Recaps

After Tang Wulin’s Spirit Soul began evolving, Su Chen and Gu Yue went shopping, where Gu Yue bought several dresses. Back at Su Chen’s villa, Gu Yue insisted he wash her clothes, then changed her mind when he teased her about hand-washing; Su Chen later received a call from Leng Yaozhu.

• Tang Wulin’s Spirit Soul evolved after the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Su Chen left him in the Spirit Pagoda staff’s care.
• Su Chen and Gu Yue went to a nearby shopping district, where Gu Yue bought trinkets and tried on dresses.
• Gu Yue bought five outfits Su Chen had praised, and they returned to his villa after nightfall.
• Gu Yue asked Su Chen to do her laundry, but his hand-washing joke embarrassed her into using the washing machine herself.
• Su Chen finished washing his own clothes and received a call from his mentor, Leng Yaozhu.

Leng Yaozhu teased Su Chen about Gu Yue and refused his request for another intimate reward, while privately encouraging Gu Yue to see how things developed with her senior brother. The next day, Gu Yue sparred with the class, and Wu Zhangkong was stunned when Tang Wulin revealed that his Soul Ring had become a Hundred-Year Soul Ring.

• Leng Yaozhu told Su Chen to look after Gu Yue and teased him about being a good match for her, but ended their call when he asked for the same reward as last time.
• Leng Yaozhu called Gu Yue, teased her about Su Chen, and kept his Second Martial Soul's Soul Skill secret while explaining that Su Chen was staying low-profile for his safety.
• Gu Yue denied tattling about Su Chen when they ate breakfast together, and Su Chen privately worried that she might interfere with his hopes of earning another reward from Leng Yaozhu.
• Su Chen supervised class in Wu Zhangkong's place while Gu Yue sparred against the students and easily defeated them.
• Tang Wulin used Blue Silver Bind during the group match, and Wu Zhangkong was shocked to see his Soul Ring had become a Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
• Su Chen explained that he had taken Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue to the Spirit Ascension Platform, where Tang Wulin's Spirit Soul had evolved.

During the Soul Fighting Platform battle, Tang Wulin and his teammates pushed Gu Yue harder than before, while Wu Zhangkong learned that Xie Xie had gained nothing from the Spirit Ascension Platform. Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, setting up a surprise attack on Gu Yue.

• Su Chen told Wu Zhangkong that Gu Yue and Tang Wulin had reached their current Soul Spirit limits, and explained that Xie Xie had been forced out of the Spirit Ascension Platform early by Soul Beasts.
• Wu Zhangkong criticized Xie Xie's poor performance and planned a separate class for Su Chen and the stronger students, with extra training for Xie Xie.
• On the Soul Fighting Platform, Tang Wulin, Wei Xiaofeng, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi coordinated their attacks and forced Gu Yue to move, while Xie Xie was quickly defeated.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi combined into the Dark Dragon Eagle, whose darkness impaired Gu Yue's vision as Tang Wulin and Wei Xiaofeng attacked.
• Gu Yue used spatial displacement to dodge their combined assault, spending a great deal of Soul Power, and the Dark Dragon Eagle circled behind her and swung its Bone Dragon Claw at her.

Su Chen stopped Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi’s attack before it could hit Gu Yue, ending their sparring match and drawing her complaints. After Wu Zhangkong learned that Su Chen and Gu Yue belonged to the Spirit Pagoda, he abandoned his hope of recruiting them to the Tang Sect, and Su Chen left Gu Yue flustered by saying he could not bear to let her get hurt.

• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi’s Dragon Bone Claw broke through Gu Yue’s Ice Wall, but Su Chen caught it and ended the match.
• Su Chen pushed the Dark Eagle Dragon apart, causing Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi to suffer backlash and retreat from the platform.
• Gu Yue scolded Su Chen for intervening, while Wu Zhangkong announced the match’s end and sent the exhausted students to rest.
• Su Chen told Wu Zhangkong that he and Gu Yue had joined the Spirit Pagoda and shared a master, so Wu Zhangkong gave up trying to recruit them to the Tang Sect.
• On the walk back, Gu Yue remained angry until Su Chen said he could not bear to let his junior sister get hurt, leaving her blushing and hurrying away.

Su Chen visited the Blacksmith Association, where he affectionately reunited with Mu Xi and checked in with Mu Chen before beginning work on a One-Word Battle Armor for Gu Yue. He left the chapter forging in his private workshop, aiming to improve enough to craft Soul-Forged Metal himself.

