Chapter Summaries

Li Chen defeated Shrek graduate Xuan Li in a match at Training Ground No. 17, overcoming his Soul King strength and One-Word Battle Armor with fate-based soul skills and the Pluto Sword. Yu Guanzhi declared Li Chen the winner, and Leng Yaozhu handed over the promised Gold Water Intertwined.

• Xuan Li challenged Li Chen and charged without using his Battle Armor, but Li Chen used Fate Sanction to disrupt his Soul Power and throw him to the ground.
• Li Chen used Fate Mastery to weaken Xuan Li further, then split his Godly Taotie Bull phantom with the Pluto Sword when Xuan Li unleashed Wild Ox Charge.
• Xuan Li activated his One-Word Battle Armor and attacked with Taotie Devours Heaven, but Li Chen’s Fate Mastery and Pluto Sword broke through the attack and armor defenses.
• Li Chen strengthened himself with Human Path and Asura Path, matched Xuan Li’s strength, and struck his chest armor with a true-damage punch.
• Xuan Li admitted defeat after Li Chen remained standing, and Yu Guanzhi announced Li Chen as the winner.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Yu Guanzhi the Gold Water Intertwined for Li Chen, as agreed before the match.

After winning the match against Shrek, Li Chen accepted Gold Water Intertwined and traveled with Leng Yaozhu, Gu Yue, and Na'er to Heaven Dou City to commission Zhen Hua to forge Battle Armor. Zhen Hua agreed to handle the forging, while Li Chen stayed behind to begin the work.

• Yu Guanzhi gave Li Chen his private contact information, and Leng Yaozhu warned Ya Li to tell Cai the Mad not to seek revenge through the children.
• The Youth Genius Ranking placed Li Chen first as Xuanming, Na'er ninth as Golden Dragon, and Gu Yue tenth as Silver Dragon.
• Li Chen chose to take Gold Water Intertwined to Zhen Hua in Heaven Dou City, and Leng Yaozhu flew the group there in the Phoenix Mecha while advising the three students on their combat strengths and weaknesses.
• Li Chen presented Gold Water Intertwined to Zhen Hua and asked him to forge Battle Armor; Zhen Hua agreed and gave Li Chen a token granting access to the forging rooms.
• Leng Yaozhu took Gu Yue and Na'er into the city, while Li Chen stayed with Zhen Hua to begin forging.

Li Chen continued forging at the Blacksmith Association, where Mu Ye recognized his Body Sect training and offered to teach him the complete Body Secret Technique. Leng Yaozhu agreed to have the Leng Family help locate Body Martial Soul awakeners in exchange, and Mu Ye arranged to begin Li Chen’s training after he finished the Battle Armor.

• Li Chen spent five days honing his forging skills under Zhen Hua before working on Gold Water Intertwined.
• Mu Ye visited the forging room, praised Li Chen’s physique, and recognized that he had learned the Body Sect’s foundational techniques from Han Tianyi.
• Mu Ye explained that Li Chen needed a second awakening of a Body Martial Soul to withstand the power of his Law of Life and Death, and offered to teach him the Body Sect’s complete method.
• Leng Yaozhu agreed that the Leng Family would help the Body Sect find Body Martial Soul awakeners, while Mu Ye promised to teach Li Chen the Gold-Grade awakening method.
• Mu Ye told Li Chen to meet him at six the next morning and said they would begin the Body Secret Technique after Li Chen finished forging the Battle Armor.

Li Chen completed his One-Word Battle Armor with Zhen Hua and then followed Mu Ye to a Body Sect cultivation ground to begin training in its Body Secret Technique. After three days of medicinal baths, Mu Ye completed Li Chen’s Wall Breaking stage and prepared to teach him the Guiding Technique for Gold-Grade Awakening.

• Zhen Hua completed Li Chen’s One-Word Battle Armor, whose Gold Water Intertwined materials balanced and stabilized his Laws of Life and Death.
• Mu Ye met Li Chen outside the association and took him to the Body Sect’s cultivation grounds at Cloud-Deep Unknown.
• Mu Ye prepared a medicinal bath and explained the Body Secret Technique’s Wall Breaking, Bone Tempering, and Guiding stages to Li Chen.
• Li Chen soaked in the medicinal pool three times daily for three days as the Body Tempering Powder widened and strengthened his meridians.
• Mu Ye examined Li Chen’s meridians on the fourth morning, declared the Wall Breaking stage complete, and began teaching him the Body Sect’s Guiding Technique.

Li Chen continued tempering his body with the Guiding Technique and medicinal baths, completing the first layer of guidance across his torso. