Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin’s team challenged Jing Shaoyu’s Class Committee for authority, but the battle quickly turned against them. After three teammates were eliminated, only Tang Wulin, Luo Guixing, Zheng Yiran, and Xu Lizhi remained against the untouched opposing team.

• Jing Shaoyu and the other Class Committee members revealed their martial souls and abilities as both teams began the battle.
• Xu Lizhi gave his teammates buns to boost their speed and strength, and Yang Nianxia, Xie Xie, and Xu Yucheng charged forward.
• Jing Shaoyu took control of Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass, which poisoned Xie Xie and eliminated him.
• Wu Siduo attacked Luo Guixing and Xu Lizhi, but Luo Guixing used Space Lock and coordinated with Tang Wulin to protect Xu Lizhi.
• Mo Hentian overpowered Yang Nianxia, while Xu Xiaoyan and Jing Shaoyu controlled and eliminated Xu Yucheng.
• Gu Yue summoned heavy snow as Tang Wulin’s team was reduced to four, leaving Jing Shaoyu’s team with all five members and a decisive advantage.

Jing Shaoyu’s team defeated Tang Wulin’s group in the class selection match, and Wu Zhangkong chose them to represent the first year in an exchange spar with the Second Year. The chapter ended with Jing Shaoyu welcoming Na'er and Ye Xinglan onto the victorious team.

• Luo Guixing and Tang Wulin used Space Transfer to send Tang Wulin behind Jing Shaoyu, but Jing Shaoyu blocked his Gold Dragon Claw with a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Soul Bone.
• Jing Shaoyu swept Tang Wulin away, and Gu Yue’s Ice Spears struck him before Ya Li rescued him.
• Wu Siduo knocked Xu Lizhi out of the arena, while Mo Hentian blasted Zheng Yiran away and eliminated her.
• Wu Zhangkong declared Jing Shaoyu’s group the winner, and Jing Shaoyu invited Na'er and Ye Xinglan to join the team on the arena.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that Jing Shaoyu’s group would represent the first year in an exchange spar with the Second Year four days later.

After the first-year class selection tournament, Jing Shaoyu's group held a meeting to welcome Na'er and Ye Xinglan, redistribute committee positions, and plan their battle armor. Mo Hentian proposed making their One-Word Battle Armor from Spirit Metal, and the meeting ended with his Spirit Refinement success rate revealed as eighty percent.

• Jing Shaoyu welcomed Na'er and Ye Xinglan as official group members and arranged for them to take over the Design and Manufacturing Committee positions from Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue kept their places as candidates for the designer and manufacturer exchanges.
• Jing Shaoyu told Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, Wu Siduo, and Mo Hentian to discuss their battle armor needs with Gu Yue and Na'er.
• Mo Hentian announced that he had reached Level 5 Blacksmith and recommended using Spirit Metal for their One-Word Battle Armor.
• Jing Shaoyu backed Mo Hentian's proposal, and Mo Hentian said his Spirit Refinement success rate was eighty percent.

Cai Yue'er turned the First Year and Second Year exchange event into an official academy event and attended with several powerful spectators. As the cadets gathered at the Sparring Arena, Jing Shaoyu and Yuan En Yehui eyed each other, while Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu arrived and bickered over whose students they had come to support.

• Cai Yue'er announced that she would watch the exchange event and award extra Contribution Points to the winning year.
• The first-year and Second Year cadets gathered at the Sparring Arena, where Jing Shaoyu and Yuan En Yehui watched each other across the formations.
• Ya Li, Cai Yue'er, and Li Fengxiao took seats on the Main Stand as honored spectators, drawing the cadets' attention.
• Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu arrived, argued about their reasons for attending, and sat beside Ya Li after she stopped their bickering.

The first-year and second-year exchange event began, and Mo Hentian won the forging match by Spirit Forging Titanium Crystal. As Gu Yue started the design match, Tang Wulin’s envy of Mo Hentian’s Hate Heaven Hammer shook his confidence.

