Chapter Summaries

Yun Jingheng fused the Dark Dragon King and Light Dragon King’s leg bones, passing the Dragon Kings’ scrutiny and reaching Soul Power level seventy. He discovered that faint consciousnesses remained in the bones and told Yun Ming, who advised him to watch for any disruption.

• Yun Ming brought Yun Jingheng to the Sea God Pavilion, where the elders showed him the Dragon King leg bones Di Tian had given Yun Ming.
• Yun Jingheng began fusing the Dark Dragon King’s bone in a quiet room beneath the pavilion while the eight Title Douluo guarded him.
• Yun Jingheng met the Dark Dragon King and Light Dragon King in a dark space, and they judged him worthy before taking control of the fusion.
• The Dragon Kings fused their powers into Yun Jingheng’s legs, raising his Soul Power to level seventy, and advised him to wait before adding a Soul Ring.
• Yun Jingheng sensed faint consciousnesses in both leg bones after the fusion and told Yun Ming, who advised him to monitor them.

Yun Jingheng’s soul spirit Xiao Jiu defeated Gu Yue and the others in a training fight, leaving the Soul Fighting Arena in ruins. After the exhausted group agreed to treat him to a meal, they hurried to leave before Teacher Cai arrived to demand compensation.

• Xiao Jiu overwhelmed Yun Jingheng’s six opponents, with Gu Yue remaining on her feet only by using some of her sealed power.
• Yun Jingheng recalled Xiao Jiu and apologized for the damage to the arena, while his companions recovered and praised her strength.
• Yun Jingheng asked the group to treat him to a meal, and Xie Xie reluctantly agreed after the others teased him about being the half Xiao Jiu had taken down.
• Ye Xinglan warned that Teacher Cai might arrive and make them pay for the damage, so Yun Jingheng ran for the exit.

After the seven students wrecked the Soul Fighting Arena, Cai Yue'er assigned them to two years of targeted training on Devil Island, where they would have no breaks or contact with home. Yun Jingheng learned that his father, Yun Ming, had arranged for him to go, and questioned whether two years was too long.

• Tang Wulin and the others left the damaged Soul Fighting Arena, while Gu Yue noticed a chip between the stone slabs.
• Cai Yue'er waited at Shrek's main gate and confronted the returning students, including Yun Jingheng, about the arena damage.
• Cai Yue'er said the repair costs would be deducted from the seven students' mission subsidies over two years.
• Cai Yue'er assigned all seven students to Devil Island for two years and told them to gather at the dock in three days, with no messages or early withdrawal.
• Cai Yue'er told Yun Jingheng that his dad was looking for him, and Yun Jingheng went home to speak with Yun Ming.
• Yun Ming admitted that he had arranged Yun Jingheng's Devil Island training and said students who could not endure it mentally would be teleported away.

Yun Jingheng and his companions traveled to Devil Island after Yun Ming warned him about its harsh conditions and the risk of permanent damage. On the island, they discovered that they could not use their Soul Power or sense life energy, leaving them unsure how to proceed.

• Yun Ming explained that Devil Island had unstable, dense origin energy and forcibly ejected those who could not endure its pressure, damaging their foundations.
• Yun Ming gave Yun Jingheng a wooden box, and Yun Jingheng left home three days later with a Storage Soul Tool and protective shoes from his parents.
• Yun Jingheng met Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, and Gu Yue, and they boarded a black boat with a gray-robed old man.
• The old man brought the seven to Devil Island, told them someone was waiting, and sailed away.
• Yun Jingheng and Gu Yue found they could not use Soul Power or sense the elements, while Tang Wulin detected no life aura and warned that the island could consume their life force.

Yun Jingheng and his companions found their Soul Power suppressed on the barren island, leaving them to search for the person they had been sent to meet. Yun Jingheng discovered that his father had secretly packed ample supplies and Soul Guidance Batteries, and the group set off to look for water.

• Yun Jingheng found that his Golden Core and Soul Power were nearly immobilized, though his two leg Soul Bones still reacted, while Gu Yue confirmed that bloodline power remained unaffected.
• Tang Wulin scanned the island and found no living people or insects, while Xu Xiaoyan and the others checked their meager food supplies.
• Yun Jingheng opened his Storage Soul Tool and revealed food, water, seasonings, and eight Soul Guidance Batteries that his father had packed inside.
• Yun Jingheng estimated the supplies could last more than a month and proposed finding a way to secure long-term provisions.
• Yun Jingheng led the group toward the stone pillar forest to search for water.

