Chapter Summaries

Class Zero continued farming Final Examination points by challenging powerful Soul Kings, while Xie Xie endured relentless training from Wu Zhangkong after the team accidentally left him behind. The group arrived in Tianding City and headed to Tian Ding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy to arrange an exchange, with Xu Xiaoyan accompanying Wu Zhangkong to make the negotiations seem less threatening.

• Class Zero defeated high-level Soul Kings in successive cities, raising their Final Examination points as Tang Wulin and the others overwhelmed their opponents.
• The students realized they had left Wu Zhangkong behind after departing Heaven Dou City, and Wu Zhangkong tracked them down and blamed Xie Xie for driving.
• Wu Zhangkong subjected Xie Xie to repeated footwork training, often after Tang Linyuan provoked him by asking to spar for examination points.
• The business vehicle reached Tianding City, and Tang Linyuan directed Xie Xie to take the group to Tian Ding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy.
• Tang Linyuan asked Xu Xiaoyan to accompany Wu Zhangkong to negotiate an exchange, reasoning that her harmless appearance would keep the academy guards from treating them as threats.

Tang Linyuan negotiated a seven-on-seven challenge against Tian Ding Starry Sky Academy’s Graduate School Soul Kings, with access to the Star Gazing Platform as the prize. The teams entered the arena and prepared to fight, but the battle had not yet begun.

• Xu Xiaoyan returned from negotiations with Wu Zhangkong, and Tang Linyuan took charge of the meeting with Li Zhilong.
• Tang Linyuan rejected Li Zhilong’s proposal for students under twenty and asked for seven opponents with Soul King-level combat power; Li agreed to field Graduate School students.
• Tang Linyuan wagered that a Shrek victory would earn his team one night of cultivation inside the Star Gazing Platform at maximum power, and Li accepted.
• The group toured the Star Gazing Platform, where Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Wheel Mark and Star Wheel Ice Staff reacted strongly to its starry sky energy.
• Seven Soul King graduate students assembled, and Tang Wulin led seven Shrek students into the arena to face them.

Class Zero defeated Tian Ding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy’s graduate team in under five minutes, then used the Star Gazing Platform for cultivation. Tang Linyuan’s Star Sundial rune overwhelmed the platform’s array and drew down vast Star Power, leaving Li Zhilong stunned.

• Class Zero coordinated their attacks to defeat every member of Tian Ding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy’s graduate team in four minutes and forty-seven seconds.
• Li Zhilong conceded the match, guided Tang Linyuan’s group around the academy, and hosted them at a banquet.
• Li Zhilong brought Class Zero back to the Star Gazing Platform at night and activated its array so they could cultivate.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan began absorbing Star Power through their Martial Souls while Li Zhilong explained the platform’s limits to Wu Zhangkong.
• Tang Linyuan summoned the Star Sundial rune, which drew down enormous amounts of Star Power and channeled it into the rune, Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan, and the rest of Class Zero.
• Li Zhilong stared in disbelief at Tang Linyuan’s feat while Wu Zhangkong remained composed.

Tang Wulin and the others completed their star-power cultivation, and Ye Xinglan and Xu Xiaoyan gained transformed Martial Souls. Tang Linyuan condensed leftover stellar energy into a Star Sundial Rune for Tian Ding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy, then led Class Zero toward the next city of the Final Examination.

• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Wu Sidu, and the others awoke from cultivation with greatly strengthened bodies.
• Ye Xinglan transformed her Stargod Sword into the Heaven-Severing Star Sword and demonstrated its immense power.
• Xu Xiaoyan lost her ice attribute, gained a stars-attributed companion beast, and named her upgraded weapon the Prayer Star Staff.
• Tang Linyuan absorbed the Star Sundial Rune and condensed leftover stellar energy into a miniature rune that would let visitors to the Star Gazing Platform withstand its star power.
• Tang Linyuan gave the rune to Li Zhilong as a gift for Tian Ding Starry Sky Academy, then departed with Class Zero for the next target city of the Final Examination.

