Chapter Summaries

Chen An and Gu Yue Na fought fiercely, with Chen An relying on his armor and heavy hammer while Gu Yue Na used elemental tactics and the Silver Dragon Spear. Their battle remained unresolved, and Gu Yue Na began pressing him with increasingly powerful spear thrusts.

• Chen An charged Gu Yue Na with the Profound Gold Battle Hammer and endured her barrage of elemental energy spheres.
• Gu Yue Na used earth, water, and fire elements to hinder Chen An, but he countered her muddy ground with metal power and resisted her heated chains.
• Chen An closed in and swung at Gu Yue Na, but she used wind-enhanced speed to evade his attacks as their fight reached a stalemate.
• Gu Yue Na drew the Silver Dragon Spear and targeted the joints in Chen An's armor while using elemental attacks to distract him.
• Chen An struck Gu Yue Na with his hammer, sending her sliding back more than twenty meters, but she recovered and resumed the fight with renewed excitement.
• Gu Yue Na unleashed more of the Silver Dragon Spear's power, repeatedly piercing Chen An's armor and forcing him under pressure.

Chen An defeated Gu Yue Na to become the youth division individual champion, then received the champion’s rewards and the promised lieutenant rank. The Federation Grand Competition ended, leaving spectators wondering whether the next one would be held in Shrek City or Mingdu.

• Chen An transformed into the Golden Armor War God Ape and struck Gu Yue Na with his hammer, forcing her to concede.
• Chen An was declared the youth division individual champion, and Xu Lin, Zhen Hua, and Leng Yaozhu congratulated him.
• At the awards ceremony, Chen An received a custom two-word battle armor reward, three Spirit Pagoda tower challenges, and a War God Hall trial qualification.
• Xu Lang pinned the lieutenant insignia on Chen An, granting him an honorary military rank and its benefits.
• The Federation Grand Competition concluded after its closing ceremony, and spectators wondered where the next competition would be held.

After the Federation Grand Competition, Chen An told Gu Yue Na that he planned to join the military after graduating, while she would go to the Spirit Pagoda. They discussed competing over who would achieve more and began reconsidering Chen An’s battle armor design because of his many powers.

• Residents debated whether future Federation Grand Competitions should remain in Mingdu or return to Shrek City.
• Chen An told Gu Yue Na that Xu Lang had offered to help him join the military after he graduated from Sun Moon Royal Academy.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na estimated they had about one year of academy life left and agreed that the eventual loser of a career competition would grant the winner one condition.
• Gu Yue Na explained that Chen An’s original battle armor would only work with his Death God Dragon power and would not suit his other abilities.
• Gu Yue Na proposed designing Chen An’s battle armor around his Golden Armor War God Ape ability and fusing it with that form’s natural armor.

Chen An chose to build Battle Armor for the Golden Armor War God Ape’s enormous beast form, and he and Gu Yue Na resumed their studies and training at Sun Moon Royal Academy. While they secretly visited other cities with Di Tian’s spatial powers, the Tang Sect struggled to track them down and its assassination plans remained fruitless.

• Chen An decided that his Battle Armor should fit the Golden Armor War God Ape’s true form, despite the greatly increased cost and forging workload, and Gu Yue Na agreed to design it.
• After the Federation Grand Competition, Chen An and Gu Yue Na began the new semester and returned to their daily routine of studying, eating, sparring, and cultivating.
• During their sparring, Chen An showed Gu Yue Na the abilities of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Heaven Devouring Sparrow, while his metal armor remained especially difficult for her to counter.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na secretly traveled to a different city each week with Di Tian, who used spatial movement to keep their outings hidden from the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy.
• Tang Zhan waited for a chance to ambush them outside the academy but was repeatedly stopped from storming in, while Yun Ming and the others grew suspicious and used Tang Sect branches to search city surveillance footage.
• Tang Sect workers occasionally spotted Chen An and Gu Yue Na on camera, but they arrived hours too late and found the pair had already returned to the academy.

The Tang Sect scandal over the poisoned Heaven Dou City branch became public, damaging the sect’s reputation and prompting Zang Xin to punish those who leaked the news. Xu Lang used the crisis to push sanctions and challenge the Tang Sect’s arms sales, while the Federation Parliament postponed a decision.

