Chapter Summaries

Tang Linyuan faced Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan in the Virtual Forest, where they launched a coordinated attack. He summoned the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear, shocking both his opponents and the students watching from the Observation Classroom as the battle was about to begin.

• Tang Linyuan told the four Class Zero members to attack without restraint, while Xie Xie mistakenly believed he would go easy on them.
• Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan launched a coordinated assault using clones, Golden Dragon Body, an elemental storm, and Xu Xiaoyan's control.
• Tang Linyuan summoned the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear, and its Spear Intent shattered Gu Yue's storm and Xie Xie's clones while stopping Tang Wulin's charge.
• The ninety-six eliminated students watched Tang Linyuan reveal his Martial Soul and realized the four Class Zero members had forced him to summon it.
• Luo Guixing called the five members of Class Zero monsters, while Wu Sidu recognized that Tang Linyuan had not used his Martial Soul against her.

Tang Linyuan fought Class Zero’s four members as they unleashed their strongest teamwork and combined their powers into the Brilliant Star Abyss-Shadow Golden Dragon. The chapter ended with the enormous fusion dragon taking shape above the Virtual Forest, poised to face Tang Linyuan.

• Shen Yi realized Tang Linyuan had drawn the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear to push Class Zero’s four members to their limits and demonstrate their strength to the freshmen.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan attacked Tang Linyuan in coordinated waves, but his spear technique turned aside their assaults.
• The freshmen watched in astonishment as Class Zero’s members displayed their speed, strength, elemental control, and battlefield coordination.
• After five minutes of fighting without breaking Tang Linyuan’s defense, Class Zero’s four members gathered to use their final trump card.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie formed the Light-Shadow Golden Dragon, Gu Yue added elemental power, and Xu Xiaoyan stabilized their fusion with starlight.
• The four members combined their powers into the fifteen-meter Brilliant Star Abyss-Shadow Golden Dragon, which appeared above the Virtual Forest.

Tang Linyuan defeated Tang Wulin and his teammates’ powerful fusion attack, then was named class monitor after the practical combat selection. Zhen Hua later told Tang Wulin that Mu Chen, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin would be coming to Shrek, leaving Tang Wulin thrilled to reunite with familiar faces.

• Tang Linyuan deflected Brilliant Star Abyss-Shadow Golden Dragon’s claw and devoured its Chaos Dragon Breath with his Black Hole: Immeasurable technique, ending the fusion attack.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan lost consciousness, while Tang Wulin and Gu Yue remained standing until the simulation’s thirty-minute limit ended the battle.
• Shen Yi appointed Tang Linyuan class monitor and Tang Wulin and Gu Yue vice class monitors, and the other students applauded their victory.
• Zhen Hua told Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin that Mu Chen had moved to Shrek City to teach Tang Wulin and that Mu Xi had transferred to Shrek Academy.
• Zhen Hua revealed that he had also arranged for Ouyang Zixin to enroll at Shrek Academy, and Tang Wulin excitedly thanked him.

Tang Wulin and Tang Linyuan met Mu Chen, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin at the run-down Blacksmith Association Shrek City Branch. Mu Chen explained why the branch had declined and entrusted Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin with arranging Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin’s special admission to Shrek Outer Court.

• Tang Wulin and Tang Linyuan left Shrek Academy to meet Mu Chen and the others at the Blacksmith Association Shrek City Branch.
• Tang Wulin reunited with Ouyang Zixin, and the two held hands until Tang Linyuan’s cough interrupted them.
• Mu Chen explained that Shrek Academy’s own blacksmith facilities and recruits had drained the city branch of resources and business.
• Mu Chen said Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin had received special admission to Outer Court’s second year, for forging and Mecha Design respectively.
• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin agreed to handle their enrollment registration, then led Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin toward the academy.

Tang Linyuan registered Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin and showed them to their dorm, then returned to class with Tang Wulin. Shen Yi announced the class committee and specialist representatives, while the students realized Tang Linyuan might be an even greater forging talent than Tang Wulin.

• Tang Linyuan processed Mu Xi's and Ouyang Zixin's student records and led them to their second-year girls' dormitory.
• Tang Linyuan dragged Tang Wulin away from Ouyang Zixin, while Mu Xi watched Tang Linyuan leave with a sense of distance and loss.
• Shen Yi appointed Tang Linyuan class president, Tang Wulin and Gu Yue vice presidents, Gu Yue design representative, and Wu Siduo repair representative.
• Shen Yi announced that Tang Wulin was a Five-Grade Forging Grandmaster, shocking the class.
• Luo Guixing deduced that Tang Linyuan might be a peak fifth-grade or even sixth-grade blacksmith because he had declined the forging representative position.
• Shen Yi named Xie Xie manufacturing representative, completing the specialist appointments largely claimed by Class Zero students.