Tang Linyuan’s group arrived at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for their final assessment and faced the academy’s elite Seven Stars of Shining World. The battle began with three enemy fusion skills meeting three of Class Zero’s own, leaving the arena shaking as the powers collided.

• Tang Linyuan chose to take Class Zero straight to Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, where Wu Zhangkong said the academy had prepared for their assessment.
• The Seven Stars of Shining World confronted Class Zero in the arena and revealed three Martial Soul Fusion Skills: Ice Snow Goddess, Sky Tiger Summoning, and Sacred Sun Moon Dragon.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie unleashed Light-Shadow Golden Dragon, while Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan formed Starlight Female Sword God.
• Wu Sidu used her Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger, without a partner.
• The three pairs of fusion skills collided, and their destructive energy shook the arena.

Shrek Academy decisively defeated Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s Seven Stars of Shining World, with Tang Linyuan’s team using three Martial Soul Fusion Skills to overwhelm their opponents. After You Dingqi surrendered, Tang Linyuan took his team straight back to Shrek for vacation, leaving Sun Moon Academy’s leaders unable to learn more about them.

• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie’s Light-Shadow Golden Dragon overwhelmed Long Chen and Long Aoyue’s Sacred Sun Moon Dragon, knocking both women out of the arena.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Ye Xinglan’s Starlight Female Sword God bound and shattered Xue Liushuang and Weng Daimin’s Ice Snow Goddess, knocking both opponents unconscious.
• Wu Sidu’s Hell White Tiger exploited the Dark Gold Sky Tiger’s opening and defeated Jian Mochen and Kuang Zhentian.
• With her teammates defeated, You Dingqi surrendered, and the referee declared Shrek Academy the winner.
• Tang Linyuan called his team to the van and announced they were returning to the academy for vacation.
• Xie Xie sped the van out of the arena before Sun Moon Academy’s vice principal could persuade the team to stay.

After completing the final examination, Tang Linyuan postponed the team's battle armor work and sent everyone home for a week of rest. He then drove Tang Wulin and Na'er toward Heaven Dou City, while the others prepared to reunite at the academy.

• Xie Xie drove the team back to Shrek Academy after they earned every clearance point in ten days, and Wu Zhangkong confirmed their record-breaking success and that all first-year students were on track to pass.
• Tang Wulin proposed that the team spend the holiday manufacturing their One-Word Battle Armor and eventually make Tang Linyuan a Two-Word set.
• Tang Linyuan ordered everyone to take a week off, explaining that forging his armor required substantial time and that the team needed rest before beginning work.
• Xie Xie and the others protested, but Tang Linyuan insisted that they meet back at the academy in one week and left with Tang Wulin and Na'er for Heaven Dou City.
• Gu Yue, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, and Wu Siduo accepted the plan to visit home, and the team members parted ways beside Sea God Lake.

Tang Linyuan, Tang Wulin, Na'er, and Ouyang Zixin spent a peaceful week with Tang Wulin's parents before returning to Shrek Academy. Tang Wulin began breaking the fourth Golden Dragon King Seal under Tang Linyuan's protection, but the violent transformation was still underway.

• Tang Wulin asked Tang Linyuan to pick up Ouyang Zixin so she could travel with them to Heaven Dou City, and Na'er teased him about bringing her home to meet his parents.
• Lang Yue welcomed Ouyang Zixin warmly, and the family spent the week relaxing together at the villa.
• The four young people returned to Shrek Academy, where they met Xie Xie and Yuan'en Yehui and learned that Gu Yue and Ye Xinglan would arrive later.
• Tang Linyuan led Tang Wulin and Xie Xie to the Underground Meditation Room so Tang Wulin could consolidate his gains and break his seal.
• Tang Wulin unleashed the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, and his body began a painful transformation as Tang Linyuan watched and prepared to intervene.

