Chapter Summaries

After returning from seclusion with a growing golden Soul Ring, Li Jinsheng showed Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue the power of his creations. His display of dragon Soul Beasts unsettled Gu Yue, who prepared to show him what she had learned.

• Gu Yue brought Li Jinsheng to meet Leng Yaozhu, and he displayed his brilliant gold Fourth Soul Ring from the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Leng Yaozhu suggested Li Jinsheng seek a life-attribute Soul Spirit when he became a Soul King and reminded him to attend the Spirit Pagoda banquet.
• Over a meal, Gu Yue said Qiangu Tower Master was building momentum for his grandson and that she was working toward creating Ten-Thousand-Year Spirits.
• At the Spirit Pagoda training grounds, Li Jinsheng summoned a Three-Eyed Golden Lion and numerous dragon-type Soul Beasts that bowed to him.
• Gu Yue felt suppressed by Li Jinsheng's dragon display and challenged him to face the results of her own cultivation.

Gu Yue tested Li Jinsheng's strength and asked how he had obtained the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's Gene. After learning the Golden Ancient Tree had given him Genes from extinct Soul Beasts, she privately considered whether winning him over could help revive the Soul Beast race.

• Gu Yue attacked Li Jinsheng with elemental powers and spatial techniques, but he anticipated her movements and stopped a punch just short of her face.
• Gu Yue admitted Li Jinsheng was amazing, then picked up the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and asked where he had gotten its Gene.
• Li Jinsheng said the Golden Ancient Tree had given him Genes from extinct Soul Beasts, including the Mirror Beast, the Golden Dragon, and the Silver Dragon.
• Gu Yue left the training ground with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, while Leng Yaozhu watched and noted Li Jinsheng's poor awareness.
• Back in her room, Gu Yue studied the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and wondered how powerful Li Jinsheng's creation ability was and whether she should win him over to help revive the Soul Beast race.

Gu Yue and Na'er cared for the genuine Three-Eyed Golden Lion that Li Jinsheng had created with his second soul skill. After Shen Yi took Li Jinsheng to his make-up exam, he found himself facing a powerful five-ring Soul Master whose Light Holy Dragon aura made him suspect he was fighting Mu En again.

• Gu Yue asked Li Jinsheng to let her care for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and he agreed.
• Na'er recognized the beast as genuine and excitedly accepted it from Gu Yue.
• Li Jinsheng told Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi that he planned to create an overwhelming Beast Tide of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Shen Yi took Li Jinsheng to the Virtual Battlefield for his highest-difficulty make-up exam.
• Li Jinsheng faced a five-ring opponent who attacked with a punch carrying overwhelming Heavenly Might, and Li Jinsheng's counterattack proved weaker than he expected.

Li Jinsheng passed Shrek Academy’s final examination by defeating Mu En with Myriad Beasts Stampede, then went with Gu Yue and Leng Yaozhu to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters for a banquet honoring Qiangu Zhangting. At the banquet, Li Jinsheng mangled Qiangu Zhangting’s name and tried to send him away, while recalling the safeguard he had planted in him.

• Li Jinsheng defeated Mu En’s Sovereign Descends Upon the World with Myriad Beasts Stampede and earned full marks on the final examination.
• Li Jinsheng changed into a suit for the Spirit Pagoda banquet, and Gu Yue adjusted his collar before they headed to the Banquet Hall with Leng Yaozhu.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng gave a speech while Li Jinsheng, Gu Yue, and Leng Yaozhu listened near the front of the guests.
• Qiangu Zhangting greeted the group, but Li Jinsheng called him Qiangu Zhangbi, frustrating Qiangu Zhangting and amusing Gu Yue.
• Li Jinsheng told Qiangu Zhangting to leave so he could eat and remembered the irremovable safeguard he had placed within him.

At the banquet, Li Jinsheng secretly caused Qiangu Zhangting to rush away in distress, then returned to his meditation chamber to investigate the Blue Silver Emperor left-arm Soul Bone. He turned its inner space into an accelerated habitat for Soul Beasts from his Gene bank, where they fought, died, and evolved as he watched for promising survivors.

• Li Jinsheng used an unseen ability to make Qiangu Zhangting lose control of his body and flee the banquet.
• Gu Yue suspected Li Jinsheng had caused the incident, while he denied it; Leng Yaozhu observed without intervening, and Qian Gu Dongfeng concealed his irritation at his grandson's departure.
• Li Jinsheng attended the rest of the banquet, answering guests and helping Gu Yue fend off people who approached her.
• Back in his meditation chamber, Li Jinsheng entered the space inside the Blue Silver Emperor left-arm Soul Bone and tested whether he could bring objects into it.
• Li Jinsheng created a miniature ecosystem and filled it with Soul Beasts from his Gene bank, then watched them fight, evolve, and die as time accelerated within the space.
• Li Jinsheng continued monitoring the Soul Beasts for promising individuals, while a year passed in the outside world.

