Chapter Summaries

Yun Chen explained why he and Xiao Yan chose Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, while leaving the other students to make their own decisions. As the group returned to Eastsea Academy, Shrek Academy arranged for Zhuo Shi to go after them, and the students were welcomed home as heroes.

• Yun Chen told his classmates that he and Xiao Yan would join Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy because it could provide the special training environment Xiao Yan needed, while Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi left to consider their own choices.
• Wu Zhangkong stayed awake all night thinking before telling the students to prepare for the trip back to Eastsea Academy.
• Shen Yi reported the situation to Zhuo Shi, who informed Yun Ming; Yun Ming sent Zhuo Shi to East Sea instead of redirecting Cai Yue'er.
• Yun Chen and the others returned to Eastsea Academy, where Yu Zhen and the students cheered their achievements.

After Class Zero returned to Eastsea, Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan’s decision to attend the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy prompted Shrek’s leaders to consider matching its offer. Meanwhile, Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to bring Na’er back to help reclaim Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King power, while Yun Chen headed to meet Wu Zhangkong and Tang Wulin felt an ominous sense of danger.

• Yu Zhen celebrated Class Zero’s victory, and Wu Zhangkong gave the students three days off.
• Yun Chen brought Xu Xiaoyan home, where her parents accepted her plan to attend the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to bring Na’er back and told King of Ten Thousand Demons to watch Tang Wulin before they reclaimed the Golden Dragon King power.
• Zhuo Shi questioned Wu Zhangkong about Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan’s plans, then Yun Ming agreed that Shrek could meet their demands to try to win them over.
• Wu Zhangkong arranged to meet Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan, but Yun Chen went alone and received word that Mu Ye had arrived with his Level 5 Blacksmith badge.
• Tang Wulin returned to Mang Tian’s renovated workshop, where his meditation failed to ease his growing sense of danger.

Yun Chen met Zhuo Shi, who tried to persuade him to choose Shrek Academy over Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. Zhuo Shi offered to meet Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan’s conditions, but Yun Chen remained doubtful that Shrek would follow through.

• Yun Chen dismissed Zhuo Shi’s attempt to assert a grandmaster relationship and said he already had a master.
• Zhuo Shi asked whether Yun Chen planned to study at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and Yun Chen confirmed that Shrek had never been his choice.
• Yun Chen explained that Sun Moon had agreed to build Xu Xiaoyan an exclusive Star Observation Platform, provide Star Power-absorbing dormitory facilities, and supply the best resources.
• Zhuo Shi argued that Shrek’s competitive conditions cultivated exceptional students, but Yun Chen said he would not make his gentle sister endure hardship far from home.
• Zhuo Shi offered to arrange similar facilities at Shrek and find Xu Xiaoyan a Sea God Pavilion elder as her master, leaving Yun Chen surprised and skeptical.

Yun Chen rejected Zhuo Shi’s offer to join Shrek Academy and received a Level 5 Blacksmith badge and Spirit Metal One-Word Battle Armor from Mu Ye. He returned to the Xu Family and found Na'er back, where Xu Xiaoyan was scolding her for leaving without saying goodbye.

• Yun Chen refused Shrek Academy because he and Xu Xiaoyan had already signed an agreement with Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Zhuo Shi accepted Yun Chen’s decision and told Wu Zhangkong to contact his other disciples.
• Mu Ye gave Yun Chen a Level 5 Blacksmith badge and a Blood Marrow Gold Spirit Metal One-Word Battle Armor forged by Zhen Hua.
• Mu Ye warned Yun Chen to fuse with the Battle Armor components gradually because his Soul Power was not yet sufficient to use the full set safely.
• Yun Chen returned to the Xu Family and found Na'er listening to Xu Xiaoyan scold her for leaving without saying goodbye.
• Yun Chen reminded Xu Xiaoyan that Na'er had said goodbye to him before she left.

Na'er returned to the Xu Family, and Yun Chen cautiously considered whether Gu Yue had sent her for a purpose. Na'er chose to stay with the family, reunited warmly with Xu Xiaoyan, and revealed that she had reached level twenty-nine; Yun Chen then disclosed that he was a level forty-three Battle Soul Ancestor.

