Chapter Summaries

Gu You reunited briefly with the Sea God Pavilion members, then insisted on leaving to rescue those in danger despite the risks. After arriving in Linbing City, he prepared to enter the Far North Plateau in search of a powerful fifth soul ring.

• Gu You revealed that his first two soul rings had evolved beyond ten thousand years, leaving him with two black rings, one red ring, and one green ring.
• Ya Li offered to revive Gu You if his soul remained intact, but Gu You refused to rely on her ninth Soul Skill and said he had to go save the others himself.
• Gu You departed for the Far North, while Ya Li let him go and Long Yueye watched in silence.
• Gu You arrived in Linbing City with his Soul Power at the peak of rank 49 and continued regretting the cultivation time he had wasted.
• Gu You stocked up on food, charged his Soul Guide Milk Bottle, and set out for the Far North Plateau to seek a fifth soul ring of at least a hundred thousand years.

Gu You traveled through the Far North, overcoming the cold and encountering increasingly powerful Soul Beasts. He finally faced the Titan Snow Demon King and its clan, whose members reacted to the hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings on his four-ring body.

• Gu You pressed deeper into the Far North, drove off a Snow Lion with his aura, and avoided absorbing it so its pack could survive.
• Gu You crossed the snowfields for several days, endured the worsening cold, and used an Ice Emperor Scorpion Soul Ring’s pressure to absorb an Ice Emperor Scorpion into his mind.
• Gu You made wooden skis to travel more easily as the snow deepened and trees appeared.
• A terrifying presence shattered Gu You’s spread Spiritual Power, and he saw more than sixty enormous Titan Blood Demons approaching.
• Gu You faced the three-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King and revealed four Soul Rings, prompting the Titan Snow Demons to roar at the sight of a four-ring Soul Master bearing hundred-thousand-year rings.

Gu You persuaded the three-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon King to become his spirit soul by revealing his divine aura and the world within his Sea of Consciousness. The Titan Snow Demon King, named A Tai, accepted, and Gu You began absorbing its orange Soul Ring while planning to bring its clan with him.

• Gu You rejected the Titan Snow Demons’ demands that he leave the Far North and told their king he wanted it as his Soul Ring.
• Gu You offered to help the Titan Snow Demon King become a god and revealed a divine aura that made it kneel.
• Gu You promised that the Titan Snow Demon Clan could live in his Sea of Consciousness, and the Titan Snow Demon King released its spiritual origin to join him.
• The Titan Snow Demon King explored Gu You’s Sea of Consciousness, met Iron Blockhead, and introduced itself as A Tai.
• Gu You left to absorb A Tai’s orange Soul Ring and gather the Titan Snow Demon Clan.

Gu You absorbed the Titan Snow Demon King's three-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Torso Soul Bone, then gathered the Far North Soul Beasts and marched toward the Far North Plateau. As the beasts followed him, he thought of Yue Zi and the conflict ahead.

• Gu You used Extreme Ice and the Dragon God Bloodline to endure the painful fusion of the Titan Snow Demon King's Soul Ring and Torso Soul Bone without crying out.
• Gu You's Spiritual Power surged past ten thousand, reached across six kilometers, and drew the nearby Soul Beasts into his spiritual world.
• After a day and night of consolidating his cultivation, Gu You reached the peak of rank fifty-three Soul Power and judged that he could fight a Limit Douluo.
• Gu You summoned hundreds of Soul Beasts, sat atop the Titan Snow Demon King's head, and ordered them to move out toward the Far North Plateau.
• Gu You arrived at the plateau with the Soul Beast army and began to address Yue Zi.

Gu You faced Yue Zi after discovering that she had transformed and was responsible for harming ordinary people, including children. Their battle began with Gu You’s domains and Ice God Kick clashing against Yue Zi’s power, and the chapter ended as Yue Zi revealed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring and unleashed the Evil God Blade against Gu You.

• Gu You called for Yue Zi, but a changed Yue Zi emerged from a black sphere and accused him of having done to her people what he had done to Qianyu's mother.
• Gu You summoned the Soul Beasts into his mind, activated his Life Domain and Ice and Snow Domain, and began absorbing Yue Zi’s life force.
• Yue Zi attacked with a colossal black hand, and Gu You countered with Ice God Kick as they argued over his past actions against Qianyu's mother.
• Yue Zi opened a rift in space, summoned the Evil God Blade, and revealed ten Soul Rings, including a golden God-Bestowed Soul Ring.
• Yue Zi unleashed Evil God's Radiance, and Gu You answered with his fifth Soul Skill, Dragon Emperor Titan's Roar.

