Chapter Summaries

Li Jinsheng forged spirit-forged metals for everyone’s battle armor, including a powerful life alloy made from Nirvana Gold and spirit iron. After he urged Ye Xinglan to practice shaping and purifying the materials, the group went to eat in Shrek City, where a commotion drew Li Jinsheng’s attention.

• Gu Yue confirmed the alloys with Li Jinsheng, who promised to finish everyone’s materials before dinner.
• Li Jinsheng spirit-forged Wu Sidao’s metal with an evil spirit, then completed the others’ materials in less than an hour.
• Li Jinsheng fused Nirvana Gold and spirit iron into a life alloy, achieving spirit forging creation and receiving life feedback.
• Two hours later, Li Jinsheng finished the battle armor materials, including Yue Zhengyu’s jade silver, and told Ye Xinglan to stop studying the blueprints and practice.
• The group sat down at a restaurant in Shrek City, where a wave of commotion caught Li Jinsheng’s attention and made him think, “Failed exam candidates!”

Li Jinsheng rescued Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan from a group of rejected Shrek Academy applicants, driving off the attackers after embedding their leader in a wall. After learning Xu Xiaoyan had reached rank 30 and they had gone to the Spirit Pagoda seeking a Soul Spirit, he told them about the Tower Challenge as another way to obtain one.

• Li Jinsheng stepped in as a group of rejected applicants harassed Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Li Jinsheng kicked the leader into a wall, where he remained embedded, and counted the nineteen attackers.
• The other eighteen men fled when one of them ran, leaving behind a threat invoking their boss Feng Ling.
• Li Jinsheng gave the shop manager Cai Yuer's identification badge and told him to charge the repairs to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin explained that Xu Xiaoyan had reached rank 30 and they had gone to the Spirit Pagoda for a Thousand-Year Spirit.
• Li Jinsheng explained that students could obtain Soul Spirits through other methods and introduced the Tower Challenge.

Li Jinsheng explained the Spirit Pagoda Tower Challenge, assembled a seven-person team, and arranged their entry into the tower. A week later, the group reached the tower’s grand hall and stepped through its Golden Light Gate.

• Gu Yue and Li Jinsheng explained the tower’s rules, floors, team requirements, age limit, and discounted Soul Spirit rewards.
• Li Jinsheng invited Yuanen Yehui to join the team, then asked Gu Yue and Na'er to come along with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Li Jinsheng submitted the application, Leng Yaozhu approved it, and the group agreed to challenge the tower the following weekend.
• The seven gathered at the Spirit Pagoda, rode an upper-rank elevator to a hall above a sea of clouds, and heard Gu Yue warn them that injuries would be real.
• Li Jinsheng entered the Golden Light Gate first, followed by Gu Yue and the others, and an illusory scene appeared before them.

Li Jinsheng led the group through the Spirit Pagoda Tower, clearing its levels and helping Xu Xiaoyan obtain an Ice Bear Soul Spirit. The group entered the tenth floor, while Xu Xiaoyan remained behind to meditate.

• Li Jinsheng's Golden White Giant Wolves defeated more than a hundred Wind Wolves on the first floor, and the group continued onward after clearing it.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie volunteered to fight the Flame Magic Lions on the second floor as Li Jinsheng only occasionally joined the later battles.
• On the ninth floor, four Ice Bears unleashed a blizzard, but Li Jinsheng cut them down with his Emerald Light Wheel.
• Xu Xiaoyan chose the mutated-looking Ice Bear Soul Spirit, formed a contract with it, and stayed behind to meditate until she was teleported out.
• Li Jinsheng led Tang Wulin and the others through the gate to the tenth floor, where they found a circular hall with a single Metal Gate.

The group cleared the twelfth and thirteenth stages, with Yuanen Yehui fighting the King Kong Baboon to obtain it as her Second Soul Spirit. After the trial announced the victory, Li Jinsheng urged her to absorb it while preparing to challenge the Light Gate himself.

• Na'er defeated the Fear Demon Dragon in one strike, and the group advanced to the twelfth stage.
• Li Jinsheng blocked the Thunder Beast's lightning and defeated it with his Great Rock Snake, clearing the trial.
• Yuanen Yehui asked to claim the King Kong Baboon as her Second Soul Spirit, and Li Jinsheng approved.
• Yuanen Yehui, Gu Yue, Na'er, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie coordinated their attacks to wear down the King Kong Baboon.
• Li Jinsheng struck the King Kong Baboon with his fist and sent it crashing into a wall, defeating it and clearing the thirteenth stage.
• Li Jinsheng told Yuanen Yehui to absorb the King Kong Baboon Soul Spirit while he focused on the Light Gate.