• Shen Yi announced the exchange event’s rules and introduced the first-year and second-year forging contestants, Mo Hentian and He Xiaopeng.
• Mo Hentian Spirit Forged the Titanium Crystal, defeating He Xiaopeng and impressing the judges with her potential as a future Divine Craftsman.
• Tang Wulin watched Mo Hentian’s performance and grew envious of her Hate Heaven Hammer, questioning his own Martial Soul and ability.
• Shen Yi began the design match, and Gu Yue took the stage to compete against second-year student Bai Hanying in designing a Battle Armor right-hand gauntlet.

Gu Yue won the design exchange for first year, which then built a three-match lead before Yuan En Yehui defeated Wu Siduo in maintenance. As the practical combat match began, Cai Yue'er changed the rules to make it a seven-on-seven battle.

• Cai Yue'er and Ya Li discussed Gu Yue's talent and her future as Leng Yaozhu's successor.
• Cai Yue'er awarded the design match to Gu Yue, praising her complete Twin Martial Souls blueprint and revealing she was a Fifth-Level Designer.
• Xu Xiaoyan won the manufacturing match, giving first year three consecutive victories.
• Yuan En Yehui narrowly defeated Wu Siduo in the maintenance match, and Jing Shaoyu reassured Wu Siduo afterward.
• Jing Shaoyu chose seven first-year participants for the practical combat match, and Cai Yue'er required Second Year to send seven as well.
• Both teams finished preparing for the seven-on-seven match.

The first-year and Second Year teams began their practical combat tournament match, with both sides using their opening moves to test the other’s strength and coordination. The first-years countered Second Year’s opening attacks, and Na'er drove Yue Zhengyu and He Xiaopeng back as the battle continued.

• Ya Li refereed as Jing Shaoyu and Yuan En Yehui led their teams onto the Sparring Arena.
• Mo Hentian matched Yuan En Yehui’s pressure, and the two clashed head-on when Shen Yi started the match.
• Gu Yue unleashed a blizzard, Wu Siduo vanished into hiding, and Jing Shaoyu boosted the front line with Star Light Boiling.
• Duan Hunxiao’s flute skill briefly dazed the first-years, but Jing Shaoyu dispelled its effect with his third soul skill.
• Ye Xinglan intercepted Ye Xingmo, while Na'er fought Yue Zhengyu and He Xiaopeng and forced both of them back.

The first-year and Second Year teams fought to a stalemate until Wu Siduo eliminated Bai Hanying and Fu Ya, while Yuan En Yehui powered up and knocked Mo Hentian out of the arena. Wu Siduo then transformed into the Hell White Tiger to confront Yuan En Yehui.

• Yuan En Yehui, Na'er, and Ye Xinglan held their own against their opponents as azure light flashed beneath their feet.
• Fu Ya attacked Gu Yue from the air, but Gu Yue teleported behind her and struck back with Ice Spears.
• Wu Siduo ambushed Bai Hanying and eliminated her, then resisted Duan Hunxiao's flute control with help from a green drop of rain.
• Yuan En Yehui activated Ogre Titan and blasted Mo Hentian out of the arena, but Xu Xiaoyan's Star Wheel Chains briefly restrained her.
• Yuan En Yehui attacked Wu Siduo, who dodged and transformed into the Hell White Tiger before striking at her.

Jing Shaoyu’s first-year team defeated the second-year team in a decisive match, with Na’er and the Hell White Tiger securing the final eliminations. Afterward, Ya Li revealed that she and Yun Ming intended to take Jing Shaoyu as a disciple because he possessed twin martial souls.

