Chapter Summaries

Su Hao explained why he would keep his powerful Soul Tool Cannonball from the Spirit Pagoda and hid it inside a Spatial Rift only he could locate. After discussing Spatial Rifts and the materials they contained, he learned from Gu Yue that their Final Exam would take place in the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Su Hao refused to give the cannonball or its manufacturing method to the Spirit Pagoda, fearing it would exploit the weapon and imprison or kill him.
• Su Hao stored the cannonball in a Spatial Rift and explained that its coordinates let him retrieve it while making it extremely difficult for anyone else to find.
• Su Hao opened another Spatial Rift and produced a rare metal that Gu Yue examined.
• Su Hao explained how Spatial Soul Tools were made and why Spatial Rifts could be considered a kind of Spatial Soul Tool.
• As Su Hao and Gu Yue left the laboratory, Gu Yue told him that Teacher Wu had chosen the Spirit Ascension Platform for their Final Exam.

Wu Changkong arranged for Class Zero to take a final exam in the Spirit Ascension Platform before pursuing admission to Shrek Academy, while Su Hao was exempted. The chapter left Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan preparing to survive twenty-four hours during the Riot Period.

• Su Hao and Gu Yue returned to Eastsea Academy and discussed the final exam, which would include Tang Wulin and the others but not Su Hao.
• Wu Changkong told Yu Zhen that Class Zero needed to go to Shrek Academy before its next intake and predicted that the other students would become Battle Armor Masters.
• Yu Zhen asked the students to return to Eastsea Academy after becoming Battle Armor Masters and teach a lesson, and Wu Changkong agreed on Tang Wulin's behalf.
• Wu Changkong announced that Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan had to survive twenty-four hours in the Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period, while Su Hao was exempted.
• Wu Changkong offered the students a fight with him, each other, or Su Hao as a reward for lasting longer, prompting Xie Xie to groan.

Tang Wulin and the others entered the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform for their Final Exam and chose to challenge a pack of Flame Lions. When another Soul Master team was nearly wiped out by the pack, Tang Wulin’s group intervened and began their attack.

• Wu Changkong sent Tang Wulin and the others into the Riot Period of the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform for their Final Exam.
• At the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, Xie Xie asked Gu Yue to help Xu Xiaoyan find a suitable Second Soul Spirit, and Gu Yue agreed.
• Tang Wulin and the others spotted a pack of Flame Lions and decided to fight them after weighing the risks.
• As Tang Wulin’s group waited to attack at night, they saw a seven-man Soul Elder team challenge the Flame Lions and get overwhelmed.
• Tang Wulin’s group bound the remaining Flame Lions with Blue Silver Grass, the surviving young Soul Master killed one, and Gu Yue followed with Ice Cones.

Tang Wulin and his group defeated the Flame Magic Lions, eliminated the rescued young man when he turned out to be a threat, and continued through the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform. As they approached the Final Exam’s full-day requirement, they pushed farther into the forest than they had managed before.

• Tang Wulin killed the Flame Lion King while Gu Yue and the others helped defeat the remaining Flame Magic Lions, then warned the strong young man before he was eliminated.
• Tang Wulin’s group rested and absorbed Spirit Power before continuing, and Tang Wulin quickly killed a hundred-year Great Strength Ape that attacked him.
• The group fought off or avoided Soul Beasts as they traveled through the forest, resting regularly while Spirit Power accumulated around them.
• At daybreak, Tang Wulin and the others set out toward the forest’s depths, trying to advance without Su Hao’s help and choosing to avoid unnecessary fights.
• Tang Wulin cleared a path with Blue Silver Grass as the group pressed onward, traveling farther into the forest in two hours than they had during the previous day.

Tang Wulin and the others encountered a three-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider guarding the route to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform and fought it together. Tang Wulin killed the spider, but its body began to disintegrate without releasing Spirit Power, and he sprang up after feeling something prick him.

• Tang Wulin stopped the group in the dark forest, and Gu Yue identified the emerging Man Faced Demon Spider as a three-thousand-year guardian.
• Tang Wulin charged while Xie Xie flanked the spider, Xu Xiaoyan attacked with her Ice Wheel, and Gu Yue followed with elemental strikes.
• The spider tricked Tang Wulin with a false opening and stabbed at him, but Xie Xie took the blow meant for him.
• Gu Yue restrained the spider with Four Elements Chains, allowing Tang Wulin to strike its head with his Golden Dragon Claw and kill it.
• The spider disintegrated into purple-black light without releasing Spirit Power, and Tang Wulin sprang up after feeling something prick him.

