Chapter Summaries

Nan Liujing led his team into the Gloom Forest to collect Abyss Fruits, training them to handle its dangerous Abyss creatures along the way. With thousands of monsters gathered around the ripening fruit, he drew their attention alone so the team could seize the opportunity to collect it.

• Nan Liujing warned the team about corrosive ground and assigned four scouts as they entered the Gloom Forest.
• Yuanen Yehui deduced that Abyss creatures were gathering near the Abyss Fruits, and Nan Liujing used the Thunderous Nethervine to locate a strong concentration of evil aura.
• Nan Liujing guided the team past an Abyss horde and through attacks from plant-like monsters, secretly using the dangers to improve their teamwork while protecting them with lightning.
• At the forest’s edge, the team found thousands of Abyss creatures gathered near ripening fruit, so Nan Liujing put Yuanen Yehui in command and planned to draw the monsters away.
• Nan Liujing emerged alone and released his Bloodline Power, causing the thousands of Abyss creatures to turn toward him.

Nan Liujing led the Abyss creatures away from the puddle so Yuanen Yehui's team could collect the ripe Abyss Fruits, then returned to save her from two Soul Sage-level Ba Ans. The team completed the Mimicry Pod assessment without casualties, earned Merit Points, and left Nan Liujing and Yuanen Yehui preparing for further training.

• Nan Liujing lured the Abyss creatures away from the puddle and used Forest of Lightning to destroy most of the horde.
• Yuanen Yehui led the team into the puddle, where they fought the remaining creatures and began collecting the ripe Abyss Fruits.
• Jiang Zhanheng ordered two Soul Sage-level Ba Ans deployed, and they ambushed Yuanen Yehui as she gathered fruit.
• Nan Liujing rushed back, killed both Ba Ans, and completed the assessment with zero team casualties.
• The instructors awarded the team two thousand Merit Points, including a zero-casualty bonus, and outlined their next two days of training.
• Yuanen Yehui thanked Nan Liujing for saving her and decided to try the weighted training room to improve her strength and vigilance.

Nan Liujing fused Time-Space Behemoth essence blood, gaining powers tied to time and space, while War God Training Camp leaders assigned him an elite team for combat in the Land of Gloom. He also learned that the trainees had begun lining up to buy his discounted Spirit Alloy, and Ling Wuyue remained skeptical of him.

• Nan Liujing learned that Time-Space Behemoth came from Giant Beast Continent and heard about its clan's God King ancestor before beginning the essence-blood fusion.
• Nan Liujing experienced the River of Time, strengthened his soul, and gained time-space powers as Time-Space Behemoth explained the essence blood's defensive benefits and promised a Time-Space Rift soul skill from the soul bone.
• Long Tianwu, Jiang Zhanheng, and Su Mengjun reviewed Nan Liujing's Abyss battle footage and agreed to make him captain of a seven-person elite team, with three members assigned from the camp.
• Xu Junlan told the eastern rest area's trainees that Nan Liujing offered discounted Thousand Forging Grade One Spirit Alloy, praised them as heroes, and allowed those short on Merit Points to pay later; the trainees lined up to register.
• Nan Liujing met his assigned teammates Jiang Wuyue, Long Yuxue, and Ling Wuyue, learned they would enter the Land of Gloom with him, and left despite Ling Wuyue's doubts about his leadership.

Nan Liujing led Dusk Squad to the Sixth Outpost and unleashed overwhelming power against Abyss creatures in the Withered Garden. After absorbing energy from the creatures, he pursued and killed six Plague Demons, while the Plague Emperor sensed something unusual on the Abyss Plane.

• Nan Liujing introduced the members of Dusk Squad, then led them through a spatial passage to the Sixth Outpost.
• Xu Junlan, Xiao Pojun, and Long Tianwu discovered that Nan Liujing had forged over a hundred pieces of Thousand Forged Spirit Alloy, and news of his discounted smithing spread through the camp.
• Nan Liujing took his team to the Withered Garden after Ye Yan requested support against hundreds of Abyss creatures, including an unknown type.
• Nan Liujing struck the garden with Heavenly Dipper Thunder Extremity, destroying more than a third of it and killing at least 150 Abyss creatures.
• Nan Liujing pursued six fleeing Plague Demons, tested their Plague Insect Mist against his armor, and killed them with Staff Intent before absorbing their Abyss energy.
• The Plague Emperor opened his eyes in the Abyss Plane and sensed an unusual disturbance, causing the mist around him to writhe.