Li Jinsheng visited his milk tea shop with Na'er and Gu Yue, where Xu Lizhi asked what kind of woman he would marry and received a clueless answer. Yue Zhengyu then warned him that Yu Yuanlong had become a Soul King and publicly challenged him, prompting Li Jinsheng to prepare for a fight.

• Li Jinsheng, Na'er, and Gu Yue visited his busy milk tea shop, where Yuanen Yehui was working and Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi were present.
• Na'er prompted Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi to ask Li Jinsheng about his future wife, but he replied that he did not know what kind of person existed in the world.
• Yue Zhengyu entered the shop and told Li Jinsheng that Yu Yuanlong had reached Level 50 and announced he would defeat him.
• Ye Xinglan reminded Li Jinsheng that Yu Yuanlong had led Shrek Academy's team at the Skysea Alliance competition and that Li Jinsheng had once shattered his internal organs with a punch.
• Li Jinsheng remembered Yu Yuanlong and angrily declared that he needed to be stopped before he grew powerful enough to cause greater trouble.

Li Jinsheng accepted Yu Yuanlong’s challenge and struck him before he could put on his newly completed One-Word Battle Armor. The fight began with Yu Yuanlong sent flying, leaving him protesting that Li Jinsheng had not played fair.

• Li Jinsheng dismissed Yue Zhengyu’s concerns about Yuanen Yehui’s Fallen Angel Martial Soul, and Yuanen Yehui overheard his defense of her.
• Li Jinsheng went to the Outer Court’s Fight Soul Arena district to confront Yu Yuanlong, while Na'er, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, and Yue Zhengyu followed to watch.
• Li Jinsheng accepted Yu Yuanlong’s challenge, and a crowd gathered, including Luo Guixing, Xu Yucheng, Wu Siduo, Zheng Yiran, and Yang Nianxia.
• At the referee’s signal, Yu Yuanlong began summoning his One-Word Battle Armor, but Li Jinsheng struck him before the armor could assemble and sent him flying.
• Yu Yuanlong shouted that Li Jinsheng had not played by martial arts rules, and Li Jinsheng questioned why transforming should make him invincible.

Li Jinsheng defeated Yu Yuanlong with one kick, then learned that he and Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi would temporarily transfer to the Outer Court. As they arrived at their new class, students recognized Li Jinsheng from his arena victory, while Na'er stayed behind in the Inner Court.

• Li Jinsheng knocked Yu Yuanlong into the arena floor before Yu Yuanlong's Battle Armor finished assembling, leaving him critically injured.
• Gu Yue told Li Jinsheng she would design his Battle Armor, then worried that his many abilities made him difficult to design for; Na'er teased her and Gu Yue insisted she could do it.
• Shen Yi announced that Li Jinsheng, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi would temporarily study in the Outer Court while keeping their original benefits.
• Shen Yi warned Li Jinsheng not to use his abilities for disruptive experiments, citing the winter mosquitoes he had created.
• Na'er hugged Li Jinsheng and asked him to visit often before he left with Shen Yi, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi.
• At the Outer Court classroom, students recognized Li Jinsheng as the fighter who had defeated Yu Yuanlong and watched him with curiosity and fear.

At Shrek Academy, Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue teamed up for an assessment in a virtual primeval forest. Li Jinsheng summoned a pack of hybrid Giant Wolves to harass their opponents, while several geniuses prepared to challenge the top-ranked student.

• Shen Yi explained Shrek Academy’s rules and named Li Jinsheng as a candidate for class monitor.
• Shen Yi led the students to the Virtual Pods, where they formed teams before the assessment began.
• Gu Yue chose to team up with Li Jinsheng, and the pair entered the virtual forest together.
• Li Jinsheng proposed triggering a Beast Tide or setting the forest on fire, but Gu Yue told him to use small animals to wear down their opponents instead.
• Li Jinsheng created a pack of gold-and-white Giant Wolves and sent them racing through the forest.
• Several geniuses in the forest prepared to challenge the top-ranked genius on the Genius Youth Ranking.

Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue found Wu Sidao fighting a Giant Wolf, and Wu Sidao challenged Li Jinsheng to a duel. Li Jinsheng used his Fourth Soul Skill, Life Stasis, to freeze her and prepared to eliminate her from the assessment.

• Wu Sidao recalled Li Jinsheng's victory over Yu Yuanlong and admired his strength.
• Luo Guixing, Xu Yucheng, Zheng Yiran, and Yang Nianxia planned to pressure Li Jinsheng, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi agreed to hide and survive the free-for-all.
• Wu Sidao defeated Li Jinsheng's Giant Wolf by striking its eye, then noticed Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue nearby.
• Wu Sidao challenged Li Jinsheng to a one-on-one fight, but he refused and activated his Fourth Soul Skill, Life Stasis.
• Li Jinsheng froze Wu Sidao in place, and Gu Yue considered the unusual power of his life-based abilities.

