Chapter Summaries

Long Yao returned to Heaven Dou City after erasing the threat to the Tang Sect and reunited with Bei Bei and Tang Ya at the Tang Sect’s recruitment site. He joined their efforts to build the sect and was asked to serve as Chief Examiner for the next day’s final assessment.

• Long Yao left the purified Judgment Basin and traveled toward Heaven Dou City, reflecting on his companions and Huo Yuhao’s journey to find a Second Martial Soul in the Far North.
• Long Yao entered Heaven Dou City, learned that the Tang Sect was recruiting disciples at an old Blacksmith Shop on Artisan Street, and found the applicants undergoing their perseverance trial.
• Long Yao reunited with Bei Bei and Tang Ya at the shop, where Bei Bei introduced him to Zi Hao as the Tang Sect’s Second Boss.
• Long Yao teased Bei Bei and Tang Ya about Dong'er, then learned they were overwhelmed by recruitment and short on experienced helpers.
• Tang Ya asked Long Yao to become Chief Examiner for the final practical assessment, and she brought him inside the Tang's Blacksmith Shop to welcome him.

Long Yao reunited with Tang Ya and Bei Bei, agreed to oversee the Tang Sect’s final recruitment assessment, and gave them one million Gold Soul Coins to support the sect. The next morning, the twelve remaining candidates gathered as Long Yao prepared to address them before the assessment began.

• Long Yao teased Tang Ya and Bei Bei about their relationship, then asked about the Tang Sect’s assessment and candidate backgrounds.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya explained that nearly a thousand applicants had been screened down to twelve, and Bei Bei asked Long Yao to serve as chief examiner for their 3v3 practical assessment.
• After learning the Tang Sect was short on funds, Long Yao gave Bei Bei and Tang Ya a card containing one million Gold Soul Coins and urged them to offer generous rewards to successful candidates.
• Long Yao helped Bei Bei and Tang Ya finalize the reward plan, sent them to rest, and went to sleep while thinking of Wang Dong'er and the upcoming tournament.
• The next morning, Long Yao reviewed the twelve candidates’ files and stood before them at the assessment grounds, beginning his address with congratulations.

Long Yao and Bei Bei held the Tang Sect’s examination, dividing twelve candidates into four teams for a series of battles. After Team Jia and Team Bing won their matches, Long Yao ordered their final contest to proceed after only one incense stick, leaving Team Jia’s two exhausted survivors to face three fresh opponents.

• Bei Bei assigned the twelve candidates to four teams by random draw, and Long Yao announced that the victors would receive a Tang Sect joining reward.
• Team Jia defeated Team Ding after the paintbrush-wielding support Soul Master sacrificed himself to help his attacker injure Wang Hao; Long Yao also sensed and frightened away a spy watching from a nearby rooftop.
• Team Bing defeated Team Yi by coordinating their attacks against the team’s vulnerable support member and exploiting the attackers’ inability to cooperate.
• With Team Jia’s Li Qian and Zhao Zihang badly exhausted and Team Bing’s three members uninjured, Tang Ya questioned the fairness of making them fight.
• Long Yao ordered a one-incense-stick rest before Team Jia faced Team Bing two against three, declaring that the Tang Sect would offer no excuses for disadvantage.

Li Qian and Zhao Zihang used a desperate combination of sacrifice and teamwork to defeat Team Bing and win the assessment for Team Jia. Long Yao rewarded the two victors with soul bones and left Bei Bei and Tang Ya to lead the Tang Sect’s promising new disciples.

• During the break, Li Qian and Zhao Zihang agreed on a desperate plan while Team Bing assumed victory was certain.
• Zhao Zihang smashed Li Qian out of Team Bing’s attack, and she used Spider Web Restraint: Reverse to pull him free and send him crashing into their captain.
• Zhao Zihang knocked down Team Bing’s agility fighter with his shattered shield, and the remaining controller surrendered, making Team Jia the victor.
• Long Yao praised the disciples’ performances and secretly gave Bei Bei two Black Iron Boxes containing soul bones as rewards for Li Qian and Zhao Zihang.
• At the recovery ward, Long Yao and Tang Ya discussed the disciples, including the brave Support System Soul Master Lin Fan, before Long Yao left the Tang Sect’s future in Bei Bei and Tang Ya’s hands.

