Chapter Summaries

After questioning whether his system-assisted victory against Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong counted as swordsmanship, Ji Juechen used the system’s self-criticism mission to unlock Clear Sword Heart. With Jing Ziyan’s encouragement, he resolved to fuse data analysis with his sword intent and challenge Huo Yuhao again.

• Ji Juechen spent the night questioning whether his system-assisted victory had betrayed his sword dao.
• The system gave Ji Juechen a self-deprecation mission, and his criticism of his own fighting style unlocked Clear Sword Heart.
• Ji Juechen realized he could use the system’s analysis as a whetstone to refine his sword rather than replace it.
• Jing Ziyan brought Ji Juechen tea and recognized that his easy victory had left him dissatisfied.
• After Jing Ziyan encouraged him, Ji Juechen resolved to face Huo Yuhao again without relying on the system’s blueprints.

Ji Juechen defeated Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong by dismantling their attacks and guiding their movements with precise swordplay. He revealed that his sword path treated everything as a solvable chess game, and called them the most interesting players he had encountered.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong launched a combined attack, but Ji Juechen used a single sword strike to disrupt its structure and weaken the resulting explosion.
• Huo Yuhao attacked with Ice Empress's Claw while Wang Dong attempted a pincer assault, but Ji Juechen guided Huo Yuhao into a set path and shattered Wang Dong's light blade.
• Ji Juechen stopped his sword just short of Huo Yuhao's ice armor, declared victory, and Huo Yuhao accepted his defeat.
• Ji Juechen described his sword path as turning everything into a solvable chess game and called Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong his most interesting chess players.

After defeating Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, Ji Juechen reflected on how his Clear Sword Heart connected his sword intent to the world, but its immense Spiritual Power cost left him exhausted. Jing Ziyan cared for him and became the first person to understand his chess-like foresight, leaving them closer as they walked back together.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong left the training ground, shaken by Ji Juechen's view of them as pieces in his chess game.
• Ji Juechen felt dizzy after using Clear Sword Heart and learned from the system that the technique had depleted his Spiritual Power.
• Jing Ziyan gave Ji Juechen Spirit Calming Flower Tea, and he thanked her for the first time.
• Ji Juechen explained that he could foresee his opponents' moves and act one step ahead, and Jing Ziyan recognized the wisdom behind his swordsmanship.
• Ji Juechen became shy at Jing Ziyan's praise and hurried away with her beside him, as she became the first witness to his God's Hand.

After Ji Juechen dismantled their fighting methods, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong analyzed the defeat and found a new direction for their training. They resolved to return and challenge him again, determined to improve their abilities rather than copy his sword path.

• Wang Dong asked Huo Yuhao whether they had truly lost, and he concluded that Ji Juechen had rejected the principles behind their fighting rather than simply defeated them.
• Huo Yuhao realized Ji Juechen used his sword to identify and cut through the core structures of their abilities, while they had relied on adding more powers and techniques.
• Huo Yuhao decided they could not learn Ji Juechen's sword path, but could make their own abilities more complete and resistant to being dismantled.
• Huo Yuhao proposed transforming Mental Probe Sharing into a network, Simulation into a domain that distorted reality, and Extreme Ice into a power governed by rules.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong agreed to face Ji Juechen again the next day and continue developing their own path.

In his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao recognized that Ji Juechen had exposed a flaw in the God Creation Plan: its growing collection of powers could be dismantled. He launched Version 2.0, shifting the plan toward structural optimization and leaving the others ready to help rebuild his abilities.

• Huo Yuhao discussed Ji Juechen's ability to dismantle Ice Empress's attacks with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ice Empress, and Electrolux.
• Huo Yuhao concluded that the God Creation Plan's reliance on adding powerful components made him vulnerable to Ji Juechen's analytical fighting style.
• Huo Yuhao proposed turning his spiritual power into a distributed neural network with no single point of failure.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ice Empress to teach him to apply the rules of Absolute Zero and asked Electrolux to help build a Combat Operating System.
• Electrolux agreed to provide the underlying architecture for the OS, and the God Creation Plan 2.0 began.