Li Jinsheng tested Wu Sidao’s Life Stasis Soul Skill, then watched four young Soul Masters struggle against his Golden White Giant Wolves. He stopped the wolves and challenged the four to choose between fighting him and continuing to face the pack.

• Li Jinsheng struck Wu Sidao while she was frozen by Life Stasis, then released the stasis and sent her flying from the assessment zone.
• Gu Yue followed Li Jinsheng through the forest, and they found Luo Guixing, Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, and Zheng Yiran battling four Golden White Giant Wolves.
• The wolves overwhelmed the four Soul Masters, injuring Yang Nianxia and disrupting Luo Guixing’s attempt to teleport him.
• Li Jinsheng stepped into the clearing, and the Giant Wolves immediately stopped attacking and bowed their heads to him.
• Li Jinsheng asked the four whether they wanted to challenge him or keep fighting his four wolves, leaving them to consider their choice.

Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue eliminated Luo Guixing, Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, and Zheng Yiran, while Golden White Giant Wolves rapidly cleared the assessment area. Shen Yi reduced the arena when forty participants remained, leaving the surviving students gathered in a tense clearing.

• Gu Yue attacked Luo Guixing, Yang Nianxia, Xu Yucheng, and Zheng Yiran with a barrage of Light Blades.
• Li Jinsheng used Sense Stripping: Touch Stripping to dull the four opponents’ senses, allowing Gu Yue to eliminate them from the assessment.
• Golden White Giant Wolves hunted students throughout the forest, rapidly reducing the number of participants.
• Shen Yi announced that forty assessment participants remained and reduced the assessment area by fifty percent.
• Li Jinsheng recognized the survivors in the new clearing as familiar faces, while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie searched for Xu Xiaoyan.

Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue faced the other candidates in the final assessment, where Li Jinsheng used his Life Domain to eliminate the attackers and Gu Yue defeated Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi. After Xu Xiaoyan surrendered, Gu Yue also conceded, leaving Li Jinsheng as the last person in the examination area when the assessment ended.

• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and the others charged at Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue, while Ye Xinglan waited for an opening.
• Li Jinsheng used Bestowal of Life to slow everyone within his domain and knocked Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi out of the examination area.
• Ye Xinglan attacked Gu Yue with the Stargod Sword, but Gu Yue overwhelmed her with an Elemental Storm; Gu Yue then eliminated Xu Lizhi with a Wind Blade.
• Li Jinsheng called Xu Xiaoyan out of hiding, and Xu Xiaoyan surrendered and vanished from the examination area.
• Gu Yue refused to fight Li Jinsheng and surrendered, leaving him alone as the assessment ended in darkness.

Shen Yi confirmed the Class One committee appointments, naming Li Jinsheng class president and assigning the sub-profession roles. Li Jinsheng agreed to forge high-fusion Jade Silver for Yue Zhengyu before heading with Gu Yue to Sea God Island.

• Shen Yi announced Li Jinsheng as class president, Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan as vice class presidents, and appointed Li Jinsheng, Gu Yue, Wu Sidao, and Ye Xinglan to the four sub-profession committees.
• Li Jinsheng's Sixth-Grade Forging Master rank and Gu Yue's fifth-grade Mech Design rank shocked the class, and the four committee members were assigned to Li Jinsheng's group.
• Yue Zhengyu asked Li Jinsheng to forge Jade Silver with at least an eighty-five percent fusion rate, and Li Jinsheng agreed in exchange for payment and material costs.
• Gu Yue and Li Jinsheng left Yue Zhengyu and boarded a boat to Sea God Island.

Li Jinsheng returned to Sea God Island and began discussing Battle Armor design with Gu Yue and Na'er. After Ya Li asked what he would do if a lover’s family opposed their relationship, Li Jinsheng vowed to fight his way through the heavens, realizing his plan resembled Yun Ming’s famous deed.

• Na'er greeted Li Jinsheng with an enthusiastic hug and joined him and Gu Yue to discuss designing Battle Armor.
• Gu Yue set Li Jinsheng's design aside because his changing fighting style made it difficult to find armor that would suit him.
• Ya Li visited the courtyard and advised the group to prioritize compatibility between Battle Armor and their Martial Souls.
• Ya Li asked Li Jinsheng how he would respond if a girl's family disapproved of him, and he said he would fight them and punch through the sky.
• Ya Li asked whether Leng Yaozhu had told Li Jinsheng about Sky Pillar Douluo's legend, prompting him to realize his plan echoed Yun Ming's deed.

