Chapter Summaries

Long Yao checked on Wang Dong and Mu En, then learned the abilities of the newly synthesized Scales of Judgment. He identified Ghost Bone as his next target and prepared to judge the Holy Spirit Cult member for his sins.

• Long Yao synthesized the Scales of Judgment and watched Wang Dong cultivate at Shrek Academy, where she thought of him and wished for his safe return.
• Long Yao saw that the Spring of Life had restored Mu En, who told Xuan Zi that Long Yao's schemes and insight had made them willing participants in his plans.
• Xuan Zi accepted being one of Long Yao's chess pieces and praised his loyalty and judgment, while Mu En expressed anticipation for the upheaval Long Yao would bring.
• Long Yao examined the Scales of Judgment and learned that it could reveal karmic threads, strike targets with sins, and create a domain that balanced laws.
• Long Yao summoned the Scales of Judgment and fixed his attention on Ghost Bone, vowing to make him answer for his sins.

Bei Bei watched Tang Ya undergo a miraculous rebirth as a new Blue Silver Emperor, while Ghost Bone discovered that his connection to her had been severed and vowed to hunt down whoever interfered. Five days later, Long Yao reached Maple Forest Town, where he heard rumors claiming he had gone missing or died and set down his teacup in the stunned tavern.

• Long Yao left Bei Bei and Tang Ya in the valley, while Bei Bei resolved to devote himself to following and protecting his junior brother.
• Tang Ya absorbed the valley’s Life Energy, gained a golden ten-thousand-year First Spirit Ring, and rose to the peak of Level 39.
• Ghost Bone’s Soul Devouring Seed connection was severed, and a mysterious force probed his Soul Origin, enraging him and prompting him to threaten the unknown interferer.
• Long Yao arrived in Maple Forest Town and joked with his Livestream Room about delaying his return to avoid class.
• At the Wind Listening Residence, Long Yao overheard mercenaries recount his academy feats and spread rumors that he had vanished, then quietly set down his teacup.

Long Yao heard patrons in Wind Listening Residence invent a scandalous story about his disappearance, then left for Maple Forest Town’s night market. He found a dangerous night hunt offering a coveted Purple Gold Letter of Recommendation, and the chapter ended as he considered the hunt’s deadly stakes.

• Long Yao’s knock interrupted a tavern’s rumors about his disappearance, and Brother Hu confronted him while the Middle-Aged Support System Soul Master tried to defuse the tension.
• Xiao Li claimed Long Yao had been expelled for pursuing Wang Dong and Ning Xue, and the tavern crowd believed and mocked the fabricated story.
• Long Yao left without confronting Xiao Li and tossed a Gold Soul Coin precisely into the tavern owner’s glass, prompting the owner to recognize his extraordinary skill and ban discussion of him.
• Long Yao explored Maple Forest Town’s lively night market and noticed a crowd gathered around a Maple Forest Night Hunt notice.
• The crowd discussed the hunt’s Purple Gold Letter of Recommendation prize and its deadly target, Thundertail Swiftleopard cubs in Black Wind Valley, under a life-and-death waiver.

Long Yao signed up for the Maple Forest Night Hunt despite the crowd’s warnings, then encountered the mysterious silver-haired Ling Yue as she registered to hunt alone. After their silent, charged stare, Ling Yue left in the opposite direction, while the hunt was set to begin at midnight.

• Long Yao asked to register for the hunt, and Xiao Li and the other Soul Masters mocked and threatened him until the Purple Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce manager arrived.
• Long Yao identified himself as a Soul Ancestor, signed the Life and Death Certificate, and asked about the hunt’s rules and duration.
• Nangong Wan explained that participants had to collect three fresh drops of heart blood from living Thundertail Swiftleopard cubs before dawn, and gave Long Yao voucher 44 and a Purple Crystal Jade Bottle.
• A silver-haired girl appeared and registered under the name Ling Yue, declaring that she would hunt alone.
• Long Yao and Ling Yue exchanged a silent, pressure-filled gaze before Ling Yue walked away into a dark alley.

After Ling Yue challenged Long Yao for the Maple Forest Night Hunt, the other competitors fled, while Long Yao’s system identified her as a dangerous out-of-spec opponent and offered a major upgrade. Long Yao used a Million-Year Spirit Beast Inverse Scale to approve the upgrade, then left for Black Wind Valley as the hunt began and the Vulture Squad waited to exploit the exhausted competitors.