• Su Chen decided to make Gu Yue a One-Word Battle Armor as a birthday or welcome gift.
• Su Chen visited Mu Xi at the Blacksmith Association, kissed her, and learned that Tang Wulin's talent had made her feel pressured.
• Su Chen asked Mu Chen about his Black-Grade Mecha materials, then agreed to keep an eye on Tang Wulin and cheer Mu Xi up.
• Mu Chen let Su Chen use his private Forging Room, where Su Chen resumed forging and considered his path toward becoming a Saint Craftsman.

Su Chen finished forging a Battle Armor chestplate for his junior sister, Gu Yue, and Mu Xi grew jealous when she learned about it. After dinner, Mu Xi insisted on staying at Su Chen's home, where Gu Yue was already staying, and Su Chen warned that Mu Xi could get hurt if she picked a fight with her.

• Su Chen completed a prototype Battle Armor chestplate intended for Gu Yue.
• Mu Xi discovered the chestplate and confronted Su Chen, who explained that it was a welcome gift for his new junior sister.
• Su Chen and Mu Xi went out to dinner, where Mu Xi stayed close to him and drank with her meal.
• Mu Xi announced that she would stay at Su Chen's home, then learned Gu Yue was staying there too.
• Mu Xi insisted on taking the room next to Su Chen's and meeting Gu Yue, while Su Chen warned her not to fight because she could not beat Gu Yue.

Su Chen brought Mu Xi back to his villa, where Gu Yue felt jealous but was reassured by the promise of a gift. Mu Xi then slipped into Su Chen’s bedroom and cuddled up to him, teasing him as the night ended.

• Mu Xi protested that she could beat Gu Yue, but Su Chen explained Gu Yue’s Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and special Martial Soul gave her the advantage.
• Su Chen drove Mu Xi back to the academy, then returned to his villa and found Gu Yue waiting up for him.
• Gu Yue saw Su Chen arrive holding hands with Mu Xi, who introduced herself as his girlfriend and greeted Gu Yue warmly.
• Su Chen told Gu Yue he had prepared a gift for her, easing her frustration, then showed Mu Xi the room he had prepared for her.
• After Su Chen went to bed, Mu Xi entered his room, climbed under the covers beside him, and teased him about being afraid Gu Yue might hear them.

After Gu Yue spent several days avoiding Su Chen, she confronted him for failing to comfort her, then reconciled with him over a meal he cooked. She and Su Chen ended the chapter on warmer terms, while Mu Xi and the others remained part of his busy daily life.

• Su Chen made breakfast for Mu Xi and Gu Yue, but Gu Yue left in a bad mood after a restless night.
• At school, Gu Yue decisively defeated five classmates, and Wu Zhangkong assigned the students extra training.
• Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Tang Wulin urged Su Chen to make things right with Gu Yue, but he avoided her for several days.
• Gu Yue confronted Su Chen for avoiding her and not comforting her, then cried in his arms and bit his neck.
• Gu Yue admitted she was hungry, and Su Chen cooked a spread of food that she happily devoured.

Su Chen gave Gu Yue a surprise birthday gift: a complete suit of One-Word Battle Armor. The chapter ended as he prepared to begin the armor’s blood-sacrifice attunement ritual with her.

• Gu Yue confronted Su Chen about the promised present, and he told her her birthday was the following Tuesday.
• Over the next week, Gu Yue eased up during practical training, while Wu Zhangkong established his strength by defeating Guang Biao at the academy.
• Gu Yue woke Su Chen early on her birthday and made him breakfast, then blushed after discovering he was sleeping in his underwear.
• Su Chen revealed a ten-piece suit of pale purple Battle Armor as Gu Yue’s birthday present.
• Su Chen explained that Gu Yue needed to undergo a blood sacrifice so the Battle Armor could adapt to her.

Su Chen helped Gu Yue claim and fuse with the Battle Armor he had forged for her, and she discovered how naturally it responded to her thoughts. After explaining that the armor needed a name, Su Chen rejected Gu Yue’s suggestion to call it “Chen.”

• Gu Yue dripped her blood onto the Battle Armor’s breastplate, awakening its silver-violet light and turning it into liquid metal.
• Su Chen told Gu Yue to relax as the Spirit Metal fused with her body, and she followed his advice until she could sense the armor as part of herself.
• Gu Yue summoned the Battle Armor over her body and felt it increase her basic combat power by at least sixty percent.
• Su Chen explained that Battle Armor needed a personal name and gave Teacher Wu Zhangkong’s “Sky Ice” as an example.
• Gu Yue suggested naming her armor “Chen” because Su Chen had forged it, but Su Chen immediately refused.

Su Chen explained why Gu Yue’s One-Word Battle Armor could not share the name “Chen,” then told her his Second Martial Soul was the Void Chrono Dragon and teased her over the Dragon God. Gu Yue agreed to spar with him after he offered a wager, leaving them headed to the Training Ground to fight over whose request the loser would fulfill.

• Su Chen told Gu Yue he would make her Two-Word Battle Armor once she was strong enough to use it, and revealed that his Second Martial Soul was the Void Chrono Dragon.
• Su Chen claimed his Martial Soul might surpass the Dragon God, and Gu Yue angrily defended the Dragon God before naming her Battle Armor “Dragon.”
• Su Chen suggested that Gu Yue test her new Battle Armor in a spar, but she initially refused because she expected him to pick on her.
• Su Chen offered to grant the winner’s request and taunted Gu Yue into accepting; he agreed not to use his Second Martial Soul, Battle Armor, or Third Soul Skill.

Su Chen and Gu Yue sparred in the academy training room, where Gu Yue tested the power of the One-Word Battle Armor Su Chen had made for her. Gu Yue unleashed a barrage of enhanced elemental attacks, but Su Chen calmly countered them and remained unthreatened.

• Su Chen and Gu Yue went to the training room for a private spar, and Su Chen released his Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Gu Yue summoned her Elementalist Martial Soul and donned her pale-purple Battle Armor, discovering that it greatly strengthened her elemental abilities.
• Gu Yue launched a powerful fireball at Su Chen, who used Soul Lock to bind and crush it with Dark Gold Chains.
• Gu Yue followed with Light Burst, Wind Blade, Rock Thrust, and Ice Spike, unleashing a relentless barrage of enhanced elemental attacks.
• Su Chen assessed Gu Yue's strength and remained confident that her attacks could not threaten him.

Gu Yue unleashed her self-created Crimson Flame Profound Ice Lotus against Su Chen, but he survived because he was immune to fire. After defeating her in hand-to-hand combat, Su Chen reminded Gu Yue that she had lost their bet, and she nervously asked what condition he wanted.

• Gu Yue exhausted much of her Soul Power attacking Su Chen, then gathered ice, fire, and wind elements to form her Crimson Flame Profound Ice Lotus.
• The lotus exploded when Su Chen's Soul Power Chains disrupted its balance, tearing through his defenses and engulfing him in flames and icicles.
• Gu Yue feared Su Chen had been injured, but he emerged unharmed and explained that he was immune to fire.
• Gu Yue tested Su Chen by throwing a fireball at him, and he caught and crushed it without using Soul Power.
• Gu Yue lunged at Su Chen after refusing to admit defeat, but he subdued her and reminded her that she had lost their bet.
• Blushing, Gu Yue asked Su Chen what condition he wanted and pleaded for it not to be too perverted.

The academy established Grade One Class Zero for seven gifted students, offering special training in exchange for an agreement not to transfer before graduating. Wei Xiaofeng declined because of his family’s plans, while the others joined and learned about their new benefits.

• Su Chen and Gu Yue left the training room after agreeing that Gu Yue owed him a favor.
• Wu Zhangkong brought Su Chen, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng to the academic affairs office, where Dean Yu Zhen announced Grade One Class Zero.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Su Chen, and Gu Yue signed the agreement, followed by Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi after Yu Zhen persuaded them.
• Wei Xiaofeng refused to sign because his family might move him, and he left to remain in Class One under a different homeroom teacher.
• Yu Zhen explained that Class Zero would receive unlimited Grade A meals and regular Spirit Ascension Platform access, delighting Tang Wulin.

As the semester ended, Su Chen and Gu Yue skipped Class Zero’s final exam so they could prepare for a trip to Shrek City and Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. Gu Yue concealed her reason for opposing Su Chen’s possible enrollment at Shrek, while Su Chen’s trust in her deepened her guilt about investigating him.

