Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin and his companions fought through the North Sea Legion’s defenses after Major Ice Edge provoked them, while Legion Commander Shen Yue recognized the danger of confronting Shrek Academy. The six continued toward the base exit as Shen Yue summoned Major Ice Edge and faced him over the crisis.

• Tang Wulin led the six Shrek students through the legion’s aerial defenses, disabling Mechas and weapons without stopping.
• Xie Xie, Ye Xinglan, Yuan'en Yehui, Wu Sidu, and Xu Xiaoyan used their abilities to break through the interception forces and protect their formation.
• Shen Yue watched the fighting and concluded that the six were likely this generation’s Shrek Seven Devils.
• Shen Yue recalled the Federation’s past punishment after Shrek Academy retaliated for the deaths of two Seven Devils and recognized that the legion could not provoke the academy lightly.
• Shen Yue summoned Major Ice Edge, who arrived injured and admitted through his fear that he had badly misjudged the Shrek students.

Shen Yue learned that Major Ice Edge had illegally detained Tang Wulin's group and ordered the North Sea Legion to let them leave, but Shen Qiuming had already intercepted them. The six faced the hostile Titled Douluo and his Three-Word Battle Armor Domain as a fight became imminent.

• Major Ice Edge recounted how he had ordered Tang Wulin's group detained for fifteen days out of personal spite.
• Shen Yue ordered the legion to withdraw its forces and open the north-side defenses, but her aide reported that Shen Qiuming had gone to confront the students.
• Tang Wulin and the other five reached the edge of the base, where Shen Qiuming blocked their escape.
• Tang Wulin tried to explain that the group did not want to become enemies with the legion, but Shen Qiuming declared that they would die there.
• Shen Qiuming released his Ice Armor Giant Bear Martial Soul, equipped his Three-Word Battle Armor, and trapped the six in his freezing Battle Armor Domain.

Tang Wulin and his five companions challenged Shen Qiuming, whose overwhelming strength forced them to unleash their ultimate combined Martial Soul Bloodline Fusion Skill. The golden-and-silver dragon fired its attack at Shen Qiuming, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Tang Wulin and his companions coordinated an opening assault that drove Shen Qiuming back and marked his armor.
• Shen Qiuming used his Martial Soul Avatar to overwhelm the group, wounding Ye Xinglan and forcing Xie Xie, Yuan'en Yehui, Wu Siduo, and Tang Wulin onto the defensive.
• Xu Xiaoyan burned her remaining strength to freeze Shen Qiuming with Star Wheel Chains, giving Tang Wulin and Xie Xie time to combine their powers.
• Yuan'en Yehui, Ye Xinglan, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan poured their remaining Soul Power into Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, who fused their Golden Dragon King and Space-Time Dragon powers.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie formed a golden-and-silver giant dragon and launched Time's annihilation—Space-Time Dragon's Lament at Shen Qiuming.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie unleashed their space-time and destruction attack against Shen Qiuming, breaking his Martial Soul Avatar and severely damaging his Battle Armor. The exhausted group watched Shen Qiuming emerge alive from the dust, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie's half-gold, half-silver pillar of light shattered Shen Qiuming's ice defenses and broke apart his Ice Armor Giant Bear Martial Soul Avatar.
• Shen Qiuming used his three Soul Spirits as shields, and the attack grievously injured them while leaving him badly wounded.
• The gold-and-silver dragon dispersed, and Yuan'en Yehui and Wu Sidu caught the falling Tang Wulin and Xie Xie as all six fighters collapsed from exhaustion.
• Tang Wulin told Xie Xie that their attack had probably only seriously injured Shen Qiuming because his Battle Armor and Soul Spirits had weakened it.
• Shen Qiuming pushed through the dust in ruined armor, still alive.

Shen Qiuming considered killing Tang Wulin and his companions after they defeated him, but decided to capture them and use them to pressure Shrek Academy. As he brought down a frost palm on the exhausted youths, an unknown voice challenged him.

• Shen Qiuming staggered from the ruins, badly injured, while Tang Wulin and the others struggled to their feet and stood together against him.
• Shen Qiuming recognized the six as Shrek Academy's core inheritors and realized killing them could bring catastrophic retaliation against him, his clan, and the North Sea Legion.
• Shen Qiuming decided to imprison the six in the Underground Water Prison and use them as leverage to negotiate with Shrek Academy.
• Shen Qiuming summoned a massive frost palm and declared that he would discipline the youths for trespassing in a military restricted zone.
• A mysterious voice rang through the night, demanding to know whether Shen Qiuming thought he deserved to discipline its people.