• The Heaven Dou City Tang Sect branch poisoning scandal spread across the Federation, and the Spirit Pagoda amplified the reports to damage the Tang Sect’s reputation.
• Chen An held a press conference denying responsibility and argued that the victims had died from the Tang Sect’s own poison, Seven Day Fragrance, deepening public suspicion of Tang Sect insiders.
• Zang Xin returned from the Abyss Battlefield, reassured Tang Sect personnel, traced the leak to a branch member, and ordered the leaker and others who spread the news punished.
• Xu Lang publicly challenged Zang Xin’s unauthorized departure and announced sanctions, including reduced military purchases of Tang Sect weapons.
• Xu Lang and other officials proposed further sanctions over the Tang Sect’s weapons sales to the Star Luo Empire and Dou Spirit Empire, while Yun Ming backed the Tang Sect at the parliamentary meeting.
• The Tang Sect refused to halt its weapons sales, and the Federation Parliament ended its meeting without reaching a decision.

The Federation challenged the Tang Sect over its arms trade, while Chen An celebrated the fallout from his poison plot and advanced to Rank 38. Half a month later, Gu Yue Na completed her one-word battle armor, Dragon, and Chen An began work on his much larger armor.

• The Federation pressured the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy, but the risk of war and outside threats kept it from taking direct action against them.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na celebrated news that the poison had caused turmoil within the Heaven Dou City Tang Sect, and Chen An broke through to Rank 38.
• Chen An finished crafting Gu Yue Na's battle armor, and Gu Yue Na fused with it and named it Dragon.
• Chen An began forging his own battle armor, a project so large that it was more like building a mecha.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na prepared to visit the Star Luo Empire while the Tang Sect, Shrek Academy, and Sun Moon Royal Academy escalated their conflict through sanctions and competing recruitment efforts. Shrek Academy expanded enrollment and opened spring admissions, but Sun Moon Royal Academy’s advertisements featuring Chen An and Gu Yue Na reduced interest in Shrek’s new assessments.

• Xu Lang and other officials failed to force the Tang Sect to stop selling weapons to the other nations, but they passed sanctions restricting its businesses.
• The Tang Sect retaliated against several Xu Family industries and blacklisted Sun Moon Royal Academy students and graduates from joining.
• Shrek Academy expanded enrollment, opened spring admissions in defiance of the Federation’s rules, and refused the Ministry of Education’s demand to cancel them.
• Sun Moon Royal Academy used Chen An and Gu Yue Na in advertisements and interviews praising the academy, making some young applicants reconsider Shrek Academy.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na prepared to travel to the Star Luo Empire during the holiday so Gu Yue Na could visit Dragon Valley.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na prepared to travel to the Star Luo Empire, planning their route with Di Tian’s help. They identified a likely location for the Dragon Valley Minor World near Star Luo City.

• Chen An told Zhen Hua that he would be away, and Zhen Hua praised his recent achievement of becoming a level-six forging master at just over fourteen.
• Zhen Hua said he had completed the rough frame for Gu Tian’s Four-Word Battle Armor and was more than halfway through forging its metals.
• Gu Yue Na showed Chen An a nautical chart marked with Di Tian’s planned stopping points for their journey across the sea.
• Chen An approved Gu Yue Na’s route and explained that the islands would give Di Tian safe places to rest between long-distance movements.
• Chen An pointed to a forested mountain region near Star Luo City as the likely entrance to the Dragon Valley Minor World.

Chen An, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian traveled across the sea toward the area where Dragon Valley Space was located. They reached a mountainous region on Star Luo Continent, where Di Tian sensed a powerful presence and Gu Yue Na felt something familiar.

• Gu Yue Na marked the destination on a sea chart, and Di Tian took her and Chen An from Sun Moon Royal Academy through several spatial passages.
• The three stopped on an uninhabited island so Di Tian could recover his Soul Power while Chen An and Gu Yue Na rested.
• Gu Yue Na said she wanted to see whether she could command the Sea Soul Beasts, and Chen An agreed to let her try if they had time.
• After crossing the ocean over two days, the group reached Star Luo Continent and continued toward the area Chen An had identified.
• Di Tian sensed a strong presence in the mountains, while Gu Yue Na felt something familiar there, leading Chen An to suspect they had found Dragon Valley's entrance.

Di Tian, Chen An, and Gu Yue Na discovered Tang Sect members preparing to enter Dragon Valley, which the Tang Sect had exploited for centuries. Di Tian confronted them, and the chapter ended with him rejecting a Titled Douluo’s threat with an insult.

• Di Tian sensed Tang Sect members opening Dragon Valley’s entrance, and Chen An explained that they had been entering for generations to obtain dragon souls, Dragon Cloud, and dragon bones.
• Gu Yue Na decided the Tang Sect members had to die for plundering the dragon race’s land, and Di Tian led Chen An and Gu Yue Na toward them.
• A group of Tang Sect disciples gathered as a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master opened a rift, while a talented boy with an Earth Dragon Martial Soul eagerly anticipated entering Dragon Valley.
• A Tang Sect deacon spotted the approaching trio, and Di Tian demanded to know whether they thought themselves worthy of entering Dragon Valley.
• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Titled Douluo tried to intimidate Di Tian with the Tang Sect’s influence, and Di Tian answered that he was the man’s grandfather.