Yun Jingheng, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan discovered a strange stone wall whose ancient energy and golden light drew them into a dangerous trance. As Yun Jingheng tried to pull them away, Xie Xie voiced his resentment and Xu Xiaoyan collapsed, while Yun Jingheng turned back toward the wall and saw a light.

• The seven students split up to explore the island, and Yun Jingheng went north with Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Yun Jingheng, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan found a cavern containing a black stone wall traced with glowing golden veins.
• Yun Jingheng sensed that the wall held a pure energy that stirred the Moon Laurel Tree, while Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan became entranced by it.
• Yun Jingheng tried to pull Xie Xie away as he raged about being overlooked, and Xu Xiaoyan collapsed against a rock, crying and unable to respond.
• Yun Jingheng turned toward the wall, intending to smash it, but saw a light.

Yun Jingheng was engulfed by light from the stone wall and awoke in a grand hall where Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, and other girls treated him like their young master. As the women soothed him and he began to relax, he noticed Gu Yue's cold fingertips but accepted the comforting scene around him.

• Yun Jingheng turned toward the stone wall, and its expanding light swept past him and reached Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan.
• Yun Jingheng found himself in a vast hall and saw Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Xiaoyan dressed as maids and calling him Young Master.
• Ye Xinglan and Xu Xiaoyan told Yun Jingheng he had slept for a day, while Gu Yue brought him tea.
• Yun Jingheng relaxed as Xu Xiaoyan went to fetch soup and Ye Xinglan adjusted his collar.
• Gu Yue handed Yun Jingheng tea, and he noticed her fingertips were cold before sipping it and thinking she should dress more warmly.

Yun Jingheng spent a warm, peaceful evening with Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, and Yuanen Yehui, while distant calls to him from beyond the hall briefly disturbed his sleep. He dismissed the calls as part of a dream and settled into a bath, leaving the source of the voices unresolved.

• Gu Yue tucked a cushion behind Yun Jingheng's head, and Ye Xinglan massaged his temples as he rested in the hall.
• Xu Xiaoyan brought Yun Jingheng mushroom soup, and he briefly wondered about a memory of her injured hand before the image faded.
• Yun Jingheng fell asleep and heard a distant voice call him by name, but Gu Yue woke him to say his bath was ready.
• Yun Jingheng followed Gu Yue upstairs to the bathroom, where Yuanen Yehui had prepared a warm bath.
• Yun Jingheng noticed Gu Yue's cold hands and urged her to take a hot bath too, then entered the tub and listened to the others laughing downstairs.

Yun Jingheng was cared for by Ye Xinglan as he prepared for bed, but the bedroom’s unnaturally flawless details stirred a vague sense of familiarity and unease. He ended the chapter inspecting the room and wondering whether its perfection was fake.

• Ye Xinglan found Yun Jingheng dozing in the bath, helped him dry off, and led him to the warmed bedroom.
• Ye Xinglan dried Yun Jingheng’s hair and tucked him into bed, then asked what he wanted for breakfast before leaving.
• Yun Jingheng noticed two white tablets on the nightstand and a stain on the lamp base that seemed familiar.
• Yun Jingheng observed that the canopy tassels and curtains were unnaturally even and wondered if the room was fake.

Yun Jingheng broke free of the illusion and discovered that his Mental Domain could freeze the space around him. After he withdrew it and the grotto returned to normal, a mysterious young woman appeared and called him remarkable.

• Yun Jingheng exposed the flaws in Ye Xinglan's illusion and watched the bedroom dissolve around him.
• Yun Jingheng realized he had escaped the illusion while Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan remained frozen inside it.
• Yun Jingheng sensed that his Mental Domain covered the grotto and seemed to have stopped time.
• Yun Jingheng carefully retracted his Mental Domain, restoring the grotto's sounds and movement.
• A young woman appeared and praised Yun Jingheng as Shrek's remarkable little fellow after more than a thousand years.

