Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen freed the prisoners in the Survivor Base, but Jin betrayed him and mortally wounded Ye Wuyou before she was killed. After Gu Chen used the Life-Saving Talisman Stone to save Ye Wuyou, he and his allies joined the battle as the base descended into chaos.

• Gu Chen freed Mo Yun and the other prisoners, then discovered that Mo Yun's sister Jin was guarding the third floor.
• Jin took Gu Chen hostage with her Poisonous Green Crossbow, but Luo Chen forced her to surrender before Gu Chen restrained her.
• Ye Wuyou stopped Luo Chen from killing Jin, but Jin stabbed Ye Wuyou in the heart and seized the Scorpion Pistol.
• A Cherry Blossom exploded and killed Jin, and Gu Chen used the Life-Saving Talisman Stone to preserve Ye Wuyou's life.
• Gu Chen and his allies left the prison building and joined the battle as students attacked the Survivor Base, with Gu Chen and Luo Chen killing their enemies.

Gu Chen’s group defeated the students who had captured and enslaved others, then returned to their steel basement stronghold while Ling Xiaojiu healed Ye Wuyou. Several companions’ loyalty reached one hundred percent, and the chapter ends with Gu Chen receiving a system message after he and Gu Yuena killed a Black Empress Clan member.

• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena killed the attackers, and the surviving students fled after Gu Chen said they would part ways.
• Gu Chen told Ling Xiaojiu to heal Ye Wuyou, whose life he had preserved with a treasure, and her treatment raised her loyalty to one hundred percent.
• Gu Chen led the group back to the steel basement, where Ling Xiaojiu continued healing Ye Wuyou and Xuan Mo’s loyalty reached one hundred percent.
• Gu Chen assigned the group to guard the basement and hunt Abyss creatures in rotating teams, while Jin Zi and Feng Xiaoyu pledged loyalty to him.
• Ye Wuyou woke, vowed not to hesitate in life-or-death situations, and the group spent the following month hunting; Gu Chen and Gu Yuena killed a Black Empress Clan member, after which Gu Chen received a system message.

After learning that a divine official would arrive in ten years to investigate their leaked aura, Gu Chen prepared for the threat and led his group through their monthly supply exchange and rest period. When the group returned to their steel basement, they found five students trying to break in, and Gu Chen confronted them.

• The system warned Gu Chen that a divine official close to Level Three Deity strength would arrive in ten years, and compensated him with an armed drone.
• Gu Chen told Gu Yuena about the threat, and she said she would follow his decisions.
• Gu Chen led his group out of the Nameless Mountain Range, pooled their points, and exchanged them for food, water, weapons, medicine, traps, and cultivation treasures.
• The fourteen companions rested in the camp for three days, then returned to the Nameless Mountain Range after recovering their strength.
• Gu Chen's group found five students trying to open their steel basement, and Gu Chen strode over to confront them.

Gu Chen’s group hunted Abyss creatures as the calm period in the Nameless Mountain Range ended early and small Abyss Tides began. The commander shortened the training camp and ordered General Meng to secretly protect Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, while their group stayed under siege at their base.

• Gu Chen’s group killed five Soul Emperors who tried to claim their base, then split up to hunt according to plan.
• A Soul Douluo warned the commander that Abyss creatures were appearing more often and that the trainees might not survive.
• The commander shortened the training period from a year to half a year and asked General Meng to protect Gu Chen and Gu Yuena without intervening unless their deaths were certain.
• General Roast reported that Gu Chen and Gu Yuena had scored thirty thousand and twenty-eight thousand points, breaking the camp’s monthly record.
• Abyss creatures exposed the basement’s steel plating while Gu Chen’s group slept, but Gu Yuena woke them and Xuan Mo repaired the damage.
• Gu Chen’s group rushed out and killed more than a hundred Abyss creatures, then relied on creatures attacking the base to provide them with targets.

Gu Chen and his companions built a fortified Survivor Base and used an armed drone to defend against Abyss creatures. After returning to camp, Gu Chen joined the remaining students at a Survivor Meeting, where a group leader proposed that they unite against the Abyss Tides.

• Gu Chen used five Meteorite Alloy Walls to build a Steel Fortress, reinforced its floor with Xuan Mo’s Third Spirit Ability, and had the group furnish it with dead wood.
• Gu Chen introduced the armed drone, which helped the group suppress Abyss Tides and Abyss Bomb Bees; General Meng reported its firepower to the commander, who ordered him not to force Gu Chen to hand it over.
• At the end of the second month, Gu Chen’s group sealed the Steel Fortress and returned to camp, where his points bracelet showed that only 213 students remained.
• Several small-group leaders organized a Survivor Meeting, and one leader proposed that the students form a large team and resist the Abyss Tides together.
• A Title Douluo general watching from the Great Wall recalled that students in an earlier batch had reached the same conclusion only in their eighth month.