Tang Linyuan removed the Golden Dragon King's Destruction Will from Tang Wulin and guided both Tang Wulin and Xie Xie through dangerous cultivation breakthroughs. After stabilizing them with runes of samsara and spacetime, he began refining the destructive energy in his own Sea of Consciousness.

• Tang Wulin formed a second golden Blood Essence Soul Ring, but the Golden Dragon King's Destruction Will remained lodged near his vital meridians.
• Tang Linyuan extracted and destroyed the Destruction Will, then drew its remnants into his Sea of Consciousness to refine them.
• Tang Linyuan gave the remaining crimson-gold Blood Essence to Xie Xie, who endured its impact and began strengthening his body and Light Shadow Twin Dragons.
• Tang Linyuan sent a Samsara Rune into Tang Wulin's Sea of Consciousness and guided him to understand the transformation between destruction and life.
• Tang Linyuan forged a Spacetime Rune and sent it into Xie Xie's mind, helping the Light Shadow Twin Dragons begin transforming through the laws of time and space.
• After confirming Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had stabilized, Tang Linyuan meditated and refined the Destruction Will's remnants until nightfall.

Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin recovered after absorbing the Golden Dragon King's Destruction Will, while Xie Xie completed the fusion of his Light Dragon and Shadow Dragon into a Space-Time Dragon Martial Soul. Xie Xie's new powers sparked a chase with Tang Wulin through the meditation room as Tang Linyuan watched.

• Tang Linyuan absorbed the remaining Destruction Will and came close to reaching the Spirit Domain Realm.
• Tang Wulin stabilized his second deep Blood Essence Soul Ring and gained greater control over his Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Xie Xie endured the clash between the Light Dragon and Shadow Dragon until they fused into the Space-Time Dragon.
• Xie Xie awakened his Space-Time Dragon Martial Soul and demonstrated its spatial powers by appearing beside Tang Wulin.
• Xie Xie kissed Tang Wulin's cheek and teased him, prompting Tang Wulin to chase him around the meditation room while Tang Linyuan let them continue.

After Class Zero completed their One-Word Battle Armor, the new term began with news of a cross-year contest against the third-years. The students eagerly anticipated their first chance to test their armor in battle.

• Tang Wulin chased Xie Xie out of the basement, and they told their assembled classmates they had been sparring while testing their newly changed abilities.
• Tang Linyuan announced that Class Zero would begin making Battle Armor, and the students spent more than twenty days forging and assembling their suits.
• Class Zero completed eight sets of One-Word Battle Armor, and the students showed off their suits and announced their names to Tang Linyuan.
• Xie Xie said the team was ready to help make Tang Linyuan's Two-Word Battle Armor, and Tang Linyuan agreed to put them to the test after the term began.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that Class Zero and the second-years would face the third-years in a cross-year contest, exciting the students eager to test their new armor.

Class Zero faced the third grade in a cross-grade spar arranged to test the younger students, while Tang Linyuan watched from the stands with Na’er. The match began with the third grade pressing forward, but Class Zero revealed that all seven competitors wore One-Word Battle Armor, leaving the arena stunned.

• Na’er declined to compete, saying her Abyss Battle Armor was made only for Tang Linyuan, and the seven-person Class Zero lineup was settled.
• Zhuo Shi opened the spar between Class Zero and the third-grade team, led by Li Qiankun and Mo Jue.
• The third grade released its Martial Souls and Soul Rings, while Tang Wulin led Class Zero in resisting their pressure.
• Tang Wulin called for armor, and all seven Class Zero competitors revealed their One-Word Battle Armor.
• Li Qiankun and Mo Jue halted their charge as the arena fell silent at the sight of seven Battle Armor Masters.

Class Zero defeated the third-year representative team in a cross-year battle, overpowering them with superior Battle Armor, combat skill, and teamwork. The match ended in less than five minutes, leaving the stands cheering for Class Zero’s overwhelming victory.

