Chapter Summaries

Yun Chen returned to class at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, where he reunited with old friends and learned that his classmates had chosen different schools. As the term began, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie struggled with the poor conditions at Shrek Academy.

• Yun Chen welcomed Wu Sidu to his class after she skipped grades to challenge him.
• Yun Chen reunited with Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi, who explained they had turned down Shrek Academy because its conditions were poor and enrolled at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy instead.
• Yun Chen wished Tang Wulin and Xie Xie well for choosing Shrek Academy and offered Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi help obtaining metal for Battle Armor.
• Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan cultivated through the opening ceremony, then attended class, where Na'er and Wu Sidu struggled to follow the lessons.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie began work-study duties at Shrek Academy and spent several days making their dilapidated dormitory barely presentable.

During a peaceful period, Yun Chen arranged special training for Na'er, Xu Xiaoyan, Long Chen, and several other promising students at War God Hall. The training began with War God Hall deacons, while Yun Chen and Na'er were assigned stronger opponents, and Xu Xiaoyan remained unaware of Na'er's true identity.

• Yun Chen’s publicly known cultivation reached Rank 76, and Chen Xinjie and Guan Yue became more convinced by his explanations for his rapid progress.
• Yun Chen gathered Long Chen, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, Xue Liushuang, Weng Daimin, Na'er, Xu Xiaoyan, and others for special training.
• Yun Chen led the group to War God Hall headquarters, where more than a dozen deacons had been selected to train with them.
• Yun Chen explained that the special training would include sparring, a new meditation method, and further development of their soul skills.
• Yun Chen said Na'er would spar with Reserve War Gods and headquarters War Gods, while the other students trained with the deacons.
• Na'er’s Golden Dragon King origin had grown stronger during her trip to Star Luo Continent, though Xu Xiaoyan still did not know her identity.

Yun Chen and his companions continued their intensive training at the War God Hall while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie struggled at Shrek Academy. As the semester ended, the Star Luo Delegation arrived to arrange exchanges with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, accompanied secretly by Pluto Douluo Ha Luosa.

• Yun Chen and Na'er sparred at the training grounds while Long Chen and Wu Sidu prepared to fight, and the group’s progress strengthened the War God Hall’s interest in recruiting them.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie endured exhausting classes, money troubles, and poor living conditions at Shrek Academy, while Gu Yue’s separate arrangements widened the distance between them.
• As the semester neared its end, the Star Luo Delegation arrived on Douluo Continent seeking friendly exchanges and changed its plans to include the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Yan hoped Yun Chen would lead Long Chen and the others in the exchange so he could test a suspicion, while Yun Chen realized the original story’s timeline no longer offered a reliable guide.
• Pluto Douluo Ha Luosa secretly traveled with the Star Luo Delegation under the guidance of a mysterious consciousness.

Yun Chen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy delegation traveled to Shrek Academy for an exchange with the Star Luo Delegation, where Shrek’s deliberate neglect drove them to leave. As they reached the gates, someone blocked their way, while the Holy Spirit Cult’s Ha Luosa and two Heavenly Kings were also heading toward Shrek.

• Yun Chen and the delegation traveled peacefully from Mingdu to Shrek City as Holy Spirit Cult members infiltrated Mingdu after their departure.
• Ha Luosa learned that Yun Chen had left and summoned two of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Four Heavenly Kings to help him pursue Yun Chen to Shrek.
• A Shrek Outer Court teacher left Yun Chen and the others waiting in a reception room for more than half a day, prompting Yun Chen to lead them out to stretch their legs.
• Zhuo Shi learned that the delegation was heading for the gates, reported the situation to Yun Ming, and asked Wu Zhangkong to help stop them.
• Yun Chen and the delegation reached Shrek Academy’s gates, where a figure blocked their path as they were about to leave.

Yun Chen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy delegation left Shrek Academy after a hostile reception, worsening tensions ahead of the three-party exchange. Shrek Academy assigned Ya Li to oversee the exchange, while the Star Luo Delegation arrived in Shrek City the next day.

• Yun Chen warned Ya Li that Shrek Academy would face consequences, then led the Sun Moon delegation away from the academy.
• Ya Li left for the Inner Court, and Zhuo Shi realized the exchange would likely be hostile.
• Na'er guided the Sun Moon delegation around Shrek City and took them to a snack street.
• Yun Ming asked Ya Li to take full responsibility for the upcoming three-party exchange, and she agreed.
• Long Yeyue ordered Shrek Academy's students to teach the visiting students a lesson during the exchange.
• The Star Luo Delegation arrived in Shrek City, with its officials traveling onward to Mingdu and its young people staying behind.