Tang San and Xiao Wu observed Huo Yuhao undergoing a profound transformation in the Sea of Consciousness, shifting from accumulating powers toward building a new combat system. Tang San also discovered Ji Juechen’s unusual data-driven system and realized two unpredictable variables had appeared on Douluo Continent’s chessboard.

• Tang San noticed Huo Yuhao’s star contracting inward as his powers underwent a qualitative transformation, and Xiao Wu sensed that his aura had become purer.
• Tang San viewed Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and heard him describe optimizing his power, turning spiritual strength into a network, treating ice as a law, and building a combat operating system.
• Tang San wondered whether he and Xiao Wu had limited Huo Yuhao by supplying him with powerful abilities instead of letting him set his own rules.
• Tang San detected Ji Juechen’s data-driven system and recognized him as a second unexpected variable on Douluo Continent.
• Tang San admitted he did not know whether the changes were good or bad, but welcomed the uncertainty as making the game interesting.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong built the first prototype of their shared Spiritual Net, then used a new circular technique to dismantle Wang Dong’s Butterfly Goddess’s Light. They left ready to challenge Ji Juechen’s system with their own evolving methods.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong merged their Spiritual Powers, following Electrolux’s advice to weave their power together rather than let Huo Yuhao control hers.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong formed a two-way, self-repairing Spiritual Net, while Ji Juechen’s system detected a complex mutation in Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power.
• Huo Yuhao asked Wang Dong to attack him with Butterfly Goddess’s Light and analyzed its energy structure through their shared consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao used a spinning Ice Ring from Ice Empress’s Claw to cut apart the sphere of light and disperse it into pure Light Element.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong resolved to become an unpredictable variable on Ji Juechen’s chessboard.

Huo Yuhao reflected on God Creation Plan 2.0, a new approach to combat built around analyzing and reshaping the structures behind soul skills rather than relying on fixed abilities. He planned to make his power adaptive enough to counter Ji Juechen, while his companions remained asleep in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Huo Yuhao considered how Ji Juechen had shown him that precise structural analysis could overcome raw strength.
• Huo Yuhao described turning his Soul Power into a Tool Library for forging abilities suited to each situation.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used their Spiritual Net to see the structure of Butterfly Goddess's Light, and Huo Yuhao broke it apart with a spinning Ice Ring.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to build a Combat Operating System that let him alter rules directly instead of relying on fixed soul skills.
• Huo Yuhao decided to make his power fluid and constantly reconstructible so Ji Juechen could not predict or analyze it.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s attempt to create the Phantom Blade Ring failed when their Ice and Light energies repelled each other, injuring them both. Huo Yuhao reconsidered his plan and began designing automated protections for their Spiritual Net.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong made their thirteenth attempt to combine his Ice Ring with her Light Goddess Butterfly energy into the Phantom Blade Ring.
• Their energies violently repelled each other, shattering the Ice Ring and injuring Huo Yuhao while the backlash left Wang Dong dizzy and bleeding.
• Huo Yuhao blamed the failure on the opposing attributes of ice and light, while Wang Dong suggested refracting light through ice to create illusions.
• Huo Yuhao ended their practice to protect Wang Dong from further Spiritual Power damage and supported her back to the dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao drew plans for Automatic Filtering and Emergency Disconnect protocols to reduce Wang Dong’s burden and protect her, then resolved to try Automation the next day.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong upgraded their Spiritual Net with filtering and emergency disconnect protocols, then tested whether it could connect to Beibei. Beibei’s overwhelming spiritual information collapsed the net and injured Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, leaving Huo Yuhao with data for a future upgrade.

• Huo Yuhao designed filtering and emergency disconnect protocols to reduce Wang Dong’s burden and protect her from backlash.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong tested the upgraded Spiritual Net, finding it more stable and consuming Wang Dong’s Spiritual Power more slowly.
• Huo Yuhao asked Beibei to join the net as a third terminal, and Beibei agreed to the low-power test.
• Huo Yuhao connected Beibei to the Spiritual Net, but Beibei’s powerful spiritual information overwhelmed the protocols and caused the net to collapse.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong spat out blood, and Huo Yuhao concluded that the net needed greater bandwidth and a stronger firewall.