Li Jinsheng, Na'er, and Gu Yue climbed the Spirit Pagoda Tower, learning to fight together as they faced increasingly powerful Soul Beasts. On the 37th Floor, they encountered a Jade Qilin, and Li Jinsheng challenged it as battle became imminent.

• Li Jinsheng entered the Light Gate with Na'er and Gu Yue, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Yuanen Yehui stayed behind.
• Na'er and Gu Yue combined their powers to defeat a Ten-Thousand-Year Twin-Eyed Giant and began coordinating their attacks.
• The trio pushed past the 30th Floor, and Li Jinsheng restored Na'er and Gu Yue with Life Element energy on the 36th Floor.
• Li Jinsheng led Na'er and Gu Yue onto the 37th Floor, where Gu Yue recognized a Jade Qilin as a Soul Beast from the Star Luo Continent.
• The Jade Qilin warned the three to leave, but Li Jinsheng defied it as the surrounding life energy stirred toward battle.

Li Jinsheng, Na'er, and Gu Yue battled the Feicui Qilin, whose Five Elements powers countered their attacks and whose defenses tested Li Jinsheng's strength. The Qilin offered to become Li Jinsheng's Soul Spirit if he survived its ultimate attack, and the chapter ended as the three fighters launched a coordinated assault into the blinding clash.

• Li Jinsheng's Emerald Light Wheel fed the Jade Qilin's Life Fire, so Na'er and Gu Yue joined him in attacking while he called for long-range interference.
• The Qilin raised Feicui trees and a yellow jade mountain to block Li Jinsheng's attacks, then wounded him with Feicui crystals; his Blue Silver Left Arm Bone rapidly healed him and his allies.
• Li Jinsheng deprived the Qilin of its vision and struck its dark Feicui barrier, forcing it to acknowledge his strength and consider him worthy of becoming its partner.
• The Qilin promised to become Li Jinsheng's Soul Spirit if he endured its Five Elements attack, then unleashed a blast that fractured the air.
• Li Jinsheng summoned a colossal creature as Gu Yue and Na'er circled behind the Qilin and fired the Seven-Colored Spear, and their three attacks engulfed the hall.

Li Jinsheng defeated the Jade Qilin and formed a contract with it, gaining a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and an unusual Emerald Gold Fifth Soul Ring. He and Gu Yue returned to the plaza, where Leng Yaozhu offered the Shrek students the Spirit Pagoda’s resources and training.

• Li Jinsheng used Taotie to swallow Qilin’s attack, then pierced Qilin with the Seven-Colored Spear and weakened it.
• Li Jinsheng helped Qilin recover, and Qilin willingly became his Soul Spirit, taking the name Jade Qilin.
• Li Jinsheng formed an Emerald Gold Fifth Soul Ring as Gu Yue and Na'er watched.
• Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue returned to the plaza, where Yuanen Yehui reported that she had contracted a King Kong Baboon.
• Leng Yaozhu congratulated Li Jinsheng and offered the Shrek students access to the Spirit Pagoda’s best resources and training.

Yuanen Yehui joined the Spirit Pagoda after Li Jinsheng revealed that membership would erase the cost of her King Kong Baboon. Back at Shrek Academy, Li Jinsheng misunderstood a pile of love letters as challenge notices, and Shen Yi announced an upcoming First Year and Second Year competition.

• Li Jinsheng told Yuanen Yehui that joining the Spirit Pagoda would waive the thirty-million-Federal-Coin price of her King Kong Baboon, and she accepted Leng Yaozhu's invitation.
• Leng Yaozhu praised the group for reaching the thirty-seventh floor and reminded Li Jinsheng to address his shortcomings in combat restraint.
• The group left the Spirit Pagoda, ate near the academy, and discussed what they had gained from the trial.
• The next morning, Li Jinsheng mistook the letters covering his desk for challenge notices before realizing they were love letters.
• Shen Yi announced an official exchange competition between the First Year and the Second Year, with sub-profession contests and team battles.

Li Jinsheng formed an actual combat team with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi, then joined Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao to study Battle Armor design. At the Blacksmith Association, Li Jinsheng used his Fifth Soul Skill to help Ye Xinglan finish engraving a Soul Guide Magic Array.

• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi asked Li Jinsheng to join his team, and he agreed with Gu Yue included.
• Ye Xinglan invited Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue to meet Wu Sidao and discuss Battle Armor design and Core Array compatibility.
• Li Jinsheng, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao met at a Milk Tea Shop, where Wu Sidao said Luo Guixing and the others had called her away that morning.
• Ye Xinglan proposed testing her Soul Guide Magic Array engraving, and Li Jinsheng took the group to the Blacksmith Association.
• Li Jinsheng used his Fifth Soul Skill, Life Amplification, to bolster Ye Xinglan as she engraved a Soul Guide Magic Array.
• Ye Xinglan completed the engraving and excitedly announced that she had succeeded.