Di Tian, Chen An, and Gu Yue Na wiped out a Tang Sect team investigating Dragon Valley, with Di Tian killing a level ninety-three Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master in one strike. After the battle, Chen An asked Di Tian to bring the Titled Douluo’s corpse to the mountaintop, leaving his purpose unexplained.

• Di Tian killed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Titled Douluo with a single palm strike before the man could fully activate his battle armor and ninth Soul Skill.
• The Tang Sect members fled, but Di Tian pursued and killed the stewards while Chen An and Gu Yue Na attacked the younger Soul Masters.
• Chen An broke through Long Yue’s earthen shields with the Profound Gold Battle Hammer and killed him with a blow to the chest.
• Chen An, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian killed the entire Tang Sect team of nearly a hundred before anyone could contact the Tang Sect Headquarters.
• Chen An asked Di Tian to bring the dead Titled Douluo’s corpse to the mountaintop, but did not explain why.

Chen An tested the Devouring Sky Cauldron by refining the corpse of a level ninety-three Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master, producing a Lightning Bead that contained the man's lifetime cultivation. He learned the bead could help a lightning-attribute Soul Master reach Titled Douluo, though its usefulness depended on the recipient's attribute.

• Di Tian retrieved the dead Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master, and Chen An summoned the Devouring Sky Cauldron to test its abilities.
• Chen An used the cauldron to devour the corpse, then spent about half an hour refining the man's cultivation as Gu Yue Na watched anxiously.
• The Devouring Sky Cauldron produced a Lightning Bead, which Chen An took from its interior despite the lightning stinging his hand.
• Gu Yue Na identified the bead as resembling a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon inner core, and Di Tian explained that a lightning-attribute Soul Master could use it to reach level ninety-three.

Chen An gave Di Tian the Lightning Bead, then transformed into a Heaven Devouring Sparrow to absorb the Life Essence and origins from the remaining corpses. Di Tian watched in shock as Chen An began devouring them, while the group prepared to continue toward Dragon Valley Space.

• Chen An gave Di Tian the Lightning Bead, explaining that it was a small repayment for Di Tian's help and protection.
• Chen An refused to spend hours refining the remaining Soul Sages and Soul Douluo because their Martial Souls offered no useful attribute energy and he wanted to enter Dragon Valley Space.
• Chen An said he would not waste the corpses, then transformed into a Heaven Devouring Sparrow.
• Gu Yue Na realized Chen An's intention and ordered Di Tian to gather the corpses together.
• Chen An hovered above the gathered bodies and inhaled their remaining Life Essence and origins, shocking Di Tian.

Chen An devoured the remaining Life Essence from the dead before he and Gu Yue Na entered Dragon Valley Space through a passage opened by Di Tian. They arrived over a yellow-sand landscape, where Gu Yue Na found she could not use her Soul Power as Chen An caught her.

• Chen An transformed into the Heaven Devouring Sparrow and absorbed Life Essence and some source energy from the bodies until he reached his limit.
• Gu Yue Na warned Chen An not to rely too heavily on devouring for cultivation, and he said he had only wanted to avoid waste.
• Di Tian opened a Space Channel to Dragon Valley Space but explained that a restriction prevented him from entering.
• Di Tian sent Chen An and Gu Yue Na through the passage, where they held hands as they traveled through darkness.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na emerged above yellow sand, and Gu Yue Na discovered that she could not circulate her Soul Power or summon her Martial Soul.
• Chen An wrapped an arm around Gu Yue Na's waist and changed her posture as they fell toward the sand.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na crossed the yellow sands of Dragon Valley, where Chen An discovered he could still use his powers despite the restrictions. They headed toward a strong Dragon God aura, and Chen An transformed into the Death God Dragon to carry Gu Yue Na through the air.

• Chen An landed safely with Gu Yue Na and found that he could still use Soul Power and transform, while Gu Yue Na remained unable to use her powers.
• Gu Yue Na sensed a familiar Dragon God aura and pointed out the direction she believed held the giant dragon remains.
• Chen An sensed dense Death Qi in that direction, and the pair set off across the sand to investigate.
• After walking slowly, Gu Yue Na asked Chen An to carry her; he agreed on the condition that she lie flat on his back.
• Chen An transformed into the Death God Dragon, and Gu Yue Na climbed aboard before he flew them above the ground.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na explored Dragon Valley Space and encountered a dragon soul that chose to merge with Chen An instead of Gu Yue Na. Chen An's Death God Dragon origin absorbed its faint consciousness and turned it into an Undead Puppet, and Gu Yue Na asked him to summon it.

