Chapter Summaries

Gu Chen intervened when Yue Zhengyu attacked Xie Xie and a girl he suspected of being an Evil Soul Master, then defeated Yue Zhengyu with a sword and suppressed his Holy Angel Martial Soul. As Shrek City's Enforcers and Yuanen Yehui arrived, Gu Chen prepared to face the growing crowd.

• Yue Zhengyu attacked Xie Xie and the girl with golden feathers and an Angel Soul Power sword, but the girl dissolved a feather with her corrupting aura.
• Gu Chen deflected Yue Zhengyu's sword and the remaining feather, while Xie Xie slipped away and left Gu Chen to handle him.
• Gu Chen questioned Yue Zhengyu's decision to attack before investigating and shattered his golden sword.
• Gu Chen copied Yue Zhengyu's sword techniques and overwhelmed him, then used a weakened God Suppressor to suppress his Holy Angel Martial Soul.
• Gu Chen sent Yue Zhengyu crashing to the ground and pinned him there as Yuanen Yehui and Shrek City's Enforcers gathered.

Gu Chen defeated Yue Zhengyu and defended Yuanen Yehui, then confronted Shrek City's Enforcers over their failure to stop Evil Soul Masters. A phone call made the Enforcers back down, but their demand that Gu Chen pay for the damage left him furious.

• Gu Chen explained that Yue Zhengyu's Martial Soul had only been temporarily sealed and said Yuanen Yehui was not an Evil Soul Master.
• Yuanen Yehui urged Gu Chen and the others to leave before Shrek City's Enforcers arrived, but Gu Chen said he had a background.
• The Enforcers arrived, and Gu Chen identified the students and criticized them for failing to stop the Evil Soul Masters.
• An Enforcer received a call, then returned and called the incident a misunderstanding.
• The Enforcer demanded that Gu Chen compensate them for the damage, and Gu Chen angrily threatened them.

Gu Yue teased Gu Chen with a close embrace, then covered her embarrassment by attacking him, while privately resolving to claim most of him despite her bet with Na'er. Elsewhere, Tang Yin experimented with a plant-targeting poison, and Gu Chen learned that Yun Che could match Yun Ming in a fight as he prepared a major move against Shrek.

• Gu Yue cupped Gu Chen's face and teased him, and Gu Chen embraced her before dodging her ice spike.
• Gu Yue thought about her bet with Na'er and decided she would not let Na'er have Gu Chen to herself.
• Tang Yin tested a corrosive poison in his lab, using a Tang San doll as a shield when the experiment reacted violently.
• Gu Chen asked Yun Che how he compared with Yun Ming, and Yun Che said a fight between them would likely end with both dead.
• Gu Chen thought his planned surprise for Shrek was nearly certain to succeed and swatted Little Evil Eye away from his face.

Yun Che promised to protect Gu Chen as he prepared to merge his two bodies and attack a powerful obstacle. Gu Chen’s cultivation continued to rise, and he offered to treat his friends to a meal before turning to help Xie Xie with his fused martial soul.

• Yun Che reassured Gu Chen that he would stop Yun Ming from harming him, then opened a spatial passage and told Gu Chen to return without being discovered.
• Gu Chen meditated and realized he was close to level 54, crediting Gu Yue and the Five-Colored Stone for his rapid progress.
• Gu Chen invited his friends to eat, but Xie Xie questioned the awkward bill and Gu Chen admitted he was broke.
• Xie Xie asked Gu Chen about his martial soul, which was forming through the fusion of his two complementary martial souls but still lacked a spirit.
• Gu Chen revealed a blue dragon mark on his finger and prepared to give Xie Xie’s martial soul a Dragon Soul named Cangtian.

Gu Chen lent Xie Xie a blue dragon-shaped mark to help his Martial Soul transform, then killed an Evil Soul Master who approached the group. He left the alley and encountered Ya Li, the Holy Spirit Douluo.

• Gu Chen gave Xie Xie the blue dragon-shaped mark to raise, saying it could make up for what his fused Martial Soul lacked.
• Gu Chen and Xie Xie joked about money, and Xie Xie admitted he would not really charge his friend for the treasures he had given him.
• A masked man offered the students part-time work, and Gu Chen recognized him as a level 46 Evil Soul Master.
• Gu Chen killed the Evil Soul Master with one punch, venting his anger and resolving to control his bloodlust.
• Gu Chen emerged from the alley and saw Gu Yue and the others standing with Ya Li, whom he recognized as the Holy Spirit Douluo.

