Chapter Summaries

Long Zhanye experienced an ominous vision while cultivating before returning to Body Village for his engagement day. As the village’s celebrated young genius and the Long Family’s hope, he carried the weight of his family’s history while rumors of Evil Soul Masters and Shrek Academy’s patrols reached him.

• Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye showed him a vision of bloodied red silk and falling ashes, and he dismissed it as another troubling premonition.
• Old Ma called Long Zhanye back because his mother had summoned him, and the two walked through Body Village as villagers congratulated him on his engagement day.
• Long Zhanye overheard hunters discussing Evil Soul Masters and the Shrek Inspectorate’s harsh methods, but continued on without stopping.
• The chapter described Body Sect’s protection of affiliated villages and its search for children with powerful Body Martial Souls.
• The chapter recounted how Long Tianxing died covering Body Sect disciples during the Beast Tide, leaving the sect to support the Long Family.
• Long Zhanye approached the Long Family home as its hopes rested on his exceptional talent.

Long Zhanye returned to the Long Residence for his arranged marriage to Xiahou Ling, while telling his father that his true goal was to reach the peak of Body Martial Soul power. As he prepared for the wedding, the chapter revealed that he had accepted his family’s expectations partly out of concern for his father’s congenital heart disease, and that he possessed the God-Level Heavenly Eye Martial Soul.

• Long Zhanye arrived at the Long Residence, where Long Yufeng welcomed him and urged him to prepare for his wedding to Xiahou Ling.
• Long Zhanye told Long Yufeng that he would fulfill his family responsibilities but cared above all about pursuing the ultimate power of the Body Martial Soul.
• Dantai Jing helped Long Zhanye change into his ceremonial robes and asked him to protect Xiahou Ling because rumors surrounded her unusual Blood Bat Martial Soul.
• Long Zhanye reflected that he had accepted the engagement to spare his father Long Yufeng, whose congenital heart disease made emotional strain dangerous.
• The chapter revealed that Long Zhanye had inherited the Heart Martial Soul and awakened the Heavenly Eye, a God-Level Ultimate Body Martial Soul, at age six.

The Body Sect discovered that Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye came from a twin embryo fused with him, then poured resources into the exceptionally gifted boy, who resisted moving into the sect’s inner division. The Bright Jade Sect arranged his engagement to Xiahou Ling, and Long Zhanye accepted despite feeling no joy, leaving his future bound by family responsibility.

• The Body Sect concluded that Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye was a Martial Soul left by his deceased twin, and treated him as a priceless future pillar.
• Long Zhanye reached Soul Ancestor at twelve with yellow, purple, purple, and black Soul Rings as the sect lavishly supported his training.
• Long Zhanye repeatedly refused the elders’ efforts to move him into the sect’s inner division, citing his parents’ needs and preference for privacy.
• The Bright Jade Sect Master, after years of surveillance, visited Long Yufeng and Dantai Jing with gifts and proposed an engagement between Long Zhanye and Xiahou Ling.
• Long Yufeng and Dantai Jing happily agreed to the match, and Long Zhanye accepted it quietly out of concern for his parents and a sense of duty to the Long Family.

Long Zhanye and Xiahou Ling celebrated their engagement until Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao accused her of being an Evil Soul Master. Long Zhanye defended her and challenged Xuan Zi, who attacked him as he unleashed his Soul Skills.

• Long Zhanye and Xiahou Ling completed their engagement ceremony and celebrated with their guests for seven days.
• Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao arrived at the banquet and accused Xiahou Ling of being an Evil Soul Master.
• Xiahou Ling revealed her Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King Martial Soul, and Xuan Zi seized her with his Soul Power.
• Ma Xiaotao blasted Long Yufeng and his wife aside when they tried to intervene, and Long Zhanye confronted her and Xuan Zi.
• Long Zhanye refused to abandon Xiahou Ling, activated his Second and Fourth Soul Skills, and raised his Soul Power to a level comparable to a Spirit King.
• Xuan Zi attacked Long Zhanye with an earthen-gold dragon claw, and Long Zhanye countered by unleashing his Third Soul Skill, Extinguishing Ray Pulse.

Xuan Zi defeated Long Zhanye and Long Yufeng at the engagement banquet, then killed Xiahou Ling as Long Zhanye begged him to let her go. As Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao departed, Long Yufeng fired a Corrosive Ray Cannon at their backs, and Ma Xiaotao raised her Phoenix Flame to meet the attack.

• Long Zhanye's blood blade failed to break through Xuan Zi's defense, and Xuan Zi struck him down, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Long Yufeng charged at Xuan Zi in fury, but Ma Xiaotao stopped him and knocked him down.
• Dantai Jing went mad after seeing her son and husband badly injured, while a Body Sect elder accused Xuan Zi of declaring war; Xuan Zi challenged Du Busi to come to Shrek.
• Xuan Zi ignored Long Zhanye's plea and strangled Xiahou Ling, then dropped her and prepared to leave with Ma Xiaotao.
• Long Yufeng activated a Corrosive Ray Cannon and fired at Xuan Zi and Ma Xiaotao, prompting Ma Xiaotao to unleash her Second Soul Skill, Bathing Phoenix.

Ma Xiaotao brutally defeated Long Yufeng and Dantai Jing, then destroyed Long Zhanye’s Heart Martial Soul after he vowed to destroy Shrek City. After the Shrek Inspectorate left, a Body Sect elder stabilized Long Zhanye and rushed him to the sect for treatment.

• Long Yufeng’s Corrosive Ray wounded Ma Xiaotao, but she broke his Soul Power Backlash Shield and beat him nearly to death.
• Dantai Jing tried to stop Ma Xiaotao, but Ma Xiaotao knocked her unconscious.
• Long Zhanye vowed to destroy Ma Xiaotao and Shrek City, so Ma Xiaotao crippled his Heart Martial Soul with a Phoenix-powered strike.
• After the Shrek Inspectorate departed, a Body Sect elder sealed Long Zhanye’s bleeding and ordered the others to save his parents.
• The elder carried Long Zhanye toward the Body Sect to seek treatment.

Xu Zhaoting rushed the dying Long Zhanye to Yu Youbin, who used his Immune Cell Martial Soul to stabilize him after thirty hours of treatment. Yu Youbin could not repair the damage caused by Long Zhanye’s shattered Martial Soul, so Xu Zhaoting demanded that the sect treasury’s Elixirs and Immortal Herbs be brought to save him.

• Xu Zhaoting carried the gravely injured Long Zhanye to Yu Youbin and demanded that he save the child.
• Yu Youbin used five Soul Skills and his Martial Soul Avatar to redirect his Immune Cell healing abilities into Long Zhanye’s body.
• After thirty hours, Yu Youbin stabilized Long Zhanye’s life but said his shattered Martial Soul had left his heart foundation too damaged for ordinary healing to repair.
• Xu Zhaoting insisted that the Body Sect bring every Elixir and Immortal Herb from its treasury to save Long Zhanye.

After half a month unconscious, Long Zhanye awoke to learn that his Martial Soul was shattered and he had at most three years to live. Xu Zhaoting told him that his father was dead, his mother had fled with his infant brother, and Xiahou Ling had died; overwhelmed by grief, Long Zhanye lost consciousness again.

• Xu Zhaoting learned that Long Zhanye could survive for at most three years, likely bedridden, because his Martial Soul and heart channels were gravely damaged.
• Half a month later, Long Zhanye awoke, tried to sit up, and spat out clotted blood as pain wracked his chest.
• Xu Zhaoting told Long Zhanye that his father had died and his mother had disappeared after fleeing with his infant brother.
• Xu Zhaoting revealed that Xiahou Ling had died and showed Long Zhanye the cold Soul Tool preserving her remains.
• Long Zhanye collapsed after hearing the news, and Xu Zhaoting urgently sent a disciple to summon Elder Yu Youbin.

After surviving his wounds, Long Zhanye struggled to recover while the Body Sect’s disciples and elders shunned him, convinced he was doomed to die. Drunk and despairing, he collapsed outside Long Aotian and Princess Vina’s courtyard.

• Long Zhanye awoke gravely weakened and begged Xu Zhaoting to demand justice from the sect for what Shrek had done to him.
• Xu Zhaoting and Elder Yu told Long Zhanye that Great Elder Golden Roc was holding emergency meetings, while the Sect Master remained in seclusion.
• As Long Zhanye slowly recovered enough to walk with a cane, disciples, stewards, and elders avoided him and whispered that he had only three years to live.
• Elder Wu hurried away when Long Zhanye tried to greet him, extinguishing his last hope that anyone would stand by him.
• Long Zhanye drank himself unconscious on the steps outside a courtyard, where Long Aotian and Princess Vina opened the door after hearing him fall.

After Long Aotian and Vina took care of the drunken Long Zhanye, he left their residence insisting he had no home anymore. On his way back, he fell through a hidden opening beside the Short Bridge and discovered a space beneath it.

• Long Aotian and Vina brought the unconscious Long Zhanye inside, tended to him, and waited until he woke near dawn.
• Long Zhanye drank the honey water, thanked them, and refused Long Aotian’s help when he tried to steady him.
• Vina told Long Zhanye he could consider their residence his home, but he replied that he had no home anymore and walked away.
• Long Zhanye noticed a raised stone and a dark opening beside the Short Bridge on his way back to his room.
• Long Zhanye slipped while trying to replace the stone, fell through the opening, and found himself in a shallow space beneath the bridge.

