Chapter Summaries

Meng Li and Na'er arrived at the spirit beast settlement, where Meng Li arranged regular funding and urged Bi Ji to improve living conditions. The next day, Bi Ji showed them the developing forest and its newly settled spirit beasts.

• Bi Ji showed Meng Li and Na'er their basic cabin and explained that the development plan needed more funds.
• Na'er offered her black card, and Meng Li arranged a monthly transfer of 2.5 billion Federal Coins to the company account.
• Bi Ji told Di Tian about the new investment, and they discussed the plan’s importance and the possibility of Meng Li joining the Lord.
• After finding cold shower water and a dinner of only braised beef, Meng Li asked Bi Ji to treat her subordinates better.
• Bi Ji drove Meng Li and Na'er through the growing forest, where they saw groups of spirit beasts transported there by Gu Yue’s railway and Soul Tool Train.

Meng Li, Na'er, and Bi Ji traveled through the Northwest Soul Beast Forest, where soul beasts gathered around Meng Li before Bi Ji sent them away. They caught poachers who had entered through a faulty sensor line, and learned that four more poachers were still somewhere in the forest.

• Bi Ji told Meng Li that the Northwest Soul Beast Forest held 1.2 million soul beasts and was continuing to grow.
• At their campsite, snow deer and hundreds of other soul beasts gathered around Meng Li, drawn by his affinity for them, until Bi Ji scattered them.
• Three middle-aged poachers arrived and threatened Meng Li, Bi Ji, and Na'er, so Meng Li seized one while Bi Ji and Na'er caught the others as they tried to flee.
• Meng Li killed the tallest poacher and forced the slightly fat man to explain that seven poachers had entered through a missing sensor line.
• Bi Ji confirmed that the sensor line had been repaired after one day and said forest rangers had already killed more than a hundred intruders.

After returning to Shrek Academy from the Northwest Soul Beast Forest, Meng Li visited Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue at the Spirit Pagoda. After enduring his master's scrutiny of his cultivation and mecha design, he won them over with roasted scorpions, and the three left together for a walk.

• Meng Li and Na'er returned to Shrek Academy after inspecting the Northwest Soul Beast Forest and supervising the base renovation.
• Meng Li chatted with Tang Wulin and the others, hearing that Tang Wulin had survived another Soul Tool Train attack and that Mo Lan remained unconscious.
• Meng Li retrieved his car and went to the Spirit Pagoda to visit Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue.
• Leng Yaozhu made Meng Li report on his cultivation and criticized his mecha design, while he complained that she was stricter with him than with Gu Yue.
• Meng Li offered Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue roasted scorpions, distracting them from his shortcomings, and the three went out for a walk.

Meng Li discovered that Na'er might disappear because she was an avatar without an origin, but she reassured him that she was real. Ten days later, Meng Li began a breakthrough toward level sixty as Gu Yue sensed four halos of power gathering around him.

• Ya Li visited Na'er, and Meng Li told Na'er that he and Ya Li were comrades through life and death.
• Meng Li saw Na'er turn transparent, held her to confirm she was real, and begged her not to leave him.
• Na'er concealed her distress and reassured Meng Li, knowing she was an avatar destined to return to Gu Yue.
• Tang Wulin asked Meng Li to guard him while he broke through, but Meng Li refused and then realized he was nearing a breakthrough himself.
• Meng Li absorbed Light Element Soul Power as four halos fused around him, and Gu Yue sensed his level rising from fifty-nine toward sixty.

Meng Li broke through to Soul Emperor, evolving his sixth soul ring and gaining a mysterious life force and soul skill. After spending time with Na'er and Ya Li, he studied the new skill in the courtyard.

• Tang Wulin felt the Golden Dragon King Essence leave his body for Meng Li, and Old Tang urged him to absorb it while refusing to explain his identity.
• Ya Li and Na'er guarded Meng Li as his four energies fused into his sixth soul ring, turning it into a gold-dominated multicolored ring.
• Meng Li awakened as a Soul Emperor and released a powerful life force that Na'er and Ya Li absorbed.
• Meng Li asked Ya Li what Gu Yue's mixed behavior meant, and Ya Li told him that Gu Yue must love him very much.
• Meng Li served Na'er and Ya Li bitter Bitter Tea, then persuaded Ya Li to stay for dinner and suggested that Na'er could report directly to her Outer Court class.
• After Ya Li left, Meng Li tested his sixth soul skill, which summoned a multicolored Angel Wing and the words, “One grain of sand, one world; one flower, one paradise. Infinity rests in the palm, and an instant becomes eternity!”

