Chapter Summaries

Long Yao reported the Holy Spirit Cult’s modified humans to Elder Xuan, who took over the investigation and gave him a fragment from the exploded warehouse safe to deliver to Fan Yu. After asking the Tang Sect to investigate the City of No Light, Long Yao reunited with Wang Dong'er and took her on a market date, ending as they headed to the roast fish restaurant.

• Long Yao called Elder Xuan to report that Holy Spirit Cult members had attacked him with modified humans, and Elder Xuan arrived to inspect the corpses and wrecked mill.
• Elder Xuan explained that the modified-human technology had been proposed on the Sun Moon Continent centuries earlier, then gave Long Yao a fragment from the warehouse safe to take to Fan Yu for study.
• Long Yao returned to Courtyard One, reassured Wang Dong'er that he was unharmed, and asked the Tang Sect to investigate the City of No Light.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er dressed for a date, wandered through Shrek City's market, and shared Cloud Strawberry candy and snacks.
• Long Yao bought Wang Dong'er silver butterfly earrings, then led her toward the restaurant and promised her spicy roast fish.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er shared a romantic evening before Ling Yue warned him that the enemy behind the warehouse explosion was preparing coordinates for a powerful arrival from elsewhere. The chapter ended with Long Yao reassuring Wang Dong'er and kissing her.

• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er ate extremely spicy roast fish and overheard students discussing the Inspection Team's bounty for the warehouse explosion case.
• Long Yao realized the bounty could provide cover for his secret actions, then walked with Wang Dong'er beside Sea God Lake.
• Ling Yue told Long Yao that Mu En and Xuan Zi had known about his actions and that a brief high-dimensional signal had calibrated coordinates for an approaching powerful being.
• Ling Yue warned that the enemy might have planned Long Yao's encounter with the Modified Human, then disappeared into the night.
• Long Yao comforted Wang Dong'er, called her his lover and trusted comrade, and kissed her.

Yan Shaozhe led the team through intense tournament training, where Wang Dong'er endured Long Yao's spear attacks to become strong enough to protect him. He then assigned Long Yao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao to help stabilize Ma Xiaotao's transforming Phoenix Flame at the Inner Court's Fire Refining Array the next day.

• Yan Shaozhe split the team into specialized training pairs and ordered Long Yao and Wang Dong'er to spar with alternating offense and defense.
• Wang Dong'er used the domineering power of the Clear Sky Hammer to withstand Long Yao's spear strikes, declaring that she wanted to protect him, while the rest of the team trained across the grounds.
• After training, Long Yao caught the exhausted Wang Dong'er, and the companions arranged to share roast fish before facing doubled training the next day.
• Long Yao asked Huo Yuhao about suppressing Ma Xiaotao's evil fire, and Yan Shaozhe revealed that her Phoenix Flame was transforming and had nearly escaped control.
• Yan Shaozhe ordered Long Yao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao to help stabilize Ma Xiaotao at the Fire Refining Array, warning that someone might be driving her flame toward a dangerous transformation.
• Wang Dong'er insisted that Long Yao stay within her sight during the operation, and the three prepared to meet Yan Shaozhe at Sea God Lake the next morning.

Long Yao gave Huo Yuhao a donated Northern Sea Cold Marrow Crystal to help purify Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, while he and Wang Dong'er protected the Fire Refining Array from the resulting eruption. Ma Xiaotao was purified, and Long Yao learned the Holy Spirit Cult had entered three squads in the All-Continent Elite Tournament.

• Long Yao received a Ten Thousand Year Northern Sea Cold Marrow Crystal through the livestream and gave it to Huo Yuhao to use against Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Long Yao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao to the Inner Court, where Huo Yuhao used the crystal to begin purifying Ma Xiaotao while Long Yao and Wang Dong'er contained the flames.
• Long Yao used a Spatial Barrier to confine Ma Xiaotao’s erupting evil fire and destroyed a hidden Soul Tool Detector spying on the purification.
• Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire transformed into a sacred golden-red flame, and Yan Shaozhe confirmed she had been completely purified.
• Yan Shaozhe invited Long Yao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong'er to Sea God Pavilion, while the livestream revealed the Holy Spirit Cult had entered three squads in the All-Continent Elite Tournament.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er visited the recovered Mu En, who warned them that the upcoming tournament could conceal the Holy Spirit Cult’s God Creation Plan and gave them Golden Tree leaves as safeguards. The next morning, Mu En assigned Long Yao a covert role in Shrek’s tournament strategy, then sent him and Wang Dong'er to Xuan Zi for two months of special training against seven Soul Emperor-level puppets.

• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er visited Mu En, discussed the threat behind the Coordinate Calibration, and received Spirit Leaves from the Golden Tree.
• Long Yao gave Wang Dong'er the Ring of Holy Baptism, then treated Huo Yuhao’s dangerous chill from the Cold Marrow Crystal.
• Mu En told Long Yao, Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao that Shrek would use a Dual Core strategy, with Long Yao ready to disrupt the enemy’s scheme, and gave them Vitality Leaves that could pull them back to Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En kept Huo Yuhao behind while Long Yao and Wang Dong'er went to the Outer Court Battle Zone for Xuan Zi’s special training.
• Xuan Zi set Long Yao and Wang Dong'er against seven Soul Emperor-level Soul Guiding Puppets loaded with Sun Moon Empire team combat data, and their battle began.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er defeated most of Xuan Zi's Soul Emperor-level training puppets through coordinated attacks, then recovered from the exhausting battle at Courtyard One. After Long Yao discovered a mechanical spy watching them, he destroyed it and raised a Chaos Barrier around the courtyard.

• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er dodged the puppets' firepower, disabled an Assassin Puppet, and used the Disorder Splitting Wind Force Technique to shatter the Linked Defense Shield before Long Yao destroyed three ranged puppets.
• Xuan Zi stopped the remaining puppets, praised their coordination, and promised a harsher pressure-resistance training session.
• Long Yao carried the exhausted Wang Dong'er back to Courtyard One, reassured her about Soul Tools, and treated her injured hand with medicinal ointment and Chaos Power.
• After Wang Dong'er fell asleep, Long Yao considered how to improve his spear against linked shields and detected a mechanical bat spying on the courtyard.
• Long Yao destroyed the self-destructing spy, suspected Third-Party Transmigrators were behind it, and surrounded Courtyard One with an invisible Chaos Barrier.

Long Yao analyzed a stealth camera, built signal-jamming devices, and planted false intelligence that lured outsiders toward Sea God Lake. The bait drew three Titled Douluo-level attackers into Shrek Academy’s forbidden zone, while Long Yao learned of a dangerous soul-bone-buying organization and prepared for the next confrontation.

• Long Yao analyzed the destroyed scout camera, identified its ultra-high-frequency signal, and left Courtyard One to find materials for blocking it.
• Long Yao obtained Sound Absorbing Demon Steel and Deep Sea Sinking Silver from the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, forged signal-jamming devices, and injected false intelligence into the enemy’s communications.
• Long Yao secretly met Ling Yue, gave her the signal’s identifying frequency to investigate, and learned that the Black Gold Association was violently buying high-grade soul bones.
• Long Yao prepared medicinal porridge for Wang Dong'er, and his planted devices detected three Titled Douluo-level figures heading toward Sea God Lake after taking the bait.
• Mu En announced that the awards ceremony was delayed because unidentified intruders had entered the Sea God Lake Forbidden Zone, where Xuan Zi went to confront them.

After Xuan Zi captured three intruders searching for an embryo near Sea God Lake, Long Yao received temporary authority to conduct a covert patrol in Shrek City. He followed Ling Yue’s intelligence to the Black Gold Association’s hidden base beneath the Crimson Night Opera House and prepared to infiltrate it.

• Xuan Zi returned with three bound intruders whose equipment and talk of an embryo suggested they were seeking a specific energy source.
• Moon awarded Long Yao, Yuhao, and Dong'er Golden Seals, then authorized Long Yao to lead a three-day covert patrol in Shrek City.
• Long Yao sent his companions back to recover and traveled alone toward the Southeast District, reassuring Wang Dong'er that his visit to its entertainment venues was for the investigation.
• Long Yao scanned the Crimson Night Opera House and detected abnormal vital signs and three signals linked to the Mechanical Bat.
• Ling Yue contacted Long Yao and offered a way into the Opera House, warning him that the Black Gold Association kept a pack of monsters inside.

