Chapter Summaries

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er defeated the Sky Azure Bull Python in the Spirit Ascension Platform, clearing both trial stages. The resulting Ascension Spirit Power transformed Li Chen’s three thousand-year Soul Rings into Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and raised his cultivation before the trio returned to Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi.

• The Sky Azure Bull Python appeared and suppressed Gu Yue and Na'er with its Azure Annihilation Domain, so Li Chen stepped forward to face it.
• Li Chen activated the Human Path and Animal Path, then shattered the beast’s Azure Annihilation Thunder with a single punch.
• Li Chen overwhelmed the Sky Azure Bull Python with his Soul Skills and powers of life, death, and reincarnation, while Gu Yue bound it and Na'er struck its vital point with the Silver Dragon Spear.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python disintegrated, clearing both trial stages and flooding Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er with Ascension Spirit Power.
• Li Chen’s three purple Soul Rings became black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and his cultivation rose to the middle stage of Soul Elder.
• The trial space returned the trio to Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi, who stared in shock at Li Chen’s new Soul Rings.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er passed the entrance examination and began studying at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. After a month of secretly honing his forging skills, Li Chen stepped forward at Zhen Hua’s lecture to demonstrate his ability.

• Leng Yaozhu recommended Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy entrance examination.
• Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er passed the Soul Master and Soul Tool assessments and enrolled in the same class.
• Li Chen studied advanced Soul Tool theory and practiced forging in private, concealing his sixth-rank skill from other students.
• Zhen Hua arrived at the academy to give a forging lecture and demonstrated turning refined iron into Thousand Forged metal.
• Zhen Hua invited students to show their forging skills, and Li Chen rose from the audience and approached the forging table.

Li Chen used his Pluto Martial Soul’s forces of life, death, and reincarnation to forge Silver-Vein Steel into a peak sixth-rank material, astonishing the Blacksmith Association. Zhen Hua offered to take him as a disciple, but Li Chen declined out of loyalty to his existing mentors and left with Zhen Hua’s communication token.

• Li Chen studied the Silver-Vein Steel and attuned his forging hammer to the forces of life, death, and reincarnation.
• Li Chen forged the metal with successive hammer strikes, using the three forces to erase flaws, restore its structure, and temper it to peak sixth-rank quality.
• Zhen Hua and the assembled blacksmiths were stunned by Li Chen’s forging and its spectacular effects.
• Zhen Hua praised Li Chen and offered to teach him as his disciple, promising the Blacksmith Association’s support.
• Li Chen declined because he already regarded an eighth-rank Saint Craftsman and Han Tianyi as his mentors.
• Zhen Hua gave Li Chen a personal communication token, and Li Chen accepted it before leaving the platform.

The Skysea Alliance accepted Shrek Academy’s invitation to host a youth exhibition tournament and sent the details to the Federation Parliament, which secretly arranged for Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to compete under Eastsea Academy’s name. Headmaster Hongchen Ming chose Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na’er to represent the academy, and they prepared to face Shrek in Eastsea City two months later.

• Qin Tianzhou agreed that the Skysea Alliance would host Shrek’s tournament and secretly forwarded its rules and schedule to the Federation Parliament.
• The Federation Speaker decided to use Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy as a proxy, disguising its students as Eastsea Academy entrants.
• Hongchen Ming enthusiastically accepted the Federation’s directive and gathered the academy’s leaders to plan the tournament.
• Hongchen Ming chose Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na’er as the academy’s three representatives and promised to conceal their identities with special Soul Tools.
• Hongchen Ming explained the mission to Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na’er, and Li Chen promised they would defeat Shrek’s students.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er received instructions and tailored New Year gifts from Leng Yaozhu before setting out for Eastsea City to compete against Shrek Academy. They traveled in secret aboard a high-speed train, beginning the covert mission backed by the Spirit Pagoda and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.

• Leng Yaozhu warned Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to conceal their identities and avoid revealing their strongest abilities in Eastsea City.
• Leng Yaozhu directed the three to collect their gifts at the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda Branch and train in its secret realm during the rampage period.
• Hongchen Ming gave the three concealment Soul Tools, ammunition, medicine, and Federation currency, and urged them to keep their identities hidden.
• Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er boarded an ultra-high-speed train from Ming Capital to Eastsea City.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er entered the Berserk-Period Spirit Ascension Platform to reach a secret realm, but Na'er detected Golden Dragon King Origin in Tang Wulin and intervened in his battle. Tang San's divine sense attacked the three, only for Li Chen's Death God Divine Position to erase it; they then continued toward the secret realm.

• Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er entered the Spirit Ascension Platform and followed Leng Yaozhu's token toward the secret realm node.
• Na'er sensed Golden Dragon King Origin in Tang Wulin and went to investigate while he and his classmates fought a thousand-year Dark Demon Tiger.
• Tang Wulin and his teammates defeated the Dark Demon Tiger after Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi's fusion skill failed and Tang Wulin unlocked his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Na'er tested Tang Wulin's sealed power, overwhelming him before Tang San's divine sense emerged and threatened her, Gu Yue, and Li Chen.
• Li Chen's Death God Divine Position erased Tang San's divine sense, leaving Tang Wulin unconscious, and Li Chen led Gu Yue and Na'er onward toward the secret realm.

After the Spirit Ascension Platform ordeal, Wu Zhangkong reassured the defeated students and revealed that they could seek the Tang Sect’s support. Meanwhile, Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er refined Leng Yaozhu’s gifts, grew stronger, and prepared to visit Eastsea Academy under their new identities.

• Tang Wulin fell unconscious after the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Wu Zhangkong checked him and confirmed that he would recover after a few days of rest.
• Xie Xie described the defeat by Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er, and Wu Zhangkong explained that they were elite heirs backed by the continent’s greatest powers.
• Wu Zhangkong told the five students that passing the Tang Sect’s assessment could give them access to powerful resources and training, rekindling their resolve.
• Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er entered Leng Yaozhu’s secret realm and opened gifts containing treasures suited to their abilities.
• After three days of cultivation, Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er increased their strength, and Li Chen decided they would leave for Eastsea Academy to assume their new identities.

Li Chen tried to examine Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Divine Core, but Tang San’s protective divine consciousness possessed Tang Wulin and attacked him. Li Chen’s Death God Divine Position erupted to protect its host, overwhelming Tang San and leaving him summoning his father for help.

• Li Chen entered Tang Wulin’s dormitory in secret and carefully sent death Soul Power toward the Golden Dragon King Divine Core to study its seals.
• Tang San’s protective mark activated when Li Chen touched the Divine Core’s outer seal, and Tang San possessed Tang Wulin and attacked Li Chen with divine soul enslavement threads.
• Li Chen’s Death God Divine Position instinctively erupted, destroyed the enslavement threads, and sent the Death God Scythe phantom against Tang San.
• Tang San blocked and counterattacked with Sea God Divine Power and the Golden Dragon King’s blood and vitality, but Li Chen’s Law of Death gradually drove him into a disadvantage.
• Tang San summoned his father through the Sea God Divine Position as his possessed body’s divine consciousness continued to weaken.

Li Chen tried to examine the Golden Dragon King Divine Core inside Tang Wulin, but Tang San’s protective divine sense possessed the boy and attacked him. Li Chen’s Death God Divine Position fought back and overwhelmed Tang San’s limited avatar, who summoned his father for help.

• Li Chen entered Tang Wulin’s dormitory and sent a thread of death Soul Power toward the Golden Dragon King Divine Core to study its seals.
• Tang San’s protective mark activated, possessing Tang Wulin and attacking Li Chen with Sea God threads meant to enslave his soul.
• Li Chen’s Death God Divine Position erupted to protect him, dissolving the Sea God threads and manifesting the Underworld and Death God Scythe.
• Tang San and Li Chen clashed with Sea God and Death God powers, and Tang San’s shield and golden dragon shadow were broken.
• Tang San, losing ground against Li Chen, sent an urgent summons to his father for help.

Tang Hao joined Tang San in attacking Li Chen, but the Douluo Plane Spirit reclaimed its authority and helped Li Chen destroy both divine consciousnesses. Li Chen removed Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Divine Core and received the plane’s trust and power, leaving to protect the Golden Tree from Ah Yin’s planned possession.

• Tang Hao descended to save Tang San and attacked Li Chen while using Ocean Authority to erode the Douluo Plane’s origin.
• The enraged plane spirit reclaimed most of Tang Hao’s Ocean Authority, healed Li Chen, and joined forces with him against Tang Hao and Tang San.
• Li Chen and the plane spirit combined the Law of Death with the plane’s laws to annihilate both divine consciousnesses.
• Li Chen extracted Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Divine Core, protected the boy’s foundation, and left Eastsea Academy with the core.
• The plane spirit warned Li Chen that Ah Yin intended to possess the Golden Tree, named him Child of Nature, granted him the plane’s remaining destiny power, and fell into a long slumber.