After their first attempt overloaded their minds, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong redesigned their Spiritual Net as a neutral Bus Structure that could connect multiple people without routing everything through Huo Yuhao. They successfully tested it with Tang Ya, leaving the platform ready for a more demanding connection with Beibei.

• Huo Yuhao reassured Wang Dong that their failed connection with Beibei had shown them they needed to build an expandable platform rather than a two-person soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao proposed replacing their star-shaped, master-centered net with a peer-to-peer Bus Structure, and he and Wang Dong spent a week debugging its protocols.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong invited Tang Ya to join the new net, and the Bus Structure connected her consciousness without overwhelming her.
• Tang Ya released Entanglement through the connection, allowing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to observe and analyze how she performed the soul skill.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Tang Ya and looked toward Beibei, preparing for their next test and a true data attack-and-defense battle.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong tested Spiritual Net 2.0 with Beibei and overcame the awakened Dragon Soul Will by containing and analyzing it. The test left them exhausted but proved the net could withstand and adapt to hostile spiritual forces.

• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong began a new test by asking Beibei to grant their bus structure access to his Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao ordered Wang Dong to balance the incoming data while Tang Ya supplied Soul Power as interference for a pressure test.
• Beibei's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon will awakened and attacked the net, destroying Wang Dong's load-balancing program.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Dong to trap the dragon in sandbox mode so he could analyze its attacks and identify an energy window.
• Wang Dong used his Power of Light to neutralize the dragon's lightning through repeated precise strikes until it dispersed into manageable data streams.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Tang Ya collapsed, while Beibei awoke exhausted and Huo Yuhao declared that their net had defeated a virus.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong tested their Compiler Program against Dai Huabin, dismantling his attacks and defense through precise structural analysis. Xuan Zi recognized their method as an entirely new path, and Shrek Academy faced the prospect of producing a monster.

• Huo Yuhao chose Dai Huabin as a test target, and Wang Dong agreed to spar beside him.
• Dai Huabin attacked with his White Tiger Blazing Light Wave, but Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used the Spiritual Net and Compiler Program to locate and neutralize its energy weakness.
• Huo Yuhao confirmed that the Compiler Program had successfully dismantled the attack, leaving Dai Huabin stunned and humiliated.
• Wang Dong struck Dai Huabin's White Tiger Bodyguard Barrier and shattered it without harming him.
• Zhou Yi watched in shock, while Xuan Zi identified their structural dismantling method as a new path beyond ordinary soul skills.

After Huo Yuhao’s method dismantled Dai Huabin’s Soul Skills, he and Wang Dong were summoned to Sea God's Pavilion, where Xuan Zi recognized the potential of Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Net. Xuan Zi established a special research group for the two students and appointed himself its leader.

• Wang Dong shattered Dai Huabin’s defense with a punch, and Huo Yuhao dismissed his demand for another fight as Dai Huabin collapsed in despair.
• Huo Yuhao told Zhou Yi that he had used Soul Skill Structure Optimization, and she rebuked him in class while secretly signaling that he should conceal his abilities.
• Zhou Yi brought Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong to Sea God's Pavilion, where Xuan Zi examined Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Xuan Zi declared that Huo Yuhao was creating a world by constructing rules through Spiritual Power and said his Spiritual Net could become a Divine Domain.
• Xuan Zi removed the two students from Zhou Yi’s supervision and established a special research group to study their path, with himself as its leader.

Ji Juechen stunned Shrek Academy by destroying Xu Sanshi’s Mysterious Nether Shield with a single sword thrust, revealing his Logic Sword Dao. Xuan Zi declared that Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao represented forces that severed logic and created rules, leaving the academy’s leaders to face two unprecedented newcomers.

• Xuan Zi established a research group to investigate Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen, then sent the academy leaders to watch the freshman matches.
• Ji Juechen faced Xu Sanshi on the central arena while spectators and teachers dismissed his chances against Xu Sanshi’s defensive martial soul.
• Ji Juechen thrust his ordinary Iron Sword into the center of Xu Sanshi’s shield, causing it to fracture and collapse into powder without harming Xu Sanshi.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized the attack as a strike that severed the shield’s logic of existence, and Xuan Zi identified Ji Juechen’s ability as Logic Sword Dao.
• Ji Juechen sheathed his sword and left the arena, while Shrek Academy regarded him as an incomprehensible aberration alongside Huo Yuhao.

