Chapter Summaries

The surge of applicants overwhelmed Eastsea Academy, so Yu Zhen set a Spirit Ascension Platform trial to choose ten new students. Li Na, one of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Four Heavenly Kings, joined the selection and planned to recruit Xia Yi while keeping the cult’s connection to him secret.

• After Ye Xinglan lost to Gu Yue again, Shen Yi took the Shrek Academy team back to Shrek Academy while crowds protested in Skysea City and Shrek City.
• Yu Zhen struggled to accommodate the many powerful families seeking places at Eastsea Academy, and Ye Yingluo suggested using a Spirit Ascension Platform trial to select applicants.
• Yu Zhen announced that applicants would need their own entry cards and would compete during the platform’s riot period, with ten places going to those who lasted over an hour and ranked highest.
• Li Na persuaded Yu Zhen to let her enter the selection, then vanished and met a Holy Spirit Cult subordinate who confirmed Gu Yue was Leng Yaozhu’s disciple.
• Li Na learned the cult’s leaders wanted Xia Yi recruited, ordered other cult members not to contact him, and resolved to conceal his connection to the cult.

After Eastsea Academy remained banned from the competition, Long Hengxu rewarded Xia Yi and Wujin with entry cards to the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform. Wujin explained how the platform worked and the dangers of its Riot Period, leaving Xia Yi eager to test himself there.

• The Heaven Sea Alliance officials kept Eastsea Academy's ban in place, and the contestants and teachers returned to the academy by bus.
• Long Hengxu gave Xia Yi and Wujin Spirit Ascension Platform entry cards and promised them the same benefits as Zero Class.
• Xia Yi asked Wujin about the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Wujin explained its origins, its training benefits, and how killing virtual Soul Beasts could increase Soul Ring age.
• Wujin described the Riot Period's increased dangers, team entry rules, and the risk that other Soul Masters could steal the energy from defeated Soul Beasts.
• Xia Yi learned that Wujin had raised his First Soul Ring in the Spirit Ascension Platform and asked how Wujin had obtained an entry card.

Xia Yi prepared for the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform and received an extra entry card from Mu Xi. After entering the Spirit Pagoda’s simulation, he arrived in the ancient Star Dou Forest and began scouting for Soul Beasts.

• Xia Yi focused on cultivation while preparing for the Spirit Ascension Platform, but he did not enter Deep Meditation again.
• Mu Xi offered Xia Yi a Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform Entry Card, and he explained that the academy had given him one already.
• Mu Xi warned Xia Yi about the nine-year agreement required for Zero Class, and he clarified that he had neither joined the class nor signed an agreement.
• Mu Xi insisted Xia Yi keep her extra entry card so he could try the Spirit Ascension Platform again if he was eliminated early.
• The next morning, Xia Yi and Wujin entered metal compartments at the Eastsea Spirit Pagoda and were transported into the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xia Yi recognized the SOS Signal Device on his hand, climbed a tree, and surveyed the simulated Star Dou Forest for nearby Soul Beasts.

Xia Yi and Wujin fought a pack of Wind Baboons in the Spirit Ascension Platform, including a mutated thousand-year beast. They defeated the pack, and Wujin gained a hundred years of soul ring age while Xia Yi continued clearing the remaining beasts.

• Xia Yi and Wujin encountered more than twenty Wind Baboons led by a mutated thousand-year Wind Baboon.
• Xia Yi smashed the arms of a charging Wind Baboon, then killed it and absorbed spiritual power that increased his soul ring's age.
• The mutated Wind Baboon attacked Xia Yi, but Wujin struck it with a hundred punches and killed it, gaining a hundred years of soul ring age.
• Xia Yi and Wujin finished off the remaining Wind Baboons, and Xia Yi lamented that the Spirit Ascension Platform did not contain Soft Bone Rabbits.

Xia Yi and Wujin watched Li Na and four other young Soul Masters get overwhelmed by a disciplined Green Wolf pack, then killed the alpha wolf and began absorbing the spiritual energy left by the wolves. Long Yan woke in the Spirit Pagoda furious that they had waited until after his group died to claim the spoils.