Gu Yue designed a Two-Word Battle Armor for Li Jinsheng, who focused on its appearance and requested a red cape. After an accidental fall brought Gu Yue and Li Jinsheng close together, Na'er realized she might be losing her chance with him.

• Gu Yue struggled to choose a Battle Armor design for Li Jinsheng, then drafted a plan using complex Soul Conductor Circuits and energy patterns.
• Feng Wu Yu entered and offered to teach Li Jinsheng forging, but Li Jinsheng dismissed him.
• Gu Yue gave Li Jinsheng the blueprint, and he requested wings and a vivid red cape to make the armor look more impressive.
• Na'er tried to look at the blueprint, startling Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who tripped Gu Yue and caused her to fall onto Li Jinsheng.
• Gu Yue blushed after landing beneath Li Jinsheng, while Na'er watched and feared she had become the losing girl.

Na'er pulled Li Jinsheng away after catching him in an awkward moment with Gu Yue, and the next day he led his team into an Actual Combat class against Wu Changkong. The fight began with Wu Changkong swiftly cutting down Li Jinsheng’s summoned Great Strength Vajra Bear, as Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao launched their attack.

• Na'er dragged Li Jinsheng out of Gu Yue’s room, while Ya Li watched and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion remained behind.
• Gu Yue settled herself and returned to drawing as Ya Li quietly left and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion went back to sleep.
• Shen Yi announced an Actual Combat class in which the students would challenge her or Wu Changkong, and Li Jinsheng assembled a team with the four class committee members.
• Li Jinsheng silenced the gathered students with his Life Domain, then his team chose Wu Changkong as their opponent.
• Li Jinsheng summoned a Great Strength Vajra Bear, but Wu Changkong split it apart with a single strike of his Frost Sword.
• Gu Yue attacked Wu Changkong with elemental attacks while Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao rushed in to engage him.

Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Wu Sidao, and Li Jinsheng coordinated their attacks against Wu Changkong, forcing him to defend with his sword and battle instincts. Li Jinsheng then revealed the massive creature he had developed from his Second Soul Skill, leaving Wu Changkong astonished by its strength.

• Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao trapped Wu Changkong with elemental attacks, sword strikes, and claws, but he dodged their assault.
• Li Jinsheng struck Wu Changkong with a powerful fist, and Wu Changkong redirected the force with his Frost Sword.
• Gu Yue and Li Jinsheng followed with Wind and Light Blades and Vision Deprivation, and a Light Blade grazed Wu Changkong's arm.
• Wu Changkong used his hearing to block Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao's follow-up attacks, then regained his vision when Li Jinsheng's skill ended.
• Li Jinsheng summoned the monstrous Five Emperors King, which Wu Changkong assessed as having strength comparable to a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Li Jinsheng used his Synthetic Monster and a charged Life Solidification technique to defeat Wu Changkong in the group assessment. After Shen Yi awarded the group full marks, Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue planned to prepare materials for his Battle Armor and Yue Zhengyu’s orders.

• The Synthetic Monster attacked Wu Changkong with beams and energy spheres, but Wu Changkong evaded them with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.
• Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao retreated beside Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue as Li Jinsheng spread his Life Domain across the arena.
• Li Jinsheng’s Life Domain transformed the arena into an abyssal maw and struck Wu Changkong with a charged Fourth Soul Skill, Life Solidification—Combined Technique.
• Wu Changkong eventually broke free, and Shen Yi announced that Li Jinsheng, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao had earned full marks for the group assessment.
• Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue discussed Battle Armor materials and Yue Zhengyu’s orders, then the four students left the arena for Shrek City.

Gu Yue showed Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao designs for their One-Word Battle Armor, while Li Jinsheng promised to forge the metals they needed. He took Na'er and Yuanen Yehui to the Blacksmith Association in Shrek City, where his standing let him obtain materials for free.

• Gu Yue presented Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao with Battle Armor designs made for Spirit Alloy, and Ye Xinglan worried she could not inscribe the Soul Conductor Arrays reliably.
• Li Jinsheng told Ye Xinglan to reach Soul Ancestor and asked Wu Sidao whether she could handle the work; Wu Sidao nervously said she could.
• Li Jinsheng promised to forge the metals for everyone once Na'er arrived, and Na'er entered the shop and requested Boundary Void Silver.
• Li Jinsheng offered to forge Yuanen Yehui's Battle Armor materials as an advance on her bonus, and she chose Nether Iron.
• Li Jinsheng recalled that he had Spirit Forged Starfall Iron that Feng Wu Yu had believed impossible to Spirit Forge.
• Li Jinsheng, Na'er, Yuanen Yehui, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao went to the Blacksmith Association, where Li Jinsheng could obtain metals for free.