After breaking through to Rank 61, Meng Li underwent tests at the Spirit Pagoda and tried to discover what his sixth soul skill did, but even sparring with Leng Yaozhu revealed nothing. He returned home to Na'er, who confessed she had been thinking about him, leaving Meng Li flustered and changing the subject.

• Meng Li gave up trying to activate the Angel Feather and discovered that his strength, speed, and agility had increased after reaching Rank 61.
• Leng Yaozhu tested Meng Li at the Spirit Pagoda, where his physical abilities exceeded the recorded limits and his Spiritual Power burned out the testing machine.
• Meng Li, Leng Yaozhu, and Gu Yue tried to uncover the sixth soul skill's effect through sparring, but Meng Li was injured and they learned nothing.
• Gu Yue treated Meng Li's injuries, and he returned home in the afternoon to cook for Na'er.
• Na'er told Meng Li she had been thinking about him, and he blushed before deflecting the conversation by offering her spicy rabbit head.

Meng Li visited Tang Wulin after his breakthrough, got caught in a misunderstanding with Yuanen Yehui, and later reunited with his friends as school approached. He learned Tang Wulin’s group had challenged another academy, then volunteered for a friendly match with Luo Guixing’s group.

• Meng Li went to Tang Wulin’s dormitory, where Yuanen Yehui mistook him and Xie Xie for intruders and blocked Meng Li before Xie Xie later cleared up the misunderstanding.
• Meng Li found Tang Wulin newly changed by his breakthrough, while Old Tang warned Tang Wulin that Meng Li might be a soul beast and urged him to stay away.
• Ten days later, Meng Li reunited with his friends as school was about to start and learned that Tang Wulin’s group had challenged Heavenly Decree Starry Sky Soul Master Academy.
• The group explained how Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Gazing Platform baptism had improved her confidence and changed her abilities.
• Tang Wulin said Luo Guixing had proposed a friendly match, and Meng Li volunteered to take part.

Meng Li joined Class One’s friendly match and struggled to ease the tension between Gu Yue and Na'er at home. After Gu Yue treated his injuries, Meng Li confessed that he liked her but received no clear answer; at school, students questioned his closeness to Na'er and mistook him for a potential brother-in-law.

• Meng Li, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and other Class One students signed up for an afternoon friendly match.
• Meng Li found Gu Yue and Na'er at home, and Gu Yue shut herself in her room after refusing to eat with them.
• Meng Li entered Gu Yue’s room, and she agreed to let Na'er live with them as long as Meng Li did not act intimately with her.
• Gu Yue gave Meng Li restorative treasures and changed his bandages, and Meng Li told her that he liked her, but she did not give him a clear response.
• At the reopened cafeteria, students gathered to see Na'er, and Meng Li told them she was his sister.
• Students called Meng Li their future brother-in-law, and he told them to stop.

Class One students welcomed Na'er and learned she was Meng Li's younger sister, while Tang Wulin announced plans to challenge third-year Class One. At the friendship match, Meng Li immediately summoned his Mythical Spear and One-Word Battle Armor as the fight began.

• Shen Yi introduced Na'er to Class One, where students admired her and discovered she was Meng Li's younger sister.
• Xie Xie called Meng Li his brother-in-law-to-be, and Meng Li threatened him with a fist.
• Wu Changkong told Meng Li and the others that he would referee their friendship match, and Tang Wulin asked to challenge third-year Class One later in the year.
• Meng Li's team faced Wu Sidao's team at the Sparring Platform, with Wu Changkong as referee.
• When Wu Changkong started the match, Meng Li charged forward and summoned his Mythical Spear and One-Word Battle Armor.

Meng Li led his team against Luo Guixing’s group, using his battle armor and killing intent to eliminate Yang Nianxia before Tang Wulin broke through Luo Guixing’s restraint. Wu Sidao conceded after her team lost two members and could no longer match their opponents.

• Yang Nianxia transformed with his Dark Gold Bear Martial Soul and joined Wu Sidao and Xu Yucheng in attacking Meng Li, while Luo Guixing trapped Tang Wulin and the others with Two Realms Separation.
• Meng Li’s Mythical Spear overwhelmed Yang Nianxia and stopped at his throat, eliminating him from the match.
• Meng Li used his fourth soul skill, Judgment, to attack the exhausted Luo Guixing, while Zheng Yiran moved to defend him.
• Tang Wulin broke through the restraint and knocked Luo Guixing down with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Wu Sidao conceded the match, and Xie Xie complained that winning without fighting would not help him improve.