Yun Chen watched the exchange competitions at Shrek Academy before stepping in to represent Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy in the blacksmithing event. He faced Lin Yuhan of the Star Luo Delegation and a Shrek Academy student.

• The Star Luo Delegation won the Mecha Repair and Mecha Crafting contests, while a Shrek Academy student won the Mecha Design contest.
• Yun Chen explained to Xu Xiaoyan and the others how the Star Luo and Douling Empires’ history and development philosophy shaped their approach to secondary professions.
• After Shrek Academy’s Mecha Design winner acted arrogantly, Yun Chen decided to make the upcoming secondary-profession contests harder for them.
• Lin Yuhan and a Shrek Academy student took the stage for the blacksmithing exchange, and Yun Chen vanished from the stands and appeared on the arena floor to join them.

Yun Chen dominated the forging exchange by completing Soul Forging on Blue Pregnancy Copper, then provoked Shrek Academy by criticizing its forging talent and association. Feng Wuyu prepared to attack him as Yun Chen readied himself to fight back.

• Yun Chen searched the Shrek spectators for Tang Wulin before Ya Li announced Blue Pregnancy Copper as the forging material.
• Yun Chen finished Thousand Refinement and Spirit Refinement ahead of Lin Yuhan and the Shrek participant, prompting Feng Wuyu to recognize his superior technique.
• Yun Chen continued into Soul Forging, completing it while Lin Yuhan and the Shrek participant watched in disbelief.
• Yun Chen revealed that he was an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman and insulted Shrek Academy and its blacksmith association.
• Feng Wuyu rose in anger and summoned his nine soul rings, while Yun Chen manifested seven soul rings and prepared to retaliate.

Yun Chen’s golden seventh soul ring and overwhelming Soul Power brought his standoff with Feng Wuyu to the brink of a fight before Ya Li intervened. After the exchange activity ended, Lin Yuhan confirmed Yun Chen’s rank as an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman and asked to learn from him in the future.

• Yun Chen revealed his flowing golden seventh soul ring and released pressure that matched a Title Douluo, making Feng Wuyu hesitate to attack.
• Ya Li stopped the confrontation, and Feng Wuyu backed down as Yun Chen recognized that the exchange gathering would continue.
• The Star Luo Delegation watched the dispute and took it as evidence that Shrek Academy and the Federation were at odds, while its leading Title Douluo sensed Yun Chen’s hidden strength.
• After the secondary-profession competition ended, Lin Yuhan stopped Yun Chen and asked whether he was truly an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman.
• Yun Chen showed Lin Yuhan his badge, and she accepted his rank and said she hoped to seek his guidance in the future.

The Soul Duel began at the Exchange Tournament, where Yun Chen warned his team that Shrek Academy’s students would fight harshly and sent Wu Sidu into the first match for Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Wu Sidu defeated a Shrek Soul King with her battle armor and Hell White Tiger Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill, leaving him gravely injured.

• Yun Chen chose Wu Sidu to take Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s first match and warned her to fight at full strength against Shrek Academy.
• A Shrek Academy Soul King defeated a Star Luo Delegation Soul Ancestor, then taunted Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Wu Sidu entered the arena, and her Shrek opponent mocked her before the match began.
• Wu Sidu summoned five One-Word Battle Armor components and transformed into the Hell White Tiger with her Self-Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Wu Sidu struck the Shrek student into the arena floor, crushing many of his bones and injuring his internal organs.

Na'er took over Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s remaining matches and injured a Shrek Academy student with one punch. She rejected Ya Li’s request to show restraint, leaving Shrek’s students reluctant to face her.

• Wu Sidu returned to the spectator seats after using her Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy gave up its next turn.
• Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy won its next two matches, frustrating the Shrek Academy elders.
• Na'er stepped onto the arena and told Xu Xiaoyan that the remaining matches were hers.
• Na'er knocked a Shrek Academy student into the arena barrier with one punch and called for the next opponent.
• A Shrek elder accused Na'er of striking too heavily, and Na'er retorted that she had held back and challenged him to take a punch.
• Ya Li urged Na'er to show restraint, but Na'er defended her actions and pointed out that Shrek students had also injured or killed opponents in past competitions.

Na'er defeated Shrek's contestants and severely wounded an elder with her Golden Dragon Spear, escalating the conflict at the Exchange Tournament. Yun Ming arrived and confronted her, but Yun Chen stepped in and challenged him to a fight.