• Xia Yi and Wujin encountered five young Soul Masters besieged by Green Wolves and watched from hiding as the pack’s coordinated attacks brought them down.
• Li Na used her bell to disrupt the wolves’ mental coordination, but two Soul Elders died when her control faltered, and she later escaped by pressing her distress signal.
• Xia Yi and Wujin ambushed and killed the alpha wolf, then fought the disorganized pack and killed more Green Wolves.
• Several Green Wolves fled under the leadership of stronger wolves, while Xia Yi and Wujin absorbed the spiritual energy left behind by their kills.
• Long Yan woke in the Spirit Pagoda and angrily watched Xia Yi and Wujin take the spiritual energy from the wolves his group had fought.

Xia Yi and Wujin absorbed the spiritual power left by Li Na and the Azure Wolves, bringing Xia Yi closer to a thousand-year soul ring. Leng Yaozhu ordered the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear unleashed in the Spirit Ascension Platform, and it attacked the two just as they recovered, leaving Wujin in its sights.

• Wujin offered Xia Yi the spiritual power, and they agreed to split it after Wujin concluded Li Na had deliberately left it for Xia Yi.
• Xia Yi suspected Li Na was connected to the Holy Spirit Cult, then absorbed the spiritual power and gained more from two passing Soul Beasts.
• Leng Yaozhu reprimanded Shen Aotian for allowing so much spiritual power to accumulate and ordered him to release the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear and investigate Li Na.
• Leng Yaozhu watched Xia Yi and Gu Yue on separate Soul Guidance Screens while the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear slaughtered soul masters in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xia Yi and Wujin split up and fled when the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear reached them, and the bear pursued Wujin.

Xia Yi and Wujin fought the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, a guardian with terrifying strength and a possible Spirit Bone. After Wujin helped Xia Yi exploit the bear’s dislocated right wrist, Xia Yi charged back in and used Star Shift on its wrists, aiming to copy the injury.

• Wujin stunned the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear with Lion Emperor Roar and used Snow Jade Heart to enhance his Hundred Lion Fist, but his punches only caused superficial wounds.
• The bear attacked Wujin, and Xia Yi struck its right wrist with a Thousand-Refined Qingshi Copper Hammer, dislocating it and knocking its claw away.
• The enraged bear pursued Xia Yi, while Wujin warned that it was a Spirit Ascension Platform guardian that might contain a Spirit Bone.
• Xia Yi decided to risk fighting for the bear’s External Soul Bone and turned to attack, reasoning that its injured right wrist left it vulnerable.
• Wujin stunned the bear again as Xia Yi passed beneath its claw and used Star Shift on both wrists, seeking to copy the injury from one side to the other.

Xia Yi and Wujin killed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, and Xia Yi obtained and absorbed its Right Palm Bone inside the Spirit Ascension Platform. After Xia Yi left the platform, the Spirit Pagoda staff and Long Hengxu were stunned that he had absorbed such a valuable Soul Bone while badly injured.

• Xia Yi and Wujin attacked the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear after Xia Yi used Gentle Light to dislocate its wrists, but the bear struck them both and they suffered severe injuries.
• Xia Yi and Wujin landed blows on the bear's ears; Wujin tore away part of its head, and Xia Yi finished it with his Soul Skill.
• Xia Yi picked up the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's Right Palm Bone, while Wujin pressed his distress signal and left because of his injuries.
• Though badly injured and nearly out of Soul Power, Xia Yi risked absorbing the Soul Bone inside the Spirit Ascension Platform, and it fused with his right palm.
• Xia Yi tested his increased strength, then left the platform and found Wujin, the Spirit Pagoda staff, and Long Hengxu staring at him in disbelief.

After reentering the Spirit Ascension Platform, Xia Yi encountered Mu Xi and joined her group as they explored Star Dou Forest. Their hunt was interrupted by a dangerous Millennium Shadow Leopard, which charged toward them as one of Mu Xi’s companions raised an earthen wall.