Ya Li questioned Gu Chen about how he would handle changes or conflict in his relationship with Gu Yue. Gu Chen said he could leave if her feelings faded without malice, but would show no mercy if she seriously hurt him, leaving Gu Yue troubled by what that could mean for Na'er.

• Gu Chen respectfully greeted Ya Li, who told him she had spoken with his little girlfriend and warned that power and temptation could test his loyalty.
• Gu Chen said that Gu Yue was the only person in his heart, though heartbreak would not stop him from pursuing success.
• Ya Li asked how he would act if either of them stopped loving the other or they were forced to become enemies.
• After a long silence, Gu Chen said he could withdraw if her feelings faded without malice, but would not forgive her if she seriously hurt him while leaving.
• Gu Yue worried that a future misunderstanding could put Na'er in danger, while Ya Li marveled at Gu Chen's harsh resolve.

Gu Chen spoke with Ya Li about his ambitions, the burdens and regrets everyone carried, and why he avoided the cafeteria. When Ya Li learned he called Cai Yue'er an “old hag,” she angrily demanded to know why he spoke of a teacher that way.

• Ya Li praised Gu Chen for recognizing the danger of Evil Soul Masters and killing one without hesitation.
• Gu Chen reflected on his goal of reaching level 99 and the obstacles preventing him from becoming a god.
• Gu Chen and Ya Li discussed personal goals, worries, and regrets before he invited her to have drinks.
• Ya Li asked why Gu Chen and the others kept leaving the academy, and Gu Chen said he wanted to avoid Cai Yue'er.
• Ya Li rebuked Gu Chen for calling Cai Yue'er an “old hag,” and Gu Chen explained that he was the only one who used the name.

Gu Chen and Gu Yue left Ya Li after she lectured him about respecting Yue'er, and Gu Chen reflected on Ya Li’s past and the protection her reputation afforded her. Gu Yue questioned whether he had a heart and pulled away, while Gu Chen realized that he had begun to see the people around him as real lives rather than characters in a story.

• Ya Li scolded Gu Chen for speaking disrespectfully about Yue'er and told him to return to the Outer Court.
• Ya Li walked with Gu Chen and Gu Yue around Sea God Lake, lectured them, and then left after their relationship had eased.
• Gu Chen considered Ya Li’s history as a healer, her devotion to Yun Ming, and why the Butian Sect and Spirit Pagoda would avoid targeting her.
• Gu Yue asked Gu Chen whether he had a heart, then left while fearing that trusting him could doom the Soul Beast race.
• Gu Chen wondered why Gu Yue had pulled away and recognized that he had become emotionally connected to the people around him as real lives.

Gu Chen saw a silver-haired figure he believed was Na'er on Sea God Island and tried to pursue her, but Yun Ming blocked his way. Gu Chen attacked Yun Ming with his God-Slaying Art and Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear, but Yun Ming disarmed him, leaving Gu Chen's attempt to reach the island thwarted.

• Shen Yi taught the class about becoming an outstanding Battle Armor Master, while Gu Chen showed little interest because he already had Two-Word Battle Armor.
• After class, Gu Chen walked beside Sea God Lake and spotted a petite silver-haired figure across the water who seemed to be Na'er.
• Gu Chen used Inch-by-Inch Displacement to reach Sea God Island, but Yun Ming struck him back and told him the island was not a place he should enter.
• Gu Chen unleashed Star-Shining Burial of the Dao, and Yun Ming countered with a spear-shaped attack that pierced the talisman before being destroyed by its backlash.
• Gu Chen circled behind Yun Ming and attacked with the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear, but Yun Ming knocked the weapon from his hand and sent it into the ground.

Gu Chen fought Yun Ming on Sea God Island, but Yun Ming quickly defeated and restrained him. Gu Chen freed himself with the Five-Colored Stone and demanded to see Na'er, only for Yun Ming to insist that she was not there.

• Gu Chen summoned an earth-powered Qilin phantom, but Yun Ming shattered it and sealed Gu Chen's Soul Power.
• Yun Ming offered to let Gu Chen leave peacefully, but Gu Chen refused to back down.
• The Five-Colored Stone released multicolored gas that disrupted the restraint in Gu Chen's meridians, allowing him to move again.
• Gu Chen demanded to see Na'er, and Yun Ming replied that there was no Na'er there.