Long Yao infiltrated the Crimson Night Opera House by posing as a wealthy noble and uncovered a hidden auction site where people were sold as experimental subjects. After Ling Yue found that the venue was a backup center transmitting stolen data, Long Yao provoked Mr. Jin and launched an attack on the auction stage.

• Long Yao disguised himself as a rich dandy, used an Amethyst VIP Card to enter the Crimson Night Opera House, and persuaded Manager Wang to take him to its secret Black Gold venue.
• Long Yao descended into the underground marketplace, detected a Soul Bone carrying Evil Aura, and entered the auction hall while Ling Yue infiltrated its systems.
• Long Yao discovered that the hall contained ambushers and unstable energy beneath the stage, while Mr. Jin opened the auction by offering a mechanically modified girl for sale.
• Ling Yue told Long Yao that the site was a backup center copying and transmitting geniuses’ Soul Ring and bone marrow data, and that the attackers were preparing to evacuate.
• Long Yao bid five million Gold Soul Coins for the Evil Aura Soul Bone, provoked Mr. Jin by naming the Third Party, and charged toward the auction stage as Mr. Jin prepared to fight.

Long Yao destroyed the Black Gold Association’s underground base beneath Shrek City, rescued a captive girl, and recovered evidence revealing a wider plot by the Lord Overmind. After reporting the threat to Mu En, Long Yao learned that Shrek planned to use him as bait while secretly preparing to trap the invaders.

• Long Yao unleashed his Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and defeated Mr. Jin’s attack, while Ling Yue retrieved the data and Long Yao rescued the captive Gale Swallow girl.
• Mr. Jin tried to detonate a Soul Tool Fission Core, but Long Yao used Dimension Collapse to contain the blast; the underground base and the Crimson Night opera house collapsed as Xuan Zi arrived.
• Long Yao recovered Mr. Jin’s Memory Core, and its data revealed the Lord Overmind’s plan to descend on Douluo Continent and two more hidden strongholds beneath Shrek City.
• Long Yao awoke in the Sea God Pavilion treatment room, reassured Wang Dong'er, and told Xuan Zi and Mu En about the threat and the strongholds.
• Mu En ordered Long Yao to serve as bait during the upcoming tournament while Xuan Zi secretly prepared to seal the strongholds and Underground Waterway.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er left the Sea God Pavilion together, reaffirmed their promise to face future enemies side by side, and headed home.

Long Yao investigated the Lord Overmind’s infiltration of Shrek Academy and captured an Outer Court teacher who was transmitting new students’ Martial Soul data. After sabotaging the data network, he prepared to draw the enemy’s attention at the Battle Arena.

• Long Yao assigned Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao to lead the team’s coordination and training while he secretly investigated the threat with Ling Yue.
• Ling Yue showed Long Yao a node map revealing that the Lord Overmind was targeting the New Student Teaching Building to plant ideas of Mechanical Ascension in new students.
• Long Yao found Teacher Li Mo transmitting student data through an abandoned socket, stopped his attack, and captured him.
• Long Yao jammed the socket and sent disguised Chaos Virus code into the Lord Overmind’s data pool, disrupting its systems for twenty-four hours.
• Long Yao delivered Li Mo to Yan Shaozhe, urged the Academy to examine its Outer Court faculty, and announced that he would attract the Lord Overmind’s attention by making a high-profile move at the Battle Arena.

Long Yao entered Shrek’s Great Soul Arena under the guise of a reckless noble and used a staged death match to damage the underground base station. After Ling Yue took control of the station, Long Yao left the ruined arena and headed for its cargo elevator to reach the core.

• Long Yao activated his livestream and arranged a Life and Death Contract match through Manager Wang while coordinating with Ling Yue to break into the base station beneath the arena.
• Long Yao used a severed mechanical prosthetic limb to obtain the cargo elevator code, then entered Main Arena Number One and bet one million Gold Soul Coins on defeating Xiong Lei within three minutes.
• Long Yao summoned his Soul Breaking Spear and drove shockwaves into the arena foundation, evading Xiong Lei while Ling Yue opened a crack in the underground defenses.
• Long Yao’s Fifth Spirit Skill shattered the arena floor and forced the base station into hibernation as Xiong Lei collapsed from the impact.
• Long Yao claimed his winnings, left the arena, and followed Ling Yue toward the cargo elevator to reach the station’s core.