Li Chen joined Electrolux, the Time Dragon King, and the Space Dragon King to purify the Golden Dragon King Divine Core and safely separate a trace of Dragon God origin. With the core secured, Li Chen headed to Eastsea City, where Gu Yue, Na'er, and Tang Wulin were training.

• Li Chen explained that he had taken the Golden Dragon King Divine Core from Tang Wulin to keep Tang San from using it against Gu Yue and Na'er.
• The Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King awakened and agreed to help Li Chen and Electrolux stabilize and separate the core's origin.
• Li Chen, Electrolux, the Time Dragon King, and the Space Dragon King combined their laws to extract a pure strand of Dragon God origin and calm the divine core without damaging it.
• Li Chen restored the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls and set out with his companions for Eastsea City.

Li Chen returned to Eastsea City with the Time and Space Dragon Kings and gave Na'er the Golden Dragon King's Origin Divine Core, restoring the Dragon God's complete origin. After Na'er fused with it safely, Tang Wulin awakened his second martial soul, the Clear Sky Hammer.

• Di Tian sensed Li Chen and the Dragon Kings arriving and led them to a sealed Soul Power Space, where Gu Yue and Na'er were waiting.
• The Time and Space Dragon Kings knelt before Gu Yue, and Li Chen revealed that he had taken the Golden Dragon King's Origin Divine Core from Tang Wulin after defeating Tang San's descending divine consciousness and destroying Tang Hao's lower-realm body.
• Li Chen explained that Na'er could safely inherit the core if Gu Yue supplied Silver Dragon King origin blood and Creation Divine Core power, and Gu Yue gave him both.
• Li Chen restored Na'er's Silver Dragon King bloodline and wrapped the core in Creation Divine Power before guiding it into her; Gu Yue, the Dragon Kings, Electrolux, and Li Chen protected her as she fused with it.
• Tang Wulin's suppressed Clear Sky Sect bloodline erupted, and he awakened the Clear Sky Hammer as his second martial soul while Xie Xie watched.
• Na'er completed her fusion without losing control, and Gu Yue thanked Li Chen and pledged the Dragon Clan's support.

Li Chen, Na'er, and Gu Yue left Eastsea City together for a day at a secluded beach. They reached the empty shore, with Na'er pulling the others toward the ocean.

• Li Chen waited outside the Spirit Pagoda, and Na'er and Gu Yue joined him for their outing.
• The three walked through the city, where Li Chen bought them sugar figurines and Na'er teased him about his unusual remarks.
• Na'er led Li Chen and Gu Yue through the eastern hills, sharing wildflowers and telling them about the beach.
• The ocean came into view, and Na'er tugged Gu Yue and Li Chen down the hillside toward the shore.
• The three reached the beach and found it completely empty.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er spent a peaceful afternoon playing and resting on a secluded beach, then joined their powers to create a glowing dragon across the bay. They left together at sunset, while Gu Yue secretly marked the beach so she could find it again.

• Na'er ran onto the beach, and Li Chen and Gu Yue joined her by the sea.
• Li Chen and Na'er splashed each other in the water while Gu Yue watched from the shore.
• Na'er teased Li Chen about calling Gu Yue's name at the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Gu Yue acknowledged his feelings without making him admit them.
• Li Chen used Fate Verdict to cast golden light across the bay, and Gu Yue and Na'er added their powers to shape it into a dragon.
• The three agreed to return to the beach, and Gu Yue secretly left a silver mark in the sand before they walked back toward Eastsea City.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er arrived in Skysea City to register for the tournament exhibition matches, then explored the night market and shared grilled fish. Their meal was interrupted by Shrek Inner Court disciple Xu Lizhi, who arrived too late to get any.

• Li Chen registered Eastsea Academy's three representatives for the exhibition matches despite the official's warning that teams were expected to have seven members.
• Na'er led Li Chen and Gu Yue through Skysea City's night market, where Gu Yue gave Li Chen a blue ribbon and Na'er bought several souvenirs.
• Li Chen chose a quiet alley stall, where the three ordered the last grilled fish and enjoyed their meal.
• Xu Lizhi arrived at the stall, learned that the fish had all been claimed, and mourned missing out on the food.

At a roadside stall, Na'er challenged Shrek Academy disciples who berated Xu Lizhi and insulted Eastsea Academy, while Li Chen's overwhelming spiritual pressure forced them to retreat. The groups parted without a fight, but their coming exhibition match now carried a fresh rivalry.

