Chapter Summaries

Chen An transformed into the Death God Dragon and defeated Sun Yunduan, then collapsed from exhaustion. Xu Lin arranged a blood test that confirmed Chen An was fully human, leaving the academy leaders eager to learn more about him and hopeful for Sun Moon Royal Academy’s future.

• Chen An transformed into the Death God Dragon and overwhelmed Sun Yunduan with Death Mist, leaving him bound and unconscious.
• Xu Lin stopped the other officials from intervening and ordered the battle to continue until the Death Mist dispersed.
• Xu Lin confirmed Sun Yunduan was alive, while Chen An changed back into human form and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Xu Lin carried Chen An to the infirmary and ordered a precise blood test to determine whether Chen An was a transformed soul beast.
• The test showed Chen An had one hundred percent human Bloodline, and Xu Lin declared that Sun Moon Royal Academy had found two super geniuses.

After Chen An defeated a Soul Elder, Sun Moon Royal Academy’s leaders decided to protect and nurture him and Gu Yue Na as successors. Chen An woke in the infirmary after just over three hours, learned he had been treated by a powerful healer, and prepared for questions about his dragon transformation.

• Xu Lin ordered Chen An taken to Director Feng for treatment and called a high-level meeting about him and Gu Yue Na.
• The academy leaders unanimously agreed to nurture Chen An and Gu Yue Na as successors and discussed how to build their loyalty to the academy.
• Chen An woke in the academy infirmary and learned from the elderly healer that he had been unconscious for only a little over three hours.
• The healer gave Chen An biscuits and notified the principal that he had awakened.
• Chen An considered what the academy might ask about his dragon form and concluded that his earlier blood test had likely shown no abnormality.

Xu Lin privately questioned Chen An about his dragon transformation and family history, while Chen An offered a prepared explanation and avoided discussing his losses. Xu Lin accepted his answers and saw an opportunity to make Chen An feel at home at Sun Moon Royal Academy.

• Xu Lin invited Chen An to his office for a private conversation and asked how he had transformed into a giant dragon despite being only level twelve.
• Chen An explained that he had awakened his martial soul after losing consciousness and described his transformation as a special form of dragonification linked to a True Dragon Spirit.
• Xu Lin accepted Chen An's explanation as plausible and asked about the family misfortune he had mentioned.
• Chen An declined to discuss the painful events, saying that staying with his cousin's family had eased the hurt.
• Xu Lin respected Chen An's refusal, suspected his father and younger sister might have died, and considered the tragedy a chance to make Chen An see the academy as his new home.

Xu Lin asked Chen An about his restraint in battle, then invited him to become his disciple, and Chen An accepted. After giving Chen An a protective Ninth-Level Soul Tool, Xu Lin asked him to bring Gu Yue Na to see him the next morning, and Chen An suspected Xu Lin would try to secure a connection with her as well.

• Xu Lin asked why Chen An had spared Sun Yunduan, and Chen An explained that he had only wanted to win their sparring match, not kill him.
• Xu Lin asked Chen An to take him as his master, and Chen An knelt and accepted.
• Xu Lin gave Chen An a Ninth-Level Soul Tool that could block attacks below Super Douluo level and alert Xu Lin if Chen An was attacked.
• Xu Lin told Chen An to rest and bring Gu Yue Na to see him the next morning.
• Chen An told Gu Yue Na about his victory, how he had concealed his identity, and his new master; Gu Yue Na considered the benefits of his position at the academy.
• Chen An suspected Xu Lin might seek to take Gu Yue Na as a disciple, but Gu Yue Na said she wanted to join the Spirit Pagoda and would consider how to refuse.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na prepared for their final battle after Xu Lin arranged special one-on-one instruction for them. In the match, Chen An adapted to Gu Yue Na’s elemental attacks by growing dragon wings and taking flight, while Gu Yue Na realized she could not follow him into the air.

• Gu Yue Na refused Xu Lin’s offer to become his disciple, citing her age and her family elders’ advice.
• Xu Lin arranged for Chen An and Gu Yue Na to receive individual instruction outside their regular classes, with Xu Lin teaching Chen An in the afternoons.
• Xu Lin reminded Chen An and Gu Yue Na to keep their final match controlled, and Chen An looked forward to testing his progress.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na began their final battle in the cleared stadium, with Chen An releasing his Death God Dragon Spirit and Gu Yue Na summoning her Silver Dragon.
• Gu Yue Na attacked with elemental energy and environmental hazards, but Chen An broke through her defenses and grew dragon wings to fly above the mud.
• Gu Yue Na froze when Chen An took to the air and glanced behind herself, unable to release dragon wings or fly.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na fought to a near-even standstill in the freshmen assessment final, until Chen An’s Death God Dragon form gave him the advantage. Xu Lin declared them tied for first place, and after treatment he presented each of them with a reward.