• The soul masters at the registration table panicked and fled after Ling Yue disappeared, while Nangong Wan studied the Life and Death Certificates signed by Long Yao and Ling Yue.
• Long Yao reached the Far Return Inn, where his system reported on the Thundertail Swiftleopard cub and identified Ling Yue as an extremely dangerous out-of-spec existence with a possibly superior system.
• After Long Yao teased his system about its capabilities, it proposed a deep-evolution upgrade requiring a Million-Year Spirit Beast Inverse Scale or a hundred-thousand-year God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Long Yao approved the upgrade using the Inverse Scale in his Reward Stash as competitors set out for Black Wind Valley at midnight.
• The Vulture Squad’s captain ordered his team to let the other hunters exhaust themselves before attacking, and Long Yao silently left the inn for Black Wind Valley.

Long Yao entered Black Wind Valley during the Night Hunt, evaded its dangers and rival Soul Masters, and secretly collected three drops of a newborn Thundertail Swiftleopard's heart blood. As he returned to the valley entrance, Ling Yue waited for him, and he accused her of expecting someone else to obtain the item for her.

• Long Yao crossed the wilderness in perfect concealment and found three newly graduated Soul Masters dead after an ambush.
• At Black Wind Valley, Long Yao watched the Vulture squad kill three rival Soul Masters and sensed Ling Yue's unusual power nearby.
• Ling Yue stood on Soul Severing Cliff and sensed Long Yao's control over the valley's chaotic laws, recognizing him as a worthy opponent.
• Long Yao entered Black Wind Valley unseen, reached Thunder Roar Cliff, and took three drops of heart blood from a sleeping newborn Thundertail Swiftleopard before healing and returning the cub.
• As the Night Hunt deadline approached, Long Yao left the valley and found Ling Yue waiting on a Black Rock, where he remarked that she had expected someone else to deliver the item to her.

Ling Yue revealed overwhelming power by freezing and shattering Black Wind Valley, then challenged Long Yao to draw his spear. Their clash ended with her trapping him inside her Mirror Flower Water Moon domain, where countless copies of Ling Yue prepared to attack.

• Long Yao offered Ling Yue the Purple Crystal Jade Bottle, but she rejected it and accused him of mistaking her purpose for wanting the beast blood.
• Ling Yue froze Black Wind Valley, its storms, lightning, and Thundertail Swiftleopards into a vast crystal tomb, then shattered the frozen landscape.
• Ling Yue declared that Long Yao was the only prey of the night hunt, summoned an ice sword, and demanded that he draw his spear.
• Long Yao vanished and launched a high-speed spear attack, but Ling Yue slowed it with her power over stillness and met it with her ice sword.
• Ling Yue activated Mirror Flower Water Moon, transporting Long Yao to a mirror world where she declared herself the only rule and surrounded him with countless copies of herself.

Long Yao overwhelmed Ling Yue with the Chaos Holy Dragon’s power, then spared her after Dongdong System 1.0 warned that killing her would trigger a catastrophic chain of events. He left for Shrek Academy as Ling Yue vowed to surpass him, while the system revealed that her existence protected the world from a higher-dimensional hunter.

• Long Yao overlaid Ling Yue’s Mirror Flower, Water Moon domain with Vast Sea Firmament and transformed into the Chaos Holy Dragon, causing her mirror world to collapse.
• Ling Yue recognized Long Yao as a kindred in chaos and prepared to fight, but Long Yao used Time and Space Roar to freeze her for five seconds and stopped his dragon claw just short of her neck.
• Long Yao ended his transformation and left Ling Yue, who suffered backlash, vowed to repay the humiliation tenfold, and resolved to surpass him at Shrek Academy.
• Long Yao returned to the Far Return Inn and learned from Dongdong System 1.0 that killing Ling Yue would trigger a Law Black Hole, damage his system, and remove a firewall shielding Douluo Continent from a more terrifying hunter.
• Long Yao considered the revelation and became excited by the prospect of the greater threat.

After completing the Maple Forest Night Hunt, Long Yao turned in the mission, accepted the Purple Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce’s rewards and recommendation, and headed back to Shrek Academy. His dramatic return revealed that he was alive and caused a commotion at the academy gates.