• Xu Xiaoyan complained that Yun Chen and Na'er had kept a secret, while Yun Chen welcomed Na'er back and went upstairs.
• Yun Chen watched the girls and wondered whether Gu Yue intended to use Na'er, but he sensed no hostility from her and decided not to treat her as Gu Yue.
• Na'er resolved to stay with Yun Chen and the Xu Family rather than return to Shrek Academy, where she had felt pressured to become a tool for Shrek's glory.
• Na'er told Xu Xiaoyan that she had reached level twenty-nine in less than a year and said her Silver Dragon Spear could help them cultivate together.
• Xu Xiaoyan told Na'er that Yun Chen had helped her Martial Soul evolve into the Star Scepter.
• Yun Chen told Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan that his Soul Power was level forty-three and that he was a Fourth Ring Battle Soul Ancestor.

Yun Chen fused Mu Ye’s Blood Marrow Gold One-Word Battle Armor and gained strength comparable to a Soul Emperor or Soul Saint, while Na’er reported her discovery about his Soul Spirit to Gu Yue. Gu Yue ordered Na’er to remain near Yun Chen and prepared to target Tang Wulin, who unknowingly went out to celebrate his forging prize.

• Na’er sensed Golden Dragon King power in Yun Chen’s Golden Sword Lion Tiger and concluded that the Soul Spirit had absorbed it, then planned to tell Gu Yue.
• Yun Chen fused the Blood Marrow Gold One-Word Battle Armor with his body and found that it greatly increased his strength.
• Zhuo Shi left for Shrek Academy with Shen Yi after Tang Wulin and the others agreed to participate in future admissions, while Gu Yue left her decision to her teacher, Leng Yaozhu.
• Gu Yue received Na’er’s report, told her to stay by Yun Chen, and planned to take Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Dragon Core the next day.
• Tang Wulin received a prize from Mu Chen through Mu Xi and invited Ouyang Zixin to celebrate on Gourmet Street.

Na'er asked Yun Chen whether she was still his little sister and told him she resented her older sister’s plans for her. Yun Chen urged her to grow stronger and decide her own future, then joined his friends for a meal on the last day of the holiday.

• Na'er asked Yun Chen if he still considered her his little sister and explained that Gu Yue wanted her to attend Shrek Academy and help revive their family.
• Yun Chen advised Na'er to cultivate until she was strong enough to resist the path Gu Yue had chosen for her, and Na'er became determined.
• The next morning, Yun Chen brought Xu Xiaoyan and Na'er to meet Class Zero at Gourmet Street.
• Tang Wulin told Yun Chen that he had been anxious and unable to sleep, and Yun Chen encouraged him to eat a good meal.
• Xie Xie welcomed Na'er and suggested that everyone eat Braised Beef in Pot, prompting Zhang Yangzi to joke about the restaurant owner.

After a day out with Yun Chen’s group, Gu Yue ordered Di Tian and the Fierce Beasts to extract the Golden Dragon King’s Dragon Core from Tang Wulin. The core was pulled free, but a lightning bolt made it vanish, and Gu Yue set out to find who had taken it.

• At a celebratory meal, Gu Yue watched Yun Chen treat Na'er warmly and wondered whether he would have accepted her if she had kept her human memories and emotions.
• After parting from the group, Tang Wulin again fell into panic and went to Mang Tian's workshop, while Gu Yue secretly followed him.
• Gu Yue told Di Tian to begin the prepared operation, and Di Tian’s Soul Power sealed off the workshop as the Fierce Beasts surrounded it.
• Gu Yue used the Silver Dragon King Origin to draw out the Golden Dragon King’s Dragon Core, causing Tang Wulin’s seals to break and the Golden Dragon King’s will to overwhelm him.
• The Dragon Core left Tang Wulin’s body, but lightning struck it and made it disappear before Di Tian could seize it.
• Gu Yue ordered everyone to search for the Dragon Core and took Ziji with her to the Xu Family to investigate whether that person had taken it.

Na'er refused to give Gu Yue the Golden Dragon King's Dragon Core and chose its power, returning her share of the Silver Dragon King Origin. After Gu Yue and Ziji left, Yun Chen watched Na'er recover, while the power absorbed from the core continued to change him.