• Chen An used the Scythe of Death to break through Gu Yue Na’s elemental attacks, and they exchanged blows with the Scythe and Silver Dragon Spear.
• As Gu Yue Na gained the upper hand, Chen An warned her before transforming into a Death God Dragon.
• Chen An’s Death Dragon Breath clashed with Gu Yue Na’s Silver Dragon Spear, and the collision knocked the spear away while leaving Gu Yue Na injured.
• Xu Lin declared Chen An and Gu Yue Na tied for first place and promised them both the top-place reward.
• Director Feng treated their injuries, and Xu Lin later gave each of them a box containing a reward.

Xu Lin rewarded Chen An with a Ten-Thousand Year Death Earth Dragon Core and Gu Yue Na with a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Nurturing Fruit, chosen to suit their abilities. After they left the Dean's Office, Chen An returned to his room and took out the core to begin examining it.

• Chen An opened his box and found a Death Earth Dragon Core, which Gu Yue Na recognized while concealing her true reaction.
• Xu Lin explained that the core came from a Ten-Thousand Year Death Earth Dragon and said it could raise Chen An's Soul Power by eleven or twelve levels.
• Gu Yue Na opened her box and found a Ten-Thousand Year Soul Nurturing Fruit that Xu Lin said could greatly increase her spiritual strength.
• Xu Lin warned Gu Yue Na to keep the fruit's exceptional value secret, and she agreed.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na left the Dean's Office, returned to their rooms, and Chen An took out the Death Earth Dragon Core.

Chen An absorbed the Death Earth Dragon's inner core through the Creation Holy Tree, rapidly strengthening his cultivation without destabilizing his foundation. He learned that Gu Yue Na's spiritual power had reached the middle stage of the Spirit Sea Realm, though she still could not erase the presence she was suppressing, and the chapter left them leaving breakfast at Sun Moon Royal Academy.

• Chen An followed the note's method to absorb the inner core, then had the Creation Holy Tree take over and convert its energy into attribute-less power.
• The Death Earth Dragon's remnant consciousness entered Chen An's body but was shattered by the Death God Dragon's Dragon Might.
• By the next morning, Chen An had reached roughly the middle stage of Rank 12 and confirmed with Di Tian that his cultivation foundation remained stable.
• Gu Yue Na told Chen An that the Soul Nurturing Fruit had raised her spiritual cultivation to the middle stage of the Spirit Sea Realm, making it easier to suppress her inner presence but not erase it.
• Chen An reminded Gu Yue Na to be careful and to tell him if she considered looking for Tang Wulin.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na ate breakfast as students watched them, then left the cafeteria together.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na attended separate lessons at the academy, where Gu Yue Na began studying battle armor design and Chen An tried crafting a second-level Soul Tool under Xu Lin's supervision. Chen An carefully engraved the Soul Guidance Arrays for a spear, and Xu Lin judged that he showed promise as a Second-Level Soul Guidance Master.

• Teacher Wang taught Chen An and Gu Yue Na about Soul Master cultivation and soul beasts, then arranged afternoon lessons for them.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na ate at the high-end cafeteria using the special meal cards the academy had issued them, then strolled around the academy.
• Teacher Wang told Gu Yue Na to memorize every displayed battle armor set and reproduce a randomly chosen blueprint with seventy to eighty percent accuracy next week.
• Xu Lin brought Chen An to his Soul Tool workshop and asked him to try crafting a second-level Soul Tool.
• Chen An selected low-grade metals, shaped a Soul Guidance spear's components, and cautiously began engraving its Soul Guidance Arrays while Xu Lin watched.

Chen An crafted a Second-Level Soul Tool and received his badge from Xu Lin, then continued studying and training while absorbing a ten-thousand-year Death Earth Dragon Core. After half a month, he had risen from Level Twelve to Level Nineteen and resolved not to rely on cultivation shortcuts.

• Chen An engraved and assembled a Soul Guidance spear, which Xu Lin judged above average and accepted as proof that Chen An had become a Second-Level Soul Guidance Master.
• Xu Lin gave Chen An his two-star badge and reviewed the flaws in his spear, teaching him how to correct them.
• Chen An took notes on Xu Lin's advice, practiced forging at the academy, and continued his nightly sparring with Di Tian before absorbing the Death Earth Dragon Core.
• Chen An followed a routine of lessons, cultivation, forging, and sparring while the core accelerated his progress, and he rose about one level every two days.
• After half a month, Chen An absorbed the core's remaining energy, reaching Level Nineteen after advancing seven levels, and reminded himself not to depend on shortcuts.