• Ya Li forfeited Shrek Academy's match after Na'er challenged the elders, and Na'er defeated a Star Luo Delegation contestant by kicking him off the arena.
• Na'er activated her Martial Soul and struck a Shrek student with her Golden Dragon Spear, piercing his defenses and badly wounding an elder on the platform.
• Yun Chen recognized that Na'er's divine artifact had intensified the conflict and prepared to protect her.
• Yun Ming appeared and accused Na'er of going too far, prompting Yun Chen to step between them.
• Yun Chen challenged Yun Ming to show his full strength in a weapons battle.

Yun Chen openly confronted Yun Ming and Shrek’s elders, then fought Long Yeyue after she attacked him. Long Yeyue was badly injured but summoned her Battle Armor, while Yun Chen gathered the Divinity of Strife for their next clash.

• Yun Chen rejected the Sea God Pavilion elders’ claims to respect and accused Shrek of making them enemies through Cai Yue'er’s attack and its students’ provocations.
• Long Yeyue appeared above the arena and struck at Yun Chen, while Yun Ming chose not to intervene.
• Yun Chen used his Soul Rings and blood energy to break Long Yeyue’s attack, then struck her with God-Slaying God-Ascension and sent her crashing onto the elders’ platform.
• Shrek’s elders moved aside instead of catching Long Yeyue, and Yun Chen noticed their refusal to help her.
• Long Yeyue rose from the dust badly injured and summoned her Four-Word Battle Armor, Yin-Yang Vastness, as Yun Chen gathered the Divinity of Strife.

Yun Chen summoned Strife's Divinity and pursued Long Yeyue after striking her through a wall, while Na'er blocked Yun Ming from intervening. The chapter left Yun Ming restrained by starlit chains as a more intense divine pressure erupted from Lingbing Square.

• Yun Chen drew on the Mother Planet's Blessing and guided Strife's Divinity to the Douluo Continent, overwhelming those nearby with its pressure.
• Luo Yuhang appeared before Long Chen and the others, recognizing the divine might surrounding Yun Chen.
• Yun Chen struck Long Yeyue and sent her crashing through the Soul Fighting Area wall into Lingbing Square.
• Yun Ming tried to stop Yun Chen, but Na'er attacked him and held him back while Yun Chen pursued Long Yeyue.
• Yun Ming ordered Shrek's elders to assist Long Yeyue, then prepared to go to Lingbing Square when powerful Soul Power and divine pressure erupted.
• Starlit chains descended around Yun Ming and sealed him in place.

Yun Chen continued beating Long Yeyue at Lingbing Square while waiting for Shrek’s elders to arrive, as she urged them to kill him. The elders reached the fight as Yun Chen’s assault sent Long Yeyue flying into Feng Wuyu’s arms.

• Xu Xiaoyan used her Star Chain to briefly restrain Yun Ming, who praised her potential as an absolutely effective control-type Soul Master.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li left the exchange event after sensing violent Soul Power fluctuations, and Na'er followed them toward Lingbing Square.
• Yun Chen used his Firmament Blood Domain to suppress Long Yeyue’s domain and drain her blood and vital energy while attacking her.
• Yun Chen shattered Long Yeyue’s waist armor with a kick, then stomped and punched her as she struggled to escape.
• Feng Wuyu caught Long Yeyue when Yun Chen sent her flying, and she demanded that Shrek’s elders kill Yun Chen.

Yun Chen fought off the Sea God Pavilion elders after they attacked him, then clashed with Yun Ming when he intervened to save Long Yeyue. The battle continued with both fighters evenly matched as Yun Ming donned his Four-Word Battle Armor.

• The Sea God Pavilion elders attacked Yun Chen, but he shattered their soul skills and sent several of them flying with powerful counterattacks.
• Yun Chen sealed Zhuo Shi in a vitality-and-blood crystal, shattered it, and left him with deep wounds.
• Yun Chen attacked Long Yeyue, but Yun Ming arrived and blocked the blow with the Qingtian Spear.
• Yun Ming and Yun Chen exchanged attacks, each retreating a few steps after their first clash and then fighting again across Lingbing Square.
• After Yun Chen held his own against Yun Ming's serious attacks, Yun Ming summoned his Four-Word Battle Armor.

Yun Chen turned aside Yun Ming’s sneak attack, exposed Ha Luosa, Leng Yulai, and Dark Bell as members of the Holy Spirit Cult, and attacked them after refusing to let the battle pause. He crushed Ha Luosa’s Pluto Sword and struck him down, then moved to attack Na Nali as the chapter ended.