Long Zhanye discovered a hidden chamber beneath the sect filled with preserved human body parts, then fled back to his quarters in terror. There, Elder Xu comforted him and told him his brother Long Zhantian had not yet heard what happened to him.

• Long Zhanye entered a secret underground hall and found shelves of glass containers holding human organs and tissues.
• Terrified by the discovery, Long Zhanye escaped the chamber and rushed back to his quarters.
• Elder Xu saw Long Zhanye's condition and promised the sect would find a way to keep him alive.
• Long Zhanye asked whether his brother knew of his misfortune, and Elder Xu said Long Zhantian was away on sect missions and probably had not received the news.
• Long Zhanye recalled that Long Zhantian was a Spirit King and a skilled scout whose Truth-Listening Spirit Ears made him highly valuable to the sect.

After Long Zhanye discovered a secret chamber filled with human organs, Elder Xu identified its creator as the long-missing Mad Old Man, an ancient presence in the Body Sect. Long Zhanye secretly investigated him, but was caught spying and woke bound in the chamber as the Mad Old Man approached with a dagger to take his blood.

• Long Zhanye told Elder Xu about the underground chamber, and Elder Xu explained that the Mad Old Man had vanished around thirty years earlier but was believed not to harm sect members.
• Long Zhanye secretly watched Short Bridge for nearly a week and saw the Mad Old Man return to the chamber every seven days, sometimes accompanied by a cloaked young man.
• While spying at the chamber door, Long Zhanye fell asleep and later woke bound to a chair inside, surrounded by organs.
• The Mad Old Man said he only wanted some of Long Zhanye's blood and began sharpening a dagger.
• When Long Zhanye invoked the sect master, the Mad Old Man briefly froze, then dismissed the threat and approached him with the dagger.

The Mad Old Man discovered that Long Zhanye had a second Martial Soul despite his first being crippled, and he hailed him as a hope for the Body Sect. When Long Zhanye asked the old man's name, the old man abruptly turned lucid and accused him of forcing him into his current state.

• The Mad Old Man examined Long Zhanye, declared his body and crippled Martial Soul worthless, and cut him loose before shoving him toward the door.
• Long Zhanye collapsed after trying to flee, and the Mad Old Man sensed that his Soul Power still circulated despite his crippled Martial Soul.
• The Mad Old Man concluded that Long Zhanye possessed a second Martial Soul, and Long Zhanye admitted it.
• The Mad Old Man celebrated Long Zhanye as a rare Twin Martial Souls talent and the Body Sect's future hope, then broke down in grief over his first Martial Soul being crippled.
• Long Zhanye asked the Mad Old Man his name, and the old man became lucid before angrily accusing Long Zhanye and others of forcing him into his current state.

Long Zhanye fled the underground chamber after Mad Old Man erupted into apparent madness. Once Zhua Yun calmed his master with a pill, Mad Old Man lamented Long Zhanye’s ruined heart Martial Soul and discussed the Body Sect’s uncertain future in the face of Shrek Academy’s growing power.

• Long Zhanye escaped the chamber while Mad Old Man stood pointing and muttering.
• Zhua Yun emerged from a hidden door and gave Mad Old Man a pill that restored his clarity.
• Mad Old Man told Zhua Yun that Long Zhanye had once possessed the foundation of a four-ring Soul Elder despite being no more than thirteen.
• Zhua Yun and Mad Old Man concluded that Long Zhanye’s shattered heart Martial Soul had severely damaged his body and left his future cultivation uncertain.
• Mad Old Man reviewed the decline or seclusion of other major factions and warned that Shrek Academy would obstruct the Body Sect’s efforts to regain influence.

Zhua Yun urged his aging master to put his dangerous theories into practice to save the Body Sect, then offered himself as the test subject. His master refused, unwilling to risk losing his only disciple and the last keeper of his work, and asked to be left alone.

• Zhua Yun suggested that his master risk practicing a dangerous theory, but the old man refused because he feared the danger and the sect's reaction.
• Zhua Yun defended his master's rejected theories and recalled how the Secret of the Body had once been recognized as a great contribution to the sect.
• The old man told Zhua Yun he could not accept that his life's work would be buried with him, though he no longer had time to find and train someone capable of realizing it.
• Zhua Yun knelt and offered himself for the experiment, but his master refused to endanger his only disciple and heir.
• The old man turned away and asked to be alone, leaving Zhua Yun to retreat and guard the silence.