• Jing Shaoyu sent Xu Xiaoyan to support Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue to support Na’er while he strengthened his healing and support abilities.
• Xu Xiaoyan helped Ye Xinglan overcome Ye Xingmo and Duan Hunxiao, and Ye Xinglan eliminated both opponents.
• Gu Yue’s hailstorm distracted Yue Zhengyu and He Xiaopeng, allowing Na’er to eliminate He Xiaopeng and then defeat Yue Zhengyu with her Silver Dragon Spear.
• The Hell White Tiger defeated Yuan En Yehui, giving the first-year team a decisive victory over the second-year team.
• Ya Li confirmed that she and Yun Ming planned to take Jing Shaoyu as a disciple and revealed that he had twin martial souls.
• Zhuo Shi claimed credit for bringing Jing Shaoyu to the academy and asked Ya Li how she and Yun Ming would thank him.

Jing Shaoyu became Yun Ming’s second disciple, and Yun Ming examined his cultivation, strengthened his foundation, and helped fully fuse his two Soul Bones. After learning that the Golden Tree’s Elder Gold had favored Jing Shaoyu, Yun Ming arranged for him to train on Sea God Island every three days, though he would continue living in the Outer Academy until he entered the Inner Academy.

• A week after the first-year exchange victory, Na'er brought Jing Shaoyu to Yun Ming and Ya Li, who asked him to become Yun Ming’s disciple.
• Jing Shaoyu accepted and completed the disciple ceremony, becoming Yun Ming’s second disciple while Leng Yaozhu remained his teacher.
• Yun Ming examined Jing Shaoyu, stabilized his realm, deeply fused his two Soul Bones, and discovered his Spirit Abyss Realm Mental Power and four red Soul Rings.
• Jing Shaoyu summoned Anya, the Sacred Unicorn, and explained that his Mental Power had surged after he meditated beside Poseidon Lake and encountered Elder Gold.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li decided Jing Shaoyu could cultivate on Sea God Island and prepared a room for him, but Yun Ming said he could not move there until he entered the Inner Academy.
• Yun Ming scheduled spear training for Jing Shaoyu and Na'er every three days, and Ya Li offered to help him with his Origin Spirit Martial Soul.

Jing Shaoyu received cultivation guidance from Yun Ming and Ya Li, then prepared for his group’s battle armor and continued developing his strength. Leng Yaozhu gave him his battle armor alloy and medicinal herbs to raise his physique and awaken his Fierce Beast Soul Spirit.

• Ya Li guided Jing Shaoyu in cultivating his Origin Spirit Martial Soul, while Yun Ming taught Na'er spear practice and later shared a meal with them.
• Jing Shaoyu returned to the dormitory and found Mo Hentian studying the rare metals needed to forge their group’s battle armor.
• Leng Yaozhu summoned Jing Shaoyu to the Spirit Pagoda, where he confirmed that Yun Ming had become his teacher and reassured Leng Yaozhu that she remained his first teacher.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Jing Shaoyu enough blue-gold alloy for multiple sets of battle armor and urged him to make Two-Word Battle Armor before his second year.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Jing Shaoyu five packages of medicinal herbs, including dragon tendon, to improve his physique and help awaken his Fierce Beast Soul Spirit.

The first-year class committee successfully created Wu Siduo’s first piece of battle armor and planned to equip everyone before the final exams. Jing Shaoyu settled on “Eternal” as the first part of his own armor’s name, leaving the others to imagine matching names as they departed.

• Xu Xiaoyan completed Wu Siduo’s dark-purple arm armor, and Wu Siduo bonded with it successfully.
• Jing Shaoyu proposed that everyone receive their first piece of battle armor before the final exams, and Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan agreed.
• The group assigned Ye Xinglan to make Mo Hentian’s armor, while the two manufacturers divided the other projects between them.
• Na’er and Gu Yue urged Jing Shaoyu to name his armor, and their argument drew Xu Xiaoyan into the dispute.
• Jing Shaoyu stopped the argument and named the first part of his armor “Eternal,” then left the workshop with Mo Hentian.

Jing Shaoyu forged his first piece of Two-Word Battle Armor, a cyan-gold belt that marked a new design apart from the traditional battle skirt. After Yun Ming praised its quality, Jing Shaoyu agreed to continue his spear training the next day.