Nan Liujing and the Flame Team cleared several Abyss sites, and he discovered a more efficient way to harvest Abyss energy with the Thunderous Nethervine. Later, the Thunderous Nethervine revealed its origins and asked him to help it reach the hundred-thousand-year level in exchange for a chance to become a god.

• Nan Liujing and Ling Wuyue wiped out the Withered Garden's Abyss creatures before Ye Yan led the group to a nearby Yellow-grade Abyss Replication Ground.
• Nan Liujing used the Thunderous Nethervine to unleash lightning through the insect mist, destroying the Abyss horde and absorbing its energy.
• Nan Liujing, Yuanen Yehui, Long Yuxue, and the others cleared two White-grade Replication Grounds, while Yuanen Yehui and Long Yuxue developed better teamwork.
• Nan Liujing offered thirty thousand Merit Points to the team, but most members refused them, and Yuanen Yehui teased him about avoiding her promised massage.
• Xu Junlan told Ye Yan that a Level Six blacksmith had arrived and was selling high-fusion Thousand Forged Spirit Alloy, prompting the camp to register for purchases.
• The Thunderous Nethervine told Nan Liujing that it was an avatar of the spirit within Zhang Geyang, asked for help reaching one hundred thousand years, and promised him an opportunity to become a god.

Nan Liujing’s forging and monster hunting made him famous at the War God Training Camp, while Abyss Emperors uncovered the energy loss and began sealing the Land of Gloom’s spatial nodes. After five months, Nan Liujing reunited with his teacher Leng Yaozhu, who said she had called him to discuss something important.

• The Plague Emperor warned the other Abyss Emperors that Abyss energy was disappearing, but they mocked his explanation.
• Nan Liujing completed trainees’ Thousand Forged Spirit Alloy orders, then endured Yuanen Yehui’s Titan Giant Ape-powered massage while trainees gathered outside their dorm.
• Yu Guanzhi supplied free metals and promised Nan Liujing Gold Water Confluence if he helped over sixty percent of trainees complete One-word Battle Armor; Nan Liujing’s Abyss Replication Ground exploits also impressed the camp.
• After five months, the Plague Emperor persuaded the lower-layer Abyss Emperors to pool their origin energy and began sealing the six spatial nodes linking the Land of Gloom to the Douluo Plane.
• Nan Liujing arrived at the Blazing Fire City Spirit Pagoda and reunited warmly with Leng Yaozhu, who told him she had called him to discuss something.

Nan Liujing learned that Qiangu Zhangting had been badly injured after cracking the Blood God Array, then chose to return to the Heavenly Spirit Tower after his current training term. A purple-class Abyss Tide struck the Land of Gloom, and after Nan Liujing drew the attention of a powerful enemy, the spatial passage at Outpost Four vanished, leaving its defenders trapped while the other outposts remained connected.

• Leng Yaozhu told Nan Liujing that Qiangu Zhangting had cracked the Blood God Array with the Unbending Staff Technique and was blacklisted by the Blood God Legion.
• Nan Liujing chose to return to the Heavenly Spirit Tower in a month to support Leng Yaozhu's Spirit Transmission Academy, then agreed to cook for her in Blazing Fire City.
• Three days later, a purple-class Abyss Tide began, and Nan Liujing's Dusk Squad was sent from Outpost Six to reinforce Outpost Four.
• Nan Liujing used Thunderous Nethervine to tear through the insect fog, but a giant withered claw attacked him and he escaped with his space-time ability.
• The defenders discovered that Outpost Four's spatial passage had disappeared, and Nan Liujing suspected the Abyss Tide had been aimed at him.
• Yuanen Yehui promised to stay with Nan Liujing if necessary, and a communications soldier reported that the other outposts' spatial passages still worked.

After the spatial passages to the Douluo Plane were sealed, Nan Liujing and the trapped forces refused the Plague Emperor’s offer to surrender him and fought the Abyss army together. The Plague Emperor descended into the Land of Gloom and overwhelmed the outpost’s defenses, leaving everyone facing a potential massacre.

• Long Tianwu learned that the spatial passage had vanished, and Guan Yue, Yu Guanzhi, Qian Gu Qingfeng, and Leng Yaozhu rushed to respond.
• The Plague Emperor revealed that Nan Liujing could absorb Abyss energy and offered to spare the trapped forces if they handed him over, but Station Chief Number Four and the others chose to stand with Nan Liujing.
• Nan Liujing absorbed the Abyss energy released by the attacking creatures while the soldiers and trainees battled the army, prompting the Plague Emperor to descend into the Land of Gloom.
• The Plague Emperor attacked Nan Liujing with a murky beam, but Nan Liujing escaped using his Time-Space Domain before the Plague Emperor summoned Plague Puppets and spread a poisonous swamp.
• The outpost activated its shields as the Plague Emperor’s true body unleashed the plague swamp, and the shields began to falter under the assault.