• Li Qiankun rallied the third-year team after seeing that every Class Zero member wore superior One-Word Battle Armor.
• Tang Wulin charged first and cracked Li Qiankun’s Qiankun Shield with a Golden Dragon Claw strike.
• Xie Xie, Ye Xinglan, Gu Yue, Yuan'en Yehui, Wu Sidu, and Xu Xiaoyan used their abilities and teamwork to overwhelm the third years and break their formation.
• Tang Wulin shattered the damaged Qiankun Shield and knocked Li Qiankun out of the arena.
• Gu Yue knocked Mo Jue out, and the remaining third-year members surrendered after losing their fighting capability.
• Class Zero won the match in under five minutes as the spectators erupted into cheers.

Class Zero celebrated its victory over the third-year team while Zhuo Shi praised the first-years’ strength and teamwork. Tang Linyuan then learned from Zhen Hua that Evil Soul Masters had attempted to assassinate him, prompting plans for an emergency meeting at Shrek Academy.

• Zhuo Shi announced Class Zero’s victory and dismissed the students after offering words of encouragement.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie joined Tang Linyuan, who praised the team’s tactics and Battle Armor performance.
• Zhen Hua told Tang Linyuan that assassins had targeted him, but Mu Ye had blocked the fatal strike after Tang Linyuan’s warning.
• Tang Linyuan reasoned that Evil Soul Masters had targeted Zhen Hua to provoke conflict between the Federation and the Star Luo Empire.
• Zhen Hua recounted how he had shown a Star Luo blacksmith and her disciple Tang Linyuan’s forging feats, then said he would attend an emergency Sea God Pavilion meeting that afternoon.

After Class Zero returned from the exchange match, they prepared to craft Tang Linyuan’s Two-Word Battle Armor, with Na’er insisting on leading its design. Tang Linyuan left for Sea God Island to meet Yun Ming, who had been waiting for him.

• Tang Wulin and Class Zero urged Tang Linyuan to begin making his Two-Word Battle Armor, and he gave Tang Wulin a ring containing his forged metals.
• Na’er kissed Tang Linyuan and declared that she would lead the armor’s design, and he accepted her offer before kissing her in return.
• Tang Linyuan teased Na’er that he would reward her if the armor satisfied him, then left the villa for Sea God Island.
• Tang Linyuan crossed Sea God Lake and traveled through Sea God Island to Yun Ming’s courtyard, where Yun Ming greeted him beside a prepared teacup.

Tang Linyuan met with Yun Ming, who arranged for him to lead Class Zero on an exchange visit to Star Luo and advised him on spear cultivation and choosing a compatible Soul Spirit. Yun Ming offered to contact Leng Yaozhu about a suitable Source Soul Spirit, then took Tang Linyuan to a Sea God Pavilion meeting.

• Tang Linyuan told Yun Ming about the Holy Spirit Cult's assassination attempt on a Federation Divine Craftsman, while keeping his knowledge of the cult's headquarters to himself.
• Yun Ming assigned Tang Linyuan to lead Na'er and their Class Zero companions on an exchange visit to Star Luo Continent.
• Yun Ming warned Tang Linyuan not to rush toward the Spear God realm and urged him to patiently temper his Spear Intent.
• Tang Linyuan explained that he had delayed obtaining a second Soul Spirit in hopes of securing a Fierce Beast Soul Spirit, but Yun Ming advised him to prioritize compatibility with his Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.
• Yun Ming offered to contact Leng Yaozhu to help find a suitable Source Soul Spirit, then entered a Spatial Passage with Tang Linyuan to attend a Sea God Pavilion meeting.

Yun Ming convened the Sea God Pavilion elders to respond to the Holy Spirit Cult’s assassination attempt and appointed Tang Linyuan to lead Class Zero on an exchange trip to the Star Luo Continent. After preparing overnight, Tang Linyuan returned to the Soul Spirit Tower with permission to claim a powerful Soul Spirit and entered the next challenge.