Tang Linyuan’s team formed around Wu Siduo and received the class’s assignment to build a combat-ready mecha for a tournament that could expel the ten lowest-ranked students. The group decided to pursue battle armor instead, but Tang Linyuan gave them a huge stockpile of rare materials and said he would need to begin with Two-Word Battle Armor.

• Tang Linyuan’s group recruited Wu Siduo as its repair specialist after she asked to join.
• Wu Zhangkong assigned each group to build a complete combat-ready mecha and warned that the ten lowest tournament performers would be expelled from Shrek.
• Tang Wulin proposed that the team skip a standard mecha and make One-Word Battle Armor.
• Tang Linyuan gave Gu Yue a Storage Ring packed with rare alloys and spirit-forged metals for the team’s projects.
• Tang Linyuan explained that One-Word Battle Armor could not meaningfully enhance him and would restrict his strength, so he would start with Two-Word Battle Armor.

Tang Linyuan reassured Class Zero that their work on their One-Word Battle Armor would prepare them to forge his Two-Word Battle Armor, and the team eagerly began planning. He then traveled to Sea God Island to visit Na'er, who ran to greet him.

• Tang Linyuan gently flicked the foreheads of Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xu Xiaoyan, then explained that he trusted them to forge his Two-Word Battle Armor after advancing their skills.
• Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Wu Siduo, and Tang Wulin began dividing up the design and crafting work for their Battle Armor.
• Tang Linyuan left the Outer Court classroom while the others stayed absorbed in planning, then crossed Sea God Lake to Sea God Island.
• Tang Linyuan found Yun Ming and Ya Li watching Na'er play in a courtyard, and Na'er spotted him and ran to greet him as her big brother.

Tang Linyuan praised Class Zero’s overnight One-Word Battle Armor blueprints, then secured Wu Zhangkong’s permission for them to miss practical combat and physical training classes to focus on crafting. The chapter ended with Tang Linyuan calling his classmates away from the arena.

• Tang Linyuan told Tang Wulin he had visited Na'er, promised to bring him next time, and praised Class Zero’s preliminary One-Word Battle Armor designs.
• Wu Zhangkong held a student free-combat class instead of fighting the students himself, avoiding a demonstration battle against Tang Linyuan.
• Xu Yucheng and Yang Nianxia began a fierce fight on the central platform as other first-year students sparred around the arena.
• Tang Linyuan told Wu Zhangkong the combat class was wasting Class Zero’s time and asked to manage their schedule so they could craft Battle Armor.
• Wu Zhangkong approved Class Zero’s leave from practical combat and physical training, provided they submitted perfect answers in the term-end mecha assessment.

Tang Linyuan gained the seventh form of his Calamity Annihilation spear art, Samsara: Life and Death, while Class Zero spent the night crafting Tang Wulin a top-grade One-Word Battle Armor arm component. After the team proved their skill, Tang Linyuan ordered the exhausted students to rest.

• Tang Linyuan secured permission for Class Zero to skip practical combat and physical training classes so they could focus on crafting Battle Armor.
• Class Zero transformed their villa living room into a workshop, while Tang Linyuan meditated upstairs and comprehended the Laws of Life and Destruction, forming Samsara: Life and Death.
• Tang Wulin and the others completed a top-grade One-Word Battle Armor component for his right arm after working through the night.
• Tang Wulin demonstrated the armor’s strength enhancement and low Soul Power transmission loss, earning Tang Linyuan’s approval.
• Tang Linyuan warned the exhausted students against overworking themselves and ordered them to return to their rooms and rest.

Tang Linyuan made Class Zero rest after their exhausting battle armor work, then practiced his spear while they recovered. At dinner, Gu Yue announced she had reached rank forty and proposed that the team climb the Soul Spirit Tower for high-quality soul spirits, leaving Yuan'en Yehui uncertain whether she belonged in the group.

• Tang Linyuan sent Class Zero to rest, gave Wu Siduo her own room, and watched over the villa so the others would not secretly resume their work.
• Tang Linyuan practiced the Spear Path in the courtyard, using the laws of life and destruction to revive a dead branch and turn a petal to ash without damaging his surroundings.
• Tang Wulin woke hungry, found Tang Linyuan's lavish dinner, and was soon joined by the others after they recovered from their sleep.
• Gu Yue revealed she had broken through to rank forty, while Xie Xie discovered he had reached the peak of rank thirty-nine.
• Gu Yue proposed that she, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie lead a team up the Soul Spirit Tower to earn access to powerful soul spirits, and Tang Linyuan agreed to support them.
• Yuan'en Yehui, who had also reached rank forty, hesitated to ask whether she could join the tower rush because she was unsure she counted as a member of Class Zero.