Nan Liujing used the outpost’s soul battery array to empower Thunderous Nethervine, destroying the Plague Emperor’s body and saving Outpost Four. The Plague Emperor’s soul was then slain by a silver dragon claw, and a spatial passage appeared in the outpost.

• The commander of Outpost Four and nine instructors prepared to self-destruct their battle armor to kill the Plague Emperor, but Nan Liujing asked to try another plan.
• Nan Liujing absorbed energy from the soul battery array through Thunderous Nethervine, then used his Time-Space Domain to reverse the damage to his body.
• Thunderous Nethervine formed the Thunder God's Eye and unleashed a lightning beam that annihilated the Plague Mire and shattered the Plague Emperor’s body.
• Nan Liujing collapsed into Yuanen Yehui’s arms as the Plague Emperor’s body self-destructed and scattered spores toward the outpost.
• The Plague Emperor’s soul attacked Nan Liujing, but a silver dragon claw emerged through a spatial crack and destroyed it before withdrawing.
• A spatial passage appeared in the outpost’s central grounds.

Nan Liujing and the others escaped the Land of Gloom after he defeated an Abyss Emperor and revealed his ability to devour Abyss energy. He received the War God Medal, while the Abyss Emperors learned of the threat and ordered restraint as the hundredth layer collapsed.

• Nan Liujing absorbed the Abyss energy released after the enemy’s defeat, woke in Yuanen Yehui’s arms, and returned through the spatial passage with the survivors.
• Leng Yaozhu embraced Nan Liujing after he emerged, and Station Chief Number Four later explained that the Abyss Emperor had descended because Nan Liujing could devour Abyss energy.
• Cao Dezhi learned that Nan Liujing had killed the Abyss Emperor and urged the leaders to protect him and keep his ability secret.
• Nan Liujing received the War God Medal, and he exchanged his Merit Points for spiritual items to encourage Spirit Transmission Academy students.
• The hundredth layer of the Abyss Plane collapsed, and the Spirit Emperor warned the Abyss Emperors to restrain their forces.

Nan Liujing returned to the Spirit Pagoda with a War God Medal, prompting Qian Gu Dongfeng to plot against him and the others to worry about the Abyss targeting him. As Gu Yue wrestled with her feelings for Nan Liujing, Na'er tried to persuade her to ally with him; the chapter ended with Nan Liujing reaching Heaven Dou City and Mu Ye noticing his growing Bloodline Power.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng learned that Nan Liujing had received the War God Medal and vowed to kill him because he lacked Qian Gu family blood.
• Nan Liujing returned to the Spirit Pagoda, embraced Na'er, and thanked her for the protective item that had saved him.
• Nan Liujing and Gu Yue filmed an enrollment advertisement, while Yuanen Yehui impressed Xia Zheng Leng by remembering how she liked her tea.
• Na'er urged Gu Yue to marry Nan Liujing with her and have children, arguing that he could help humans and soul beasts coexist; Gu Yue denied liking him but privately imagined bearing his child.
• Nan Liujing traveled with Qian Gu Qingfeng to Heaven Dou City, reunited with Zhen Hua, and drank with him after Zhen Hua heard about the medal.
• Mu Ye wondered why Nan Liujing's Bloodline Power was growing stronger and recognized his suitability for the sect's Body Cultivation Secret Method.

Zhen Hua taught Nan Liujing the principles of Soul Forging, then watched him use the Plane Imprint to complete his first attempt and produce three peak-grade pieces in one day. Nan Liujing left with a Fusion Forging Experience, while Mu Ye considered recruiting him to the Original Body Sect.

• Zhen Hua explained Soul Forging's stages, risks, and grading to Nan Liujing, then demonstrated the process as Nan Liujing studied closely for seven days.
• Nan Liujing began forging Star Silver and used the Plane Imprint to make its innate spirituality wait until its organs were complete before consuming the injected energy.
• Nan Liujing achieved the Soul Forging echo, stabilized the metal soul without life tremors, and awakened it by striking the Star Silver with his Cloud Gold Hammer.
• Zhen Hua and Mu Ye watched Nan Liujing produce three peak-grade pieces of Soul Forged metal, and Mu Ye rushed to the forging room after hearing of his first success.
• Nan Liujing declined Mu Ye's invitation to drink, took the Fusion Forging Experience from Zhen Hua, and left the Blacksmith Association.
• Mu Ye said Nan Liujing might become a Titled Douluo by eighteen, and Zhen Hua encouraged him to recruit the boy to the Original Body Sect.