As Chen An neared level twenty, he learned that the spiritual-type Soul Spirit he needed would cost far more than he could afford, so he accepted Spirit Ascension Platform tokens from Xu Lin as an alternative. Chen An and Gu Yue Na entered the platform and awoke in a realistic forest, where the chapter left them beginning their exploration.

• Chen An investigated spiritual-type Soul Spirits at the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda and found that the thousand-year options cost at least fifteen million, leaving him short of the money he needed.
• Xu Lin gave Chen An two Spirit Ascension Platform qualification tokens and warned him that pain inside the virtual platform could harm or even kill its users.
• Chen An took Gu Yue Na to the Mingdu Spirit Pagoda, where they registered and entered separate bed pods.
• Gu Yue Na sensed the spiritual influence used to send them into the platform but suppressed her instinct to resist, and both fell asleep as their consciousnesses were projected elsewhere.
• Chen An awoke in a forest inside the Spirit Ascension Platform and confirmed that he could feel pain in his apparently real body.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na explored the Spirit Ascension Platform and fought an Evil Eye Soul Beast. Chen An discovered that his body rejected the soul beast’s spiritual energy, while Gu Yue Na absorbed it successfully, leaving him unsure whether he could benefit from the platform after reaching level twenty.

• Chen An and Gu Yue Na entered the Spirit Ascension Platform and decided to explore its simulated forest.
• Gu Yue Na sensed a roughly six-hundred-year-old soul beast, and the pair approached it.
• An Evil Eye Soul Beast attacked with its tentacles, but Chen An and Gu Yue Na countered, and Chen An killed it with the Scythe of Death.
• The Evil Eye Soul Beast left behind a ball of energy that Chen An tried and failed to absorb.
• Gu Yue Na absorbed the energy successfully, and Chen An said he would return after reaching level twenty.
• Gu Yue Na observed that the simulated soul beast possessed an incomplete soul beast origin.

Chen An and Gu Yue Na investigated the origins of the soul beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform, finding that some were artificial copies while others were genuine. After leaving, Spirit Pagoda staff discovered that the two had killed ten hundred-year soul beasts, including one over eight hundred years old.

• Chen An reasoned that the Spirit Ascension Platform sustained its population by copying soul beast origins, and Gu Yue Na confirmed that the origins she absorbed seemed artificial.
• Chen An failed to absorb a hundred-year Withered Wood Lizard, then encountered a soul beast with a genuine origin that Gu Yue Na frightened away rather than let him kill.
• Chen An concluded that the Spirit Ascension Platform contained both real and artificial soul beasts, while Gu Yue Na resolved to find a way to save them.
• Chen An and Gu Yue Na stayed in the Spirit Ascension Platform most of the day before leaving, each concerned with what they had learned.
• Spirit Pagoda staff reviewed the records and were shocked to find that Chen An and Gu Yue Na had killed ten hundred-year soul beasts, including one over eight hundred years old, despite being only level nineteen and level fourteen.

Chen An broke through to level twenty and entered the thousand-year zone of the Spirit Ascension Platform to fill the third fruit on his Creation Holy Tree. He began searching the forest for suitable soul beasts.

• A Spirit Pagoda supervisor ordered staff to keep watching Chen An and another talented student after reviewing their recorded hunt.
• Chen An broke through the level-nineteen bottleneck and reached level twenty, becoming a half-step Soul Grandmaster.
• Chen An saw that a transparent fruit had appeared on the Creation Holy Tree’s third branch and hoped its power would help resolve Gu Yue Na’s Na Er personality.
• Chen An went alone to the Spirit Pagoda because Gu Yue Na had used all her monthly entries, then chose to enter the thousand-year zone.
• After signing a liability waiver despite the staff’s warnings, Chen An entered the forest and cautiously began searching for soul beasts.

Chen An hunted a spiritual-type Soul Beast in the simulated Soul Beast Forest and successfully used its original energy to fill the third fruit of the Creation Holy Tree. He continued searching, uncertain whether the energy would diminish after he left the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Chen An avoided a thousand-year Soul Beast because it was not spiritual-type, then found an Illusion Feather Butterfly.
• Chen An pursued the Illusion Feather Butterfly through the trees and killed it after its Phantom Shadow skill had been used.
• Chen An absorbed the butterfly's original spiritual energy into the third fruit and saw that it filled less than a tenth of it.
• Chen An worried that only a fraction of the energy might remain after leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform, but decided to keep searching for more spiritual-type Soul Beasts.