• Class Zero’s members made major cultivation gains over the semester, and Wu Zhangkong chose the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform for their final exam.
• Su Chen and Gu Yue asked Wu Zhangkong to excuse them from the exam so they could visit their teacher in Shrek City and enter the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period.
• Wu Zhangkong suggested Su Chen apply to Shrek Academy, but Gu Yue objected because Na'er was there; Su Chen covered for her by citing their academy agreement.
• Su Chen and Gu Yue left to prepare for their trip, and Gu Yue thanked him for helping her avoid explaining her objection.
• Su Chen told Gu Yue he trusted her not to hurt him, leaving her feeling guilty even as she resolved to uncover his secrets for her mission.
• Gu Yue headbutted Su Chen into the grass after he asked whether she had a cramp, then walked away.

Su Chen took Gu Yue on a trip in his Yellow-Grade Mecha, whose cramped cockpit forced her to sit on his lap. After launching at high speed, they flew over human settlements, and Gu Yue remarked on how little forest remained.

• Su Chen summoned his Yellow-Grade Mecha and invited Gu Yue to ride with him.
• Gu Yue discovered the cockpit had no co-pilot seat, argued with Su Chen, and reluctantly sat in his lap.
• Su Chen used Leng Yaozhu’s highest-level Federation travel permit to launch the Mecha and accelerate to five times the speed of sound.
• Su Chen switched the Mecha to cruise control as Gu Yue watched the human settlements below and lamented the loss of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Chen argued that greed was an instinct shared by all living beings, and Gu Yue turned away from him.

Su Chen and Gu Yue arrived at the Spirit Pagoda, where Leng Yaozhu welcomed them and teased them about their closeness. Leng Yaozhu then questioned whether Su Chen could safely take Gu Yue into the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period.

• Su Chen piloted the Mecha to the Spirit Pagoda's headquarters in Shrek City with Gu Yue.
• Leng Yaozhu greeted Gu Yue warmly, hugged her, and rejected Su Chen's request for a hug.
• Gu Yue and Leng Yaozhu whispered together while Su Chen waited, then Gu Yue took his hand and led him to Leng Yaozhu's office.
• Su Chen and Gu Yue admired the view from the office window and sat together, where Leng Yaozhu noticed them holding hands.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Su Chen whether he could protect Gu Yue in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period.

Leng Yaozhu tested Gu Yue and Su Chen before they entered the Spirit Ascension Platform, revealing that Su Chen’s spiritual power had reached 4,778 points. Gu Yue learned that he had also hidden a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit, confronted him in anger, and Leng Yaozhu then began his strength test.

• Leng Yaozhu agreed to let Su Chen and Gu Yue enter the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform after they assured her they were ready.
• Gu Yue tested at 521 points of spiritual power, reaching the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Su Chen tested at 4,778 points, nearing the Spirit Abyss Realm and astonishing Gu Yue.
• Leng Yaozhu revealed that Su Chen’s Second Martial Soul had a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit, and Gu Yue pounced on him for hiding it.
• Leng Yaozhu calmed Gu Yue, then started Su Chen’s strength test.

Su Chen demonstrated overwhelming physical strength to Leng Yaozhu and learned that Long Yue would likely enter the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during its upcoming Riot Period. After Leng Yaozhu arranged for him and Gu Yue to stay at the Spirit Pagoda, Su Chen returned to her office and settled beside her.

• Su Chen punched the strength-testing device for a recorded 289,234 kilograms, surprising Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue, before Leng Yaozhu stopped him to protect the machine.
• Leng Yaozhu told Su Chen and Gu Yue that Long Yue, a thirteen-year-old Soul King with a Mountain Dragon King Martial Soul, would probably enter the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period.
• Gu Yue insisted that her Battle Armor gave her a chance against Long Yue, while Leng Yaozhu warned her not to underestimate him.
• Leng Yaozhu arranged lodging for Su Chen and Gu Yue at the Spirit Pagoda, and Gu Yue took Su Chen shopping before they returned.
• Su Chen went to Leng Yaozhu's office, sat beside her, and rested his head on her lap while she continued her work.

Su Chen woke from a nap in Leng Yaozhu’s office, and she took him out for an extravagant late-night meal. When he asked to sleep with her, Leng Yaozhu finally gave in and agreed.

• Su Chen fell asleep with his head against Leng Yaozhu, who gently wiped away his drool and worked without disturbing him.
• Leng Yaozhu woke Su Chen after finishing her files and took him to a restaurant in the Spirit Pagoda.
• Su Chen shared a lavish meal with Leng Yaozhu, who fed him rare Soul Beast ingredients and let him eat from her chopsticks.
• Leng Yaozhu said she would take Su Chen back, noting that Gu Yue might still be waiting for him.
• Su Chen asked Leng Yaozhu to sleep with him, and she reluctantly agreed after he pleaded with her.