Gu You turned the tide against Yue Zi by sealing her black hole, tearing out her heart, and trapping her in its pull. After the black hole began threatening the Douluo Plane, he managed to shrink and control it, then questioned the Evil God Blade about the captured souls.

• Yue Zi shattered Gu You's defenses with a rain of baleful sword energy and began drawing him into her black hole.
• Gu You used Mother-Child Twin Ring Sealing Needles and Dragon Emperor's Prohibition: Prison of the Starry Cosmos to seize control of the black hole.
• Gu You pierced Yue Zi's chest, ripped out and crushed her heart, then flung the black hole at her and demanded the souls of his teachers.
• The black hole continued expanding beyond Gu You's control, threatening to consume the Douluo Plane.
• Gu You concentrated his power through his second Blood Essence Soul Ring, shrank the black hole, and made it spit out the Evil God Blade.
• Gu You asked the Evil God Blade whether Yue Zi was dead and what she had done with the souls she captured.

Gu You uncovered that the Plane Master was responsible for the souls he had questioned about, then spent three years cultivating before traveling to Shrek City. He arrived at Shrek Academy ahead of its admissions and entered the Outer Court’s history building.

• The Evil God Blade told Gu You that the Evil God was imprisoned in his Black Hole World and blamed the Plane Master for the souls’ fate before losing consciousness.
• Gu You left the battlefield with the Evil God Blade, then spent three years in seclusion in Eastsea City, reaching Soul Emperor and gaining the Purple Gold Dragon God Halberd.
• Gu Yue traveled to Shrek City with Class Zero and wondered where Gu You had gone, while Gu You emerged from seclusion and followed on a later train.
• Gu You arrived in Shrek City and waited until Shrek Academy’s admissions day before entering Shrek Inner City.
• Gu You reached Spirit Ice Plaza and sneaked into the Outer Court’s history building using his powerful Spiritual Power.

Tang Wulin and the others endured the Golden-eyed Black Dragon King mural’s pressure before Gu You appeared and helped them pass the test. Reunited with his friends after three years, Gu You offered them a gift, revealing a necklace set with a gray gemstone.

• The mural’s aura overwhelmed Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan until Gu You arrived and shielded them with his blood essence.
• Shen Yi and Elder Li learned that Gu You had entered the examination area undetected, and Elder Li awarded the four Class Zero members eight points each.
• Xie Xie asked Gu You what he had done during the past three years, and Gu You reunited with him, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Gu You gave his friends a necklace made from the sealed Miniature Black Hole and explained that he owed them a gift.

Gu You gave Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan gifts before the group began Shrek Academy’s second assessment, where he instantly defeated a twenty-thousand-year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape. Shen Yi awarded everyone full marks, then led them to the third test, a field of guillotine gates whose rules had only just begun to be explained.

• Gu You turned the black hole into a gemstone necklace for Gu Yue and gave Xu Xiaoyan a Spirit-Forged Ice Crystal.
• Shen Yi explained the assessment scoring and led the group into the second test, where an illusion transported them to an arena facing a Sacred Illusion Demon Ape.
• The Sacred Illusion Demon Ape unleashed its Spiritual Power, but Gu You defeated it instantly with an eye technique.
• The group returned from the illusion, and Shen Yi gave everyone full marks before taking them to the third assessment.
• Shen Yi showed the group a field of guillotine gates and began explaining the adaptability test.

Gu You and his friends cleared a guillotine obstacle trial, then met Cai Yuer, who recognized Gu You as an Inner Court student and offered Gu Yue a place in the Inner Court. As the group continued to the fifth trial, Gu You was left questioning whether his connection to Shrek Academy had been destined.

• Gu You shattered the falling guillotine blades with his Dragon Claw, leading his team through the obstacle trial for full marks.
• Shen Yi brought the group to the specialty examination, where Cai Yuer recognized Gu You and explained that he had been an Inner Court student from the beginning.
• Cai Yuer offered Gu Yue direct entry to the Inner Court and asked her to become her disciple, but Gu Yue declined the offer to study under her because she already had a teacher.
• Cai Yuer told Gu You to come home more often, leaving him to question whether Shrek Academy was truly his home and whether his path had been destined.
• Shen Yi led the group onward to the fifth trial, which tested their second professions, and told Xie Xie that everyone had received full marks in the fourth trial.