Nan Liujing visited Ye Xinglan, and they shared a kiss before her father caught them. After Ye Changming accepted Nan Liujing as a future son-in-law and asked him to find a rare herb for Xinglan, the story shifted to Yun Ming and Ya Li taking the recovered Cai Yue'er away and discussing her future and Na'er's exchange enrollment.

• Nan Liujing brought Ye Xinglan Starlight Bright flowers and told her he had learned Soul Forging.
• Ye Xinglan saw Nan Liujing and Gu Yue's romantic advertisement, became jealous, and kissed Nan Liujing before Ye Changming came home and caught them.
• Ye Changming confronted Nan Liujing, then accepted his relationship with Xinglan and asked him to obtain Star Swirl Firefly Grass for her.
• Ye Xinglan decided to enroll in Spirit Transmission Academy after learning Gu Yue and Yuanen would attend.
• Leng Yaozhu restored Cai Yue'er's soul to her body and warned Yun Ming and Ya Li to watch her closely.
• Ya Li suggested sending Cai Yue'er to oversee a Star Luo Continent academy branch, while Yun Ming agreed to let Na'er attend Spirit Transmission Academy as an exchange student.

Nan Liujing led Spirit Transmission Academy’s first applicants through a brutal simulated assessment while Cai Yue'er awakened from five years in Heavenly Spirit Tower and learned how badly Shrek Academy had fallen. The chapter ended with Cai Yue'er’s resentment turning extreme and Nan Liujing selecting promising applicants for priority recruitment.

• Nan Liujing welcomed the applicants to Spirit Transmission Academy and explained that their entrance assessment would test combat, willpower, and judgment.
• The first hundred applicants faced Abyss creatures in a simulated Land of Gloom, where Luo Guixing and Wu Sidu distinguished themselves through leadership and combat ability.
• Cai Yue'er awoke, accepted Yun Ming’s Spirit Jade Star, and learned that Shrek Academy’s reputation had collapsed after its students were caught cheating and its Outer Court had been transferred to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yun Ming explained that he hoped to restore ties with Leng Yaozhu and Nan Liujing, but Cai Yue'er rejected his restraint and became consumed by an invisible baleful aura.
• Nan Liujing reviewed the assessment results, ordered instructors to mark promising young Soul Masters as priority targets, and noticed Wu Sidu as she left.

After the assessments, Wu Sidu confessed her feelings to Nan Liujing, and he kissed her while promising to formally court her later. Nan Liujing then spoke with Elder Jin and agreed to exchange Abyss origin energy for help forming a Life Soul Core and inheriting the Child of Nature.

• Wu Sidu and Nan Liujing left the main hall together and discussed her rank, the upcoming Class Competition, and a private dinner she hoped he would attend with her.
• Wu Sidu confessed that she had come to Spirit Transmission Academy because of Nan Liujing and asked whether he might make her his girlfriend; he kissed her in response.
• Nan Liujing told Wu Sidu that he had given his first kiss to Xinglan and said he would properly ask her to be his girlfriend when the time was right.
• Elder Jin told Nan Liujing that Tang San had transferred the Golden Dragon King Bloodline to the Blue Silver Emperor for safekeeping.
• Nan Liujing offered Abyss origin energy in exchange for Elder Jin's help forming a Life Soul Core and granting him the inheritance of the Child of Nature, and Elder Jin agreed.

Nan Liujing welcomed Spirit Transmission Academy's new students, identified several exceptional recruits, and agreed to spar with Tang Yue, defeating him with a single clash and offering advice. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan arrived in Shrek City and prepared to report to the academy, where they would reunite with Nan Liujing.

• Luo Hongshao showed Nan Liujing the special students, including Yuan En Shiyue, Tang Yue, Qian Gu Zhengze, and Yue Zhengyu, and Nan Liujing considered which recruits to watch.
• Nan Liujing announced that students who failed the assessment could enroll but had to retake it, and he warned everyone that rule-breakers would be expelled.
• Tang Yue asked Nan Liujing for a spar, and Nan Liujing accepted as a welcome for the new students.
• Tang Yue attacked with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Nan Liujing countered his Soul Skills and shattered Tang Yue's arms in a direct clash before advising him to be less rigid.
• Yuan En Shiyue reflected that her family's chosen path might be wiser than remaining isolated.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan arrived in Shrek City, discussed reporting to Spirit Transmission Academy, and teased Tang Wulin about Mu Xi.