• Gu Yue confronted Na'er outside the Xu Family residence and demanded the Golden Dragon King's Dragon Core, but Na'er revealed it and refused to hand it over.
• Na'er raised her changed Silver Dragon Spear and declared she would take the Golden Dragon King's power and separate from Gu Yue.
• A silver light returned Gu Yue's thirty percent of the Silver Dragon King Origin, and Na'er explained that the two powers could not coexist within her without the Dragon God's Divinity.
• Gu Yue warned Na'er that she still shared the duty of reviving the Dragon Clan, then left with Ziji; Na'er sagged against her Dragon Spear as Yun Chen watched from his room.
• The chapter revealed that the Golden Dragon King's core had split earlier, with its origin going to Na'er and its remaining energy entering Yun Chen, where it was drawn into the ball of light in his Spirit Sea.
• The ball of light sent golden energy into Yun Chen, filling him with immense power.

Na'er left for secluded cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest, while Yun Chen, Xu Xiaoyan, and their classmates spent three years studying under Wu Zhangkong at Eastsea Academy. On their final day there, Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan prepared to leave for Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Na'er told Xu Xiaoyan she planned to transfer to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, then asked Di Tian to take her home instead of back to Shrek Academy.
• Gu Yue agreed to Na'er's withdrawal from Shrek Academy and sent her to the Star Dou Great Forest's core region to cultivate in seclusion and adapt to the Golden Dragon King's power.
• Tang Wulin woke unharmed after the incident at Mang Tian's workshop, reported its damaged roof, and arrived late to class, where Yun Chen and Gu Yue noticed his changed life energy.
• Three years passed as Wu Zhangkong continued teaching Class Zero; Yun Chen reached level fifty-five, Xu Xiaoyan reached level thirty-nine, and Tang Wulin reached level thirty-three and awakened the Golden Dragon Martial Soul.
• On the last day of the semester, Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan prepared to leave Eastsea Academy as their classmates reflected on the three years they had spent together.

After leaving Eastsea Academy, Yun Chen traveled with Xu Xiaoyan to meet Phantom Brain Douluo Han Tianyi, who recognized her Star Scepter’s exceptional star power and accepted her as his disciple. The chapter ended when Leng Yaozhu arrived during Xu Xiaoyan’s initiation banquet.

• Yun Chen and his friends said goodbye at Eastsea Academy, promising to meet again and compete in the future.
• Gu Yue told Yun Chen that a senior from the Body Sect wanted to see his strength at Spirit Pagoda headquarters during the break.
• Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan traveled with Mu Ye to Shrek City, where Yun Chen met Han Tianyi.
• Han Tianyi sensed Xu Xiaoyan’s pure star power in her Star Scepter and invited her to become his disciple.
• Xu Xiaoyan accepted Han Tianyi as her master, and Mu Ye prepared an initiation banquet for her.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived while they were eating, and everyone stood to greet her.

Leng Yaozhu invited Yun Chen and Xu Xiaoyan to challenge the Spirit Soul Pagoda, and Yun Chen accepted her offer of support. Han Tianyi then gave each of his new disciples a manuscript to guide their cultivation and entrusted Yun Chen and A Ruheng with reviving the Body Sect.

• Leng Yaozhu praised Yun Chen’s cultivation and recommended that he prepare to obtain a Soul Spirit through the Spirit Soul Pagoda.
• Yun Chen agreed to join Leng Yaozhu’s faction and challenge the pagoda with Xu Xiaoyan, and Leng Yaozhu promised to arrange entry within three days.
• Han Tianyi told Mu Ye that Yun Chen’s alliance with Leng Yaozhu would not provoke a serious conflict with the Qiangu faction.
• After the banquet, Han Tianyi gave Xu Xiaoyan a manuscript on Star Power and Yun Chen his notes on Mental Power cultivation.
• Han Tianyi advised Yun Chen to cultivate both mind and body and said that he and A Ruheng would bear responsibility for reviving the Body Sect.