Tang Wulin, Gu You, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan continued Shrek Academy’s entrance assessments, earning full marks in eating and completing the endurance tests. They entered the eighth assessment, comprehensive combat, with their opponents still to be revealed.

• Cai Yuer awarded the group full marks for the fifth assessment, and Shen Yi led them to the eating test.
• Gu You ate the steamed buns without using Soul Power and earned full marks, leaving Shen Yi and the proctor stunned.
• Shen Yi explained the endurance assessment, and Gu You completed its run, weighted squats, and pull-ups in just over forty minutes.
• After the group recovered, Shen Yi introduced the eighth assessment: each examinee would fight a Shrek student admitted the previous year.
• The group entered a large circular room to begin the comprehensive combat assessment.

The group completed the eighth assessment before entering a replica Spirit Ascension Platform for the ninth assessment, which tested survival and cooperation. When they heard the roar of a Soul Beast estimated to be at least sixty or seventy thousand years old, Gu You decided to pursue it and suggested Xu Xiaoyan might gain a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

• Gu You and the others fought ten opponents in a rotation assessment, and everyone except Xie Xie received full marks.
• Shen Yi explained that the ninth assessment would test survival and teamwork inside a replica Spirit Ascension Platform, then sent the group into the forest.
• Cai Yuer and Zhuo Shi arrived after the drawers closed, and Zhuo Shi ordered the academy to use the highest assessment level.
• Gu You led the group to a hill, where they prepared to defend themselves after detecting something wrong in the quiet forest.
• A distant roar revealed a Soul Beast estimated to be at least sixty or seventy thousand years old, and Gu You chose to go toward it, proposing that Xu Xiaoyan try to obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Xie Xie warned that Xu Xiaoyan could not withstand such a Soul Ring, and Xu Xiaoyan admitted she did not think she could absorb it.

Gu You and his friends reached a battle between a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Seeing the beast in danger, Gu You revealed his formidable Soul Ring configuration and summoned the Purple Gold Dragon God Halberd as the battle escalated.

• Gu You urged Xu Xiaoyan, Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue to follow him toward the roar, and they joined him in the valley.
• Gu You recognized the twenty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, an Imperial Auspicious Beast, and resolved to save and claim the beast.
• Zhuo Shi, Cai Yuer, and Shen Yi saw Gu You's black, black, red, green, and two orange Soul Rings, including a Fierce Beast Spirit Soul.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion unleashed Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire as the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear attacked, while Gu You confronted them.
• Gu You summoned the Purple Gold Dragon God Halberd, a growth-type Super Divine Artifact, and released its second layer.

Gu You defeated the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and captured the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with the Purple Gold Dragon God Halberd’s overwhelming power. He offered to take the auspicious beast out of the virtual world, while Tang Wulin and the others found a dark cave in the canyon.

• Gu You struck the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear with his halberd and trapped the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with Dragon God's Grip.
• Gu Yue and the others withdrew from the battle, wary of being caught in its destruction.
• Gu You swept his halberd and split the forest, defeating the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and leaving a vast canyon.
• Gu You restrained the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then offered to let her live and show her a broader world.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and their companion descended into the canyon and spotted a dark cave.

Tang Wulin and his companions discovered a juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion in its gemstone-filled cave and fought it. The lion’s attack was halted by Xie Xie’s Light Dragon Storm, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xie Xie identified the fragrant cave as a likely dwelling of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Tang Wulin led the group inside.
• A juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion ambushed them, and Tang Wulin blocked its pounce with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Xie Xie explained the lion’s rare potential, while Tang Wulin prepared to fight it using his bloodline power and Martial Soul.
• Tang Wulin attacked with Blue Silver Grass Entanglement and repelled the lion’s golden phantom with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• The lion shattered Xu Xiaoyan’s Earth Spikes, dazed Tang Wulin with its gaze, and lunged at him.
• Xie Xie used Light Dragon Clone and Light Dragon Storm to intercept the lion’s attack.

Tang Wulin and his companions defeated a juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but his need to survive the next Golden Dragon King Seal led him to claim its Soul Bone. When the others refused to take the creature’s Soul Ring and urged him to spare it, Tang Wulin killed it anyway, leaving the group shaken by his sudden cruelty.