• Na'er threw the Golden Dragon Spear to Yun Chen, who transformed it into the Spear of Divine Punishment and blocked Yun Ming’s attack.
• Yun Chen used the Firmament Blood Domain to destroy a surprise slash from a spatial rift, then forced Ha Luosa, Leng Yulai, and Dark Bell to emerge.
• Yun Ming refused Ha Luosa’s offer to help, while Leng Yulai called him a hypocrite.
• Yun Chen entered his Body Martial Soul’s Second Awakening state, shattered Ha Luosa’s Pluto Sword with a punch, and sent him flying.
• Yun Chen broke Leng Yulai’s Dark Phoenix attack, ignored Na Nali’s bell chimes, and struck at Na Nali as she activated her Battle Armor and Martial Soul Avatar.

Yun Chen killed Na Nali and Leng Yulai, then tracked down the fleeing Ha Luosa with his domain and Spear of Divine Punishment. The spear also struck Long Yeyue and nailed both of them to the Golden Ancient Tree, leaving Yun Ming rushing to the Inner Court as Yun Chen turned toward the Sea God Pavilion elders.

• Yun Chen killed Na Nali with one punch and then killed Leng Yulai with a golden lion phantom.
• Yun Chen used the Firmament Blood Domain to trap Ha Luosa on Shrek Academy grounds and located him hiding in the Inner Court.
• Yun Chen threw the Spear of Divine Punishment and pierced Ha Luosa through space.
• The spear also struck Long Yeyue, who had fled Lingbing Square, and carried both her and Ha Luosa into the Golden Ancient Tree.
• The spear's energy exploded around the tree, prompting Yun Ming to fly to the Inner Court while Yun Chen faced the Sea God Pavilion elders.

Yun Ming confirmed that Ha Luosa was dead and Long Yeyue had fallen, ending the conflict and the exchange competition. Yun Chen left with Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan, while Yun Ming announced Shrek Academy would close for half a month to mourn Long Yeyue.

• Yun Ming returned to Lingbing Square and told everyone that Ha Luosa was dead and Long Yeyue had also fallen.
• Yun Ming and Yun Chen faced one another, but Long Yeyue's death ended the dispute and the exchange competition.
• Yun Chen ordered Leng Yulai's body sent to her sister, and Ya Li volunteered to lay it to rest.
• Yun Chen left with Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan, followed by the others from Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Yun Ming announced that Shrek Academy, Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and the Star Luo Delegation had joined forces against the Holy Spirit Cult, and that Shrek Academy would close for half a month in mourning.

Yun Ming offered Yun Chen a Spirit Bone to secure his silence about Shrek’s announcement, and Yun Chen accepted while warning Wu Zhangkong to stop intervening. As Leng Yaozhu mourned Leng Yulai, Gu Yue watched and resolved to kill Yun Chen.

• Yun Ming ordered Zhuo Shi to retrieve a hundred-thousand-year spiritual-attribute head Spirit Bone for Yun Chen, hoping to preserve Shrek’s reputation and negotiate through Xu Xiaoyan.
• Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi delivered the Spirit Bone to Yun Chen, who accepted it and agreed not to make a public statement about Shrek’s announcement.
• Yun Chen told Wu Zhangkong to stay out of future disputes and said Shrek was no longer worth fighting for, then watched Wu Zhangkong leave with Shen Yi.
• Leng Yaozhu mourned Leng Yulai’s body and blamed herself for her sister’s death, while refusing to hate Ya Li or Yun Chen.
• Gu Yue observed Leng Yaozhu grieving and, after considering Yun Chen’s power and the death of Leng Yulai, decided she wanted to kill him.

After the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack on Shrek Academy, Chen Xinjie led a purge of its strongholds, while the Xu Family recovered its standing in Eastsea. A year and a half later, Yun Chen agreed to join an exchange delegation to the Star Luo Continent, where he hoped to visit Dragon Valley and use the Dragon God’s skeleton to strengthen the Spear of Divine Punishment.

• News of the Holy Spirit Cult’s defeat spread, and Chen Xinjie directed the War God Hall to purge the cult’s strongholds across the continent.
• After Long Yeyue’s death, Eastsea officials stopped targeting the Xu Family, and the family’s fortunes recovered without knowing why.
• Yun Chen and his companions visited the Spirit Pagoda, where Yun Chen sensed hidden killing intent that Na'er recognized but did not explain.
• A year and a half after returning to Mingdu, Yun Chen told Na'er that the Federation had accepted the Star Luo Delegation’s invitation to exchange visits.
• Yun Chen agreed to represent the younger generation and planned to bring Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan, hoping to visit Dragon Valley and obtain the Dragon God’s skeleton.