• Wujin declined Xia Yi’s offer to use the admission ticket, so Xia Yi reentered the Spirit Ascension Platform alone.
• Xia Yi headed deeper into Star Dou Forest, aiming to raise his first Soul Ring’s age by hunting solitary hundred-year Soul Beasts.
• Xia Yi met Mu Xi and two blacksmiths from Eastsea City's Blacksmith Association, then agreed to travel with them.
• Mu Xi explained that her group had lost several members after encountering a pack of Soul Beasts in the forest’s depths.
• A Millennium Shadow Leopard attacked the group, dodged Xia Yi’s thrown hammer, and rushed toward them.
• One of Mu Xi’s companions summoned an Earth Hammer and raised an earthen wall while telling the others to escape.

Xia Yi protected Mu Xi from a Millennium Shadow Leopard, killed it with a Spirit Bone Skill, and gained enough spiritual energy to raise his first Soul Ring to a thousand years. Mu Xi reconsidered his potential as a Soul Master as they headed deeper into Star Dou Forest.

• Mu Xi charged a powerful Spirit Skill while Xia Yi fought off the Shadow Leopard and its phantom clones, but her two companions were quickly eliminated.
• Xia Yi dropped his hammer, used a burst of speed to meet the Shadow Leopard, and killed it with the golden claws of his Spirit Bone Skill.
• Mu Xi asked whether Xia Yi had deliberately waited for her companions to be eliminated, and he explained that he had wanted her to claim the kill and its spiritual energy.
• Xia Yi told Mu Xi that the Shadow Leopard's spiritual energy was enough to raise his first Soul Ring to a thousand years, while Mu Xi said her own spiritual energy was divided among three rings.
• As Xia Yi led Mu Xi deeper into Star Dou Forest, she reflected that Mu Chen and Zhen Hua might have underestimated his Soul Master talent.

Xia Yi helped Mu Xi gather enough spiritual power in the Spirit Ascension Platform for her first Spirit Soul to reach the thousand-year level, while his own Spirit Ring evolved to a thousand years. After leaving, he was ambushed by a Wraith sent by Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly King Li Na to bring him under the cult’s control.

• Xia Yi and Mu Xi fought through increasingly powerful Soul Beasts, and Mu Xi gained more than a hundred years of spiritual power before they battled a thousand-year Red Dragon Snake.
• Xia Yi and Mu Xi ended their trip and activated their distress signals after deciding they had gained enough from the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xia Yi’s Spirit Ring evolved from a hundred-year ring to a thousand-year ring, and he woke the next day to discover that his first soul skill consumed a third less Soul Power.
• A woman’s voice and a dark bell pulled Xia Yi into an unfamiliar place, where he killed a charging Wraith and absorbed its powerful resentment.
• Xia Yi realized the attacker was a Wraith, while the narration revealed that Li Na of the Holy Spirit Cult had sent it to control him because he might become a Divine Craftsman.

Li Na used resentment and a Silver Dragon Scale to control Xia Yi, but Gu Yue explained that Li Na had fled after Di Tian alerted the Federation. Xia Yi learned how the Holy Spirit Cult obtained the scale and began to question whether another Silver Dragon had existed.

• Li Na forced resentment into Xia Yi’s Spiritual World, suppressed it with a Silver Dragon Scale, and warned him to obey her and keep the encounter secret.
• After Li Na left, Xia Yi regained some movement and found Gu Yue waiting for him.
• Gu Yue explained that Di Tian had uncovered Li Na’s plan and notified the Federation, prompting Li Na to flee Eastsea City.
• Gu Yue removed and examined the Silver Dragon Scale, then explained that the Holy Spirit Cult could have acquired scales from the Silver Dragon hunted by the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xia Yi wondered whether another Silver Dragon had existed and noticed that Gu Yue’s reaction seemed less anguished than he expected.

Gu Yue explained that Li Na had given Xia Yi a Silver Dragon Lady’s scale and revealed the Dragon Ladies’ grim history. As Xia Yi secretly refined Li Na’s resentment, Li Na escaped to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters and realized someone had framed her for the deaths of two War Gods, threatening conflict between the cult and the Federal Government.