Ye Xinglan and Li Jinsheng completed the fusion of his Two-Word Battle Armor, producing a creation-like phenomenon that astonished the girls. Days later, Li Jinsheng's team swept through the first-grade selection tournament by forfeit and advanced to the finals against Luo Guixing's team.

• Ye Xinglan guided Li Jinsheng in fusing his blood with the inscribed metal, and the material covered his left arm as a Battle Armor fusion phenomenon unfolded.
• Gu Yue explained that the spectacle came from a Two-Word Battle Armor fusion, while Li Jinsheng told Ye Xinglan to cultivate her Soul Power and prepare to reach Soul Ancestor.
• After several days of cultivation and Battle Armor work, Shen Yi announced that the first-grade selection tournament would use actual combat on the Sparring Arena.
• Li Jinsheng's classmates grew nervous about facing him, and most opposing teams forfeited as his team advanced through the tournament.
• Li Jinsheng warned Xu Xiaoyan that other students would challenge her vice class monitor position, and Luo Guixing's team emerged as their opponent in the finals.

Li Jinsheng’s team faced Luo Guixing’s team in the finals, where Li Jinsheng revealed he had become a Soul King and defeated all five opponents with a single attack. Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li declared Li Jinsheng’s team the winners and summoned him to go with her.

• Li Jinsheng selected Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie for the final match, leaving Tang Wulin and Xu Lizhi off the field.
• Luo Guixing equipped part of his One-Word Battle Armor and vowed to show his team’s new strength, but Li Jinsheng revealed his five Soul Rings, including brilliant gold and Emerald Gold rings.
• Li Jinsheng used Life’s Praise and his Fifth Soul Skill to strike Luo Guixing’s team with five Fierce Beast phantoms, defeating them before they could fight back.
• Li Jinsheng’s Life Aura healed the defeated team, and Xu Yucheng briefly felt relief from the damage caused by his Martial Soul.
• Ya Li announced Li Jinsheng’s team as the winners and said they would spar with the Second Year, then asked Li Jinsheng to come with her.

Li Jinsheng demonstrated his healing ability to Ya Li, then joined Na'er and the others to discuss Battle Armor and a custom Mecha design. Gu Yue confirmed the Mecha could be built, and she and Li Jinsheng ended by declaring they would compete to become Spirit Pagoda Tower Master.

• Ya Li asked Li Jinsheng about his healing ability, and he showed that he could revive her withered organ before agreeing to consider helping her when he reached Titled Douluo.
• Li Jinsheng visited Na'er, and they shared lunch before heading to the Milk Tea Shop together.
• Li Jinsheng, Na'er, Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidao discussed their Battle Armor work, while Yuanen Yehui described the slow progress on hers and talked about the Second Year tournament team.
• Li Jinsheng gave Gu Yue a blueprint for a two-mode Mecha, and she said it could be made at a cost comparable to a Black-class Mecha or possibly a Red-class one.
• Li Jinsheng said he would commission the Mecha and become Spirit Pagoda Tower Master, while Gu Yue declared she would compete with him for the position.

Li Jinsheng commissioned a Black-class Mecha from Leng Yaozhu and prepared to face Class 1 Grade 2 in an inter-grade competition at Shrek Academy. The first event began with a Titanium Crystal purification challenge, and Li Jinsheng stepped forward to compete.

• Na'er hugged Li Jinsheng and asked him to find her after the competition, while Gu Yue urged him to visit the Spirit Pagoda.
• Li Jinsheng gave Leng Yaozhu his Mecha blueprint and applied for the certification needed to use the Mecha on the roads; he requested a black-and-gold paint job.
• Gu Yue told Leng Yaozhu about the conversation at the Milk Tea Shop, and Leng Yaozhu advised her to be direct with Li Jinsheng.
• The next day, Class 1 Grade 1 and Class 1 Grade 2 gathered at Shrek Academy's Sparring Arena for their exchange competition, with Shen Yi as referee and Ya Li and Cai Yuer as judges.
• Shen Yi announced that the first event was Forging, with both classes tasked with purifying Titanium Crystal, and Li Jinsheng stepped onto the stage.

Li Jinsheng dominated the forging match and helped First Year Class One take three of four sub-profession victories. In the Actual Combat match, he tested his Second Soul Skill combined with his domain, revealing that his summoned Soul Beasts split and regenerated when destroyed.

• Li Jinsheng forged a flawless piece of Titanium Crystal in three hammer strikes, decisively defeating He Xiaopeng.
• Gu Yue won the design competition, while Ye Xinglan and Yuanen Yehui narrowly won the Mecha Manufacturing and Mecha Repair contests, giving Second Year Class One one win and three losses.
• The Actual Combat match began with both classes forming up, and Li Jinsheng unleashed a Life Force Field that summoned Soul Beasts from the arena floor.
• Yuanen Yehui destroyed a Wind Leopard with Air Cannon, but it reformed as two faster Wind Leopards, leaving her and Gu Yue to recognize the threat of Li Jinsheng's regenerating beasts.
• Cai Yuer concluded that the only way to break Li Jinsheng's move was to get close and defeat him.

