Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan returned to the Forging Masters Association, completed a Spirit Forging, and joined Gu Yuena for a spar against two Fifth Ring Soul Masters. The match began with Zhao Lei and his companion revealing their martial souls.

• Chen Yan returned to the association with Gu Yuena, and Zhen Hua arranged two Fifth Ring Soul Masters to spar with them.
• Zhen Hua announced a half-hour lesson on Fusion Forging and taught the gathered forging masters about matching metals to develop new alloys.
• Chen Yan completed a Spirit Forging while Gu Yuena watched, then they left for the sparring grounds.
• Zhao Lei introduced himself to Chen Yan and Gu Yuena, and the two sides took their places in the arena.
• Zhao Lei and his companion released their martial souls, a White Tiger and a Three-Headed Giant Wolf, as the match began.

Chen Yan defeated Zhao Lei and his partner with the Golden Dragon Spear, then went with Gu Yuena to Zhen Hua’s private cafeteria. Zhen Hua arrived and discovered that Chen Yan and Gu Yuena were together, ending the chapter in awkward surprise.

• Chen Yan used the Golden Dragon Spear to overpower Zhao Lei and his partner, who conceded defeat after being hurled into the barrier.
• Chen Yan left the Sky-Piercing Domain with Gu Yuena and went to Zhen Hua’s cafeteria while the secretary returned to work.
• Mu Ye greeted Chen Yan and Gu Yuena, teased them about being a couple, and went to prepare new dishes.
• Zhen Hua rushed into the cafeteria worried that Chen Yan and Gu Yuena had eaten his treasured ingredients, then noticed them holding hands and asked if they were together.
• Chen Yan awkwardly invited Zhen Hua to sit while waiting for Mu Ye to bring out the food.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena shared Mu Ye’s elaborate feast at the Forging Masters Association, while Zhen Hua ruefully watched them eat. After they left Heaven Dou City, Shen Yi told the children to prepare for their practical assessments without them.

• Mu Ye served eight rare dishes, and Chen Yan and Gu Yuena praised his cooking as they ate.
• Chen Yan recognized that Mu Ye had let go of his past troubles after receiving Dragon Blood Grass, which had strengthened Mu Ye’s Martial Soul and helped him reach Rank 95.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena finished the feast and left in a car, prompting Zhen Hua to complain that Chen Yan only came to mooch meals.
• A woman learned by phone that Chen Yan and Gu Yuena had already left Heaven Dou City and stopped heading to pick them up.
• Shen Yi told the children to choose their opponents carefully and complete their practical assessments on their own.

Chen Yan sensed that his jade pendant was guiding him toward an opportunity, while Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi brought their students to Mingdu for the final exam. The students debated challenging Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and Wu Siduo proposed a strategy built around their limited knowledge of its team.

• As the vehicle crossed a boundary, Chen Yan felt a pull from his jade pendant and decided to investigate it after the exams.
• Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi arrived in Mingdu with twelve students and considered which academy they should challenge.
• Xu Hao suggested facing Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, but Li Mingxuan and Li Xuanya warned that its stronger students and Martial Soul Fusion Skills made the match risky.
• Wu Siduo argued that Sun Moon would field students their age and that Shrek could exploit its opponents' undisclosed abilities.
• Wu Siduo proposed a six-on-six battle and targeting Xue Liushuang when she was separated from Weng Daimin, whose fusion skill together posed the greatest threat.

Li Mingxuan’s team accepted Sun Moon Royal Academy’s challenge, and the academy turned their match into a heavily publicized event. As the crowd jeered at Shrek, the six competitors stayed calm in the waiting room, preparing to face their opponents.

• Wu Zhangkong promised full marks to the students if they defeated Sun Moon Royal Academy, and Li Mingxuan chose a six-person team for the match.
• The team requested a fair battle at Sun Moon Royal Academy, which publicized the event across the Alliance and arranged a live broadcast.
• Wu Zhangkong watched from the arena stands while the six students were led through the academy’s stone halls to the Great Soul Arena waiting area.
• The host riled up the crowd against Shrek, while Soul Tool jammers prevented the audience from using their devices and the livestream remained off.
• Li Mingxuan advised the team to ignore the insults and rest, while he ate in the waiting room to provoke the academy’s watching officials.

Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy began their Great Soul Arena match, with both teams targeting key opponents and trying to prevent a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Shrek gained the advantage when Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi cornered Mad Battle Heaven, while Weng Daimin moved to intervene and Xu Xiaoyan spotted an opening.

• The referee explained that the match would continue until one team could no longer attack, and both teams took their positions.
• Long Chen charged at Wu Siduo with his Light Sacred Dragon skills as the teams' fighters clashed across the arena.
• You Dingqi, Jian Mochen, and Mad Battle Heaven attacked Li Mingxuan, while Zhang Yangzi used Dark Sky Curtain to obscure the battlefield.
• Long Chen broke through Zhang Yangzi's darkness, revealing that Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi had moved close to Mad Battle Heaven and separated Jian Mochen from his shield.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi struck Mad Battle Heaven, sending her flying, while Weng Daimin tried to help and Xu Xiaoyan recognized an opportunity.

Shrek’s fighters used their knowledge of the Royal Academy’s abilities to eliminate Xue Liushuang, Long Chen, and You Dingqi, leaving the Royal Academy on the brink of defeat. Jian Mochen and Mad Battle Heaven then combined their martial souls in a desperate bid to keep fighting.

• Li Mingxuan and Zhang Yangzi coordinated an attack that eliminated Xue Liushuang and trapped Jian Mochen, while Wang Jinxi held Mad Battle Heaven back.
• Zhang Yangzi and his partner transformed into the Dark Eagle Dragon and attacked Jian Mochen as Ye Xinglan defeated You Dingqi.
• Li Mingxuan and another Shrek fighter overwhelmed Long Chen, and the referee removed him from the field.
• Shrek’s fighters closed in on You Dingqi while Jian Mochen and Mad Battle Heaven combined their shield and axe to form a winged white tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• The Mingdu spectators rallied at the sight of the fusion, but the Royal Academy’s injured fighters appeared unable to overcome Shrek.

Wu Siduo’s Self Martial Soul Fusion helped Shrek defeat Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, whose leaders faced public outrage and political pressure afterward. Meanwhile, Chen Yan massaged Gu Yuena, who relaxed under his touch.

• Wu Siduo unleashed her Self Martial Soul Fusion, and Shrek overwhelmed Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s Heaven Tiger to win the match.
• Wu Zhangkong returned the challengers’ identity documents after awarding them full marks, while an angry spectator demanded that Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy return their money.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s headmaster refused to suppress the online backlash and warned that rival academies were exploiting the scandal to challenge the school’s position.
• Chen Yan massaged Gu Yuena’s back, then her feet, and Gu Yuena relaxed while struggling to focus her Soul Power.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena traveled west after finals, following a mysterious pull to the Blood Sea Trench. They reached its blood-red waters and prepared to investigate what was drawing Chen Yan there.

• Gu Yuena kissed Chen Yan, and they agreed to travel west after their final assessments because something was calling to him.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that no first-year students had failed and arranged the holiday, while Xu Hao trained at Shrek after being left out of the match against Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena said goodbye to their companions and traveled west, passing Mingdu and entering the former Sun Moon Continent region.
• Gu Yuena concealed herself and Chen Yan from the Federation's soldiers as they crossed the military camp guarding the Blood Sea Trench.
• Chen Yan recognized the Blood Sea Trench and proposed they descend, while Gu Yuena sensed something was wrong and said she might need the Dragon God's Heart to investigate.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena descended into the Blood Sea Trench, where the Phoenix Jade Pendant carried them to an ancient altar containing a powerful blood-colored crystal. The crystal transported them to a sealed barren world, where they found a massive Stone Gate emitting Divine Power.

• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena plunged into the Blood Sea Trench and descended through its blood-red waters, with Gu Yuena protecting Chen Yan from the pressure and hostile creatures.
• At great depth, the Phoenix Jade Pendant shielded them and carried them toward a fissure radiating an evil power that Gu Yuena recognized as belonging to a Level One God.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena entered the fissure and found an ancient cave with a rune-covered altar and a huge floating blood-colored crystal.
• Gu Yuena warned Chen Yan that the crystal's Divine Power surpassed that of a Level One God, but they approached the altar together.
• The crystal's suction pulled Chen Yan and Gu Yuena into a sealed, barren world where they followed Divine Power fluctuations to a massive Stone Gate.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena discovered that the chained light was Douluo Continent’s imprisoned world consciousness, and that a formation powered by Godhood Fragments was suppressing it and draining its energy. The jade pendant absorbed the world energy and shared it with them, leaving Chen Yan’s cultivation surging as a strange five-element crystal began forming in his dantian.

