaozhu unleashed her Martial Soul Avatar in grief, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Meng Li held off the One-Word Battle Armor Masters while Ya Li healed him and Leng Yaozhu fought the stronger enemies.
• Ya Li defeated the Evil Soul Masters and turned to supporting Meng Li and Leng Yaozhu as the Black Market boss sent Two-Word Battle Armor Masters into the fight.
• Leng Yaozhu killed a Titled Douluo, but several enemy fighters then targeted Ya Li.
• Meng Li shielded Ya Li from a saber strike, and both were pierced through the chest before further blades stabbed them.
• Leng Yaozhu roared and released her Martial Soul Avatar, while Yun Ming at Shrek Academy wondered whether the falling green leaves meant something had happened to the Life Ancient Tree.
• The Black Market fighters believed Meng Li and Ya Li were dead, but the Black Market boss warned them that the battle was not over.

After Leng Yaozhu continued fighting the Black Market, Meng Li and Ya Li revived through the Yin-Yang Fish Bracelet and mysterious angel gemstones. They began removing the weapons from their bodies as golden light healed them, though Meng Li worried that his wounds were not healing as well as Ya Li’s.

• Leng Yaozhu charged into the enemy Martial Soul Avatars, killing three Titled Douluo before the Black Market boss offered to let her leave.
• Meng Li and Ya Li encountered two angel statues in a strange afterlife-like space, received black and white gemstones, and fell unconscious after angel wings appeared between their brows.
• The Yin-Yang Fish Bracelet glowed after Meng Li’s golden blood had flowed into Ya Li, and both of them opened their eyes alive.
• Ya Li realized her lost life force had returned and her strength had improved, while Meng Li complained about their wounds and their close position.
• Ya Li pulled the weapons from their bodies as golden light healed them, then asked Meng Li whether he had hugged her enough.

Meng Li and Ya Li reunited with Leng Yaozhu, and Ya Li revealed powerful new abilities that helped defeat the Black Market forces. Afterward, Leng Yaozhu privately asked Ya Li about the hidden talents Meng Li might possess.

• Meng Li and Ya Li reunited with Leng Yaozhu, and Ya Li's Soul Ring advanced to orange after her rebirth.
• Ya Li used Angel Domain to strengthen Leng Yaozhu, whose power rose to the level of a demigod.
• Leng Yaozhu attacked the Black Market forces while Ya Li unleashed Sacred Radiance Paradise, destroying the enemies in seconds.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Ya Li whether her weapon and Meng Li's Mythical Spear formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Ya Li blushed.
• Leng Yaozhu sent Meng Li aside and asked Ya Li about the special talents hidden within him; Ya Li said she knew little about the Angel Clan.

After recovering from the Black Market battle, Meng Li caught up with the women who had been trying to reach him and arranged to meet Na'er. The chapter ended with Na'er joyfully leaping into his arms at the Inner Court entrance, stunning the onlookers.

• Ya Li told Leng Yaozhu what had happened during the battle but kept her mental link with Meng Li secret, and Meng Li noticed that his Pisces Bracelet was missing.
• Meng Li, Leng Yaozhu, and Ya Li divided the Black Market's treasures, then Leng Yaozhu mobilized Federation and Spirit Pagoda forces to purge the market.
• Ya Li returned home and declined Yun Ming's Blood Buns, hiding the truth about her trip and saying she needed a quiet place to recover.
• After sleeping for two days, Meng Li found dozens of messages from Na'er, Gu Yue, Ya Li, and Leng Yaozhu, then called each of them back.
• Meng Li invited Na'er to eat with him and met her at the Inner Court entrance, where she ran to him and wrapped herself around him in front of the watching students.

Meng Li reunited with Na'er and spent the day eating and exploring with her, then brought her home for the night. Na'er wanted to stay with him, but Gu Yue refused to lend her room, so Meng Li prepared a place for Na'er in the living room.

• Na'er reunited warmly with Meng Li, and they went to Huo Yu Grilled Fish Shop to eat.
• Meng Li asked Na'er to transfer to the Outer Court, but she said her master and master's wife were important to her; she later offered to ask her master about transferring.
• Na'er declined a communication call from Yun Ming and spent the day wandering around Shrek with Meng Li.
• Meng Li and Na'er watched the stars together, and Na'er asked to sleep at his home.
• Gu Yue refused to lend Na'er her room, so Meng Li prepared blankets and arranged a place for Na'er in the living room.

Na'er spent the night with Meng Li, but Yun Ming broke into Meng Li's home after finding them together. When Yun Ming attacked Meng Li, Na'er intervened and ended her master-disciple relationship with him.

• Na'er suggested sharing Meng Li's bed, but he refused and let her sleep in his room.
• Yun Ming used his Spiritual Power to find Na'er and, jealous of her closeness with Meng Li, went to investigate.
• Yun Ming kicked in Meng Li's door and attacked him, but Meng Li countered with the Mythical Spear and reported the intruder to the Federation's Security Team.
• Na'er shielded Meng Li and told Yun Ming she would no longer be his disciple because he had attacked her brother.
• Yun Ming accepted the severance and left, and Meng Li apologized to Na'er for the rift.

Meng Li spent time with Na'er after her return, then took her on a six-day train journey to the northwest. Their destination was Yue Li City, a newly renamed city that had once been a lawless land.

• Na'er reassured Meng Li that she had willingly chosen to stay by his side, and he promised to care for her.
• The Federation Security Bureau contacted Meng Li about the incident with Yun Ming, and Meng Li clarified that he was safe.
• Yun Ming tried to find company after losing his disciple, while Zhu Shi and Feng Wuyu remained occupied with their game.
• Meng Li enjoyed several days at home with Na'er, then told her he would take her to see a different kind of world in the northwest.
• At Shrek City Station, Meng Li greeted Tang Wulin and explained their past to Na'er before they boarded the train.
• Na'er settled in with snacks and a drama during the six-day journey, and the train announced their arrival in Yue Li City.

Meng Li and Na'er arrived in Moon Carp City and entered the protected soul beast habitat with Di Tian. There, Bi Ji warned Meng Li not to investigate Na'er's past, and Di Tian took them to a modest settlement.

• Meng Li and Na'er left the station and heard an old man praise the changes made to Moon Carp City by the Federation, Spirit Pagoda, and New Soul Tool Technology Company.
• Di Tian met Meng Li and Na'er, drove them through the transformed city, and brought them to the guarded boundary of the soul beast habitat.
• Meng Li and Di Tian confirmed their identities and entered the habitat, where Meng Li recognized Bi Ji as the woman who had once taken Na'er away.
• Bi Ji introduced herself and warned Meng Li that investigating Na'er's past could get him killed, while Na'er pretended not to recognize her.
• Meng Li accepted Bi Ji's warning, and Di Tian drove him and Na'er to a row of simple wooden houses where they could settle in.