Long Yao secured Tang Sect's future by hiring Shi Mo as its Guest Elder, then visited the mysterious blacksmith whose reaction to Ling Yue's name revealed their close connection. The old man accepted Long Yao as Ling Yue's friend and began explaining the crushing burden placed on her, leaving its full nature undisclosed.

• Long Yao finished overseeing Tang Sect's renovation and recruited Shi Mo as Guest Elder by promising him a large salary and treatment for the child he had protected.
• At a farewell banquet, Long Yao discussed Tang Sect's development with Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Shi Mo, and Zi Hao, then left to meet Dong'er before school resumed.
• Long Yao entered a dilapidated blacksmith shop and asked its old smith whether he knew Ling Yue.
• The old man reacted with suspicion and Killing Intent until Long Yao showed him a map bearing Ling Yue's spiritual imprint, proving she trusted him.
• The old man welcomed Long Yao as Ling Yue's friend, shared liquor with him, and angrily called the rule governing her life a crushing shackle.

Long Yao learned that Ling Yue was bound to a hereditary mission and promised her old guardian that she would have a friend to help her. After a restful night in Heaven Dou City, he set out for Shrek to reunite with his lover but stopped to confront the Black Snake Gang, whose leader recognized him and begged for mercy.

• Long Yao told Ling Yue's old guardian that he knew her origins and mission, then recounted how they met and became friends.
• Long Yao reassured the old man that Ling Yue had another friend, and the guardian responded with a grateful nod.
• Long Yao realized Ling Yue had family who cared for her, spent a lonely night at a hotel, and woke refreshed the next morning.
• Long Yao ate breakfast and headed toward the Soul Guiding Train Station to return to Shrek and see his lover.
• Long Yao intervened when the Black Snake Gang threatened a shopkeeper and his daughter, then offered to pay their demanded five thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Long Yao showed his Amethyst VIP Card and gave the gang leader his name, causing the man to recognize him, fall to his knees, and beg for mercy.

Long Yao returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with his companions, and spent the days before term began training and studying Soul Tools. Wang Dong'er came back from her Clear Sky Sect training and reunited with him at the school gate, while Huo Yuhao was still on his way.

• Long Yao returned to Shrek City, surprised Xiao Xiao and Ning Xue in the kitchen at Courtyard One, and cooked a celebratory meal with them.
• Long Yao visited He Caitou in the Soul Tool Department, where Fan Yu tested his talent and he completed a second-grade Core Magic Array in one morning.
• Long Yao trained Ning Xue and Xiao Xiao, continued learning Soul Tools, and learned that Wang Dong'er would need several more days to return from the Clear Sky Sect.
• Long Yao checked his companions' Soul Power levels with the Dongdong System and prepared to welcome them back for the new term.
• Bei Bei, Tang Ya, Xu Sanshi, and Jiang Nannan returned to Shrek Academy, and Tang Ya announced that the Tang Sect's new Heaven Dou City base was nearly ready.
• Wang Dong'er arrived in a Clear Sky Sect carriage, embraced Long Yao, and joined the group as they headed to Courtyard One to wait for Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao returned from the Far North with new powers and reunited with the Tang Sect team, who prepared for the upcoming competition. Long Yao and Wang Dong'er shared a private reunion, then left together for dinner.

• Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and the others worried about Huo Yuhao's silence while he was away in the Far North.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Courtyard One, where his icy Soul Power startled everyone and his companions welcomed him home.
• Huo Yuhao told the group about his experiences and progress, while Long Yao secretly held Wang Dong'er's hand beneath the table.
• Bei Bei discussed the approaching competition, and the team pledged to work together and pursue the championship.
• After the others left, Long Yao embraced Wang Dong'er, and they admitted they had missed each other.
• When Wang Dong'er's stomach growled, Long Yao invited her out to eat, and she agreed.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er spent a romantic evening together, shared their first kiss, and returned to Courtyard One, where their friends teased them the next morning. The reunited Shrek Elite Reserve Team attended Shrek Academy's opening ceremony as the new semester began and prepared for the upcoming tournament.