• Xie Xie restrained the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Tang Wulin struck it down while Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel immobilized it.
• Old Tang told Tang Wulin that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Soul Bone could greatly improve his chances of surviving the next Golden Dragon King Seal, so Tang Wulin decided to take it.
• Xie Xie and Gu Yue both refused the Soul Bone, and Xu Xiaoyan also declined the Soul Ring, pleading for Tang Wulin to spare the young beast.
• Tang Wulin angrily explained that he needed the Soul Bone to become stronger and survive, then killed the juvenile Three-Eyed Golden Lion with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Xu Xiaoyan covered her eyes, Xie Xie clenched his fists, and Gu Yue watched the killing with coldness and an urge to kill.

Gu You stopped Tang Wulin from absorbing the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Soul Bone and condemned him for killing the young beast in the survival assessment. He restored the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to life, leaving Zhuo Shi alarmed that Gu You might create a genuine Imperial Auspicious Beast.

• Tang Wulin began absorbing the Soul Bone that appeared after the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s death, prompting Shen Yi to criticize him and Zhuo Shi to question his character.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion broke free and unleashed its Power of Destiny, but Gu You restrained it with ice while trying to preserve evidence of what had happened.
• Gu You interrupted Tang Wulin’s absorption, slapped him, explained that the assessment was a virtual world, and sealed him in the sphere with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Gu You used his Authority over Life and Death to restore the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, reuniting its Soul Bone and Soul Ring with its body.
• Zhuo Shi grew alarmed as Gu You’s life force brought the virtual beast back to life.

Gu You used his life force and Divine Power to revive the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, gaining control of Soul Beast Fortune in the process. After the beast recovered, he claimed her as his pet and offered Xu Xiaoyan a powerful Soul Ring to help her break through.

• Gu You transferred his life force to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, causing his hair to turn white and his body to weaken.
• The Imperial Auspicious Beast's third eye opened, and its Fortune became tangible under Gu You's control.
• Gu You replaced his dwindling life force with Divine Power to continue the revival ritual.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion recovered and inherited the power of destiny, while Gu You collapsed to one knee from the strain.
• Gu You stood up, called the little beast his pet, and told Xu Xiaoyan he would help her reach level thirty with a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Ring.

Gu You helped Xu Xiaoyan absorb a virtual twenty-thousand-year Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Ring, then confronted Tang Wulin and decided to take part of his Golden Dragon King Bloodline as punishment. The chapter ended with Gu You sealing off the space and beginning the extraction.

• Gu You reassured Xu Xiaoyan that he could help her absorb the virtual Soul Ring, and she accepted despite worrying about his weakened state.
• Xu Xiaoyan absorbed the Soul Ring without pain, reached the peak of Rank 31, and gained the offensive Soul Skill Starry Sky Burst.
• Gu You entered the enclosed space and stopped the Imperial Auspicious Beast from attacking Tang Wulin after the little Three-Eyed Golden Lion reunited with her mother.
• Gu You accused Tang Wulin of harming innocent Soul Beasts, and Tang Wulin admitted he was wrong and had listened to someone else.
• Gu You declared that he would take part of Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Bloodline, sealed the space with Divine Power, and began the extraction.

Gu You absorbed the Golden Dragon King's power from Tang Wulin, then accepted the Imperial Auspicious Beasts into his mind. After the group emerged from the trial, Shen Yi explained its purpose, awarded the others full marks, and allowed them to enter Shrek Academy without taking the tenth trial.

• Gu You absorbed the Golden Dragon King's bloodline power from Tang Wulin, while Tang Wulin fell unconscious and grew resentful of Old Tang.
• The Sea God bloodline in Tang Wulin resisted Gu You's Divine Power, but Gu You increased the force and completed the absorption.
• Gu You accepted the Imperial Auspicious Beast and its child into his mind, then handed Tang Wulin to Xie Xie and told him to take Tang Wulin to the medical center.
• After the group emerged from the confinement space, Cai Yuer praised Gu You's achievement and left Tang Wulin's assessment to continue.
• Shen Yi explained that the ninth trial tested patience, survival, and character, then gave everyone except Tang Wulin full marks.
• Shen Yi waived the tenth trial and told Xie Xie to take Tang Wulin for treatment, allowing the others to enter Shrek Academy.