Chapter Summaries

Han Yuchen recognized that Godwind Academy’s team had been turned into living weapons by Solonsen and saw Xue Beng delighting in their violence. When Master Yu Xiaogang proposed that Shrek Academy forfeit its match against Godwind Academy, Han Yuchen insisted they could not retreat, leaving the team facing the dangerous bout.

• Divine Wind Number Three drained the Barak captain’s life essence until a referee stopped him, leaving the captain gravely injured and ending his Soul Master career.
• Han Yuchen identified Divine Wind Number Three as a living-dead shadow puppet created by Solonsen, while Tang San saw gray-black mist controlling Feng Xiaotian.
• Han Yuchen saw Xue Beng celebrating the violence and understood his silent threat that Shrek Academy would be next.
• Barak Academy withdrew, and other teams surrendered or fled against Godwind Academy as it continued its winning streak.
• After the draw paired Shrek Academy with Godwind Academy, Master Yu Xiaogang proposed forfeiting to protect the students, but Han Yuchen refused to retreat.

After Xue Beng threatened Zhao Wuji to force Han Yuchen into the arena, Han Yuchen agreed to fight rather than risk his teacher’s life. Master arranged the team’s order, with Han Yuchen held back as the closer.

• A Royal Guards soldier delivered Xue Beng’s letter, threatening to kill Zhao Wuji that night if Han Yuchen refused to compete.
• Tang San identified the letter as a trap and warned that attacking the messenger would give Xue Beng an excuse to execute them.
• Dai Mubai and Tang San offered to take Han Yuchen’s place, but Han Yuchen insisted that his water-attribute martial soul made him best suited to face the monsters.
• Han Yuchen agreed to take the match and privately told Tang San he would rely on a cripple’s way of fighting rather than face the monsters head-on.
• Master ordered Tailong to test the opponents first, followed by Dai Mubai and Tang San, with Han Yuchen holding the rear.

Shrek Academy faced Godwind Academy’s artificially cultivated Soul Emperor fighters, who brutally injured Dai Mubai and pushed Tang San to his limits. With the score tied at three to three, Han Yuchen finally emerged to face the remaining opponents.

• Tailong was knocked unconscious by Godwind Academy’s first fighter in under ten seconds.
• Dai Mubai was badly wounded by a black-robed Soul Emperor, and Han Yuchen dispersed the Corpse Poison but said Dai Mubai could not continue.
• Tang San defeated the first black-robed fighter with hidden weapons and poison, then won a hard-fought match against a second Soul Emperor using his Eight Spider Lances.
• A third black-robed fighter took the arena as Tang San could no longer stand, so Han Yuchen told him to withdraw and take over.
• With the score tied at three to three and the countdown nearly finished, Han Yuchen shuffled out wearing a thick wool coat and leaning on a dead branch.

Han Yuchen pretended to be a frail cripple as he faced Godwind Academy's Ghost Leopard, using calculated mishaps to evade two attacks. The fight continued with Ghost Leopard summoning three clones and surrounding him.

• Han Yuchen scanned Ghost Leopard and discovered he was a drug-enhanced Level 52 Soul King with a weakened third lumbar vertebra.
• Ghost Leopard launched a lightning-fast attack from behind, but Han Yuchen deliberately collapsed and narrowly avoided his claws.
• Han Yuchen threw stones that struck Ghost Leopard's eye and disrupted his footing, letting him roll clear of a flurry of claw strikes.
• Ghost Leopard summoned three Nether Clones and surrounded Han Yuchen, who leaned against a pillar and protested that he was being bullied.

Han Yuchen won his first match by making the Ghost Leopard’s clones collide, then breaking the real opponent’s spine while pretending to panic. As he remained on the arena for the next continuous match, Godwind Academy sent a drug-enhanced fighter to self-destruct, and Han Yuchen silently commanded him to kneel.

• Han Yuchen used a high-pressure Water Ball to make one Ghost Leopard clone slip into the real Ghost Leopard, then struck the real body’s marked weakness and crippled him.
• Han Yuchen accidentally aggravated the Ghost Leopard’s injuries while pretending to celebrate, and the referee declared Han Yuchen the winner.
• Xue Beng ordered Godwind Academy’s next fighter, the Wolf Demon, to self-destruct and kill Han Yuchen.
• Han Yuchen’s Star Atlas detected the approaching fighter’s overloaded core and self-destruct intent, and Han Yuchen decided to intensify the blast.
• A drug-enhanced giant entered the arena, and Han Yuchen raised his cane and silently told him in Dragon Language to kneel.