Gu Yue assembled a seven-person team for a Spirit Pagoda tower rush, and the group traveled to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. There, Gu Yue introduced them to her teacher, Vice Tower Master Leng Yaozhu, who asked Tang Linyuan whether he was her successor.

• Gu Yue invited Wu Siduo and Yuan'en Yehui to join the tower rush, and Yuan'en Yehui revealed she had reached rank forty.
• Xie Xie rushed off to train through the night, but he remained at peak rank thirty-nine by morning.
• Tang Wulin encouraged Xie Xie as the seven assembled and boarded the soul-guided sedan Gu Yue had arranged.
• Gu Yue used her purple badge to lead the team through restricted passages and up to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters' upper floors.
• Gu Yue introduced the group to her teacher, Leng Yaozhu, who looked at Tang Linyuan and asked whether he was her successor.

Tang Linyuan led Class Zero through the Soul Spirit Tower, where the six students advanced floor by floor using increasingly coordinated tactics. On the seventeenth floor, they defeated a nine-thousand-year Earth-Splitting Violent Ape, and Yuan'en Yehui began absorbing its spiritual energy.

• Leng Yaozhu recognized Tang Linyuan and escorted him and the six students to the Soul Spirit Tower.
• Tang Linyuan directed the group through the early floors, where each student took turns defeating Soul Beasts alone before the team shifted to pairs and larger formations.
• Class Zero adapted its formation as the Soul Beasts grew stronger, with Tang Linyuan offering guidance from the rear.
• On the seventeenth floor, Yuan'en Yehui identified the Earth-Splitting Violent Ape as her ideal Soul Spirit and asked to fight it.
• Tang Wulin held off the ape while Yuan'en Yehui, Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Wu Siduo combined their attacks to kill it.
• Yuan'en Yehui began absorbing the ape's nine-thousand-year spiritual energy as the others recovered and guarded her.

Class Zero left Yuan'en Yehui to absorb the Earth-Splitting Violent Ape Soul Spirit and entered the eighteenth floor, where Tang Linyuan pushed Xie Xie into a battle with an Illusion Nether Void Dragon Lizard. Xie Xie broke through to rank forty at the brink of death, and Tang Linyuan saved him by killing the beast with the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.

• Yuan'en Yehui remained behind to absorb the Earth-Splitting Violent Ape Soul Spirit while Tang Linyuan and the others entered the eighteenth floor.
• Tang Linyuan asked Xie Xie if he wanted to break through and take the Illusion Nether Void Dragon Lizard's Soul Spirit, then hurled him at the beast.
• Xie Xie fought the Dragon Lizard among the crystal pillars, sustaining wounds as its time and space abilities hindered him.
• Cornered and facing death, Xie Xie broke through to rank forty, becoming a Quasi-Soul Ancestor.
• Tang Linyuan threw the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear through the Dragon Lizard's throat, saving Xie Xie and pinning the beast to a crystal pillar.

Xie Xie absorbed the Illusion Nether Void Dragon Lizard’s Soul Spirit while Gu Yue and the others advanced through the nineteenth to twenty-fourth floors. The exhausted group reached the twenty-fifth floor, where a twenty-thousand-year Star-Shattering Violent Ape awaited them.

• Xie Xie thanked Tang Linyuan for helping him defeat the Illusion Nether Void Dragon Lizard, then sat down to absorb its Soul Spirit.
• Gu Yue redirected the Wind Fire Spirit Fox’s elemental attacks, and Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan killed it so she could absorb its Soul Spirit.
• Tang Linyuan accompanied Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan through the next floors while watching them fight increasingly powerful Soul Beasts.
• Wu Siduo defeated a Shadow Demon Leopard, and Tang Wulin and Xu Xiaoyan worked together to kill a Thorn Earth Dragon.
• Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan reached the twenty-fifth floor exhausted and faced the twenty-thousand-year Star-Shattering Violent Ape.

Tang Linyuan carried Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan through the Soul Spirit Tower, defeating soul beasts with overwhelming spear strikes. After killing the hundred-thousand-year Extreme Cold Storm Dragon on the fiftieth floor, he explained that he had come only to practice and led the group back to the real world.