After Ji Juechen’s sword strike frightened the tournament crowd, Xuan Zi called for a duel between Ji Juechen’s logic and Huo Yuhao’s rules. Their battle ended in a draw, leaving them recognized as twin prodigies and rivals who understood each other’s Dao.

• A one-ring Soul Master surrendered before fighting, and Xuan Zi rebuked the frightened students while naming Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao as hopeful rule-breakers.
• Xuan Zi challenged Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao to duel, and Huo Yuhao accepted after Wang Dong stepped aside.
• Ji Juechen attacked with false nodes, but Huo Yuhao obscured his Spiritual Net and disrupted Ji Juechen’s strikes with rules that made the arena slippery and distorted its light.
• Ji Juechen unleashed his first and second soul skills, while Huo Yuhao merged his Spiritual Net with Extreme Ice to create the prototype Spiritual Ice Domain.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao gathered their strength for a final clash, but Huo Yuhao’s domain shattered as Ji Juechen’s sword fell from his hand.
• Xuan Zi declared the exhausted fighters’ duel a draw and called both of them victors.

Tang San observed the Sun Moon Empire preparing for war as Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen recovered at Shrek Academy. After the Sun Moon Empire launched a surprise attack on the Heaven Dou Empire, Shrek ordered the two to join a relief squad, leaving their new Paths to Godhood facing their first battlefield trial.

• Tang San sensed the Sun Moon Empire's military buildup and saw Jing Hongchen preparing for war against the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen discussed how each needed greater strength to advance their respective Dao.
• Beibei and Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen that the Sun Moon Empire had broken the peace agreement and attacked three western strongholds with powerful new Soul Tools.
• Beibei announced that Shrek would send its Seven Monsters and upper-year students to support the front, and that Xuan Zi wanted Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen to go with them.

God King Tang San descended onto the battlefield and used his divine power to erase Ji Juechen’s sword dao and overwhelm him. Ji Juechen chose to die by his own hand before Tang San could kill him, and Tang San departed as the battlefield mourned the fallen Shrek genius.

• The fighting stopped as Tang San appeared in golden divine radiance above the battlefield.
• Tang San singled out Ji Juechen and used his power to overwrite the world around him, causing Ji Juechen’s system to fail.
• Tang San sent a wisp of divine sense carrying the law of Absolute Death toward Ji Juechen.
• Ji Juechen smiled, drove his sword into his own heart, and died before Tang San’s attack could reach him.
• Huo Yuhao cried out as Tang San withdrew his finger and vanished from the battlefield.

Ji Juechen’s sword intent reacted to Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Detection, and a newly appeared system rewarded him for identifying Huo Yuhao’s unusual eyes. Huo Yuhao and his companions recognized Ji Juechen as a dangerous opponent as their exchange-student life began.

• Ji Juechen’s Iron Sword reacted when an unseen scan passed over him, and the system bound itself to him as the “Sword Scabbard.”
• Ji Juechen approached Huo Yuhao, whose Spirit Detection could not penetrate the area around Ji Juechen, and told him, “Your eyes are very interesting.”
• The system identified Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes and awarded Ji Juechen the beginner skill Weakness Insight for his remark.
• Ji Juechen tested Weakness Insight on a roadside soul tool and considered the system a useful sharpening stone.
• Huo Yuhao asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress about Ji Juechen, and they warned him that Ji Juechen was dangerous.

Ji Juechen accepted Xiao Hongchen’s challenge and used Weakness Insight to disable his Soul Cannon Turret with one precise sword strike. The duel left Xiao humiliated and made Ji Juechen’s skill the talk of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, though the system warned that the analysis had drained his Spiritual Power.

• Xiao Hongchen challenged Ji Juechen to a duel, and Ji accepted without leaving his corner.
• Xiao unleashed a barrage from three Soul Cannon Turrets, but Ji used Weakness Insight and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade the attacks.
• Ji struck a fragile node in Xiao’s core turret, disabling it with a single sword strike.
• Ji called Xiao’s turret “Flashy but impractical,” drawing laughter from the crowd and leaving Xiao furious and humiliated.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Donger recognized Ji’s insight and precision, while the system warned him to recover his Spiritual Power.