• Zhen Hua recounted the Holy Spirit Cult’s attempt on his life, and Yun Ming announced that Shrek would secretly join forces with the Tang Sect to strike the Evil Soul Masters’ strongholds.
• Yun Ming assigned Zhuo Shi to lead a student delegation to the Star Luo Continent in six months and named Tang Linyuan its captain.
• Tang Linyuan returned to the villa, watched his companions work, and meditated to prepare for the Soul Spirit Tower challenge.
• Leng Yaozhu told Tang Linyuan that he could take any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit or Fierce Beast Soul Spirit he managed to subdue.
• Tang Linyuan teleported to the Soul Spirit Tower’s fiftieth floor and entered the gate of light to face the next challenge.

Tang Linyuan cleared the Soul Beast trials from the fifty-first through the eightieth floors, using his Soul Skills and spear arts to defeat each guardian in a single decisive strike. He entered the gate to the eighty-first floor, preparing for a sharp increase in the opponents’ strength.

• Tang Linyuan pierced the Mountain-Suppressing Mysterious Armor Turtle’s defense and killed it on the fifty-first floor.
• Tang Linyuan crossed the next floors by practicing his spear techniques and killed the Extreme Cold Ice Falcon, Phantom Demon Fox, Frost-Armored Earth Dragon, and Bloodthirsty Mad Bee swarm.
• Tang Linyuan pinned the Thundercloud Azure Hawk in place and killed it with a spear strike on the seventieth floor.
• Tang Linyuan swallowed the Lava Behemoth’s attack and devoured it, then defeated the Deep Sea Demon Whale with a strike that flattened the sea.
• Tang Linyuan overloaded the Undying Ghost Vine with vitality, causing it to explode, then entered the gate to the eighty-first floor.

Tang Linyuan and Xiao Mo battled their way through the Spirit Pagoda’s upper floors, defeating the Heaven-Splitting Demon Rhino and other guardians. On the ninety-ninth floor, Xiao Mo transformed into armor as Tang Linyuan confronted the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape, and their battle began.

• Tang Linyuan summoned Xiao Mo to restrain the Diamond-Armored Mountain-Moving Rhino, then pierced its exposed weakness and cleared the eighty-first floor.
• Tang Linyuan and Xiao Mo fought through successive floors, using Xiao Mo to hold enemies back while Tang Linyuan struck at their weak points.
• On the ninetieth floor, Tang Linyuan interrupted the Heaven-Splitting Demon Rhino’s lightning attack with Star Sundial: Karma Severing and smashed its skull, then chose to keep its Soul Spirit as a backup.
• Tang Linyuan and Xiao Mo survived the dangerous floors from the ninety-first to the ninety-eighth, with both suffering damage.
• On the ninety-ninth floor, Tang Linyuan ordered Xiao Mo to use Armor Transformation, then met the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape’s crimson beam with his spear, starting a fierce battle.

Tang Linyuan fought a prolonged battle against the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape in the Bone Wasteland, enduring its attacks until its strength ran low. He created and unleashed his third self-created spear technique, Slaughter Annihilation: No Life, killing the beast and clearing the ninety-ninth floor.

• Tang Linyuan clashed with the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape, countering its claws, tail, and destructive red beams with his spear techniques and Soul Skills.
• Tang Linyuan and the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape fought through more than a thousand exchanges, leaving both bloodied as the Bone Wasteland was leveled.
• Tang Linyuan’s endurance outlasted the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape, whose strength and ferocity began to fade.
• Tang Linyuan pierced the beast’s right palm with Heaven-Breaking Strike, and the wounded ape retreated in fear.
• Tang Linyuan gathered the battle’s killing intent into his spear and used Slaughter Annihilation: No Life to sever the Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape’s neck.
• The Three-Eyed Heaven-Rending Ape’s corpse dissolved into golden motes, and Tang Linyuan cleared the ninety-ninth floor.