• The Class Committee Group completed its members’ first Battle Armor pieces, while Jing Shaoyu waited to forge his own.
• Jing Shaoyu carved intricate patterns into Azure Spirit Gold with the Endless Godslaying Spear as Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and the others watched.
• Jing Shaoyu successfully forged a cyan-gold belt that amplified his aura and departed from the traditional battle-skirt design.
• Jing Shaoyu told the group to postpone the next stage of Battle Armor production until the new semester because final exams and vacation were approaching.
• Yun Ming praised Jing Shaoyu’s work and said its quality might approach quasi Three-Word Battle Armor once the full set was complete.
• Yun Ming told Jing Shaoyu to come to the island the next day for spear practice and correction.

Mo Hentian broke through to Soul Ancestor and chose to seek a new Soul Spirit by climbing the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit Tower with Jing Shaoyu’s team. After the group prepared to go, Yun Ming postponed Jing Shaoyu and Na’er’s spear practice until the next day.

• Mo Hentian told Jing Shaoyu she had broken through to Soul Ancestor and asked Gu Yue to help her obtain a Soul Spirit.
• Gu Yue explained the Soul Spirit Tower’s team-based climb, its Soul Spirit rewards, and the discounted purchases available to those who cleared floors.
• Jing Shaoyu’s companions agreed to climb the tower with Mo Hentian, and Mo Hentian chose that method of obtaining a Soul Spirit.
• Jing Shaoyu informed Gu Yue and Na’er of the plan, then reported it to Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong, who approved the afternoon trip.
• Jing Shaoyu asked Yun Ming to excuse him and Na’er from spear practice, and Yun Ming moved their practice to the following day.

Jing Shaoyu and his companions visited Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, where Leng Yaozhu tested their physical strength and guided them to the Soul Spirit Tower entrance. After arranging their entry and promising to monitor them, she prepared the group to begin the Tower Climb.

• Leng Yaozhu welcomed Jing Shaoyu, Gu Yue, and their companions, then took them to her studio to assess Mo Hentian's suitability for a soul spirit.
• Leng Yaozhu measured Mo Hentian's Mental Power and physical strength, finding that her physique could support a Ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit.
• Jing Shaoyu and the others tested their physical strength; Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan fell short of ten thousand years, while Jing Shaoyu reached fifty thousand years.
• Leng Yaozhu led the group to the Soul Spirit Tower's central control room and warned them that its dangers were real.
• Leng Yaozhu promised to monitor the group and ordered the Soul Spirit Tower activated.

Jing Shaoyu led his group through the Soul Spirit Tower trials, easily defeating successive groups of Soul Beasts as they climbed toward their goal of obtaining a Ten-thousand-year Soul Spirit for Xiao Mo. They passed the ninth trial, where Na'er, Mo Hentian, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Siduo killed four three-thousand-year Ice Bears.

• Jing Shaoyu led the group into the Soul Spirit Tower, where they formed up as eight metal doors opened and a pack of 128 Hundred Year Wind Wolves emerged.
• Na'er, Mo Hentian, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Siduo attacked the Wind Wolves and defeated them, while Jing Shaoyu supported them; the group ignored the offered Thousand Year Soul Spirits and advanced.
• The group cleared the second trial by killing eight five-hundred-year Flame Demon Lions, then continued through several easy trials without stopping.
• At the ninth trial, four three-thousand-year Ice Bears appeared, and Na'er, Mo Hentian, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Siduo each fought one.
• Na'er killed her Ice Bear with a spear thrust, Mo Hentian smashed hers with her hammer, and Ye Xinglan and Wu Siduo defeated their opponents as Xu Xiaoyan regretted the bears' deaths.