Han Yuchen survived Wolf Demon's self-destruction with his First Soul Skill, won the fifth match, and discovered another trace of Solonsen's power. He faced a new Godwind Academy opponent, the Death God, whose first attack came too fast for Han Yuchen to pretend to be helpless.

• Wolf Demon ignored his instinctive fear, charged Han Yuchen, and began to swell toward an explosion.
• Han Yuchen activated [Restraint] as Wolf Demon exploded, negated the damage, and used a turtle shell to disguise his survival.
• Han Yuchen found a crystal containing degraded power of Demon Spirit King Solonsen, hid it, and was declared the winner of the fifth match.
• Han Yuchen provoked Godwind Academy by claiming he had more turtle shells, and the black-robed Death God accepted the challenge.
• The Death God unleashed a near-invisible wind blade at Han Yuchen's throat, forcing Han Yuchen to stop pretending to be helpless.

Han Yuchen defeated the Death God by using the Star Atlas to consume its shadow energy, prompting Xue Beng to send in his final trump card, Number One. Number One revealed himself as a fully demonized Level 72 Soul Sage as the audience screamed in terror.

• Han Yuchen deflected the Death God’s wind blades with his water skill and the Power of Stars, then used the Star Atlas to drain it into black ash.
• Han Yuchen retrieved a Shadow Contract fragment from the ashes and secured his third consecutive victory.
• Xue Beng realized Han Yuchen had been hiding his strength and ordered Number One to crush him.
• Number One entered the arena under an overwhelming aura, and the Star Atlas identified him as a fully demonized Level 72 Soul Sage and Solonsen’s direct bloodkin.
• Han Yuchen stopped pretending to be weak as Number One tore off his robe, revealing a form that horrified the audience.

Han Yuchen faced Number One, a Soul Sage transformed by Xue Beng and wielding Solonsen’s Shadow Purgatory, but revealed that his Starlight could overwhelm the darkness. He drove back and shattered the domain, leaving Number One exposed before the silent crowd.

• Number One revealed seven Soul Rings, including an Evil Soul Ring, and unleashed his roar against Han Yuchen.
• Number One activated Shadow Purgatory and engulfed the arena with darkness and a storm of Shadow Blades.
• Han Yuchen snapped his fingers and released dark-blue Starlight, which dissolved the blades and injured Number One.
• Han Yuchen advanced through the darkness, forcing it back with each step as Number One trembled and asked who he was.
• Han Yuchen used the Star Atlas to shatter the darkness, and sunlight returned over the arena as the crowd fell silent.

Han Yuchen defeated “Number One” by purifying the Shadow core, then secretly made sure he could not recover. As the referee declared Han Yuchen the winner, “Number One” transformed into a Werewolf Monster, and Han Yuchen recognized the mutated Shadow Energy as Solonsen’s infection.

• Han Yuchen pretended to be exhausted while spectators mistook “Number One’s” collapse for backlash from a forbidden technique.
• Xue Beng realized Han Yuchen had purified and crippled “Number One” with Holy Power.
• Han Yuchen used a hidden stream of water to make “Number One” collapse, and the referee declared Han Yuchen the winner.
• “Number One” transformed into a grotesque Werewolf Monster, alarming the referee and Emperor Xue Ye.
• Han Yuchen’s Star Atlas detected mutated Shadow Energy linked to Solonsen, and the monster fixed its gaze on him.

Han Yuchen used a secretly named water-based technique to destroy the Werewolf Monster after it burned its life force and threatened the arena. He pretended the attack had cost him years of life, and Flender accused Xue Beng and Godwind Academy of forcing his student to pay that price.

• The Werewolf Monster attacked Han Yuchen with increased speed and a poisonous aura, and Han warned Dai Mubai and Tang San not to approach it.
• Han Yuchen used his Fourth Soul Skill, which he called “Raging Current... Sever the Void,” to slice the Werewolf Monster into pieces and erase it.
• Han Yuchen’s illustrated guide captured the monster’s remnant soul and increased Star Tempering progress by one percent.
• Han Yuchen collapsed after pretending to suffer a grave cost from the technique, and Oscar, Ning Rongrong, and Flender rushed to help him.
• Flender accused Xue Beng and Godwind Academy of forcing Han Yuchen to exhaust his life, and the crowd fell silent.