• Gu Yue told Xia Yi that the silver scale came from a Silver Dragon Lady, described the Dragon Ladies’ origins and persecution, and said their race was likely extinct.
• Gu Yue left after warning Xia Yi to refine the resentment in his body, and Xia Yi examined the scale while concealing that he was already breaking Li Na’s control.
• Xia Yi advised Gu Yue to have Di Tian help Li Na, and Gu Yue said she would consider it.
• The Federal Government launched a manhunt after an anonymous report identified Li Na as an Evil Spirit Master, but Li Na killed the chief and escaped after the Fifth and Eighteenth War Gods fell.
• Li Na returned to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, deduced that an unseen enemy had killed the two War Gods and framed her, and urged the cult master and Two Emperors to prepare for a possible conflict.

The major powers reacted to the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack in Eastsea City while Gu Yue used the resulting distraction to prepare her own plan. Gu Yue kept Xia Yi out of the plan until he proved himself, then stayed away from him because she feared his influence over her.

• The Holy Spirit Cult Leader and Ghost Emperor discussed the War Gods’ deaths, while Leng Yaozhu deleted footage of Li Na helping Xia Yi and suspected Dark Bell was connected to Leng Yulai’s disappearance.
• Ya Li and Yun Ming ordered Shrek Academy to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and monitor Wujin, while Chen Xinjie demanded an investigation into the Evil Spirit Masters and the informant.
• Di Tian returned to Eastsea City, and Gu Yue praised the attack for weakening the War God Temple and distracting Douluo Continent’s leaders from her plan.
• Gu Yue refused to tell Xia Yi about the plan until he survived the Holy Spirit Cult and gained a firm foothold, then ordered Di Tian to prepare for her recovery to god level.
• Gu Yue avoided Xia Yi because she feared becoming accustomed to being led by him, while Xia Yi focused on cultivation, classes, and improving his forging skills.

During the vacation trip to Shrek City, Gu Yue and Xia Yi were followed by Tang Wulin and then confronted by the Demon Empress, who proposed an alliance against the Sea God. Gu Yue passed the Demon Empress’s challenge of undermining the Sea God’s influence to Xia Yi, leaving him to devise a solution.

• Xia Yi and Wujin discussed their vacation plans, with Wujin heading to the Extreme North and Xia Yi agreeing to accompany Gu Yue to Shrek City.
• Tang Wulin saw Xia Yi and Gu Yue leave Eastsea Academy together and secretly followed their car out of Skysea City.
• Zi Ji sped up to shake Tang Wulin, while Gu Yue questioned the Demon Empress, who had joined them in the car.
• The Demon Empress proposed cooperating with Gu Yue to destroy the Sea God’s faith on Douluo Continent and asked how to turn ordinary people against him.
• Gu Yue told the Demon Empress to coordinate with her subordinate Xia Yi, then began meditating while Xia Yi was left with the problem.

Xia Yi proposed using sensational stories and media to erode the Sea God Tang San’s image, then suggested robbing ancient imperial tombs to fund the Holy Spirit Cult’s campaign. The Demon Empress welcomed his schemes and tested whether he would join her cult, but Xia Yi held back, leaving their possible alliance for later.

• Xia Yi explained that the Holy Spirit Cult could publish increasingly sensational stories, comics, and animations featuring the Sea God to gradually change how ordinary people imagined him.
• The Demon Empress accepted Xia Yi’s plan and asked how the cult could raise money to promote it widely.
• Xia Yi suggested looting former imperial tombs, and the Demon Empress saw that the thefts could bring in money and inflame tensions across the continents.
• The Demon Empress invited Xia Yi to join the Holy Spirit Cult and offered Li Na as his servant, but Xia Yi and the Demon Empress agreed to discuss it another time.

Hu Yun entered Shrek Academy to photograph its statues, while Cai Yue'er sensed something was wrong but found no evidence of trouble. Xia Yi and Gu Yue were stranded outside Shrek City as the Demon Empress’s posters sparked chaos, leaving the city sealed off and its leaders scrambling to destroy them.