• Long Yao returned to Far Return Inn, rested while thinking about Wang Dong, and then went to the Purple Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce to deliver the Wind Thunder Leopard cub heart blood.
• Nangong Wan verified the mission item and gave Long Yao an Amethyst VIP Card with one hundred thousand gold soul coins and a Purple Gold Letter of Recommendation for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Nangong Wan offered to investigate Ling Yue and Long Yao’s origins, but Long Yao warned her not to pursue their secrets, so she swore to make them untouchable taboos for the Chamber.
• Long Yao accepted the recommendation letter and left for Shrek Academy, reflecting on Ling Yue and looking forward to seeing Wang Dong.
• Long Yao announced his return at Shrek Academy’s main gate, where students recognized him as the supposedly fallen Chief and erupted in excitement.
• Captain Iron Blood Meng Tian welcomed Long Yao and ordered guards to lift the alert and notify Dean Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion.

Long Yao returned to Shrek Academy and theatrically complained to Yan Shaozhe about being presumed dead, before Xuan Zi arrived and welcomed him back. Yan Shaozhe and Xuan Zi revealed that the Fountain of Life Long Yao had left behind restored Elder Mu and helped him reach Quasi-Demigod status, and Xuan Zi took Long Yao to visit him.

• Long Yao complained to Yan Shaozhe that the academy had called him dead after he spent six days training in a Spirit Beast forest, and demanded to see Mu En and Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi burst into the Dean's Office, recognized Long Yao as his future disciple, and asked him to share the treasures he had brought back.
• Long Yao gave Xuan Zi a Wind Lightning Pill, while Yan Shaozhe silently lamented that Xuan Zi had taken such a valuable pill.
• Long Yao asked how Elder Mu was doing, and Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe told him the Fountain of Life had restored Mu En's Life Origin and revived his spiritual consciousness.
• Yan Shaozhe explained that Mu En had undergone a Second Awakening and become a Quasi-Demigod, extending his lifespan by at least three hundred years.
• Xuan Zi praised Long Yao for helping Shrek and took him to Sea God Pavilion to meet Mu En.

Long Yao returned to Shrek Academy, reassured Moon and Xuan Zi that Tang Ya’s treatment had succeeded, and told them about the mysterious Ling Yue, whose strength and law auras alarmed them. He reunited with Wang Dong and the others at Sea God Lake, where Wang Dong tearfully welcomed him and vowed to grow strong enough to fight beside him.

• Long Yao and Xuan Zi arrived at Sea God Pavilion, where Moon welcomed Long Yao back in restored health and asked whether Tang Ya had been saved.
• Long Yao confirmed Tang Ya’s situation was resolved, relieving Moon, and said he had met Ling Yue, a girl about as strong as himself.
• Moon and Xuan Zi sensed traces of Space-Time Law, Absolute Zero, and Taiyin Power on Long Yao, then questioned him about Ling Yue and learned she had said she would wait for him at Shrek Academy.
• Moon and Xuan Zi decided to alert the elders and prepare for Ling Yue’s possible arrival, while remaining open to recruiting her as an ally.
• Long Yao returned to the Sea God Lake cultivation area and gave Huo Yuhao the Jade-Eyed Phantom Toad’s Left Leg Bone.
• Wang Dong stopped cultivating to embrace Long Yao, tearfully complained about his absence, and said she wanted to become stronger and face danger alongside him.

Long Yao reunited with Wang Dong, accepted her confession about being Wang Dong'er, and distributed powerful soul bones and pills to his team. After a warm meal at Courtyard One, he sent the team toward intensive cultivation in preparation for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament.

• Long Yao teased Wang Dong about her identity, then reassured her that he liked her whether she was a boy or a girl, prompting her to reveal she was Wang Dong'er.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Ning Xue woke from Deep Meditation, and Long Yao gave Huo Yuhao the Jade-Eyed Phantom Toad Left Leg Bone.
• Long Yao awarded the Emerald Demon Bird external soul bone to Xiao Xiao and distributed five Dragon Blood Body Tempering Pills to the team.
• Long Yao led the team back to Courtyard One, where he and Wang Dong'er cooked dinner with help from their companions.
• Long Yao ordered Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao to enter seclusion and absorb their soul bones, while the others prepared to cultivate with the pills for the coming tournament.

Long Yao used his newly upgraded Live Stream System to observe his allies and rivals, analyze Ling Yue’s law-enforcement protocol, and gather intelligence on the upcoming All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament. He discovered that the Body Sect intended to seize Huo Yuhao and resolved to protect his partner as the tournament approached.