Tang Wulin obtained a Man Faced Demon Spider External Soul Bone after defeating the Spirit Ascension Platform Guardian and absorbed it to cure its poison. The bone unexpectedly fused into his Golden Dragon Claw rather than his back, leaving Tang Wulin and Gu Yue unsure what had changed.

• Tang Wulin picked up the purple-black bone left behind by the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Gu Yue identified it as an External Soul Bone from a Spirit Ascension Platform Guardian.
• Tang Wulin discovered that the bone had poisoned him when it pierced him as he fell, and Gu Yue explained that absorbing it or leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform would remove the poison.
• Tang Wulin began absorbing the External Soul Bone, but golden patterns from his right palm pulled it away from his back and into his Golden Dragon Claw.
• The purple-black aura faded from Tang Wulin's scales, though a faint trace remained on his Golden Dragon Claw, and Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan wondered why the bone had fused there.
• Tang Wulin opened his eyes and recalled that his Bloodline Power had softened the bone's sinister energy before absorbing it.

Tang Wulin fused the Man Faced Demon Spider’s External Soul Bone into his Golden Dragon Claw, gaining the Poisonous Claw Soul Skill, then returned with Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan to find Xie Xie recovering. After Wu Changkong announced that they had passed the Final Exam, Class Zero prepared for the next stage of their journey and Su Hao’s plan for the Life Core of the Douluo Plane.

• Tang Wulin discovered that the External Soul Bone had fused into his Golden Dragon Claw and granted him Poisonous Claw, which could coat the claw in corrosive venom.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan left the Spirit Ascension Platform after activating their distress signals because they were worried about Xie Xie.
• Tang Wulin found Xie Xie trembling as Wu Changkong stabilized him, and told him that they had killed the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Su Hao praised the group for defeating a guardian ranked among the Spirit Ascension Platform’s top ten, and Tang Wulin told everyone about obtaining the External Soul Bone.
• Xie Xie asked Tang Wulin to forge the metals for his Battle Armor as repayment, and Tang Wulin agreed.
• Wu Changkong announced that the group had passed the Final Exam, as Su Hao’s plan concerning the Life Core of the Douluo Plane was about to begin.

Class Zero arrived in Shrek City, where Su Hao resolved to pursue the Dragon Realm as a world for his damaged Heavenly Dao Martial Soul. Wu Changkong took the students to a small hotel near the station before their visit to Shrek Academy.

• Su Hao concluded that his Heavenly Dao needed a world and chose the Dragon Realm as his objective, rejecting the Demon Realm and the Abyss.
• The train entered Shrek City, and Class Zero saw the towering Spirit Pagoda Headquarters from their windows.
• Su Hao recalled that his teacher had arranged for him to study under Leng Yaozhu, the Vice Pagoda Master and Gu Yue's teacher.
• Class Zero admired Shrek City's distinctive architecture and enormous train station after arriving.
• Xie Xie asked Wu Changkong whether they would go straight to Shrek Academy, and Wu Changkong said they would find a place to stay first.
• Wu Changkong booked three rooms at a small hotel near the Soul Guide train station.

Su Hao wandered through Shrek City and entered a Stone Gambling Hall, where the owner sold stones as supposed relics from the Holy War. He bought one for amusement, leaving what was inside unknown.

• Tang Wulin told Su Hao that he felt anxious about his bloodline and the future in Shrek City.
• Su Hao advised Tang Wulin to bathe, read, or meditate to settle his mind, then left the hotel.
• Su Hao sensed that the elements and world essence energy gathered strongly around Shrek City as he walked through its crowded streets.
• Su Hao entered a Stone Gambling Hall, where the owner claimed the stones came from the Holy War and promised buyers the Sea God's blessing.
• Su Hao selected a stone and paid the owner 1,000 Alliance Coin.

Su Hao uncovered a Sun God Crystal while gambling for stones in Shrek City and learned it was a rare forging material. After confirming his Battle Armor materials were complete, he gathered them together, while Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong remained away from the hotel.