Jing Shaoyu’s group reached the nineteenth floor of the Soul Spirit Tower and battled four Ten Thousand Year Devil Leopards. After Mo Hentian killed the first leopard and Ye Xinglan was struck by the second, an accidental surge of Soul Power between Ye Xinglan and Jing Shaoyu triggered a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Jing Shaoyu warned the group that the nineteenth floor held Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, and four Devil Leopards emerged for them to fight.
• Jing Shaoyu divided the group’s targets, sending Mo Hentian and Ye Xinglan against the first two Devil Leopards while Gu Yue, Na’er, and Mao Mao held back the other two.
• Mo Hentian battered the first Devil Leopard with her Continuous Tremor Soul Skill, then bound and killed it with Thousand Jun Drop.
• Ye Xinglan cut apart the second Devil Leopard’s Secluded Night Leopard Shadow, but its sudden claw strike knocked her backward, and Jing Shaoyu caught and healed her.
• Ye Xinglan accidentally sent Soul Power into Jing Shaoyu, causing their energies to surge together and envelop them in golden light as the others recognized a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Jing Shaoyu and Ye Xinglan unexpectedly formed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and used it to kill three Ten Thousand Year Devil Leopards. After the group cleared the nineteenth floor of the Soul Spirit Tower, Mo Hentian began choosing a Soul Spirit while Xu Xiaoyan reserved a cute pink-and-white one for herself.

• Jing Shaoyu and Ye Xinglan manifested the golden Martial God and killed the Second, Third, and Fourth Devil Leopards with its nine swords.
• Leng Yaozhu watched the battle and marveled that Jing Shaoyu had Martial Soul Fusion Skills with multiple girls.
• Ye Xinglan recovered from the fusion’s confusion, learned she needed to meditate, and began restoring her exhausted Soul Power.
• Xu Xiaoyan teased Jing Shaoyu about holding Ye Xinglan, and he flirted back before the others’ displeasure interrupted them.
• The group cleared the nineteenth floor, and Jing Shaoyu told Mo Hentian to check whether a Soul Spirit suited her.
• Xu Xiaoyan stopped Mo Hentian from dismissing a pink-and-white Soul Spirit and asked Jing Shaoyu to reserve it for her; Gu Yue nodded, and he agreed.

Xu Xiaoyan and Mo Hentian selected rare Black Grade One Star Soul Spirits in the Spirit Pagoda, then began contracting them. Mo Hentian’s Thousand Jun Ant Soul Spirit triggered a resonance that upgraded his third soul ring to ten thousand years.

• Xu Xiaoyan chose the Ten Thousand Year Star Beast, and Mo Hentian chose the Ten Thousand Year Thousand Jun Ant as their Second Soul Spirits.
• Leng Yaozhu explained the Soul Spirit classifications and gave Xu Xiaoyan and Mo Hentian discounted prices for their selections.
• Leng Yaozhu helped Mo Hentian begin contracting the Thousand Jun Ant while Xu Xiaoyan left her Star Beast Soul Spirit Egg until she reached rank forty.
• Mo Hentian successfully contracted the Thousand Jun Ant, gaining a black fourth soul ring and a stronger Hate Heaven Hammer.
• Mo Hentian’s Thousand Jun Ant resonated with his third soul ring and transformed it from a Thousand-Year Soul Ring into a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.

Jing Shaoyu gave Ye Xinglan a body-forging medicine pouch and reassured her that their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was her choice. The first-year final exam rules were announced, but Jing Shaoyu and the other class committee members learned that their assessment would be different and personally arranged by Old Cai.

• Jing Shaoyu gave Ye Xinglan a Dragon Tendon Forging Pill and told her she did not need to resist their Martial Soul Fusion Skill or accept it against her wishes.
• Xu Lizhi waited for Ye Xinglan, but she hurried past him without noticing, and Jing Shaoyu explained that she was tired and heading back to rest.
• Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong announced a fifteen-day exam requiring students to travel through at least ten cities to Mingdu and defeat an opponent more than five levels stronger in each city.
• Shen Yi told the students that the five lowest-ranked students would be advised to withdraw unless everyone scored above the passing line.
• After the other students left, Shen Yi revealed that the seven class committee members had a separate assessment personally arranged and overseen by Old Cai.