• Long Yao activated the upgraded system and observed Bei Bei cultivating while Tang Ya underwent a deep Martial Soul fusion, with her awakening estimated in twelve days.
• Long Yao watched Ling Yue reflect on her defeat and learned that she planned to enter the tournament to challenge him again.
• Long Yao analyzed Lin Aotian’s unstable state and received countermeasures after learning that Lin had reached Level 41.
• Long Yao discovered that Ling Yue’s Support System served as a plane-defense protocol that marked him as a potential threat and was studying his Chaos Power.
• Long Yao gathered tournament intelligence, including details on the rival academies and the Body Sect’s team, which planned to forcibly recover Huo Yuhao.
• Long Yao vowed to protect Huo Yuhao from the Body Sect and anyone else who threatened his partner.

Long Yao and Wang Dong'er tested their ninety-nine-percent Martial Soul Fusion and created the overwhelming fusion skill Swan Song of the Void · Aurora Butterfly Dragon Spear. After the transformation exhausted them, Xuan Zi declared the skill a forbidden secret of Shrek Academy and warned them not to use it lightly.

• Long Yao greeted Wang Dong'er in a dress and praised her, while Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Ning Xue discovered her identity as a girl.
• Long Yao suggested that he and Wang Dong'er test their Martial Soul Fusion, and she agreed before they went to the Sea God Lake training ground after breakfast.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er joined hands and released their Martial Souls, triggering a massive energy storm that shook Sea God Lake and alarmed the academy.
• Xuan Zi arrived and contained the storm with a Space Barrier as Long Yao and Wang Dong'er transformed into the fused form, Swan Song of the Void · Aurora Butterfly Dragon Spear.
• The fusion ended after several seconds, leaving Long Yao and Wang Dong'er weak, and Xuan Zi declared their Martial Soul Fusion Skill a highest-level forbidden archive.

After Long Yao and Wang Dong'er’s forbidden Martial Soul Fusion Skill nearly exhausted them and threatened to expose power that could destabilize the continent, Elder Xuan stabilized them and ordered everyone to keep the event secret. Long Yao recovered with a donated Primordial Life Dragon Blood Pill, broke through to Rank 46, and set his sights on the coming tournament in Star Luo City.

• Elder Xuan treated Long Yao and Wang Dong'er after their fusion, then ordered Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Ning Xue to keep what they witnessed secret.
• Elder Xuan warned Long Yao that the fusion skill touched divine laws and could bring disaster if exposed, but could also serve as Shrek and the Tang Sect’s hidden trump card.
• Long Yao carried the unconscious Wang Dong'er to bed, gave her a recovery potion, and used the livestream system to recover from his exhaustion with a Primordial Life Dragon Blood Pill donated by Just Want to Watch the Streamer Show Off.
• Long Yao decided to strengthen himself before the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament and noted that the Body Sect had come for Huo Yuhao.
• Long Yao cultivated in a secluded corner of Courtyard One and used the pill’s remaining power to break through his level barrier, reaching Rank 46.
• Wang Dong'er sensed Long Yao’s breakthrough in a dream, while Huo Yuhao felt a subtle pulse of energy as he cultivated with his soul bone.

Long Yao saw Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao emerge from seclusion after successfully absorbing their spirit bones, then reunited with Wang Dong'er, who had awakened after their Martial Soul Fusion. The couple shared a tender moment and agreed to protect the fusion's dangerous secret, while Wang Dong'er asked after Long Yao's condition.

• Long Yao stabilized his level 46 cultivation while Huo Yuhao emerged and demonstrated his new [Emerald Phantom Poison Barrier] spirit skill from the [Jade-Eyed Phantom Toad Left Leg Bone].
• Xiao Xiao emerged with the evolved [Emerald Demon Skull Piercing Bone], demonstrated her emerald wings and newfound flight, and described how her combat abilities had improved.
• Wang Dong'er awoke in Long Yao's room, blushed at the memory of their Martial Soul Fusion, and reunited with him as Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, and Ning Xue tactfully left them alone.
• Long Yao teased and comforted Wang Dong'er, who realized her soul power and Spiritual Sea had recovered and remembered that he had fed her medicine while she slept.
• Long Yao and Wang Dong'er acknowledged that their powerful Martial Soul Fusion had to remain secret, and Wang Dong'er asked whether Long Yao had recovered from its greater toll on him.