• Chen An and Gu Yue Na flew over the endless sands and spotted a small, partly illusory dragon soul walking below.
• Gu Yue Na recognized the dragon soul as the fading remnant of a dead giant dragon, and it approached them without hostility.
• The dragon soul chose Chen An over Gu Yue Na and merged into his body, where his Death God Dragon origin absorbed its consciousness.
• Chen An concluded that his Death Attribute attracted the dragon soul and that its consciousness had become an Undead Puppet.
• Gu Yue Na asked Chen An whether he could summon the Undead Puppet and wondered what form it would take.

Chen An discovered that his Death God Dragon could absorb dragon souls and merge their remnants to create Undead Puppets, while Gu Yue Na accepted his plan to use the dying remnants. They traveled toward the Burial Grounds, absorbing Dragon Clouds and dragon souls along the way, but the merged consciousness remained too weak to form a puppet.

• Chen An explained that multiple dragon souls would need to merge and grow before they could become an Undead Puppet.
• Gu Yue Na hesitated to exploit the dragons’ remaining consciousness, but Chen An argued that it would otherwise fade away, and she agreed that using it could help the soul beasts.
• Chen An transformed into the Death God Dragon and carried Gu Yue Na through Dragon Valley Space.
• Gu Yue Na absorbed a wind-element Dragon Cloud, while Chen An absorbed dragon souls they encountered.
• After absorbing more than a dozen dragon souls, Chen An found that their merged consciousness had grown but remained too fragile to form an Undead Puppet.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na continued flying toward the distant Burial Grounds.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na reached the Burial Grounds, where Gu Yue Na broke down at the sight of the countless dragon remains. Chen An stayed by her as he sensed the dense Death Qi and hidden dragon souls throughout the basin.

• As Chen An and Gu Yue Na flew toward the Burial Grounds, dragon souls and Dragon Clouds grew stronger and gathered around them, with the souls eagerly drawn to Chen An's Death God Dragon form.
• After more than a day of flight, Chen An and Gu Yue Na spotted the multicolored energy clouds and basin that marked the Burial Grounds.
• Chen An slowed down to spare Gu Yue Na's feelings, then flew over the vast pit as dragon souls and elemental Dragon Clouds followed them.
• Looking down at the bones covering the basin, Gu Yue Na began to cry, and Chen An hovered silently while she grieved.
• While staying beside Gu Yue Na, Chen An sensed dense Death Qi and dragon souls hidden throughout the Burial Grounds.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na entered the Dragon Valley’s bone-strewn core, where powerful dragon souls emerged and recognized them. Gu Yue Na mourned the dragons’ fate as they gathered around her and Chen An atop the Mountain Dragon King’s remains.

• Chen An sensed elite dragon souls among the bones and speculated that the Dragon God’s soul might be too weak to become a god-level Undead Puppet.
• An enormous earth-yellow dragon soul emerged from a vast skeleton, and Chen An guessed it was the Mountain Dragon King.
• More dragon souls awakened and looked toward Chen An, showing relief and longing to be absorbed and released from their lingering existence.
• Gu Yue Na recognized the Mountain Dragon King as a descendant of the foremost Nine Dragon Kings and grieved over the familiar and unfamiliar dragons.
• Gu Yue Na activated her Silver Dragon King Bloodline, prompting the dragon souls to greet her and bow before their sovereign.
• Chen An landed with Gu Yue Na atop the Mountain Dragon King’s bones, and they shared the dragon souls’ sorrow as the souls mourned in response.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na entered the innermost pit of Dragon Valley and found the Dragon God's dragon soul. Gu Yue Na claimed the remnant soul and Dragon God Core for herself, while Chen An agreed to absorb the other dragon souls instead.

• Gu Yue Na asked the dragon souls about Dragon Valley's origins, but they only speculated that it was connected to the Dragon God's dragon soul.
• Gu Yue Na sensed the Dragon God's aura in the deepest pit and asked Chen An to take her there in his Death God Dragon form.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na found the Seven-Colored Giant Dragon, the Dragon God's dragon soul, and Chen An considered whether he could turn it into an Undead Puppet.
• Gu Yue Na said the Dragon God's dragon soul would help her and told Chen An to absorb the dragon souls outside instead.
• Chen An admitted that his strength and Bloodline made transforming the Dragon God's dragon soul impossible, and Gu Yue Na explained that she would absorb its remnant soul and use its Dragon God Core.