A mysterious Spear God Will overwhelmed Shen Qiuming and spread across the North Sea Legion base, forcing Shen Yue to summon her grandfather, Shen Yicheng. After hearing how the legion had provoked Tang Wulin and the other five, Shen Yicheng suspected the arriving Limit Douluo came from Shrek.

• The Spear God pressure shattered Shen Qiuming's frost palm and forced the injured lieutenant general to his knees.
• The pressure spread through the North Sea Legion base, knocking soldiers and civilians down or unconscious as a divine spear appeared in the sky.
• Shen Yue saw the spear phantom from the command center and ordered her aide to summon her grandfather.
• Shen Yicheng appeared in the corridor and held his ground beneath the pressure while questioning the identity of the unknown Spear God.
• Shen Yue explained how Major Ice Edge and Lieutenant General Shen Qiuming had provoked Tang Wulin and the other five, and concluded that the Limit Douluo likely came from Shrek.

Shen Yicheng went out to confront the mysterious powerhouse whose Spear God pressure had overwhelmed the North Sea Legion. He met Tang Linyuan in the sky and recognized him as the source of the calamity.

• Shen Yicheng ordered Shen Yue to cancel the combat alert, restrain the troops, and prepare the legion while he met the intruder.
• Shen Yue saluted and returned to the command room as Shen Yicheng stepped through the window into the night sky.
• Shen Yicheng donned his Three-Word Battle Armor, summoned his North Sea Azure Dragon and nine Soul Rings, and shielded the legion from Tang Linyuan's pressure.
• Shen Yicheng called out to the unknown powerhouse and offered peace while warning that the North Sea Legion would not fear an enemy.
• Tang Linyuan appeared before Shen Yicheng without warning, and his presence confirmed that he was behind the calamity.

Tang Linyuan forced Shen Yicheng to choose between submitting the North Sea Legion or taking one spear strike and owing him a favor. Shen Yicheng chose the strike, only to realize too late that Tang had built up a devastating attack, which collided with his defenses above North Sea City.

• Shen Yicheng sensed that Tang Linyuan had Soul Saint cultivation but power comparable to a Limit Douluo.
• Tang Linyuan offered Shen Yicheng the choice of surrendering the North Sea Legion or taking one spear strike and owing him a favor.
• Shen Yicheng refused to surrender the Shen Clan's thousand-year foundation and chose to take the strike.
• Shen Yicheng transformed into his North Sea Azure Dragon Martial Soul Avatar, equipped his Three-Word Battle Armor, and raised nine layers of ice shields.
• Tang Linyuan moved the Dark Gold Divine Spear phantom, and Shen Yicheng realized it had been gathering power for a killing blow.
• The spear phantom slammed into Shen Yicheng's Azure Dragon and its defenses above North Sea City.

Tang Linyuan defeated Shen Yicheng and secured the North Sea Legion’s submission, then bound the old general to him with a spear shadow that could also temper his spiritual power. Shen Yicheng accepted Tang Linyuan as his lord, and control of the legion changed hands.

• Tang Linyuan’s Dark Gold Spear Shadow shattered Shen Yicheng’s defenses and pierced his North Sea Azure Dragon Martial Soul Avatar, leaving Shen gravely wounded but alive.
• Shen Yicheng realized Tang Linyuan had spared him, abandoned thoughts of resistance, and pledged the North Sea Legion’s service.
• Tang Linyuan promised to preserve the Shen Clan’s foundation and leave the legion under Shen Yicheng’s command.
• Tang Linyuan revealed that the spear shadow had taken root in Shen Yicheng’s Sea of Consciousness, where it would temper his spiritual power while keeping him under Tang’s control.
• Shen Yicheng accepted the spear’s power and threat, addressed Tang Linyuan as his lord, and submitted fully.

After Tang Linyuan defeated Shen Yicheng, he healed the old general and won his allegiance, while Shen Yue prepared the North Sea Legion to retaliate. Shen Yicheng returned alive with Tang Linyuan, leaving Shen Yue stunned as he introduced her to his new lord.

• Shen Yue watched the North Sea Azure Dragon Martial Soul Avatar shatter and ordered the North Sea Legion to prepare a counterattack.
• Tang Linyuan praised the soldiers’ resolve, while he and Shen Yicheng noticed officers and staff trying to desert.
• Tang Linyuan and Shen Yicheng headed for the command center before Shen Yue could unleash the legion’s weapons.
• Shen Yicheng entered the command center alive beside Tang Linyuan, shocking Shen Yue and the staff officers.
• Shen Yicheng introduced Shen Yue to Tang Linyuan and told him to call her Xiaoyue.