• Su Hao chose one stone at the Stone Gambling Hall, cut it open, and found a golden crystal that the owner mistook for the Sea God's blessing.
• Su Hao returned to the hotel, where he and his companions had dinner before Wu Changkong took Tang Wulin out to handle something.
• Su Hao, Gu Yue, and the other two explored Shrek City at night and returned to the hotel after nearly an hour and a half.
• Su Hao sent Heavenly Dao aura into the crystal and discovered it was a Sun God Crystal that could only condense within the sun.
• Su Hao suspected the crystal had once been used to fuse the Angel Godhead and recognized it as the final material he needed for his Battle Armor.
• Su Hao opened a Spatial Rift and laid out the materials he had collected alongside the Sun God Crystal.

Su Hao put away his Battle Armor materials and learned that Tang Wulin had begun a bloodline breakthrough. Three days later, Tang Wulin remained in Deep Meditation, and Wu Changkong asked Shen Yi to postpone the Shrek Academy entrance examination, but she said the academy’s rules made that difficult.

• Su Hao examined the materials he had gathered for his Battle Armor, set aside the unexplained Crystal Stone, and put everything away.
• Xie Xie told Su Hao that Wu Changkong had arranged for Tang Wulin to undergo a bloodline breakthrough and had switched their rooms so Xie Xie would not disturb him.
• Three days later, Tang Wulin had not awakened, and Wu Changkong asked Shen Yi to delay the examination for his students.
• Shen Yi explained that the academy could not change its examination schedule for one applicant and asked which student was in Deep Meditation.

Su Hao proposed using his Time Element to help Tang Wulin finish Deep Meditation in time for the Shrek Academy assessment. Tang Wulin awakened in the middle of the night and learned that Su Hao had accelerated time in his room.

• Wu Changkong and Shen Yi discussed how Tang Wulin's Deep Meditation prevented him from taking the Shrek Academy assessment.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan urged Wu Changkong to find a way for Tang Wulin to take the exam.
• Su Hao explained that he could accelerate time in a room and demonstrated his ability on an apple.
• Wu Changkong and Shen Yi accepted Su Hao's plan and let him accelerate time in Tang Wulin's room.
• Tang Wulin awoke in the middle of the night and silently resolved to remember Su Hao's help.

Tang Wulin and his companions reached Shrek City for the academy assessment and entered Shrek Academy after their recommendation letters were verified. Nan Chengnan guided them through Spirit Ice Plaza and Shrek Building, where the academy’s long history and grandeur left most of them in awe.

• Xie Xie and the others learned that Tang Wulin had emerged from Deep Meditation and could join them for the assessment.
• Su Hao and the group endured heavy enrollment traffic before joining the queue at Shrek Academy’s gates.
• The group presented their Skysea Alliance recommendation letters, and the academy verified them.
• Nan Chengnan led Su Hao and the others across Spirit Ice Plaza and explained the statue of Huo Yuhao and the memorial statues of Inner Court disciples.
• Nan Chengnan guided the group into Shrek Building and explained that its murals depicted the academy’s twenty-thousand-year history.
• Tang Wulin and most of his companions felt awe at Shrek Academy’s heritage and looked forward to studying there.

Su Hao and the other new students underwent a Spiritual Power assessment beneath a mural of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King. Su Hao ignored its pressure through his extraordinary Spiritual Power, impressing the academy’s elderly examiner.

• Cang Jingkong led the students into a circular hall beneath a mural of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, whose Dragon Might grew stronger over time.
• Su Hao remained completely calm, while Gu Yue and Tang Wulin resisted the pressure and several other students struggled or fell.
• Tang Wulin caught Xie Xie and shielded him with his aura, helping him stand against the Dragon Might.
• The elderly examiner and Nan Chengnan emerged after the pressure vanished, and the examiner praised Su Hao’s potential and unusual Spiritual Power.
• The examiner explained that the mural’s pressure came from the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King’s blood and that enduring it measured the students’ Spiritual Power.

Su Hao and the five others chose to continue Shrek Academy’s entrance assessment without resting and entered a simulated arena for the second round. There, they faced a powerful three-thousand-year Earth Demon Rhinoceros, and Su Hao stepped forward to fight it alone.

• Elder Li gave Su Hao full marks for the first assessment and scored the other applicants, while Nan Chengnan explained that there were ten rounds and sixty points were needed to pass.
• Su Hao and the five others chose to continue immediately despite Nan Chengnan’s warning that exhaustion could make later assessments harder.
• Nan Chengnan led the group into another hall, where a transformed night sky and arena appeared around them.
• Su Hao and the others released their Martial Souls and spotted an Earth Demon Rhinoceros with at least three thousand years of cultivation.
• Su Hao signaled for the others to move back and faced the charging Earth Demon Rhinoceros alone.