Long Yao led Wang Dong'er through Shrek Academy and openly introduced her as his girlfriend, while their companions celebrated their progress in training. After Long Yao scanned Lin Aotian's system and found it crude and vulnerable, he dismissed him as no threat and reassured Wang Dong'er; Lin Aotian, meanwhile, brooded over his jealousy and planned to win Elder Mu En's support and the upcoming tournament.

• Long Yao reassured Wang Dong'er that he was well, then led her hand in hand from Courtyard One toward the training ground.
• Students recognized Wang Dong as Wang Dong'er, and Long Yao silenced their gossip by declaring that she was his girlfriend.
• Xiao Xiao teased Wang Dong'er at the training ground, while He Caitou, Huo Yuhao, and Ning Xue welcomed the couple and reported their training gains.
• Long Yao nodded to Dai Huabin, who was surprised by the gesture, while Lin Aotian watched resentfully and vowed to claim victory in the upcoming tournament.
• Long Yao used the Dongdong System to scan Lin Aotian's system, learned of its plot-correction mission and vulnerabilities, and decided Lin Aotian was no opponent.
• Wang Dong'er noticed Long Yao's brief coldness, and he reassured her that he was only planning their next training session.

Long Yao left Wang Dong'er and the others to discuss urgent matters with Mu En, while secretly planning to evolve her Light Goddess Butterfly into a Goddess of Light Dragon Butterfly. After teasing Elder Xuan on the way, he reached Mu En in the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En greeted him with amused affection.

• Long Yao told Wang Dong'er to stay and train with Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and the others while he went to speak with Mu En, and she agreed to wait for him.
• Long Yao used the Dongdong System to find an evolution plan for Wang Dong'er's Light Goddess Butterfly, requiring his Dragon God bloodline, a transformed body, Soul King cultivation, and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Long Yao met Elder Xuan by Sea God Lake and asked whether Mu En was in the pavilion; Elder Xuan warned him that Mu En was studying Lin Aotian and might not agree to deal with him.
• Long Yao teased Elder Xuan about fishing and drinking during work, then dodged the furious elder's attempt to catch him and ran toward the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En welcomed Long Yao and remarked that he always provoked Elder Xuan before coming to see him.

Long Yao asked Mu En about Lin Aotian, and Mu En judged Lin’s character irredeemable while entrusting Long Yao with deciding how to handle him. Long Yao returned to the training ground, announced that the team would prepare for the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, and left the watching students energized as Dai Huabin rekindled his resolve and Lin Aotian seethed with jealousy.

• Long Yao respectfully asked Mu En about Lin Aotian, and Mu En recounted Lin’s unexplained Golden Holy Dragon Martial Soul, knowledge of the future, and strange pity toward him.
• Mu En condemned Lin’s greed and arrogance, said Shrek Academy would not waste resources on him, and gave Long Yao authority to decide how to deal with him.
• Long Yao told Mu En he would try to save Lin but would abandon him if he could not be helped, and Mu En declared that Sea God Pavilion would support his decision.
• Long Yao left Sea God Pavilion without telling Xuan Zi what Mu En had said, then returned to the training ground, where Wang Dong’er ran to him and took his hand.
• Long Yao announced that only eleven months remained until the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, prompting Wang Dong’er, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, Xiao Xiao, and Ning Xue to show their determination to compete.
• The students watching the Chief Squad were swept up in Shrek pride, while Dai Huabin’s resolve returned and Lin Aotian dug his nails into his palm in jealousy.

Long Yao drove the Chief Squad into a month of brutal training to prepare for Shrek Academy’s selection tournament, while his example sparked a cultivation frenzy across the Inner Court. After presenting their progress to Zhou Yi, the squad prepared to register for the competition.

• Long Yao urged the Chief Squad to earn a tournament place through hard work, and Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, He Caitou, Ning Xue, and Wang Dong'er began intensive cultivation.
• Inspired by the squad, Inner Court spectators returned to train, while Lin Aotian accepted a system mission to defeat Long Yao's team in the selection competition and Dai Huabin watched in silence.
• Long Yao sealed Courtyard One and spent a month putting the squad through harsh combat training, improving their abilities and coordination.
• The barrier fell, revealing the squad's growth: Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao had become Soul Elders, He Caitou and Ning Xue neared that rank, Wang Dong'er reached level thirty-three, and Long Yao reached level forty-seven.
• Long Yao led the squad to visit Zhou Yi, who examined their transformation, praised them with a restrained “Not bad,” and told them not to disgrace her or Shrek.