Tang Wulin and his friends arrived at Spirit Transmission Academy, passed its entrance assessment, and attended a dinner where Nan Liujing announced an upcoming class team competition. Meanwhile, Shrek’s elders debated cooperating with Monster Academy, and the Holy Church plotted to infiltrate Monster Academy and corrupt its students through tainted armor materials.

• Nan Liujing welcomed Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan to Spirit Transmission Academy, arranged their dorms, and guided them through the entrance assessment.
• Nan Liujing hosted a dinner with Gu Yue, Na’er, Yuanen Yehui, Wu Sidu, and Ye Xinglan, then announced a class team competition whose winners could join the student council.
• Cai Yue'er demanded that Shrek expel former students who had joined Spirit Transmission Academy, while Yun Ming announced plans to cooperate with Monster Academy on Star Luo Continent.
• Zhuo Shi and Zhao Chunlan volunteered to serve at Monster Academy, but the other elders hesitated to leave Shrek City.
• Spirit Transmission Academy announced its opening ceremony, and leading academies publicly offered congratulations without showing hostility.
• Dark Blood Demon persuaded Ghost Emperor to use Cai Yue'er and the blacksmith Ning Fengzhi to plant cursed metal at Monster Academy and secretly harm its talented students.

Spirit Transmission Academy held its opening ceremony, where Nan Liujing presented the academy’s mission and Leng Yaozhu ended the formal proceedings early. As classes began, Nan Liujing took Gu Yue and Na'er to get student IDs while Class One learned about the academy’s generous training facilities, career paths, and benefits.

• Nan Liujing addressed the opening ceremony, promised to supply talent to the Federation, and introduced academy president Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu spoke briefly, invited the guests and media to tour the academy, and dismissed the students to their classrooms.
• Nan Liujing told Gu Yue to come with him to get her student ID, and Na'er joined them by calling Gu Yue her cousin.
• Class One’s teachers explained academy points, graduation requirements, secondary-profession training, mecha opportunities, and career pathways.
• The teachers described free monthly access to the Training Area and two annual Spirit Ascension Platform visits before third year, astonishing the students across the academy.

Nan Liujing began condensing a Life Soul Core at Spirit Transmission Academy with Leng Yaozhu guarding him, while Na'er stirred up Gu Yue's feelings by claiming their families had considered an engagement. The Soul Core stabilized with the aid of an Energy Spirit Bone from the Golden Ancient Tree, and Nan Liujing remained in seclusion as Leng Yaozhu stayed by his side.

• Na'er told Nan Liujing that Gu Yue, Yuanen Yehui, Ye Xinglan, and Wu Sidu all liked him, then teased Gu Yue by claiming their families had discussed an engagement between her and Nan Liujing.
• Spirit Transmission Academy opened with six hundred students, and reports about its generous benefits prompted other elite academies to improve their own offerings.
• Nan Liujing told Leng Yaozhu he planned to condense a Life Soul Core using Abyss origin energy and asked Elder Jin for a Child of Nature Energy Spirit Bone.
• Nan Liujing began condensing his Soul Core in his heart as Leng Yaozhu guarded him, and the process tore away his clothes, leaving her flustered as she watched.
• Elder Jin formed an Energy Spirit Bone that fused with Nan Liujing's heart, and Nan Liujing transferred Abyss origin energy to the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Nan Liujing told Leng Yaozhu he needed to remain in seclusion to stabilize his Soul Core, and she refused to leave until he finished cultivating.

Shrek Academy sent Cai Yue'er and a group of teachers to the Star Luo Continent, while Yun Ming discussed Na'er's future training and her potential as the next Sea God Pavilion Master. At Spirit Transmission Academy, Na'er helped bring her classmates closer as Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidu prepared battle armor for the upcoming Class Competition, which began with Leng Yaozhu and Nan Liujing arriving at the arena.

• Yun Ming sent Cai Yue'er and other academy members to the Star Luo Continent, while Zhuo Shi told Feng Wu Yu that Tang Wulin was a thirteen-and-a-half-year-old fourth-rank blacksmith and arranged for them to meet.
• Yun Ming told Ya Li that he planned to train Na'er as the next Sea God Pavilion Master and discuss sending her to Devil Island after the semester.
• Class One's teacher explained that the monthly Class Competition would feature three-on-three and seven-on-seven matches, with first place earning fifteen free Training Area days.
• Na'er said she needed a week to recover from a minor injury, so Ye Xinglan chose to help Wu Sidu make battle armor first for the competition.
• Ye Xinglan and Wu Sidu worked together to manufacture Wu Sidu's armor, coordinating their skills as Na'er watched with satisfaction.
• Leng Yaozhu and Nan Liujing arrived at the Douluo Arena as the forty competitors and spectators gathered for the Class Competition.