• Long Yao took Wang Dong'er to Shrek City's Food Street, won her a pair of Crystal Butterfly Hairpins, and listened as she told him how much she had missed him at the Clear Sky Sect.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er raced back to Courtyard One, shared a tender goodnight, and Wang Dong'er kissed him before retreating into her room.
• Xu Sanshi teased Wang Dong'er about returning late, while Jiang Nannan called everyone to breakfast before the opening ceremony.
• Long Yao, Wang Dong'er, and their companions marched to Shrek Plaza, where Zhou Yi welcomed the returning team and warned them about the tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe opened the new semester ceremony, and Long Yao and Wang Dong'er reaffirmed their resolve to face the tournament and future challenges together.

Shrek’s tournament team began seven months of preparation under Long Yao’s leadership, using Mu En’s Gravity Adjustment Rings for their first punishing training session. Though the team struggled through gravity-enhanced laps and Soul Power drills, they improved their control and left determined to continue.

• After Shrek’s opening ceremony, Yan Shaozhe told Long Yao and the others that Mu En supported their actions over the break and announced that they would train for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe named himself team leader, assigned Long Yao to manage the team, and gave them Gravity Adjustment Rings that would double the gravity they experienced; Courtyard One became their closed training base.
• Long Yao cooked lunch for the team before leading them to the Battle Zone, where Zhou Yi approved his plan to adapt to the rings before beginning combat training.
• Under double gravity, the team ran laps and practiced controlling their abilities, with Long Yao advising them as they struggled through misfires and exhaustion.
• Long Yao helped Wang Dong'er adjust her flight to the gravity, and the team left at dusk tired but more confident in their control and resolved to continue training.

After four months of special training, Long Yao’s team received Soul Tool Battle Armor and set out for its first combat assessment: suppressing bandits and Evil Soul Masters in Sunset Canyon. The team camped on the way, where Long Yao and Wang Dong'er shared a quiet night watch before the mission began.

• Long Yao’s team completed its first phase of training, and Yan Shaozhe assigned them an unsupervised bandit-suppression mission in Sunset Canyon, with Long Yao in command.
• Xian Lin'er revealed custom Soul Tool Battle Armor prototypes made for all ten team members, including Long Yao’s Chaos Shadow armor.
• Long Yao led the fully equipped team out of Shrek Academy, and they tested their armor’s flight and landing during the journey west.
• The team established a wilderness camp, took turns joking and arranging the night watch, and Long Yao and Wang Dong'er shared the first watch together.
• Wang Dong'er gave Long Yao Osmanthus Cake, spoke about her feelings and trust in him, and suggested taking him to meet her fathers if they won the championship.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er received Ling Yue's warning about an ambush and Bloodthirsty Bats, then used the intelligence to defeat the ambushers at Sunset Canyon. The Shrek team captured an Evil Soul Master and began investigating who had arranged the attack.

• Long Yao detected Ling Yue watching the camp, caught her message warning of three hundred ambushers and Bloodthirsty Bats west of Sunset, and shared the intelligence with Bei Bei.
• Bei Bei organized an aerial decoy while Long Yao and Wang Dong'er sneaked through the jungle toward the bandits' position.
• Wang Dong'er and Long Yao attacked the hidden platform, killed or overwhelmed the defenders, and destroyed the altar controlling the Bloodthirsty Bat Swarm.
• The aerial group joined them after the bats lost control, and Wang Dong'er helped bind a wounded Soul King-level Evil Soul Master for questioning.
• Bei Bei ordered Huo Yuhao to use Spirit Detection during the interrogation as the team investigated who had informed the bandits of their route.