Gu Chen reunited with Na'er after three years and tried to persuade her to leave Shrek Academy with him for her safety and future. Yun Ming opposed the idea, and Na'er's tearful fear that Gu Chen would abandon her stopped their argument before they reached a decision.

• Gu Chen confronted Yun Ming after recognizing Na'er's familiar aura, while Na'er hurried toward the commotion.
• Na'er rushed into Gu Chen's arms, and the two reunited after three years apart.
• Gu Chen urged Na'er to leave Shrek Academy and said his resources could help her reach the peak.
• Yun Ming angrily challenged Gu Chen's claim and refused to let Na'er leave, while Gu Chen argued that he could keep her safe from future dangers.
• Na'er tearfully asked whether Gu Chen no longer wanted her, and he noticed a faintly unsettling look in her eyes before dismissing his suspicion.

Gu Chen reunited with Na'er, comforted her over their three-year separation, and exchanged dragon scales with her. Na'er then asked him for a kiss, leaving him stunned.

• Na'er cried that Gu Chen had left her without an explanation, and Gu Chen reassured her that he still wanted her in his life.
• Yun Ming questioned Gu Chen's description of him as an old geezer.
• Na'er showed Gu Chen the purple-gold dragon scale she had kept, and Gu Chen showed her the silver scale he still carried.
• Gu Chen told Na'er he had missed her and promised to grant a request as an apology for staying away.
• Na'er asked Gu Chen to kiss her, and he was stunned by her request.

Yun Ming pressured Gu Chen into kissing Na'er, then challenged him to prove himself before taking her away. Gu Chen fought Yun Ming with spears but was gradually overwhelmed, while privately holding onto his ambition to kill him someday.

• Yun Ming’s pressure forced Gu Chen to kiss Na'er on the forehead, and Na'er kissed Gu Chen’s cheek before leaving.
• Gu Chen broke through Yun Ming’s pressure and challenged him to a one-on-one fight with their cultivation suppressed.
• Yun Ming attacked with the Qingtian Spear, and Gu Chen summoned the Purple Desolation Heaven-Falling Divine Spear to meet him.
• Yun Ming’s refined spear techniques steadily overwhelmed Gu Chen, who complained that Yun Ming had only suppressed his cultivation to the Spirit Saint realm.
• Yun Ming said Gu Chen would have to defeat him to take Na'er away, and Gu Chen angrily accepted the challenge.

Gu Chen returned to his dormitory after Yun Ming’s brutal training, only to be ambushed by Gu Yue, who had come to him in anguish. He could not explain his conflicted feelings about Gu Yue and Na'er as she demanded to know where he had gone.

• Gu Chen returned to the dormitory bruised and exhausted after Yun Ming repeatedly beat him during training.
• Gu Chen showered and sat on his bed in the dark, expecting his injuries to heal as he rested.
• Gu Yue rushed out of the darkness and knocked Gu Chen onto the bed.
• Gu Chen recognized Gu Yue by her scent and realized she was crying against his chest.
• Gu Yue demanded to know where Gu Chen had gone, while he struggled to answer because he did not want to give her up or let Na'er die.

Gu Chen reassured Gu Yue that Yun Ming’s disciple was his younger sister, and the two made up with kisses. In the next dorm, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie won a team fight and a match, leaving Tang at king rank and Xie one win from promotion.

• Gu Chen kissed Gu Yue, then explained that the girl he had met on Sea God Island was his younger sister and Yun Ming’s disciple.
• Gu Yue denied being jealous but accepted Gu Chen’s reassurance, and they kissed again.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie coordinated their heroes to kill the enemy carries and jungler, then Xie Xie secured a quadra kill.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie took the Storm Dragon King, pushed through all three enemy high-ground lanes, and won the match.
• Tang Wulin reached king rank with a silver-medal Erlang Shen, while Xie Xie reached his promotion match and urged them to keep playing.

After recovering from the previous day, Gu Chen tested the sealed Core of Destruction and found that its power made him vastly stronger but difficult to control. He suppressed it and summoned Old Tang from a soul-storing jade bottle, refusing to trust his plea for release.