• Gu Yuena identified the multicolored light as Douluo Continent’s world consciousness, bound by chains from a formation built to suppress it and plunder its power.
• Gu Yuena explained that Godhood Fragments powered the formation, while Chen Yan eyed the fragments and wondered whether they could be useful to him.
• Gu Yuena touched a chain and realized the formation was conveying a message through its vibrations.
• The world consciousness struggled, sending energy along the chains, and the jade pendant absorbed it before distributing it between Chen Yan and Gu Yuena.
• Chen Yan broke through to Six Rings as the world energy replenished his five-element origin and began forming a five-colored crystal in his dantian.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena absorbed the World Origin, greatly increasing their cultivation and allowing Chen Yan to form a powerful Sixth Soul Ring. They escaped Blood Sea Trench and headed for the human world, while Chen Yan still needed another soul beast or soul spirit to reach seven rings.

• Gu Yuena refined the seven-colored energy into her Dragon Core while Chen Yan absorbed the World Origin until his Soul Rings began forming a Sixth Soul Ring.
• Gu Yuena linked her spiritual power to Chen Yan's and helped him channel the energy until his Sixth Soul Ring formed.
• Chen Yan reached rank 69 with five black Soul Rings and one seven-colored Soul Ring, while Gu Yuena's Soul Power reached rank 98.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena used the jade pendant to teleport out of Blood Sea Trench without triggering Tang San's restrictions.
• Gu Yuena took Chen Yan's hand and teleported toward the human world, considering the Spirit Pagoda's powerful soul spirits beyond their current reach.

Gu Yuena and Chen Yan traveled to the sea to find a two-hundred-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast for Chen Yan’s Soul Ring. Gu Yuena lured one to the surface and struck it, and the wounded beast realized it was outmatched and fled underwater.

• Gu Yuena told Chen Yan they would go to sea to find his Soul Ring, and Chen Yan agreed.
• Gu Yuena and Chen Yan traveled east to the coast, where Gu Yuena used Di Tian’s approximate location for the Sea Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yuena released her aura to draw out a Sea Soul Beast, then blasted its head with a spear thrust as it surfaced.
• The enraged Sea Soul Beast rose from the water and threatened Gu Yuena, but fled beneath the sea when she gathered the elements for another attack.

Gu Yuena and Chen Yan killed the two-hundred-thousand-year-old Shadow Demon Whale and took its body back to the jade pendant’s space. Chen Yan absorbed its Orange-Gold soul ring, overcame its lingering spiritual resistance, and broke through to level 76.

• Gu Yuena wounded the fleeing Shadow Demon Whale with a seven-colored attack, then split its body in two with her Silver Dragon Spear.
• Chen Yan drained the whale with his Golden Dragon Spear, ignored its plea to become a soul spirit, and killed it while Gu Yuena held it in place.
• Gu Yuena warned Chen Yan that a nearly three-hundred-thousand-year-old octopus was approaching, and he stored the whale’s corpse inside the jade pendant.
• Chen Yan began absorbing the whale’s Orange-Gold soul ring as the furious octopus arrived to find only blood in the sea.
• Chen Yan purified the soul ring’s lingering spiritual power and reached level 76 after absorbing it.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena spent a month enjoying their holiday together before returning to Shrek Academy for the new term. At the Opening Ceremony, Xu Hao revealed he had reached Four Rings, and Old Cai praised Li Mingxuan's group for defeating Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena walked along the beach, collected shells, and caught small sea creatures before releasing them back into the water.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena spent their holiday visiting the cinema and amusement park, making memories together over the course of a month.
• Xu Hao traveled to Shrek Academy with Li Mingxuan and the others, and they cleaned the work-study student dormitory while waiting for Chen Yan and Gu Yuena.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena arrived at Spirit Ice Plaza the morning of the Opening Ceremony, where Xu Hao told Chen Yan he had reached Four Rings.
• Old Cai opened the ceremony and praised Li Mingxuan's group for defeating Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, though the group knew Chen Yan had contributed more than half the credit.