Yun Chen adapted to Han Tianyi’s mental illusion training by using a simplified domain, then considered Han Tianyi’s advice about forming a Mental Core around a clear purpose. In his Spirit Sea, Yun Chen defined strife as the force driving survival, resistance, and evolution.

• Han Tianyi trained Yun Chen in an illusion where Spirit Beasts attacked from unpredictable directions and the resulting pain affected his mind.
• Yun Chen unfolded a simplified version of his Firmament Blood Domain to improve his senses, but Han Tianyi intensified the attacks until a pack of beasts overwhelmed him.
• Han Tianyi asked Yun Chen why he cultivated and explained that a Mental Core should resonate with his state of mind and cultivation goal.
• Yun Chen entered his Spirit Sea that night and questioned how his original goal of resisting manipulation had changed.
• Yun Chen recalled telling the Plane Spirit that he wanted to become strife and concluded that strife drove survival, resistance, and evolution.

Na'er emerged from seclusion with the Golden Dragon King's power mastered and agreed not to oppose Gu Yue's Revival Plan. She went to Spirit Pagoda headquarters to see Yun Chen and ask whether he would accept the Soul Spirit Gu Yue wanted to give him.

• Na'er told Bi Ji she would not obstruct Gu Yue's Revival Plan, though she warned Gu Yue that her Dragon Spear would kill her if she crossed Na'er's bottom line.
• Gu Yue asked Na'er to pass a valuable Soul Spirit to Yun Chen, but Na'er said she would first ask her brother whether he wanted it.
• Na'er left the Star Dou Great Forest under Di Tian's escort and contacted Xu Xiaoyan, then went to Spirit Pagoda headquarters.
• Na'er and Xu Xiaoyan embraced in the main hall, while Gu Yue watched from nearby and chose to visit Leng Yaozhu instead of following them upstairs.
• Xu Xiaoyan brought Na'er to Yun Chen, who was startled by how much she had changed, and Na'er teased him for still recognizing her.

Gu Yue learned that Yun Chen needed another teammate for the Spirit Soul Pagoda, but Yun Chen arranged for Na'er to join him and Xu Xiaoyan instead. As the three prepared to enter the tower, Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion meeting revealed that the academy was struggling with declining enrollment and the lingering consequences of past defeats and controversy.

• Leng Yaozhu asked Gu Yue to help Yun Chen clear the Spirit Soul Pagoda, but Gu Yue hesitated because she thought Yun Chen might not welcome her.
• Yun Chen called Leng Yaozhu and asked to have Na'er join his team, and Leng Yaozhu approved Na'er's application after recognizing clues to her identity.
• Leng Yaozhu's approval allowed Yun Chen, Na'er, and Xu Xiaoyan to enter the Spirit Soul Pagoda that afternoon, so Xu Xiaoyan and Na'er meditated to prepare.
• Yun Chen reflected that Han Tianyi's manuscript had improved Xu Xiaoyan's use of Star Power and would support her future cultivation.
• At Shrek Academy, Yun Ming presided over a gloomy Sea God Pavilion meeting as Cai Yue'er reported that enrollment had fallen thirty percent.
• The Sea God Pavilion members attributed the decline partly to Shrek Academy's defeat by Yun Chen's group and partly to the public fallout from the Heaven Dou City incident involving Heavenly Sound Judgment and Sea God Tang San.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Yun Ming defended Wu Zhangkong’s decision to keep his students out of admissions and struggled with the academy’s declining reputation and Na’er’s departure. Meanwhile, Yun Chen, Na’er, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the Spirit Soul Pagoda, where Yun Chen swiftly defeated the first-floor Spirit Beasts.

• Cai Yue'er argued that Wu Zhangkong’s students should have joined admissions to help Shrek Academy, but Zhuo Shi threatened to fight her for using their futures that way.
• Yun Ming proposed sending suitable inner court students to the upcoming Federation Grand Competition to restore Shrek Academy’s reputation.
• Yun Ming recalled that Na’er had left Shrek because she wanted to revive her own family, and he had stopped Long Yeyue from pressuring her to return.
• Yun Chen, Na’er, and Xu Xiaoyan entered the Spirit Soul Pagoda as Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue watched from the monitoring room.
• Yun Chen defeated all thirteen first-floor Wind Wolves with ease while Na’er and Xu Xiaoyan remained where they stood.