After defeating Wu Sidao’s team, Meng Li took Ya Li to dinner, where they discussed their mysterious connection and uncertain origins. On the drive home, a sudden stabbing pain struck Meng Li’s mind and caused him to crash into a guardrail.

• Meng Li’s team defeated Wu Sidao’s side in two minutes, and Meng Li shook hands with the defeated students.
• Meng Li invited Ya Li to dinner at New Brocade Hall, where they discussed their telepathic connection, the gemstones, and Meng Li’s origins.
• Ya Li wondered how old Meng Li was, and he admitted that he did not know.
• While driving home, Meng Li felt a piercing pain in his mind and crashed his vehicle into a roadside guardrail.

After Meng Li survived a mysterious vision of the Angel God offering him a dangerous bargain, Ya Li took him home and promised to investigate the origin essence. The next morning, Meng Li commissioned a custom Yellow Mecha at Shrek Academy, leaving its construction underway.

• Ya Li turned back after seeing Meng Li's accident in her mind and found him unconscious in his crashed car.
• In his consciousness, Meng Li heard the Angel God offer two wishes in exchange for half his origin essence per wish, warning that he had little time left.
• After waking in the hospital, Meng Li told Ya Li about the vision, and she agreed to investigate origin essence before taking him home.
• Na'er welcomed Meng Li home, questioned him about dining with a woman, and had prepared dinner and washed his clothes.
• Meng Li received notice of Shrek Academy's mecha training and visited the Mecha Master Association to commission a Yellow Mecha based on his Gundam-inspired blueprints.

Meng Li commissioned a reinforced new-model mecha and began piloting lessons at Spirit Pagoda. Back at Shrek Academy, he discovered that his classmates were acting strangely because Xie Xie had told them about his sister complex.

• Meng Li paid in full for a new-model mecha design with extra defense and space for a core chip.
• Wen Jun began training Meng Li to pilot a new-model mecha, and he spent the day practicing.
• Gu Yue warned Meng Li that mecha training was taking too much of his time.
• Shen Yi discussed Meng Li's relationships with Na'er and Ya Li, then admitted she and Wu Changkong only shared occasional meals.
• Meng Li returned to class and found his classmates flattering him while keeping their distance from Na'er.
• Xu Xiaoyan told Meng Li that Xie Xie had spread the news that he had a sister complex.

Meng Li and Gu Yue shared a tender conversation about love and a bond spanning hundreds of thousands of years. A month later, Meng Li collected his mecha, while Tang San secretly resolved to stop the Golden Dragon King from reviving.

• Meng Li threw Xie Xie after he angered him, then Xie Xie apologized.
• Na'er left Meng Li and Gu Yue alone, and Gu Yue leaned on Meng Li as they talked about love and their long bond.
• Gu Yue offered to cook for Meng Li, and he agreed to wash the dishes.
• Meng Li and Tang Wulin visited the Shrek Academy Mecha Association to collect their mechas, where Zhang Yang showed Meng Li his white-and-blue machine.
• Meng Li inserted the core chip, activated his mecha, and took hold of its control stick.

Meng Li discovered that his sixth soul skill created a vast, barren world inside a Four-Colored Feather, and that cultivated Soul Power expanded it. After confirming a lab mouse survived inside, he promised Gu Yue he would bring Soul Beasts there, but the world stopped expanding after five days of cultivation.

• Meng Li learned from Ya Li that an origin was essential to life and suspected the Angel God wanted his body to resurrect.
• Gu Yue discovered that a Four-Colored Feather in Meng Li's chest was absorbing the Soul Power he cultivated.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue entered the world inside the feather and found it was vast, barren, and bounded by a barrier.
• Meng Li tested the world with a lab mouse and found it alive after cultivating enough to expand the world.
• Meng Li promised Gu Yue he would bring Soul Beasts into the world and suggested bringing workers to plant trees and restore the forest.
• Meng Li cultivated for five more days until the world reached its expansion limit and Soul Power began entering his body again.

Meng Li continued supplying the people in the Feather World and discussed the upcoming First and Second Years’ challenge against the third year with Yuanen Yehui. After restocking food, he agreed to take Na'er to the snack street, pausing first to deliver the supplies.