Han Yuchen survived the battle with the monster and exposed Godwind Academy to public outrage, while Xue Beng framed its leaders to escape blame. As Han Yuchen feigned severe injuries, he learned that Godwind Academy had been disqualified and its team members ruined, leaving Xue Beng’s next move—and the danger on the road to Spirit City—looming.

• Xue Beng ordered his confidant to frame Godwind Academy’s leaders and arrange their deaths as punishment for the arena incident.
• Oscar helped Han Yuchen fake unconsciousness as he was carried from the arena, and Han Yuchen silently insulted Xue Beng.
• In the lounge, Han Yuchen told Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San that Xue Beng could mass-produce monsters and would likely attack them on the road to Spirit City.
• Han Yuchen pretended to be badly injured when Xue Qinghe arrived, then maintained the act while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong visited him in the infirmary.
• Xue Qinghe told Han Yuchen that Godwind Academy had been disqualified, its teachers blamed for the incident, and its team members left crippled except for Feng Xiaotian.

Han Yuchen secretly recovered from his injuries and learned that a dark-energy-eroded Star fragment lay in the core of the Heaven Dou Royal Hunting Ground. He planned to retrieve it under the pretext of seeking a herb for his Martial Soul Evolution, and the chapter ended with him meeting Xue Qinghe, who was actually Qian Renxue.

• Han Yuchen revealed to Ning Fengzhi and Bone Douluo that he had only pretended to be crippled, while they discussed Xue Beng's hidden power and the coming trip to Spirit City.
• The [Star Atlas] detected a high-energy Star fragment in the Royal Hunting Ground's core, warning that dark energy was mutating it.
• Han Yuchen told Flender he needed to enter the forbidden hunting-ground core and used his tournament-champion privileges to justify the trip.
• The next morning, Flender pushed Han Yuchen in a wheelchair to meet Xue Qinghe at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, where Han Yuchen recognized her as Qian Renxue.

Han Yuchen pretended to be gravely injured to secure permission to enter the Royal Hunting Ground with Leng Yuebai. After the escort left, he revealed his healthy condition, and the pair entered a silent, corrupted forest while a shadow watched them.

• Han Yuchen claimed he needed Star Spirit Grass and asked Xue Qinghe for permission to enter the Royal Hunting Ground with Leng Yuebai.
• Xue Qinghe approved the trip and arranged for Royal Knights to escort Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai to the hunting ground’s entrance.
• After the knights departed, Han Yuchen stood up, revealed his act, and put away his wheelchair.
• Leng Yuebai noticed the forest was unnaturally quiet, while Han Yuchen identified the strange purple soil as evidence of a dead zone.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai followed his Soul Tool’s directions into the darkness, and a shadow with scarlet eyes watched them disappear.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai explored the corrupted core region of the Royal Hunting Ground, where chaotic gravity and contaminated soul beasts threatened them. After defeating seven Ghost Deer, they camped for the night, and Leng Yuebai confided that she did not know what her power was for.

• Han Yuchen explained that a fallen star had likely altered the core region’s earth veins and caused its unstable gravity.
• Leng Yuebai restrained a charging Ghost Deer with the Star Radiance Heavenly Silk while Han Yuchen killed it without using a soul skill.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai killed all seven contaminated ten-thousand-year Ghost Deer, but Han Yuchen’s Purification could not remove the black energy from one corpse.
• Han Yuchen warned Leng Yuebai that the black energy was like a virus even gods would fear and said they needed to find the Soul Fragment before the Royal Hunting Ground was overrun.
• At their nighttime camp, Leng Yuebai told Han Yuchen she felt like a container for power and did not know what she should do with it.
• Han Yuchen told Leng Yuebai that power gained meaning from the person who wielded it and that her strength had helped protect him.

Han Yuchen sensed the Divine Soul Origin's self-defense mechanism activating and rushed with Leng Yuebai to Falling Star Valley. He used the Star Atlas to guide them through the valley's chaotic gravity and floating rubble, while Leng Yuebai questioned his abilities.