Yun Chen, Na'er, and Xu Xiaoyan rapidly cleared the Spirit Soul Pagoda trials while Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue watched. Xu Xiaoyan gave up on choosing an Ice Bear Soul Spirit after Yun Chen explained it did not suit her Martial Soul, and the group continued toward the next floor.

• Yun Chen, Na'er, and Xu Xiaoyan cleared the early stages and reached the ninth stage, where Leng Yaozhu grew more curious about Yun Chen's abilities.
• Xu Xiaoyan wanted an Ice Bear Soul Spirit, but Yun Chen advised her against choosing one because its ice attribute did not suit her evolved Martial Soul, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Yun Chen defeated four thousand-year Ice Bears without using a soul skill, further impressing Leng Yaozhu.
• Na'er knocked down a Magic Lizard Dragon with a punch and killed it with her Golden Dragon Spear, while Yun Chen blamed the Golden Dragon King and Gu Yue suddenly felt uneasy.
• Xu Xiaoyan restrained a fast Thunder Beast with Star Chain, and Yun Chen finished it with a punch before the group entered the next floor and faced a Diamond Baboon.

Yun Chen, Na'er, and Xu Xiaoyan passed a trial stage after Yun Chen killed a Diamond Baboon, then faced a Starry Sky Griffin that Xu Xiaoyan wanted as her Soul Spirit. Yun Chen and Na'er subdued it, and Xu Xiaoyan's Star Chain made it stop struggling.

• Yun Chen used Blood Rage to overpower and kill the Diamond Baboon with a punch.
• Yun Chen, Na'er, and Xu Xiaoyan passed through the light gate to the next stage and found a Starry Sky Griffin.
• Xu Xiaoyan chose the Griffin, and Yun Chen attacked it with Crimson Crystal while it blocked his strike with Starry Barrier.
• The Griffin unleashed Starry Fall, but Yun Chen countered with his Firmament Blood Domain and Na'er disrupted it with Golden Dragon Roar.
• Yun Chen sealed the Griffin with Crimson Crystal Annihilation, and Xu Xiaoyan bound it with her Star Chain until it stopped struggling.

Xu Xiaoyan bonded with the Starry Sky Griffin as her Soul Spirit while Yun Chen and Na'er continued through the Spirit Soul Pagoda searching for a suitable Spirit Beast. On the next floor, they encountered the dangerous Star Flame Burning Heaven Tiger, which attacked them at once.

• Xu Xiaoyan touched the Starry Sky Griffin, earned its recognition, and completed their Soul Spirit contract.
• Leng Yaozhu wondered whether Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel Ice Staff and surname connected her to the Star Crown Sect.
• Yun Chen rejected the Spirit Beasts on several floors, and Na'er suggested they leave the Spirit Soul Pagoda.
• Yun Chen insisted they climb a few more floors, where they encountered the Star Flame Burning Heaven Tiger.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that the Spirit Pagoda had recreated the powerful beast using ancient Spirit Beast data, and the tiger immediately attacked Yun Chen and Na'er.

Yun Chen fought the Star Flame Burning Heaven Tiger inside the Spirit Soul Pagoda and gained the upper hand with his Firmament Blood Domain and battle armor. The tiger awakened its own Burning Heaven Flame Domain to counter him, leaving their domain clash threatening to destabilize the virtual space.

• Yun Chen enhanced himself with three soul skills and injured the Star Flame Burning Heaven Tiger faster than it could heal.
• Yun Chen unfolded his Firmament Blood Domain, donned his One-Word Battle Armor, and overwhelmed the tiger with powerful punches.
• The Star Flame Burning Heaven Tiger’s bloodline and soul power stagnated under Yun Chen’s domain, and its flames began to fade.
• The tiger refused to yield and awakened the Burning Heaven Flame Domain, which neutralized Yun Chen’s domain and strengthened its recovery.
• The domain clash triggered an alarm as Spirit Pagoda staff struggled to stabilize the virtual space.