• Daxing Northwest staff entered the Feather World with supplies, and Meng Li became a regular at supermarkets to keep their provisions replenished.
• Xie Xie teased Meng Li and Gu Yue about remaining single, and Gu Yue traded barbs with him.
• Yuanen Yehui told Meng Li that First Year Class One and the Second Year would challenge the third year together, and Meng Li suggested dividing the eleven competition spots fairly between the classes.
• Yuanen Yehui declined Tang Wulin’s proposed lineup and asked Meng Li to take a walk, but he said he was too busy.
• Meng Li learned that Bi Ji and the others were running short of food, then bought enough supplies to fill more than a hundred Spatial Soul Tools.
• Na'er invited Meng Li to the snack street, and he agreed after first taking the supplies into the Feather World for Bi Ji.

Meng Li spent the day with Na'er, then returned to play games with Gu Yue before the students competed for places in the challenge against the third year. The competition ended with Tang Wulin and several classmates advancing, while Meng Li concluded that the Second Year’s competitors were being set up as cannon fodder.

• Meng Li told Na'er about Feather World, then took her to the Shrek Outer City snack street and a tragic movie, where she held his hand throughout.
• Meng Li returned to the dormitory with Na'er, reassured Gu Yue that the scent on him was hers, and played a late-night game with her after discovering her account had received compensation instead of a ban.
• Tang Wulin insisted that more classmates get a chance to join the challenge against the third year, and Yuanen Yehui agreed to hold a competition for the remaining spot.
• Meng Li and Gu Yue took two places without entering the Quota Competition, while Na'er cheered from below the Sparring Platform.
• Tang Wulin, Yuanen Yehui, Yue Zhengyu, Xie Xie, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, Wu Sidao, Xu Lizhi, and Bai Hanying advanced, and Meng Li judged the Second Year's competitors to be cannon fodder.

Meng Li went on a date with Gu Yue in Heaven Dou City, where Tang Wulin’s urgent message about an Evil Soul Master interrupted their evening. Meng Li called in the authorities instead of helping himself, and the chapter ended as mechas and a Titled Douluo arrived to confront the attacker.

• Meng Li agreed to go out with Gu Yue and prepared for their two-day break, while his headaches and strange dreams continued and his Spiritual Power awakened.
• Meng Li met Gu Yue, complimented her appearance, and accompanied her to Heaven Dou City, where they watched a romance movie.
• After the movie, Gu Yue invited Meng Li to eat, but Tang Wulin sent a message asking for help against an Evil Soul Master in the city.
• Meng Li reported the attack to the Heaven Dou Mecha Brigade rather than going to help Tang Wulin himself.
• A Fixed Soul Tool Cannon shell struck near the pursuing Evil Soul Master as mechas and a nine-ringed Titled Douluo in Three-word Battle Armor arrived.

After Tang Wulin’s rescue, Meng Li and Gu Yue returned to Shrek Academy. At Sea God Pavilion, Zhen Hua reported the Evil Soul Masters’ attacks, and the members debated whether Meng Li was a soul beast before Yun Ming ordered him watched and discussed suppressing the Evil Soul Masters.

• Meng Li and Gu Yue ended their holiday and drove back toward Shrek Academy.
• Zhen Hua met Zhuo Shi at Sea God Island and told Sea God Pavilion about his assassination attempt and Tang Wulin’s capture and rescue by Evil Soul Masters.
• Zhen Hua played the encrypted tip that had led authorities to Tang Wulin, and the Pavilion members recognized Meng Li’s voice.
• Elder Li argued that Meng Li might be a soul beast conspiring with Spirit Pagoda and the Evil Soul Masters, while Ya Li defended him and pointed out that he had killed Evil Soul Masters.
• Yun Ming ordered more people to monitor Meng Li and said he would investigate him personally.
• Yun Ming turned the meeting to the growing threat from Evil Soul Masters and discussed stronger security and cooperation with the Federation.

The first- and second-year students prepared to challenge third-year Class One, while Yun Ming and Meng Li reached an agreement about Na'er’s future. The match day arrived with the younger students eager and the third years dispirited.

• Yun Ming approved an exchange group trip to the Star Luo Continent and said Meng Li should join it.
• Tang Wulin told his classmates that their match against third year Class One was set for five days later, with One-Word Battle Armor materials as the reward for winning.
• Meng Li agreed that Na'er could become Yun Ming’s closed-door disciple if she could continue living with him, and Yun Ming accepted the condition.
• Ye Wu and Li Qiankun discussed the threat Meng Li posed to third year Class One, and Mo Jue joined them.
• Match day arrived, with the first- and second-year students fired up while the third-year students felt embarrassed and dispirited.