Zhua Yun decided to seek a desperate chance to fulfill his master's theories by persuading Long Zhanye to undergo treatment. He revealed that the person who might cure Long Zhanye was the Mad Old Man, his master, leaving Long Zhanye shocked and afraid.

• Zhua Yun resolved to use Long Zhanye as a chance to prove his master's theories and preserve hope for the Body Sect.
• A few days later, Zhua Yun approached Long Zhanye and led him to a secluded spot on the sect's rear mountain.
• Zhua Yun confronted Long Zhanye about his damaged body and short remaining lifespan, and Long Zhanye admitted he was unwilling to give up.
• Zhua Yun offered a possible cure, and Long Zhanye eagerly agreed to try it, regardless of the cost.
• Zhua Yun revealed that his master, the Mad Old Man beneath Short Bridge in the Underground Secret Chamber, might be able to save Long Zhanye, stunning him.

Zhua Yun told Long Zhanye about his master Gu, a persecuted researcher whose theories on Body Martial Souls drove him insane and led him to use blood elixirs to extend his life. He revealed that Gu had preserved hundreds or thousands of donated Body Martial Soul organs for research and that he had learned part of Gu’s seventh secret, the Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique.

• Zhua Yun explained that Gu had helped develop the Body Martial Soul Secondary Awakening and created the broader Nine Body Secrets, whose other theories were rejected by successive Sect Masters.
• Zhua Yun said that rejection and isolation broke Gu’s mind and revealed that Gu had lived for over two hundred years by making life-extending elixirs with young Spirit Masters’ blood.
• Zhua Yun told Long Zhanye that most of the organs in Gu’s underground chamber came from deceased sect members and had been preserved with prior consent or family permission as research samples.
• Zhua Yun revealed that he had learned part of the seventh Body Secret from Gu: the Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique.

Zhua Yun told Long Zhanye that the untested Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique might replace his shattered heart and restore his ability to cultivate, but could also kill him. After wrestling with the risks for more than half a month, Long Zhanye agreed to try it, and Zhua Yun arranged to meet him that night.

• Zhua Yun explained that his master's Body Martial Soul Grafting Technique could graft a heart-type Martial Soul onto a compatible recipient, potentially repairing Long Zhanye and granting him new abilities.
• Zhua Yun warned Long Zhanye that the procedure had never been performed on a living person and that his elderly master's instructions for the Seventh Secret were incomplete.
• Long Zhanye left without deciding and kept the proposed operation secret as he struggled between hope of recovery and fear of dying.
• For more than half a month, Long Zhanye's inner voices argued over whether he should risk the procedure, while memories of his ruined family and unfulfilled vengeance weighed on him.
• Long Zhanye decided to gamble on the procedure and told Zhua Yun he wanted to try it.
• Zhua Yun agreed to accompany Long Zhanye and told him to meet at their usual place at the third quarter of midnight.

Long Zhanye knelt before Old Man Gu and begged to become his disciple, hoping to obtain the Grafting Technique. Old Man Gu refused and questioned his motives, so Zhua Yun revealed that Long Zhanye had agreed to test the technique and urged his master to leave the chamber and try it.

• Zhua Yun brought Long Zhanye into the secret chamber and woke Old Man Gu.
• Old Man Gu angrily rejected Long Zhanye's request to become his disciple and told him to leave.
• Long Zhanye stayed kneeling and vowed not to leave, while Zhua Yun pleaded for Old Man Gu to accept him.
• Old Man Gu suspected Long Zhanye had another motive and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Zhua Yun admitted he had invited Long Zhanye and revealed that Long Zhanye knew of the Body Grafting Technique and was willing to risk trying it.
• Zhua Yun urged Old Man Gu to leave the chamber and test the technique, prompting his furious roar.

Old Man Gu attacked Long Zhanye to investigate his Second Martial Soul, but the power in Long Zhanye’s brow repelled him and led him to identify it as the legendary Heavenly Eye. Long Zhanye confirmed the name and claimed his crippled Martial Soul and fading life would leave its power buried.

• Old Man Gu accused Zhua Yun of betraying him by revealing the Grafting Technique to Long Zhanye, then seized Long Zhanye and forced Soul Power into his dantian.
• A majestic force erupted from Long Zhanye’s brow, repelled Old Man Gu’s Soul Power, and knocked him back.
• Old Man Gu recovered from his shock and recognized the faint vertical slit on Long Zhanye’s forehead as the legendary Heavenly Eye.
• Zhua Yun reacted with disbelief as Old Man Gu and he discussed the Heavenly Eye’s divine reputation.
• Long Zhanye confirmed that his Second Martial Soul was the Heavenly Eye and claimed his failing health would prevent him from nurturing it.