Gu Chen organized the survivors into a cooperative group with shared work, points, and a weekly meeting of group leaders, then led them to establish a new Survivor Base around his Steel Fortress. The base was completed in five days, and Gu Chen's hunting team returned with a large haul of Abyss creatures.

• Gu Chen proposed dividing work among small groups, holding weekly meetings for their leaders, and allowing lone survivors to hunt as bounty hunters for a fee.
• The students assigned groups to construction, defense, logistics, and hunting, while Gu Chen's group of fourteen chose to hunt outside.
• Gu Chen suggested building the Survivor Base around his Steel Fortress, and all twenty-one group leaders agreed.
• More than two hundred survivors entered the Nameless Mountain Range, endured attacks by Abyss creatures and a small Abyss Tide, and reached the fortress.
• The construction teams built a Survivor Base the size of three plazas in five days, while Gu Chen's team returned with Ba An, Four-clawed Bats, and more than thirty Demon Charms.

Two Black Empress Clan members overwhelmed the Survivor Base, killing most of its students and trapping the survivors inside the Meteorite Alloy Fortress. With only three days left before they needed to leave the Nameless Mountain Range, Gu Chen launched an Armed Drone to attack one of their captors.

• The students organized the Survivor Base into a cafeteria, repair crew, clinics, guards, and hunting teams, then spent two months gathering points and strengthening themselves.
• Gu Chen completed several system missions and used Soul Power Boost Cards to help his teammates reach the level-fifty bottleneck, while Ye Wuyou advanced to level fifty-nine.
• Two Black Empress Clan members stormed the base, killed the outer-wall guards, and slaughtered more than a hundred students before the rest took shelter in the Meteorite Alloy Fortress.
• The two attackers failed to break into the fortress and trapped its survivors for three days, leaving them only three days to travel before the monthly departure deadline.
• Gu Chen sent an Armed Drone through a hole in the fortress and used its remote control to fire at one of the Black Empress Clan members.

Gu Chen used the armed drone to kill one Black Empress Clan member and scanned another’s energy shield to find its weakest point. He found a spot where the drone’s miniature laser had a 100% chance of penetrating, but the second enemy remained protected.

• Gu Chen’s armed drone endured a blast of black energy and launched three tracking missiles at a Black Empress Clan member.
• The first missile obscured the target’s vision, allowing the other two to strike its head and kill it.
• The second Black Empress Clan member raised a powerful black-energy shield against the drone’s attacks.
• Gu Chen scanned the shield while firing, searching for a weak point in its defenses.
• Gu Chen found a spot where the miniature laser beam had a 100% chance of penetrating the shield.

Gu Chen used the Armed Drone to kill the two Black Empress Clan members guarding the survivors, then revealed his status as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son. The students made him their leader and reached the exit of the Nameless Mountain Range, where they waited two shichen for it to open.

• Gu Chen broke through the Black Empress Clan's shield with tracking missiles and an armor-piercing round, then destroyed its head with a laser.
• The students marveled at the Armed Drone, and some defended Gu Chen when others questioned why he had not used it sooner.
• Gu Chen explained that he had the weapon because he was Spirit Hall's Holy Son, and the students recognized him and Gu Yuena as the Holy Son and Saintess.
• The surviving students acclaimed Gu Chen as their leader and continued toward the exit of the Nameless Mountain Range.
• The group reached the exit with two shichen remaining and rested while staying prepared for a possible Abyss Tide.

After leaving the Nameless Mountain Range, Gu Chen gained the Great Wall Guard Army commander’s support after General Meng reported that his weapon had killed two Black Empress Clan creatures. Back in the Death Training Camp, Gu Chen used the students’ points to buy supplies before a Possessing Demon attacked Gu Yuena, and the chapter left the students admiring both of them after they killed it.

• General Meng told the commander that Gu Chen’s weapon had killed two Black Empress Clan creatures, and the commander ordered the army to befriend Gu Chen and avoid offending him.
• Gu Chen pooled the students’ points and bought enough thousand-year Soul Beast meat for a month, then used other points to purchase cultivation treasures for Gu Yuena, Luo Chen, and the others.
• After three days in camp, Gu Chen and the students returned to the Nameless Mountain Range with more than seventy students still alive and one month left in the training.
• A Possessing Demon entered Gu Yuena’s body, but her spiritual power forced it out, and Gu Chen and Gu Yuena devoured it with their spears.
• Gu Chen told the students that he and Gu Yuena had killed the Possessing Demon, leaving the others in awe of their strength.

A Possessing Demon took control of General Meng and pursued Gu Chen’s group, attacking them on the road to the Meteorite Alloy Fortress. Gu Chen recognized the creature, and the chapter ended as it brought General Meng’s enlarged Sword of Protection down toward him.