Huo Yuhao discovered that the bandits served a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar conducting sacrifices and targeting Wang Dong'er for her pure Light Attribute. Long Yao and Wang Dong'er led the assault through the canyon, defeated the defenders, and reached the entrance to the Blood Pool as the battle continued.

• Huo Yuhao learned from the captured Evil Soul Master that the bandits were outer-ring agents of a Holy Spirit Cult branch altar and that Wang Dong'er was a target for capture.
• Long Yao assigned the Shrek Elites to attack through the secret passage while he and Wang Dong'er drew attention through the main gate.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er broke through First Line Sky, and Long Yao killed Iron Wall with a single spear strike.
• Wang Dong'er and Long Yao ambushed three black-robed Evil Soul Masters after He Caitou's cannon blast distracted them, then defeated the survivors.
• Wang Dong'er and Long Yao advanced toward the cave entrance where the Blood Pool lay, preparing to confront the branch altar's forces.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er fought their way into a cavern where a Soul Douluo and four Soul Emperors guarded a blood pool and a chained creature. Long Yao badly wounded the old man, but the blood pool restored him, so Long Yao attacked the pool itself, setting off a devastating storm.

• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er blasted through the cave entrance and defeated the Evil Soul Masters guarding it.
• They found four Red Robe Soul Emperors and a Black Shadow beside a blood pool containing a chained creature, and the enemies moved to trap them.
• Long Yao used Nirvana Demon Spear to pierce the Black Shadow's defenses and severely wound him while Wang Dong'er broke the Soul Emperors' barrier.
• The old man absorbed blood from the pool to recover, then sacrificed the four Red Robe Soul Emperors to activate the Blood Sacrifice Great Array.
• Long Yao charged into the blood pool and drove his spear into its center, causing a massive explosion.

Long Yao transformed into the Chaos Holy Dragon and destroyed the Blood Corpse Demon Puppet and the Soul Douluo-level Evil Soul Master. After the team searched the cavern and uncovered stolen goods and evidence of the cult’s operations, Bei Bei warned that reinforcements might be coming and asked Long Yao what they should do next.

• Long Yao used Void Claw and Holy Dragon Claw to destroy the Blood Corpse Demon Puppet, then killed the old Evil Soul Master.
• Wang Dong'er checked that Long Yao was unharmed, and the two shared a tender moment before Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and the others arrived.
• Bei Bei directed the team to search the cavern, where they found wealth, rare materials, herbs, soul bones, records of smuggling and captured Soul Masters, and blueprints resembling the forbidden Soul Chain technique.
• Huo Yuhao recovered the Blood Corpse Demon Puppet's energy-filled core, while Bei Bei said the Tang Sect could keep most of the spoils as its seed fund.
• Bei Bei warned that the Holy Spirit Cult might send reinforcements and asked Long Yao whether the team should return to the academy or take another course of action.

After destroying the Holy Spirit Cult’s Blood Pool branch, Long Yao’s group rested by a stream, where Ling Yue warned him that the Saintess would seek revenge and gave him an intelligence-point location. Huo Yuhao uncovered a map leading to Undead Canyon, and the group decided to investigate its outskirts the next day before Wang Dong’er asked Long Yao to promise not to face danger alone.

• Long Yao burned the cavern entrance, and the group traveled to a stream valley to celebrate their victory with a meal.
• Ling Yue met Long Yao in the woods, warned that the Saintess would retaliate, and gave him a metal piece marking another intelligence point.
• Huo Yuhao assembled the looted formation diagrams into a map showing a teleportation array leading to Undead Canyon.
• Bei Bei and the others agreed to rest overnight and investigate the outskirts of Undead Canyon the next morning.
• Wang Dong’er asked Long Yao to share any danger with her, and they made a pinky promise before saying good night.

The Shrek Preparatory Team reached Undead Canyon, where Huo Yuhao was guided to a relic of the Holy Necromancer and gained a new power through Electrolux. As the team left the canyon, Long Yao began planning their next steps and said the Tang Sect would soon make its appearance on the continent.