Long Yao fought his way into the underground laboratory beneath the Great Soul Arena, where he discovered the Lord Overmind’s experiments and confronted Director Li. After learning that the Overmind’s calibration might target Wang Dong’er, Long Yao began extracting its data, but a dangerous Bio-Soul Tool Integrated woman attacked him.

• Long Yao used spatial abilities to defeat four Butchers guarding the underground corridor and broke into the laboratory before Director Li could destroy its data.
• Long Yao stopped Li Mingzhe’s self-destruct attempt, then killed him as Li tried to detonate the reactor in his chest.
• Before dying, Li Mingzhe mentioned a calibration target named “Guang,” leading Long Yao to suspect Wang Dong’er was in danger.
• Long Yao connected his signal-shielding core to the Mechanical Brain so Ling Yue could extract its data and identify the target.
• A half-mechanical woman emerged and attacked Long Yao with a swarm of blades, and he charged at her with the Soul Breaking Spear.

Long Yao defeated Silver Snake, secured the infiltration data, and learned that she had been forced into mechanical modification by Lord Overmind. He recruited Liu Yin'er and Number 73, returning to Courtyard One with the data and new allies as the fight against Lord Overmind continued.

• Long Yao provoked Silver Snake into a reckless charge, then used Void Step to reach her Heat Dissipation Valve and sever her main control nerves while Ling Yue completed the data transfer.
• Number 73 revealed that Silver Snake's real name was Liu Yin'er and described how Lord Overmind had deceived and forcibly modified her after her younger sister died.
• Long Yao gave Liu Yin'er repair fluid and recruited her to help bring down Lord Overmind, while he also recruited Number 73 as the Tang Sect's chief mechanic.
• Xuan Zi arrived with the Shrek Supervisory Group, and Long Yao handed him the infiltration data before leaving with Liu Yin'er and Number 73.
• At Courtyard One, Long Yao recovered among his companions, and the System recorded his new followers and the completion of phase one of dismantling Guang's plan.

After Long Yao learned that the Lord Overmind sought Wang Dong'er as a vessel, he planned to lure it out at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and guarded her through the night. He also prepared rewards for Ning Xue and Xiao Xiao, while the threat against the group continued to close in.

• Long Yao teased Wang Dong'er about bathing with him, embarrassing her in front of Xiao Xiao and Ning Xue before he retreated into the bathroom.
• Ling Yue told Long Yao that the Lord Overmind was seeking a being of light with Divinity Potential and that Wang Dong'er's compatibility was 99.9%; they planned to lure it out with false data at the tournament.
• Long Yao joined Wang Dong'er in bed, reassured her about Liu Yin'er, and activated the Dongdong System's alert mode to shield the room.
• While Wang Dong'er slept, Long Yao exchanged points for Deep Cold Tears to enhance Ning Xue's Ice Crystal Staff and Phantom Color Sound Stone to strengthen Xiao Xiao's flute Martial Soul.
• Long Yao prepared to give the two girls their gifts the next morning as the chapter ended with the enemy's net tightening around the group.

Long Yao gave Ning Xue and Xiao Xiao powerful gifts, reported the Lord Overmind’s infiltration and God Creation Plan to Yan Shaozhe, and arranged tournament preparations with Fan Yu and Zhou Yi. He then used the Dongdong System to locate the next suspected Guang Plan site at the Ming Dou Mountain Range and set out to investigate.

• Long Yao gave Ning Xue Deep Cold Tears for her Ice Crystal Staff and Xiao Xiao a Phantom Color Sound Stone to help her control her Twin Martial Souls.
• Long Yao delivered the Lord Overmind Infiltration Data Package to Yan Shaozhe, who promised to report the threat to Mu En and investigate possible infiltrators.
• Fan Yu agreed to upgrade Ning Xue’s staff and create wearable defenses against Mental Penetration and Data Intrusion for the team.
• Zhou Yi gave Long Yao intelligence on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and other tournament teams, and urged him to bring back the championship.
• Long Yao asked the Dongdong System to locate the next suspected coordinate of the Guang Plan, learned it was in the Ming Dou Mountain Range, and headed there.