After the crisis at the North Sea Legion ended, Shen Yue restored order and apologized to Tang Linyuan, offering compensation to avert conflict with Shrek Academy. Tang Linyuan requested a top-performing fighter jet for transport, while Shen Yue remained unaware that her grandfather had already yielded the entire legion to him.

• Shen Yue canceled the attack countdowns, shut down the anti-aircraft radars, and told the troops that the clash had been a sparring match.
• Tang Linyuan approved of Shen Yue's decisive handling of the troops, and Shen Yicheng relaxed after confirming that Tang was not offended.
• Shen Yue apologized to Tang Linyuan for the North Sea Legion's failure in discipline and offered whatever compensation he wanted.
• Tang Linyuan called Shen Yue "Xiao Yue," embarrassing her and startling the officers, before asking for the North Sea Legion's fastest, best-performing Soul Guidance Fighter Jet.
• Shen Yue ordered the Aviation Division to prepare its newly commissioned Ghost Ray fighter, unaware that Shen Yicheng had already handed the entire North Sea Legion over to Tang Linyuan.

Tang Linyuan and Na'er departed the North Sea Legion for Devil Island with Tang Wulin and the others aboard the Ghost Ray. Afterward, Shen Yicheng punished those responsible for the previous night’s crisis and ordered the legion to expand and strengthen its forces.

• Tang Wulin and the others lined up when Tang Linyuan arrived, apologized, and hurried aboard the Ghost Ray after he told them he would deal with them later.
• Tang Linyuan and Na'er boarded the fighter jet, which took off for Devil Island.
• Shen Yicheng summoned the North Sea Legion’s senior officers and ordered the execution of personnel who had tried to flee during the attack.
• Shen Yicheng ordered Major Ice Edge executed and stripped Lieutenant General Shen Qiuming of his authority, demoted him three ranks, and confined him for three months.
• Shen Yicheng ordered the legion to double its training intensity and seek weapons upgrades, more resources, and expanded forces.

Tang Linyuan led Tang Wulin and the others to Devil Island, where they entered a hidden valley filled with powerful Life Energy. Tang Linyuan and Na'er vanished, leaving the six companions facing the island's ruler, Destruction Old Demon.

• Tang Wulin realized the group had risked a battle with the North Sea Legion for only a short time savings, and Tang Linyuan mocked them for trying to cut corners.
• Tang Linyuan led Na'er and the six armored companions from the aircraft down to Devil Island, where black Destruction Energy had tainted the islands and nearby sea.
• The group followed a purple-black pillar of light through the island's destructive aura and entered a lush valley rich in Life Energy.
• Tang Wulin discovered that Tang Linyuan and Na'er had disappeared, and the six companions gathered defensively.
• An ugly old man appeared before them, called himself Destruction Old Demon, and declared that he ruled Devil Valley.

Tang Wulin and the others arrived at Devil Valley, where Destruction Old Demon ambushed them with a neurotoxin, only to find their training had made them nearly impervious to pain. The old demon fled to the underground cave and found a young man and woman standing beside Nightmare Old Demon, leaving him stunned.

• Destruction Old Demon told Tang Wulin and the others that Devil Valley would be their base and that they would begin military training the next day, but he did not reveal where Tang Linyuan and Na'er were.
• Tang Wulin ordered the group to rest and cultivate, and the six entered Deep Meditation to absorb the valley’s dense Life Energy.
• Destruction Old Demon struck the meditating group with hidden attacks and a neurotoxin, but the six stayed on their feet and remained ready to fight.
• Tang Wulin realized Destruction Old Demon had fled and ordered the group to keep a defensive formation and rest in shifts.
• Destruction Old Demon returned to the underground cave to complain to Nightmare Old Demon, then saw a young man and woman beside the crystal ball and fell silent.

Tang Linyuan confronted Destruction Old Demon and Nightmare Old Demon in Devil Cave, demonstrating that his Spear God Will could overcome their methods and revealing the Samsara Rune as their path to freedom. He made a deal with the Seven Old Demons to intensify the six companions’ training in exchange for freeing them after the military training ended.

• Destruction Old Demon and Nightmare Old Demon realized Tang Linyuan and his companion had bypassed Devil Island’s defenses and entered their lair.
• Tang Linyuan unleashed his Spear God Will, frightening the two demons and proving their torture methods could not affect him.
• Tang Linyuan displayed the Samsara Rune, which promised to free the Seven Old Demons from their curse and confinement.
• Tang Linyuan asked the demons to keep tormenting the six companions without holding back, promising to use the rune to free all seven after training.
• Destruction Old Demon accepted the deal, while Nightmare Old Demon entered the crystal ball to add new trials for the six in Devil Valley.