• Han Yuchen said he wanted to become strong so he would not be a pawn and could take control of the chessboard.
• A surge from the Divine Soul Origin alerted Han Yuchen that dark energy was trying to devour its fragment, so he took Leng Yuebai toward the golden pillar of light.
• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai reached Falling Star Valley, where rubble floated amid a chaotic gravitational field.
• Han Yuchen followed the Star Atlas's calculated Star Tracks through the shifting gravity and colliding rocks, instructing Leng Yuebai along the safe route.
• Leng Yuebai asked how Han Yuchen predicted the dangers, and he claimed it was instinct.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai crossed the Meteor Maze and opened an ancient stone gate by activating a Big Dipper star map. After Han Yuchen defeated the Rock Giant guarding it by striking its hidden weakness, they entered as a powerful surge of starlight poured from beyond the gate.

• Han Yuchen led Leng Yuebai through the Meteor Maze to the ancient stone gate at the valley's center.
• Han Yuchen activated seven star-map nodes shaped like the Big Dipper, causing the gate to begin opening.
• A Rock Giant emerged from the rubble and attacked, while Leng Yuebai's sword and ribbons failed to break through its defense.
• Han Yuchen struck an energy node on the giant's wrist, causing the Rock Giant to crack apart and collapse.
• The stone gate opened fully, releasing a bright surge of starlight, and Han Yuchen led Leng Yuebai inside.

Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai explored an underground palace filled with pure Star Power and discovered signs of an ancient war between the Starlight Ruse King and Solonsen. Leng Yuebai followed a resonance to a side chamber while Han Yuchen entered the main hall, where a Soul Fragment was being consumed by black mist and seemed to be bait in a trap.

• Han Yuchen and Leng Yuebai entered a lavish underground palace and found murals depicting a battle between the Starlight Ruse King and Solonsen's followers.
• Leng Yuebai sensed the Taiyin Origin in a side chamber, and Han Yuchen urged her to absorb it while he investigated the main hall alone.
• Han Yuchen used the system to open the main hall's doors and found a golden Soul Fragment surrounded by corrupting black mist.
• Han Yuchen recognized the black mist as a deliberate trap and prepared to face the dark energy creature guarding the Soul Fragment.

Han Yuchen defeated the corrupted caretaker in a battle inside his Sea of Consciousness and absorbed it with the [Star Atlas]. He learned that Star Spirit had sacrificed himself to sever Solonsen’s tentacles, leaving the Royal Hunting Ground as his remains.

• A black shadow emerged from the sphere of light and attacked Han Yuchen’s Sea of Consciousness, hoping to seize his body.
• Han Yuchen overwhelmed the shadow with his divine-soul pressure and drew it into his spiritual space.
• The [Star Atlas] bound the shadow with golden chains, and Han Yuchen rejected its offer to become his slave.
• The [Star Atlas] absorbed the shadow, and Han Yuchen received its memories of Star Spirit’s sacrifice and Solonsen’s attack.

Han Yuchen absorbed the golden orb, restored more of the Star Atlas, and gained the prototype of the Star Domain skill. He rushed to Leng Yuebai’s aid in the side hall and began crushing the Mechanical Beasts with his new domain.

• Han Yuchen absorbed the golden orb, endured intense pain, and advanced the Star Atlas restoration progress to 20%.
• Han Yuchen gained the prototype Star Domain skill and tested its control over the space around him.
• An explosion shook the underground palace, and Han Yuchen hurried toward the side hall where Leng Yuebai was fighting three Mechanical Beasts.
• Leng Yuebai, injured and nearly out of Soul Power, prepared to burn her origin as the Mechanical Beasts closed in.
• Han Yuchen arrived, caught and crushed one Mechanical Beast’s tail stinger with his bare hand, then used Star Domain · Gravity Crush to slow all three beasts.

Han Yuchen rescued Leng Yuebai from three Mechanical Beasts in the side hall by activating his Star Domain, then treated her wound. Leng Yuebai confirmed she had found the Taiyin Cold Iron, which her martial soul strongly desired.

• Leng Yuebai, weakened by the magnetic field and protecting the Taiyin Cold Iron, was cornered by three metal leopards.
• Han Yuchen crashed through the dome and crushed the first leopard before the other two could attack Leng Yuebai.
• Han Yuchen activated his Star Domain, used twenty times gravity to pin down the remaining leopards, and destroyed their energy cores.
• Han Yuchen treated Leng Yuebai's frostbitten shoulder with a golden liquid that rapidly healed the wound.
• Leng Yuebai showed Han Yuchen the Taiyin Cold Iron and said her martial soul desired it greatly.