• General Meng grew exhausted while trailing the group, allowing a Possessing Demon to enter his body and seize control of him.
• The Possessing Demon raised General Meng’s rank from 92 to 96, but had to suppress General Meng’s resisting consciousness before pursuing Gu Chen’s group.
• At noon, the possessed General Meng attacked the students, killing several Soul Elders and nearly killing Mo Yun before Gu Chen protected him.
• Gu Chen recognized the attacker as a Possessing Demon, which revealed that the Possessing Demon he had killed was its younger brother.
• The possessed General Meng unleashed the Sword of Protection and struck toward Gu Chen with its enlarged blade.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena attacked the Possessing Demon possessing General Meng, while Jin Zi took a blow meant for Gu Chen and was badly wounded. With Ling Xiaojiu healing Jin Zi and boosting Gu Chen, the two launched a pincer attack, but General Meng countered with its Martial Soul Avatar and a sweeping sword strike.

• Gu Chen evaded General Meng’s enlarged Sword of Protection and attacked with the Golden Dragon Spear, but General Meng blocked it with shields before the spear returned to Gu Chen.
• Gu Yuena attacked General Meng with Ice and Fire Twin Heavens, forcing it to divert most of its sword strike to meet her attack.
• Jin Zi blocked the remaining force of General Meng’s strike for Gu Chen, shattering her Golden Crocodile Armor and leaving her badly injured.
• Ling Xiaojiu boosted Gu Chen and began healing Jin Zi, while Luo Chen gave Gu Chen Talent Fried Rice to strengthen him further.
• Gu Chen attacked from the front with Golden Dragon Claw Strike as Gu Yuena struck from behind with Light-Dark Annihilation.
• General Meng activated its Martial Soul Avatar and unleashed Sweeping Army against Gu Chen and Gu Yuena.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena defeated General Meng’s Possessing Demon with Dragon God's First Awakening, but General Meng was left near death. Gu Chen used the system to obtain Life God Water as he tried to save him.

• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena merged their Soul Power and used Dragon God's First Awakening to shatter General Meng’s defenses and strike him.
• The Possessing Demon fled General Meng’s body, but Gu Chen and Gu Yuena pursued and devoured its spiritual body with their divine spears.
• After refining the Possessing Demon’s energy, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena recovered, and the seemingly dead General Meng began coughing up blood.
• Gu Chen accepted the system mission to treat General Meng and asked Ling Xiaojiu to keep him alive while he searched for a cure.
• Gu Chen used a Low-Grade Life-Saving Talisman Stone to preserve General Meng’s life, then drew Life God Water from the system.

Gu Chen used Life God Water to heal Meng Yi, then left the returning trainees with Gu Yuena to visit the Star Dou Great Forest. There, he warned Di Tian about a future threat from the God Realm, ordered him to form a Soul Beast Legion, and broke the fifth seal with Gu Yuena.

• Gu Chen gave Meng Yi Life God Water, restoring his injuries and raising his cultivation to Rank 94, and learned that a Possessing Demon had attacked him while he was exhausted.
• Meng Yi began protecting Gu Chen openly, and the Death Training Camp ended with sixty-two survivors, including fourteen trainees from Spirit City.
• While returning by carriage, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left the group at the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain their spirit rings.
• Gu Chen told Di Tian that a divine official would descend in ten years and ordered him to gather soul beasts over ten thousand years old into a legion within five years.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena broke their fifth seals, transformed into their Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King true forms, and Di Tian concealed their auras.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena lifted their fifth seals, strengthened their bloodlines, and condensed powerful Fifth Spirit Rings before returning to Spirit City. There, Pope Qian Xunji summoned them and reacted with surprise when Gu Chen revealed his blood-red Fifth Spirit Ring.

• After exhausting the divine power from his fifth seal, Gu Chen raised his Golden Dragon King bloodline to 125% of its initial strength and condensed a 290,000-year Fifth Spirit Ring; Gu Yuena also condensed a high-aged Spirit Ring.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena realized they were naked after returning to human form, hurriedly dressed in matching outfits, and compared the gains from lifting their fifth seals.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena said farewell to Di Tian and traveled back to Spirit City, stopping overnight in a town Gu Chen remembered from his time with Tang San and the others.
• In Spirit City, Gu Chen and Gu Yuena learned that Luo Chen and the others had gone to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Spirit Rings, then rested briefly at Spirit Academy.
• Qian Xunji summoned Gu Chen and Gu Yuena, learned they had reached Soul Power Level fifty-five, and asked Gu Chen to show his Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Gu Chen released his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul and revealed a blood-red Fifth Spirit Ring to Qian Xunji.