• Hu Yun gave the gatekeepers storage cards and gained permission to photograph the statues under Wu Chaoping’s supervision.
• Hu Yun photographed the statues of the Original Shrek Seven Devils, the Golden Iron Triangle, and the God of Emotions before leaving the academy.
• Cai Yue'er told Wu Chaoping to guard the gates and reported her unease to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Xia Yi and Gu Yue examined a poster depicting Tang San as a naked “Lone Hero” and discovered that Cun Ying was named on its reverse.
• Gu Yue explained that posters of the Original Shrek Seven Devils had been scattered across Shrek City, prompting Shrek Academy, Tang Sect, and Spirit Pagoda to seal the city and collect them.
• Xia Yi dismissed Gu Yue’s warning that Shrek Academy might discover his role in giving the Holy Spirit Cult the idea.

Yun Ming and the Sea God Pavilion elders confronted the Holy Spirit Cult’s obscene posters targeting the Original Shrek Seven Devils, but Dream Chasing Media had vanished before the Federal Government could intervene. Ya Li urged cooperation with the Federal Government, Tang Sect, and Spirit Pagoda to trap the Evil Spirit Masters, while Long Yeyue rejected any compromise.

• Yun Ming ordered the Federal Government to find the Evil Spirit Masters and shut down the websites listed on the posters, after Cai Yue'er reported that Dream Chasing Media’s staff and equipment had disappeared.
• Long Yeyue demanded that Shrek Academy fight the Evil Spirit Masters, but Yun Ming said they could not strike back without knowing where the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters was.
• Ya Li suggested negotiating temporarily to buy time, but Long Yeyue and the other elders angrily refused to compromise with Evil Spirit Masters.
• Ya Li proposed working with the Tang Sect, Federal Government, and Spirit Pagoda to set a trap and capture an important Evil Spirit Master who could reveal the Cult’s base.
• Ya Li warned that the Evil Spirit Masters might target the Sea God Pavilion elders next and said cooperation across the Federation was their best chance to respond.

After Shrek City reopened, Xia Yi and Gu Yue went to Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where Gu Yue’s teacher Leng Yaozhu confronted Xia Yi with a file accusing him of being an Evil Spirit Master spy. Xia Yi surrendered at once, leaving Gu Yue relieved but disturbed by how much she had come to rely on him.

• Shrek Academy and its allies reopened Shrek City after searching for hidden posters, and Gu Yue reflected on Xia Yi’s influence over her.
• Xia Yi and Gu Yue reached Spirit Pagoda headquarters, where they found the lobby’s murals covered with white cloth.
• Gu Yue used her badge to take Xia Yi up to Leng Yaozhu’s office, and Leng Yaozhu welcomed them before giving Xia Yi a detailed file about his life.
• Leng Yaozhu accused Xia Yi of being an Evil Spirit Master spy and pressured him to reveal his contacts and objectives.
• Xia Yi immediately raised his hands and surrendered, while Gu Yue felt relieved and privately resented her growing sense of security around him.

Xia Yi tried to convince Leng Yaozhu that he was not an Evil Spirit Master’s spy by telling her a fabricated story about Leng Yulai and revealing his Dark Phoenix. Leng Yaozhu recognized her younger sister’s aura and sent Gu Yue in for a private conversation, while Xia Yi prepared to admit his story was nonsense.

• Leng Yaozhu dismissed Gu Yue and questioned Xia Yi about his connection to Evil Spirit Masters.
• Xia Yi claimed Leng Yulai had saved and later recruited him, then told a story implicating her in abandoning a child and plotting against Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu believed Xia Yi and embraced him, then asked to see his Dark Phoenix.
• Leng Yaozhu sensed Leng Yulai’s aura and an evil presence in the Dark Phoenix, confirming her suspicion that her sister had become an Evil Spirit Master.
• Xia Yi left and told Gu Yue to say what she thought she could, adding that Leng Yaozhu had started by speaking nonsense.
• Gu Yue entered Leng Yaozhu’s office while Xia Yi privately acknowledged that Leng Yaozhu might already have seen through his story.