Over the three years after the first-year students began their second semester, Chen Yan secretly prepared a coming-of-age surprise for Gu Yuena. On his sixteenth birthday, he took her to an amusement park, where they shared a romantic day together, leaving their relationship still unspoken.

• The first-year students began their second semester, and the story skipped ahead through three years of their relationships and lives at the academy.
• Xu Hao asked Chen Yan about the academy’s exchange event to Star Luo Continent, and Chen Yan suggested he tell Old Cai he could not go.
• On Chen Yan’s sixteenth birthday, Gu Yuena reached Level 99 Limit Douluo and wondered whether Chen Yan had planned a romantic surprise.
• After morning class, Chen Yan took Gu Yuena through a spatial rift to an amusement park decorated with flower petals.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena rode the carousel and roller coaster together, then watched the evening view from the Ferris wheel as Chen Yan kissed her forehead and embraced her.

Chen Yan confessed his love to Gu Yuena, and she accepted, beginning their relationship. After a warm morning together, they joined Shrek Academy for the exchange event with Star Luo Continent, where both delegations gathered at the Tianhai Grand Hotel.

• Chen Yan confessed to Gu Yuena in the flower garden, and she told him she liked him too before kissing him beneath the fireworks.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena woke together at their house near Shrek Academy, then shared breakfast.
• Chen Yan and Gu Yuena continued spending time together over the following weeks as the exchange event with Star Luo Continent approached.
• More than a thousand people from Star Luo Continent arrived at the Tianhai Grand Hotel, where Shrek Academy waited to depart.

Pan Wen escorted Shrek Academy aboard the Star Luo for an exchange voyage, where the students from Star Luo Royal Academy eagerly approached Chen Yan. While the schools mingled at a cocktail party, Chen Yan and Gu Yuena stayed away together, and Wu Zhangkong drew attention from female soul masters.

• Pan Wen greeted Old Cai and arranged for Shrek Academy to travel aboard the Star Luo with Star Luo Royal Academy, despite Old Cai’s dismissive remark about the visiting school.
• The Star Luo Royal Academy students noticed Gu Yuena’s beauty, while several girls recognized Chen Yan and later asked him for autographs.
• The two ocean liners departed for Star Luo Continent, beginning the exchange voyage between the academies.
• The academies held a cocktail party, where Star Luo’s students shared local specialties and frequently glanced toward the entrance for Chen Yan.
• Gu Yuena stayed with Chen Yan to moisten his dry lips, so neither academy saw them at the party, while Wu Zhangkong attracted repeated attention from female soul masters.

Chen Yan and Gu Yuena traveled with the Shrek Academy delegation by ship to the Star Luo Continent, spending most of the two-and-a-half-month voyage together. After the delegation arrived and received an official welcome, Wu Zhangkong outlined their upcoming visits, and they took a train toward Star Luo City.

• Chen Yan woke beside Gu Yuena, got ready for the day, and joined the Shrek Academy students for breakfast.
• Xu Hao told Chen Yan about Wu Siduo turning down more than a dozen admirers at the previous evening's party.
• Gu Yuena followed Chen Yan from the dining hall, while the students watched the pair leave together.
• After two and a half months at sea, the delegation reached the Star Luo Continent and attended a welcoming ceremony.
• The Star Luo delegation dispersed, while Wu Zhangkong explained the Douluo delegation's itinerary of academy exchanges and sightseeing.
• The delegation traveled by Soul Guidance Train toward Star Luo City, where Sima Lanxiao greeted Old Cai.

Old Cai agreed to let the Shrek Academy students enter the Star Luo Empire’s All-Continent Young Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament after learning its events and prizes. As the group traveled by train, Xu Hao spotted mechas in the sky, and Old Cai warned that they were under attack.

• Sima Lanxiao invited Old Cai’s group to compete, and Old Cai agreed after learning the tournament’s prizes and age limit.
• Sima Lanxiao left to contact the organizers, while Chen Yan found that his games could not connect outside their service area.
• The girls discussed the tournament and worried that Chen Yan and the others would face older competitors, including Long Yue.
• Xu Hao noticed mechas approaching the train, and they opened fire.
• Old Cai opened his eyes and shouted, "Enemy attack!"