Qian Xunji assigned Gu Chen and the students returning from Death Training Camp to train at Spirit City's Spirit Hall branch for six months, with Gu Chen as Hall Master and Gu Yuena as Vice Hall Master. After the students shared their new Spirit Abilities, Gu Chen announced the assignment, but Ye Wuyou asked if he could stay behind.

• Qian Xunji questioned Gu Chen about his hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, then ordered him and the returning students to work at the Spirit Hall branch in Spirit City while keeping their Holy Son and Saintess identities secret.
• Gu Chen became Hall Master of the branch, Gu Yuena became Vice Hall Master, and Gu Chen was left to assign posts to the others.
• A week later, Luo Chen and the others returned to Spirit Academy as Soul Kings, while Ye Wuyou had advanced to Soul Emperor.
• The students described their new Spirit Abilities to Gu Chen, who considered forming an assassination squad around Ye Wuyou and Feng Xiaoyu.
• Gu Chen told the group to accompany him to the Spirit City branch, and Ye Wuyou asked whether he could avoid going.

Gu Chen arrived in Spirit City to take over its Spirit Hall branch and faced resistance from Vice Hall Master Lin Luo. Their confrontation became a fight, which Gu Chen stopped by catching Lin Luo’s sword with his Golden Dragon Claw.

• Ye Wuyou agreed to travel to Spirit City so Gu Chen and Gu Yuena could help him take revenge on the Night Clan and put him in charge afterward.
• Gu Chen assigned Gu Yuena, Luo Chen, and Ye Wuyou as Vice Hall Masters, then led the group to Spirit City after a journey delayed by encounters with bandits.
• At the Spirit Hall branch, Gu Chen presented his Hall Master token and ordered the remaining higher-ups to meet him.
• Lin Luo challenged Gu Chen to a spar, while the other Vice Hall Master, Mo Qing, watched without intervening.
• Gu Chen provoked Lin Luo into attacking, revealed his five soul rings, and stopped Lin Luo’s lightning-wreathed sword with his Golden Dragon Claw.

Gu Chen defeated Lin Luo to claim the Spirit Hall branch Hall Master position in Spirit City, using the alias Qin Ba. As Gu Chen’s group departed, Mo Qing secretly revealed his plan to kill him, having already advanced to Title Douluo in secret.

• Gu Chen blocked Lin Luo’s lightning attack with his dragon scales and shattered Lin Luo’s Heavenly Tribulation Sword with Golden Dragon Claw Strike.
• Lin Luo accepted Gu Chen as the new Hall Master, and Gu Chen introduced Gu Yuena as his younger sister, Qin Na.
• Lin Luo led Gu Chen’s group upstairs while Mo Qing stayed behind and vowed to assassinate Gu Chen.
• Mo Qing summoned his Bamboo Leaf Green Snake martial soul and revealed that he had secretly become a Title Douluo.

Gu Chen appointed new Vice Hall Masters and stewards for Spirit City's Spirit Hall branch, then he and Gu Yuena were attacked in their room by Mo Qing, who revealed himself as a Title Douluo. Gu Yuena struck Mo Qing from behind with a Light Sword, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lin Luo explained Spirit City's major families and the vacancies in the branch hall's leadership.
• Gu Chen appointed Qin Na, Luo Chen, and Ye Wuyou as Vice Hall Masters and named nine stewards.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena settled into the Hall Master's quarters and cultivated together.
• Mo Qing sent his Bamboo Leaf Green Snake martial soul into their room, injuring Gu Yuena's Nine-Sectioned Jadeite and attacking them with poisonous mist.
• Mo Qing appeared as a Title Douluo and declared his intention to kill Gu Chen, but Gu Yuena teleported behind him and pierced his chest with a Light Sword.

Gu Chen and Gu Yuena killed Mo Qing after he survived Gu Chen’s first strike with his Molting ability and tried to attack again. After Lin Luo and the others arrived, Gu Chen appointed Ling Xiaojiu as Vice Hall Master, then he and Gu Yuena left Spirit Hall to stroll through Spirit City at night.

• Mo Qing used his Ninth Spirit Ability, Molting, to escape death and form a new body, then tried to poison Gu Chen with his Sixth Spirit Ability.
• Gu Yuena pierced Mo Qing’s snake with an ice spike, and Gu Chen turned to face him.
• Gu Chen struck Mo Qing with Golden Dragon Tail Sweep, while he and Gu Yuena’s Dragon Might forced Mo Qing out of his Martial Soul Avatar and killed him.
• Gu Yuena burned Mo Qing’s remains to ashes, and Lin Luo, Luo Chen, and the others arrived after sensing the Soul Power fluctuation.
• Gu Chen told Lin Luo that Mo Qing had tried to assassinate him and appointed Ling Xiaojiu as Vice Hall Master, with Mo Yun taking her former manager position.
• Gu Chen and Gu Yuena left Spirit Hall and went for a stroll through Spirit City at night.