• The Star-Shattering Violent Ape nearly killed Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Xu Xiaoyan before Tang Linyuan intervened and destroyed it with one spear strike.
• Tang Linyuan led the group through the tower, killing powerful soul beasts on successive floors with only a few attacks.
• On the fiftieth floor, Tang Linyuan fought the hundred-thousand-year Extreme Cold Storm Dragon and killed it with Sky-Splitting World-Breaker.
• Tang Linyuan told the others that he had only come to practice and did not need a higher-tier soul spirit, then used his teleportation device to return them to the real world.

Tang Linyuan paid Xie Xie’s and Yuan'en Yehui’s Spirit Ascension Pagoda fees as an investment in their future strength. The next morning, Na'er joined the class and warmly asked why he had not visited her.

• Leng Yaozhu told Tang Linyuan that Xie Xie and Yuan'en Yehui owed a total of 160 million Federation Credits for their Spirit Ascension Pagoda rewards.
• Tang Linyuan paid both accounts with his black card and called the money an early-stage investment that they would repay through future missions.
• After returning to the villa, the exhausted members of Class Zero rested, and Tang Wulin and Gu Yue recovered in their rooms.
• Tang Linyuan called the Class Zero members to an early theory class without explaining why.
• Na'er entered the classroom, took the seat beside Tang Linyuan, and asked why he had not visited her in the past two days.

Tang Linyuan welcomed Na'er’s decision to move into his villa, while her closeness stirred reactions from their classmates. Counselor Shen Yi introduced Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi as transfer students, and Ye Xinglan’s attempt to challenge Tang Linyuan with her Sword Intent ended in defeat.

• Na'er told Tang Linyuan she would live in the Outer Court on weekdays and move into the renovated master bedroom at his villa.
• Xie Xie nervously avoided watching Na'er cling to Tang Linyuan, while Gu Yue struggled to contain her jealousy and surging wind-element particles.
• Shen Yi introduced Ye Xinglan, an assault-type Battle Soul Master, and Xu Lizhi, a food-type Soul Master, as transfer students.
• Ye Xinglan challenged Tang Linyuan with her Star God Sword Intent, but his Spear Soul and Law of Destruction crushed her attack and left her determined to grow stronger.
• Na'er introduced herself to the class, then sat down and turned her attention back to Tang Linyuan.

Shen Yi announced a cross-grade exchange event, and Tang Wulin was assigned to compile the first-years’ team registrations. After class, Ye Xinglan challenged Tang Linyuan to test their abilities in real combat.

• Na'er introduced herself and returned to Tang Linyuan’s side, prompting the boys to abandon their interest in her.
• Ye Xinglan chose a seat directly in front of Tang Linyuan, while Xu Lizhi sat elsewhere.
• Shen Yi explained the exchange event’s competitions, team rules, and combat advantage for the first years, then assigned Tang Wulin to collect the class’s registration list.
• After class, Ye Xinglan faced Tang Linyuan and challenged him to a fight, saying she wanted to measure their gap in real combat.

Ye Xinglan challenged Tang Linyuan, but Na'er stepped in and accepted the fight in her brother’s place. The duel began at Eastsea Academy’s No. 2 Combat Arena, with both girls poised to battle.

• Ye Xinglan confronted Tang Linyuan in class and demanded a fight, but Na'er blocked her and challenged her instead.
• Ye Xinglan accepted Na'er's challenge, and the new students followed them to the combat arena to watch.
• Tang Linyuan and the Class Zero students arrived as Ye Xinglan and Na'er took their places on the arena.
• Na'er greeted Tang Linyuan before facing Ye Xinglan, who focused her resolve on winning and challenging him afterward.
• The referee started the duel as Na'er and Ye Xinglan unleashed their fighting intent.

Ye Xinglan and Na'er fought a fierce arena match, with Na'er gaining the advantage through her spatial abilities and Silver Dragon Fury. Cornered at the arena's edge, Ye Xinglan refused to admit defeat and unleashed Sword Star Fall.

• Ye Xinglan and Na'er revealed their three Millennium Soul Rings and rank thirty-nine Soul Power before the match began.
• Ye Xinglan opened with Sword God Star, and Na'er countered with Silver Dragon Slash, their attacks colliding in a burst of energy.
• The two exchanged dozens of sword and spear strikes until Ye Xinglan grew fatigued and began to fall behind.
• Ye Xinglan used Sword God Net, but Na'er escaped with Silver Dragon Flash and struck Ye Xinglan, injuring her hand.
• Na'er activated Silver Dragon Fury and drove Ye Xinglan into a defensive retreat with a storm of spear attacks.
• Ye Xinglan borrowed the force of Na'er's strike to retreat to the arena's edge, declared she would not admit defeat, and unleashed Sword Star Fall.