• Na'er shared grilled fish with Xu Lizhi, who introduced himself and promised to treat her to his buns someday.
• Ye Xinglan arrived with Shrek Academy disciples, scolded Xu Lizhi for eating at the stall, and let a lanky teammate insult Eastsea Academy.
• Na'er mocked the Shrek disciples' arrogance and their repeated boasts about Shrek's history, prompting the lanky soul master to release his martial soul and soul rings.
• Xu Lizhi tried to stop the groups from fighting, but Li Chen stood up and used his spiritual pressure to overwhelm the Shrek disciples.
• The Shrek group retreated after the lanky soul master proposed settling the matter at the exhibition match, and Gu Yue poured Li Chen fresh tea as the others resumed their meal.

At the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament, Li Chen and his Eastsea Academy teammates faced Shrek Academy in an exhibition match arranged by the Federation to undermine Shrek’s dominance. Li Chen overwhelmed the Shrek Seven one by one, leaving Xu Lizhi as the last standing opponent.

• Federation commissioner Chen Huaiyuan explained to Lu Zheng, Sun Bo'an, and Qin Lie that the Federation wanted a decisive Eastsea victory to challenge Shrek Academy’s influence.
• The match began, and Li Chen used Fate Verdict to erase Shi Hao’s shields and force him to his knees.
• Li Chen nullified Yu Tianming’s lightning attacks and sent him crashing into the arena barrier.
• Li Chen summoned Pluto’s sword, deflected Ye Xinglan’s Starfall Like Rain, and defeated her in a three-sword exchange that left her Stargod Sword powerless.
• Li Chen broke Ning He’s barrier, disabled Feng Yu and Mo Chen, and advanced past them as each Shrek teammate fell.
• Li Chen confronted Xu Lizhi, the last member of the Shrek Seven still standing, and demanded that he surrender or be sent off the stage.

After Li Chen led Eastsea Academy to a decisive victory over Shrek, Yu Guanzhi met with him, Gu Yue, and Na'er and offered the military’s support. The three young people left to explore Skysea City’s night market, while the match drew increased attention from powerful factions.

• Li Chen defeated the Shrek Seven, and the chief referee declared Eastsea Academy the winner.
• Qin Lie, Sun Bo'an, Lu Zheng, and Chen Huaiyuan reacted to the rout, and Chen Huaiyuan ordered the report to record the match exactly as it happened.
• Li Chen explained his Pluto Sword and his view of swordsmanship to Gu Yue and Na'er as they walked to the preparation area.
• Leng Yaozhu introduced Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Yu Guanzhi, who praised Li Chen’s control and said he would speak to Shrek.
• Yu Guanzhi offered Li Chen access to non-classified research on Martial Soul laws and promised protection from any rule-breaking moves by Shrek during his three days in Skysea City.
• Leng Yaozhu urged the three to visit the night market, and Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er left as the factions’ attention toward them intensified.

After Li Chen’s defeat of the Shrek Seven became a Federation-wide sensation, Shrek’s elders planned a duel to restore the academy’s reputation. Shrek agreed to pay Gold Water Intertwined for the challenge, and the match was set for three days later, leaving Li Chen’s chance to claim the material undecided.

• Federation media publicized Li Chen’s victory, while Shrek’s elders argued over how to respond and Long Yeyue proposed a duel against one of Shrek’s students.
• Ya Li arrived in Skysea City to invite Li Chen to fight, but Yu Guanzhi revealed that Li Chen had registered at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, ending Shrek’s recruitment plan.
• Yu Guanzhi demanded Gold Water Intertwined as the challenge fee, and Yun Ming approved the payment.
• Ya Li handed over the ore, and the parties agreed to arrange the duel’s rules and venue, with the match to take place in three days.

Li Chen learned that Shrek had challenged him to a public duel against a One-Word Battle Armor Master, with Gold Water Intertwined offered as the stake. After Leng Yaozhu explained the political consequences, Li Chen accepted the fight, scheduled for three days later.

• Na'er chose a poorly received movie about Huo Gua battling Beast God Di Tian, and Li Chen and Gu Yue teased her afterward.
• Leng Yaozhu summoned Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to a milk tea shop to discuss Shrek's challenge.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Shrek would send a One-Word Battle Armor Master to challenge Li Chen in three days, with the military overseeing the duel.
• Leng Yaozhu revealed that Shrek had offered Gold Water Intertwined, which Li Chen would receive regardless of the outcome, and warned that losing or winning could carry political consequences.
• Li Chen accepted the duel and said he would fight for the Gold Water Intertwined.