Yun Jingheng confronted Old Devil of Desire, who explained the island’s history and warned him not to break Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan out of their illusions. He chose to wait beside them, though Desire urged him to continue the other trials.

• Yun Jingheng challenged Old Devil of Desire to release Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan, but she said his Soul Bone skill could not harm her.
• Old Devil of Desire explained that the island suppressed the Life Origin and a Destruction Fragment, which had transformed the souls of the Shrek Seven Devils into seven old devils.
• Desire told Yun Jingheng that Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan were trapped in illusions made by Greed and Nightmare and had to wake on their own.
• Desire warned that forcibly breaking the illusions would expose their souls to the Destruction Fragment and destroy them.
• Yun Jingheng decided to wait beside Xie Xie, and Desire urged him to leave and face the other trials.

Yun Jingheng left the grotto and met Greed, who offered to help him take the Destruction Fragment and Life Origin in exchange for the Demons' freedom. Greed claimed Yun Jingheng's parents had sent him to the island for that purpose, leaving Yun Jingheng to question his father's intentions.

• Yun Jingheng left Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan trapped in their illusions and walked through the grotto into a black-rock valley.
• Yun Jingheng met Greed, who sensed that he had encountered Desire and estimated his spiritual power at six or seven rings.
• Greed told Yun Jingheng that his parents and aunt had sent him to take the Destruction Fragment and Life Origin from beneath the island.
• Greed offered Yun Jingheng wealth, power, and resources, claiming the box from his father could let him fuse with the two divine objects.
• Greed said Yun Ming knew the island's secrets and had sent Yun Jingheng to take the two objects, prompting Yun Jingheng to consider his father's motives.

Greed tried to persuade Yun Jingheng to fuse with the island’s fragment of Destruction and the origin of life, promising he could become the Creator God. Yun Jingheng questioned whether the power would make him stronger or hollow him out, then rejected Greed’s attempt to undermine his trust in his father; Greed left him with a warning about human greed.

• Greed told Yun Jingheng that Yun Ming knew what the island contained and had given him a box capable of balancing Destruction and life.
• Greed urged Yun Jingheng to take the fragment of Destruction and fuse with the origin of life so he could become the Creator God.
• Yun Jingheng reached toward Greed’s open hand but stopped, uncertain whether the promised power would make him stronger or turn him into an empty shell.
• Greed claimed Yun Ming had arranged Yun Jingheng’s choices and trials, but Yun Jingheng argued that his father trusted him to decide what to do with the box.
• Yun Jingheng affirmed that his adoptive family had treated him as their own, and Greed praised him before turning away.
• Greed warned Yun Jingheng that people were never satisfied with their circumstances and that human greed was infinite.

Yun Jingheng realized Greed had tested whether he could see through the temptation and passed the Trial of Greed. Greed directed him toward Sloth’s checkpoint, where Xing Lan was waiting, and hinted that Yun Jingheng’s desires also involved several other girls.

• Yun Jingheng deduced that Greed had offered him temptations only to test whether he would recognize the real purpose of the trial.
• Greed confirmed that Yun Jingheng had passed the Trial of Greed and explained that the seven personifications each oversaw a different question.
• Greed told Yun Jingheng to head east through a passage to Sloth’s checkpoint, where a blonde girl with the aura of stars was waiting.
• Greed hinted that Yun Jingheng’s desires involved Xing Lan, a silver-haired girl at Ruin’s, and a blue-haired girl trapped in Nightmare’s illusion.
• Yun Jingheng challenged Greed’s remarks, then ran down the path toward Sloth’s checkpoint.

Yun Jingheng faced Sloth’s trial while Ye Xinglan struggled to finish her own task on Reef Island. Sloth drew Yun Jingheng into an illusion of his childhood home, where he met his mother Ya Li and began reliving a carefully woven memory.

• Sloth appeared on the gray beach and prevented Yun Jingheng from crossing the barrier to help Ye Xinglan, saying she had to complete her own trial.
• Sloth questioned Yun Jingheng about Ye Xinglan’s exhaustion and pointed out that although he had stood still, his thoughts had kept moving.
• Sloth revealed an image of Yun Jingheng’s childhood home and told him to walk inside to enter an illusion.
• Yun Jingheng entered the house and found Ya Li sewing by the window.
• Ya Li greeted Yun Jingheng, and a memory surfaced of him asking her to do his homework so he could go play.