• Wang Dong'er slipped into Long Yao's tent for the night, and the team set out toward Undead Canyon the next morning.
• Huo Yuhao detected corpse poison near the canyon entrance, and the team fought off waves of Skeleton Soldiers and Bone Beasts before entering the canyon.
• Huo Yuhao sensed a familiar power calling to him, led the team past hidden traps, and found a glowing altar with a broken gray sword.
• The sword's power enveloped Huo Yuhao, and Electrolux's lingering consciousness merged with him, planting the seed of his Holy Necromancer power.
• Huo Yuhao recovered and told his companions that a teacher had shown him how to use Spiritual Power to communicate with another world.
• As the team departed, Long Yao teased Wang Dong'er about visiting Clear Sky Sect to settle their marriage and declared that the Tang Sect would soon make its appearance.

Long Yao and his companions returned to Shrek Academy after destroying a Holy Spirit Cult branch, earning doubled rewards and a three-day break. At an auction beneath Treasure Gathering Pavilion, Long Yao bought a mysterious Space Attribute Soul Bone that resonated with his Chaos Holy Dragon Martial Soul.

• Long Yao and the others reported that they had destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch, killed its Soul Douluo elder, and uncovered evidence of a blood-puppet operation and teleportation route.
• Yan Shaozhe classified the information about Undead Canyon and the Teleportation Array as top secret, doubled the team's credit rewards, granted them access to the Sea God Pavilion Treasury, and gave them three days off.
• Long Yao treated the team to a feast at Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Wang Dong'er told them about a special auction featuring rare materials and possibly Spirit bones.
• At the auction, Huo Yuhao won Heart-Chilling Iron Essence for three thousand Gold Soul Coins, while a Ten Thousand Year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Right Palm Bone sold for eight hundred thousand.
• Long Yao sensed a connection between his Chaos Holy Dragon Martial Soul and an unidentified, damaged Leg Bone with a Space Attribute reaction, then bought it for eleven thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Long Yao refined the apparently worthless soul bone into a powerful Void Phantom · Demon Dragon's Right Leg Bone and spent the next morning with his companions. Their peaceful breakfast ended when Bei Bei reported an explosion in western Shrek City and showed Long Yao metal shards linked to Lin Aotian.

• Long Yao and his companions returned to Shrek Academy after noticing that people were watching them in Shrek City, and Wang Dong'er kissed Long Yao good night before leaving for her room.
• Long Yao used the Dongdong System to reveal and refine the sealed twelve-thousand-year Void Phantom · Demon Dragon's Right Leg Bone, gaining spatial abilities and two right-leg skills.
• Long Yao woke early and made breakfast for his companions, sharing a playful moment with Wang Dong'er.
• Bei Bei arrived with news of an explosion at a Soul Tool Warehouse in western Shrek City and showed Long Yao scorched metal shards connected to the aura of Lin Aotian.

Long Yao investigated the explosion at Shrek City's Soul Tool warehouse and tracked its spatial traces to an abandoned mill, where he defeated a group of armed Black Clad Men and killed their leader. The recovered memory chip pointed him toward the City of No Light, a contact connected to Saintess Tang Huo'er, and incomplete God Creation Plan data, leaving Long Yao preparing to pursue the deeper conspiracy.

• Long Yao left Courtyard One alone to investigate the explosion while Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao stayed behind and Wang Dong'er worriedly waited for him.
• At the ruined warehouse, Long Yao detected spatial traces leading beyond Shrek City to the slums.
• At an abandoned mill, a masked Black Clad Man ambushed Long Yao with four armed Puppets, but Long Yao used Void Step to destroy them.
• The Black Clad Man tried to escape through a Teleportation Array and then threatened to detonate a Heart of Destruction, but Long Yao disabled both mechanisms and killed him.
• Long Yao searched the man's Memory Chip and found coordinates for the City of No Light, Saintess Tang Huo'er's secret contact point, and incomplete God Creation Plan data.
• Long Yao called Wang Dong'er to tell her he was returning and promised to bring her lunch.