Su Chen spent the night at Leng Yaozhu’s apartment, while Gu Yue waited anxiously and grew angry when he failed to return. A few days later, Su Chen and Gu Yue entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform together, with Gu Yue still upset that he would not tell her where he had gone.

• Leng Yaozhu let Su Chen sleep beside her, and he fell asleep hugging her without making any further moves.
• Gu Yue waited for Su Chen with a late-night snack, messaged Na'er to check whether he had gone to see her, and remained unable to find him.
• Days later, Leng Yaozhu warned Su Chen to protect Gu Yue in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, while Gu Yue insisted she did not need his help.
• Leng Yaozhu helped Gu Yue remove her Battle Armor, reassured her about Su Chen, and took her into the Connection Pod.

Su Chen and Gu Yue entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform during the Riot Period to strengthen Gu Yue’s Soul Spirit. When Gu Yue struggled against a four-thousand-year Ice-Fire Demon Tiger, Su Chen suppressed it with Soul Lock, leaving her impressed and frustrated by the difference in their power.

• Su Chen apologized to Gu Yue, and she forgave him as he promised to help raise her Soul Spirit to ten thousand years.
• Su Chen and Gu Yue entered the forest, where Gu Yue killed several hundred-year Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yue challenged a four-thousand-year Ice-Fire Demon Tiger and countered its elemental attacks, but struggled against its close-range assaults and durability.
• Su Chen used Soul Lock to bind and crush the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger, overwhelming it with his greater Soul Power.
• Gu Yue wondered how their millennium Soul Skills could differ so much, and Su Chen explained that he had poured far more Soul Power into his attack.

After Gu Yue absorbed the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger’s energy, Su Chen confronted Long Yue and revealed the overwhelming bloodline pressure of his Void Chrono Dragon. Long Yue struggled under the suppression, and Su Chen taunted him to provoke him into fighting back.

• Gu Yue killed the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger with Wind Blades, and a purple energy ball appeared for her to absorb.
• Su Chen guarded Gu Yue while planning to hunt other teams for the Soul Beast energy he needed.
• Long Yue arrived alone and released his Mountain Dragon King Martial Soul and five Soul Rings.
• Su Chen revealed his Void Chrono Dragon and four black Soul Rings, forcing Long Yue’s Martial Soul to bow under the bloodline pressure.
• Long Yue grew shocked and resentful as Su Chen mocked him and urged him to attack.

Su Chen dominated Long Yue by blocking his attacks and sealing the space around himself so Long Yue’s Soul Skills could not reach him. After his strongest ranged attack also failed, Long Yue charged at Su Chen for close-quarters combat.

• Long Yue, consumed by rage, charged Su Chen, but Su Chen stopped his dragon-claw strike with an invisible air wall.
• Long Yue unleashed an illusory mountains-and-rivers attack, but Su Chen stood unharmed and the illusion vanished.
• Long Yue used his First and Second Soul Skills, but the attacks failed to affect the space Su Chen had imprisoned.
• Long Yue unleashed his Fifth Soul Skill, Earth Vein Tremor, which shattered the ground around Su Chen but left the earth beneath him intact.
• Long Yue gave up on his Soul Skills and launched himself at Su Chen for a hand-to-hand fight.

Su Chen defeated Long Yue in the Spirit Ascension Platform and unsettled Gu Yue by revealing the strength of his Martial Soul. After Long Yue woke in the real world, En Ci stopped him from seeking revenge and explained that Su Chen was the Spirit Pagoda deputy master's direct disciple.

• Su Chen trapped Long Yue with Space Imprisonment and crushed him, ending their fight in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Gu Yue approached Su Chen, feared the power of his bloodline, and wondered whether she should kill him before he grew stronger.
• Su Chen led Gu Yue deeper into the forest while planning to grow strong enough to deal with Di Tian and the other great beasts.
• Di Tian sensed a chill in the Star Dou Great Forest but remained confident that Gu Yue would lead the Soul Beast Clan to restore the Dragon God's glory.
• Long Yue woke in the Spirit Pagoda and angrily blamed his defeat on being unable to use Battle Armor.
• En Ci stopped Long Yue from seeking revenge and told him that Su Chen was the direct disciple of the Spirit Pagoda's deputy master.