Yun Jingheng relived a comforting memory of his mother Ya Li, who soothed him and offered to finish his homework, but distant sounds from Reef Island and Ye Xinglan stirred him from the illusion. He recognized the false memory, left Ya Li behind, and went to rejoin Sea Breeze.

• Ya Li held Yun Jingheng's hands and recalled helping him with homework when he was a child.
• Ya Li wrote in Yun Jingheng's notebooks while he rested, and he remembered the last time he had seen her alive.
• As Yun Jingheng began to fall asleep, he heard Ye Xinglan's strained breathing and another distant voice calling to him.
• Yun Jingheng recalled Sloth's words and realized that something inside him had always been moving.
• Yun Jingheng told Ya Li he had never needed her to write his essays, then left the room to find Sea Breeze.

After Yun Jingheng emerged from a trial room where he saw his mother, Ye Xinglan brought him to meet the others on Reef Island. The group compared the trials they had faced, but they had not yet learned why each person experienced a different sin.

• Yun Jingheng emerged after spending three hours and forty minutes inside, and Ye Xinglan gave him water while he told her he had seen his mother helping him with homework.
• Ye Xinglan led Yun Jingheng to the island’s central platform, where Tang Wulin and the others greeted them.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan told Yun Jingheng they had been sent to the platform by Nightmare Old Demon, Abomination Old Demon, and Lazy Old Demon.
• Yun Jingheng said he had faced Desire, Greed, and Sloth, while Gu Yue reported Abomination, Yuanen Yehui reported Nightmare, and Tang Wulin reported Desire.
• Xie Xie said he and Gu Yue had experienced Abomination, while Xu Xiaoyan had experienced Nightmare, and noted that the three of them seemed to have fallen into illusions first.

The group compared the trials they had survived before a Hunchbacked Elder appeared and revealed that the island’s only food was a mass of revolting sea creatures. With their supplies running low, Tang Wulin tasted one of the creatures, confirming they might have to eat them to survive.

• Ye Xinglan and Yun Jingheng described the Sloth, Desire, and Greed trials, while Yuanen Yehui and Xie Xie explained Nightmare and Abomination.
• Gu Yue summarized the five trials the group had encountered, and Tang Wulin began to say the remaining trials should be easier to face together.
• A Hunchbacked Elder appeared and asked whether the group had brought enough food; Tang Wulin answered that they had not.
• The Hunchbacked Elder showed them the creatures crawling inland and said they were the island’s only food.
• Tang Wulin told Yun Jingheng that their supplies would last less than three days, then went to the coast and ate one of the creatures to test it.

The stranded group tested the island’s revolting shelled creatures as food, then teamed up to catch Yun Jingheng and force him to try one. The chapter ended with Xu Xiaoyan feeding him a piece while the others held him down.

• Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Yuanen Yehui, Gu Yue, and Ye Xinglan each tasted the shelled creature and reacted with disgust.
• The group confronted Yun Jingheng when he tried to pass off a compressed biscuit as having eaten the island’s food.
• Xie Xie chased Yun Jingheng, but Yun Jingheng escaped and ran across the reefs as the sky suddenly turned dark.
• Tang Wulin ambushed Yun Jingheng, and he and Xie Xie carried him back while Yuanen Yehui pinned his legs.
• Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan pried Yun Jingheng’s mouth open as Xu Xiaoyan pushed the creature’s flesh inside and covered his mouth.

After completing the Nightmare and Abomination Trials, Yun Jingheng began a preliminary test for the Ruin Trial, which required him to endure destruction energy alone. The chapter left him facing the Destruction Fragment as his companions watched, unable to help.

• Yun Jingheng completed the Nightmare Trial on the forty-third day and later emerged from nearly twenty more days of the Abomination Trial.
• Yun Jingheng and the others rested for three days before he examined the Destruction Fragment atop the central stone pillar.
• Yun Jingheng explained that the Ruin Trial required him to draw destruction energy into his body and endure without shattering.
• Ruin Old Demon warned that the others could not help Yun Jingheng and that any outside force could make the balance inside him collapse.
• Yun Jingheng turned back toward the Destruction Fragment to begin the preliminary test.