Li Jinsheng’s First Year team defeated the Second Year team with a coordinated assault, while he reflected on flaws in his Beast Tide technique. After the match, he went with Gu Yue to Sea God Island to visit Na’er, who pulled him away for an outing and asked him to leave Gu Yue behind.

• Yuanen Yehui led the Second Year team’s charge against Li Jinsheng while Gu Yue and the First Year students helped counter their assault.
• Ye Xinglan struck Duan Hunxiao, Xie Xie threatened Bai Hanying, and Xu Xiaoyan disrupted Ye Xingmo, throwing the Second Year formation into chaos.
• The referee declared the First Year team the winner after Li Jinsheng’s Soul Beasts overwhelmed the remaining Second Year students.
• The First Year students praised Li Jinsheng’s Beast Tide, and Gu Yue told him the technique still needed improvement.
• Li Jinsheng and Gu Yue went to Sea God Island to visit Na’er, who asked him to go out with her alone and dragged him away.

Li Jinsheng and Na'er revisited the barbecue shop, where Li Jinsheng punished Feng Ling and his gang after Feng Ling harassed Na'er. They left for Sea God Lake together, where Na'er seemed poised to say something.

• Na'er and Li Jinsheng returned to the barbecue shop where they had first met and ate together.
• Feng Ling arrived with seven or eight men, recognized Li Jinsheng, and demanded revenge while leering at Na'er.
• Li Jinsheng's pressure transformed Feng Ling's men into red-furred monsters, and he used Life Silk Threads to control Feng Ling.
• Li Jinsheng repeatedly destroyed and healed Feng Ling until the man collapsed, while the transformed men fell unconscious.
• Na'er took Li Jinsheng by the hand and led him to Sea God Lake, where she rose onto her tiptoes.

Na'er kissed Li Jinsheng and asked him to try a relationship with her, and he agreed. As Shrek Academy's Final Exam began, Li Jinsheng secretly relied on his unusual abilities and attacked upperclassmen to earn money, ending as he unleashed the Myriad Beasts Stampede in Spirit Ice Plaza.

• Na'er kissed Li Jinsheng, confessed that she wanted them to try falling in love, and he agreed.
• Li Jinsheng and Na'er returned to the workshop, where their Battle Armor projects had advanced and Gu Yue watched their closeness with jealousy.
• Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidao discussed preparing for the Final Exam, which Shen Yi announced would require students to reach Mingdu within fifteen days and defeat stronger opponents in at least ten cities.
• After the students were searched and stripped of their possessions, Li Jinsheng kept his hidden resources to himself and went to Spirit Ice Plaza to earn money from upperclassmen.
• Li Jinsheng activated his black Second Soul Ring, causing the plaza to shake as the Myriad Beasts Stampede erupted.

Li Jinsheng summoned a beast horde in Spirit Ice Plaza, forced the injured upperclassmen to pay for healing, and then set off for Heaven Dou City to take his Final Exam. On the Soul Guide Train, he recognized Mo Lan and feared Tang Wulin was aboard too.

• Li Jinsheng unleashed a Beast Tide in Spirit Ice Plaza, and Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan escaped into the trees as the upperclassmen were overwhelmed.
• Li Jinsheng healed the injured students for payment, charging extra for pain relief, while Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan also collected Federal Coins.
• Li Jinsheng left the academy, and Na'er gave him a card for his Final Exam before he headed to the Soul Guide Train station.
• Li Jinsheng boarded a train to Heaven Dou City and contacted the Divine Craftsman to arrange an opponent for his assessment.
• Li Jinsheng saw Mo Lan approach on the train and suspected Tang Wulin was aboard as well.

Li Jinsheng encountered Train Conductor Mo Lan aboard the train and received an All-Union Train Pass before discovering that kidnappers had seized the first five carriages. He entered Carriage Five, disabled the six kidnappers with his Life Domain, and faced a surprise attack from the hidden Plague Envoy.

• Mo Lan recognized Li Jinsheng, gave him an All-Union Train Pass, and continued inspecting the train.
• Mo Lan rushed from Carriage Eight toward Carriage Five after the kidnappers demanded the Federation release people arrested twenty days earlier.
• Li Jinsheng followed Mo Lan and found six masked kidnappers holding passengers hostage in Carriage Five, with the Plague Envoy hiding nearby.
• Li Jinsheng activated his Life Domain and used accelerated time to cripple the six kidnappers before they could attack.
• The hidden Plague Envoy hurled a green sphere of light at Li Jinsheng as he turned toward Mo Lan.