Long Yao discovered a corpse-processing camp tied to the Lord Overmind, destroyed it, and learned that a vast underground fortress was building an Undying Legion. After planning an infiltration with Ling Yue, he disguised himself as a dead soldier and boarded a supply vehicle headed for the fortress.

• Long Yao flew into the Ming Dou Mountain Range and found disguised soldiers recycling Star Luo and Sun Moon corpses at a hidden camp.
• Long Yao captured Wang Ergou, purged the mental contamination that had made him 9527, and learned about the underground mine, its Apostles, and the plan to build an Undying Legion.
• Long Yao destroyed the camp and its incubating monsters, then messaged Dong'er and learned from Ling Yue that the Core Mine Pit had tightened its defenses.
• Long Yao disguised himself in exoskeleton armor and used 9527's identity to infiltrate a scheduled supply convoy.
• Long Yao knocked out two guards aboard the transport vehicle and prepared to pass the fortress's checkpoint as a surviving soldier.

Long Yao infiltrated an underground human experimentation base, planted explosive crystals, and discovered that its leaders planned to turn Tang Huo'er into a god and capture Wang Dong'er. He trapped and defeated the One-Eyed Soul Douluo, then demanded to know where Tang Huo'er and the City of No Light were.

• Long Yao used Chaos Soul Power to alter the checkpoint system's scan, passed inspection, and secretly planted a dormant seed in its controls.
• Long Yao entered the underground base and witnessed prisoners being experimented on, then planted High-Energy Explosive Crystals at its vital points.
• Long Yao overheard the Lord Overmind order the One-Eyed Soul Douluo to oversee Tang Huo'er's assimilation and capture Wang Dong'er.
• Long Yao revealed himself, trapped the One-Eyed Soul Douluo with his Nirvana Demon Spear, and used an explosive crystal's EMP to disable the Mechanical Guards.
• Long Yao wounded the One-Eyed Soul Douluo and demanded the locations of Tang Huo'er and the City of No Light.

Long Yao escaped the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Flesh and Blood Mill, killed three pursuing Evil Soul Masters, and disguised himself as a Holy Cult envoy to cross into the Sun Moon Empire. He headed toward Mingdu to investigate the City of No Light and the Lord Overmind’s operations.

• Long Yao destroyed the One-Eyed Soul Douluo’s Memory Chip evidence, detonated the Main Control Hall, and escaped the collapsing mountain.
• Long Yao concealed his Chaos Soul Power and killed three Holy Spirit Cult Soul Masters who ambushed him, including a Soul Saint.
• Long Yao decided to head west into the Sun Moon Empire and crossed Death Canyon toward its border defenses.
• Long Yao used the Scythe Soul Saint’s Holy Spirit Token to bluff his way through a Sun Moon Empire border outpost.
• Long Yao rode his Night Meteor toward Mingdu to investigate the City of No Light and the Lord Overmind.

Long Yao recycled his spoils for 2,455,000 points, bought equipment, and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult planned to trade abducted children to a Sun Moon Empire buyer. He rescued the children and uncovered a message linking the City of No Light to Tang Huo'er, then headed to a Shrek contact point before pursuing the conspiracy.

• Long Yao recycled his looted goods for 2,455,000 points and earned an additional Lucky Draw Chance.
• Long Yao bought a hacker chip, a Void Phase Device, and an upgraded Hidden Cloak after considering the threats he faced.
• Ling Yue revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult planned to trade twenty-three abducted children with a mysterious Sun Moon Empire buyer at Sunset City's abandoned shipyard.
• Long Yao attacked the deal, defeated the Holy Spirit Cult leader and the buyer's Soul Engineers, and freed the children.
• Long Yao took the children and the Rare Metal to a Shrek Supervisory Group outpost, then read a message ordering delivery of Source Blood to Laboratory Number One because Tang Huo'er's vessel rejection had worsened.