• Tang Wulin challenged Xie Xie over how much damage he had taken in their team fight, and Xie Xie admitted Tang Wulin had made his victory easier.
• After sleeping, Gu Chen trained through the morning and examined the Core of Destruction within himself.
• Gu Chen released one-fifth of the Core of Destruction’s seal, reaching power beyond a rank 92 Title Douluo but struggling to control his body and suffering damage to his meridians.
• Gu Chen suppressed the Core of Destruction and concluded that he could endure its power only a few more times before risking a deadly loss of control.
• Gu Chen opened a jade bottle that contained Old Tang, and Old Tang demanded to be released while promising to let bygones be bygones.
• Gu Chen rejected Old Tang’s claim to be a decent person and refused to let him go.

Gu Chen threatened Old Tang with Destruction Fire, then tricked him into revealing secrets before refining him and strengthening his Mental Power. Later, he warned Xie Xie that Yuanen Yehui could sense his thoughts and told him to keep his Mind Barrier active.

• Gu Chen threatened to burn Old Tang with Destruction Fire until Old Tang offered information in exchange for his life.
• Old Tang revealed secrets about Sunset Forest, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the Tang Sect, and the Abyss, among other things.
• Gu Chen admitted he had only said he would consider sparing Old Tang, then seized and refined him into green smoke.
• Refining Old Tang's Divine Sense raised Gu Chen's Mental Power beyond 9,760 points, allowing him to absorb Spirit Rings of any level.
• Later, Xie Xie told Gu Chen he had fallen in love with Yuanen Yehui at first sight, and Gu Chen called it lust at first sight.
• When Xie Xie fantasized about Yuanen Yehui, Gu Chen warned him that Angel Martial Souls could sense emotions and advised him to keep his Mind Barrier active.

Gu Chen introduced Na'er to Gu Yue, whose jealousy flared when she saw how close they were. After giving Na'er an Immortal Herb as a meeting gift, Gu Chen called the girls his “wings,” prompting Gu Yue to grab him by the throat.

• Gu Chen visited Na'er, who joyfully ran into his arms and said she wanted to stay with him for the rest of her life.
• Gu Chen introduced Na'er to Gu Yue, whose cold stare made Na'er shrink into his embrace.
• Gu Chen teased Gu Yue about being jealous and getting anxious, and she slapped him while their friends looked away.
• Gu Chen showed the group a blue Immortal Herb called Star-Moon Tea Dew and said he meant to give it to Na'er as a meeting gift.
• Gu Yue accused Gu Chen of treating Na'er as a sweetheart, and Gu Chen called them all his wings.
• Gu Yue grabbed Gu Chen by the throat and shook him, leaving him realizing that his wings had become tangled.

Gu Chen discussed finding materials to forge Gu Yue a set of Battle Armor and explained that Gojo Satoru was undercover in the Federation. After morning classes, Gu Chen's group ran into Yue Zhengyu, who introduced himself after Xie Xie called him the owner of the birdman Martial Soul.

• Gu Yue asked Gu Chen to save her gift for later or forge her a set of Battle Armor, and Gu Chen said finding compatible metal would be difficult.
• Gu Chen recalled that Gojo Satoru, whom he had drawn at his peak, had infiltrated the Federation and was not part of the Butian Sect's combat forces.
• After morning classes, Gu Chen's group headed toward the cafeteria and encountered Yue Zhengyu.
• Xie Xie called Yue Zhengyu the owner of the birdman Martial Soul, and Yue Zhengyu corrected him and insisted that he remember his name.

The group settled into life at Shrek as Tang Wulin forged metal and Gu Chen and Gu Yue worked on their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Yun Ming caught Gu Chen being affectionate with Gu Yue and took him away, while Tang Wulin later returned to find a strange Humanoid Virus on his phone.

• Xie Xie hurried the group off to eat, and Gu Chen kept the Butian Sect money he received as savings.
• After the meal, Feng Wuyu abducted Tang Wulin to the forging room, while Xie Xie pursued ranked points and Gu Chen and Gu Yue practiced coordinating their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Tang Wulin forged three pieces of Spirit Refinement metal and two pieces of Thousand Refinement Star Meteor Iron, then left after Feng Wuyu gave him a badge.
• Yun Ming barged into Gu Chen and Gu Yue's dormitory, accused Gu Chen of flirting with his daughter, and ordered him to come along.
• Tang Wulin returned to the dormitory after eating and saw a Humanoid Virus on his phone that looked close to starving.