Chen An hunted spiritual-attribute Soul Beasts to fill the Creation Holy Tree’s third fruit, then fought a nearly four-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Soul Beast. The Evil Eye struck him with its targeted Soul Tremor, and Chen An countered with Death Dragon Breath as the fight continued.

• Chen An evaded non-spiritual Soul Beasts and hunted three spiritual-attribute Soul Beasts, filling the third fruit one-third of the way.
• Chen An inspected the Creation Holy Tree and estimated that the fruit might require the energy of a ten-thousand-year spiritual-attribute soul spirit.
• Chen An sensed danger and used the Death God Dragon’s power, but a spiritual attack passed through his Death God Cross Slash and left him dazed.
• Chen An spotted an Evil Eye Soul Beast and charged it while dodging its non-targeted spiritual attacks.
• The nearly four-thousand-year-old Evil Eye Soul Beast attacked Chen An with its tentacles and targeted Soul Tremor, while Chen An unleashed Death Dragon Breath.

Chen An killed the Evil Eye Soul Beast and absorbed its primordial-origin Soul Ring, bringing the Creation Holy Tree’s third fruit to three-fifths capacity. The next day, he searched the Spirit Ascension Platform for another spiritual-type Soul Beast and encountered a Big-Headed Spirit Monkey and a War Maniac Kong.

• The Evil Eye Soul Beast’s mental attack hurt Chen An, but he maintained the Death Mist until it killed the beast.
• Chen An absorbed the Evil Eye Soul Beast’s purple Soul Ring, and the third fruit filled to three-fifths capacity.
• Chen An left the Spirit Ascension Platform, confirmed the fruit’s energy had not diminished, and learned that staff were surprised he had killed a Soul Beast nearing four thousand years old.
• The next morning, Chen An paid for a VIP room and hunted spiritual-type Soul Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• As the third fruit neared capacity, Chen An turned back toward weaker Soul Beasts and was attacked by a Big-Headed Spirit Monkey and its companion, a War Maniac Kong.

Chen An tested the Golden Armor War God Ape’s strength against two soul beasts, defeating the Big-Headed Spirit Monkey’s mental assault and overpowering War Maniac Kong in close combat. As War Maniac Kong entered a berserk state, Chen An prepared to activate his own new Innate Skill, Battle Heaven Quake Earth.

• Chen An transformed into the Golden Armor War God Ape and charged the Big-Headed Spirit Monkey, but its mental attack left him dizzy and off course.
• Chen An bit his tongue to regain clarity, then threw the Profound Gold Battle Hammer and shattered the Big-Headed Spirit Monkey’s shoulder.
• Chen An met War Maniac Kong’s punch with his own and sent the soul beast staggering backward.
• Chen An and War Maniac Kong exchanged dozens of blows, with Chen An holding the advantage while his metal body resisted injury.
• War Maniac Kong activated its Innate Skill, War Maniac Berserk, and Chen An began activating his own Innate Skill, Battle Heaven Quake Earth.

Chen An defeated War Maniac Kong, killed the Big-Headed Spirit Ape, and absorbed its Soul Ring to complete the third fruit on the Creation Holy Tree. He began shaping his third Martial Soul form as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and finished its visualization.

• Chen An transformed into the Golden Armor War God Ape and overwhelmed War Maniac Kong in a fight, leaving him unable to continue.
• Chen An killed the Big-Headed Spirit Ape, and the Creation Holy Tree absorbed its purple Soul Ring until its third fruit was filled.
• Chen An left the Spirit Ascension Platform and began contemplating the spiritual power into a new Martial Soul form.
• Chen An chose the Three-Eyed Golden Lion for its spiritual immunity, fortune, and physical strength, rejecting Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord as alternatives.
• Despite pain and dizziness, Chen An completed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's form, including its red vertical eye.

Chen An successfully visualized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, gaining powerful spiritual abilities and summoning a bell that could influence consciousness. After testing the bell on a passing staff member and lifting its effect, he left to test his Soul Power.

• Chen An manifested the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and discovered that it replenished his spiritual power, protected his mind, and enhanced his physical strength.
• Chen An found that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion granted him a spiritual attack ability as well as passive spiritual protection.
• Chen An summoned a golden-red bell and learned that it could influence and potentially control a person's consciousness, though control had strict limits and could last at most three days.
• Chen An named the weapon the Soul-Seizing Bell and accidentally affected a staff member passing outside his room.
• Chen An shook the bell again to release the staff member from its influence, put away the weapon, and left to test his Soul Power.