Su Hao's group completed the beast arena test, where Su Hao killed an Earth Demon Rhinoceros with his Molten Rift Soul Skill. Nan Chengnan gave them their scores and introduced the dangerous Guillotine Gates of the third test.

• Su Hao opened a magma-filled fissure with Molten Rift and burned the Earth Demon Rhinoceros to ashes.
• Su Hao's group returned from the beast arena, and Nan Chengnan marveled at Su Hao's strength and Tang Wulin's Golden Soul Ring.
• Nan Chengnan awarded Su Hao full marks and gave the other four eight points each for the second test.
• Nan Chengnan led the group to a field of Guillotine Gates and explained the third test's timing and scoring rules.
• Nan Chengnan ordered the guillotines to rise, and the blades began crashing down through the gates.

Su Hao and the others passed the Guillotine Gate trial with full marks after Su Hao held the blades in place and sped across. Nan Chengnan led them to a room for the next assessment, which would test one specialty related to each student’s strength.

• Nan Chengnan started the one-minute countdown, and Tang Wulin said they needed to cross the shortest route within thirty seconds.
• Su Hao used his Second Soul Skill to hold several guillotine blades aloft, letting Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan run through before he dashed across as a black shadow.
• Nan Chengnan awarded all five students ten points and wondered how Su Hao’s Second Soul Skill could control the blades.
• Nan Chengnan led the group to the second floor, where Xu Xiaoyan recognized the golden lines on the walls and ceiling as Soul Tool design blueprints.
• Nan Chengnan told the students the next trial would test one specialty related to their strength, then left to fetch the assessment teacher.

Tang Wulin guided his teammates as they presented their strengths to three Shrek assessment teachers. His Golden Dragon Bloodline stunned the examiners, and the old woman asked him to strike her with all his strength.

• Tang Wulin advised the group to emphasize their special abilities, while Su Hao revealed that he could Spirit Forge and had reached designer rank 5.
• Nan Chengnan returned with two middle-aged men and an old woman, who announced that the assessment had begun and each student had one chance to show their strengths.
• Tang Wulin chose Xie Xie to perform first, and Xie Xie used three Doppelgangers to fight invisible opponents before the old woman pointed out a flaw.
• Xu Xiaoyan explained that her abilities only worked at night and described her strengths to the examiners.
• Tang Wulin demonstrated his Golden Dragon Bloodline, prompting the old woman to ask him to punch her; after his first strike was easily deflected, he launched a much stronger punch.

Tang Wulin demonstrated his strength to the examiners and was sent flying by the old woman, while Gu Yue revealed control over all four fundamental elements. The examiners recognized Gu Yue as the first Four Element Controller in Douluo Continent's history.

• Tang Wulin struck the old woman's palm with his first two punches, then unleashed his Golden Dragon Claw and was knocked into a wall by her counterpunch.
• Xie Xie and the others pulled Tang Wulin from the wall, and he sat down to recover while admitting he was hungry.
• Gu Yue demonstrated her Earth and Water Element control by shaping them into overlapping elemental flowers.
• Gu Yue added Wind and Fire to her display, astonishing the examiners with her control of all four fundamental elements.
• The examiners realized Gu Yue was a Four Element Controller, a feat never recorded in Douluo Continent's history.

Gu Yue demonstrated extraordinary four-element control, impressing the Shrek examiners, but rejected Elder Cai’s offer to become her disciple because Cai was neither the strongest person in the world nor a Level 99 Titled Douluo or Four-Word Battle Armor Master. Elder Cai turned to the final examinee, Su Hao, whose demonstration was about to begin.

• Gu Yue combined four elements into a spinning lotus and scattered it into a rain of light, revealing control that the examiners linked to Spirit Sea Realm Spiritual Power.
• Elder Cai praised Gu Yue’s talent and offered to take her as a disciple, but Gu Yue questioned Cai’s standing and refused her offer.
• Gu Yue declared that she would either take no master or choose the strongest person in the world, angering Elder Cai.
• Elder Cai ended the dispute and called on Su Hao to demonstrate, while the examiners reflected on his role and the respect Tang Wulin and the others showed him.
• Su Hao stepped forward to begin his demonstration.