Nightmare Old Demon incapacitated Tang Wulin and the others with poisonous fog and trapped them in tailored Heart Trial illusions. Ye Xinglan confronted a dream version of Tang Linyuan, but saw through the deception and destroyed it.

• Tang Wulin sensed an attack, but Nightmare Old Demon's poisonous fog seeped through the group's armor and knocked all six unconscious.
• Nightmare Old Demon explained to Tang Linyuan and the other observers that he had designed illusions around each youth's greatest regret.
• Nightmare Old Demon revealed Ye Xinglan's dream, in which she met an affectionate illusion of Tang Linyuan at Sea God Island.
• Ye Xinglan embraced the illusion, then summoned her Heaven-Severing Star Sword and stabbed it through the chest.
• Ye Xinglan destroyed the illusion and declared, "Unfortunately, you aren't him."

Nightmare Old Demon tested the women's dreams and failed to break their defenses, as each girl destroyed her illusion of Tang Linyuan. He then turned to Xie Xie's dream, where the figure awaiting him was Tang Wulin, leaving everyone in the cavern stunned.

• Ye Xinglan shattered her Tang Linyuan illusion, and Nightmare Old Demon switched to Yuan'en Yehui's dream.
• Yuan'en Yehui punched her illusion apart, admitting she had enjoyed getting revenge on the captain in her dream.
• Wu Siduo kissed her illusion before stabbing it with her Nether Tiger Claws, and Xu Xiaoyan cut down hers with a Starlight Blade.
• Nightmare Old Demon dismissed the girls' mental fortitude and opened Xie Xie's dream, expecting to find a woman he desired.
• Xie Xie greeted the approaching Tang Wulin with a blush and delight, shocking Nightmare Old Demon, Destruction Old Demon, Na'er, and Tang Linyuan.

Xie Xie broke Nightmare Old Demon's illusion through sheer will, while Tang Wulin's happy relationship with Ouyang Zixin left Nightmare Old Demon unable to find any regret to exploit. After Tang Linyuan criticized the failed Heart Trial, Nightmare Old Demon vowed to challenge the group with harsher physical trials.

• Xie Xie realized the Tang Wulin in his illusion was fake, then used Space-Time, Deprive to shatter the entire dreamscape.
• Nightmare Old Demon struggled to accept that all six young people had defeated his Heart Trial in different ways.
• Tang Wulin stood ready in an empty sea of mist as Nightmare Old Demon's technique failed to find any regret in his fulfilled love for Ouyang Zixin.
• Tang Linyuan told Nightmare Old Demon that his technique needed refinement after all six attempts failed.
• Nightmare Old Demon defended his training and promised to put the group through physical limits, fear, despair, and exhaustion.

Nightmare Old Demon and Destruction Old Demon summoned Devour Old Demon to help break apart the six unconscious youths. Devour scattered Tang Wulin and his companions across Devil Island, then began Tang Wulin’s month-long trial in the Black Bamboo Forest by offering him a living worm to eat.

• Nightmare Old Demon and Destruction Old Demon summoned Devour Old Demon and explained Tang Linyuan’s power and their chance to escape Devil Island.
• Devour Old Demon agreed to torture the youths, and the three demons abducted the unconscious team members and scattered them across the island.
• Tang Wulin woke alone in the Black Bamboo Forest and found Devour Old Demon waiting for him.
• Devour Old Demon set Tang Wulin’s trial: he had to eat everything offered to him for a month and stay alive.
• Devour Old Demon dug up a Bamboo Root Worm, ate it raw, and told Tang Wulin it was his turn.

Devour Old Demon subjected Tang Wulin and the other five trainees to a brutal food trial, forcing each to swallow a revolting living creature rich in Life Energy. Tang Wulin endured a full day before collapsing unconscious, while the others remained trapped in their own ordeals.

• Tang Wulin retched at the sight of Devour Old Demon eating worms, but Devour Old Demon immobilized him and forced a live Bamboo Root Worm into his mouth.
• Tang Wulin spent twenty-four hours conscious as the worm struggled, died, and dissolved into bitter green fluid in his mouth; when Devour Old Demon released him, he collapsed unconscious.
• Devour Old Demon forced a green leech into Xie Xie's throat, where it latched on and tormented him for twenty-four hours.
• Devour Old Demon fed Yuan'en Yehui a venomous centipede, Ye Xinglan newly hatched bug larvae, and Wu Sidu roundworms, keeping each of them immobilized through the ordeal.
• Devour Old Demon sealed a green-eyed moth in Xu Xiaoyan's mouth, and she cried as its scales stung her and its body melted into green fluid.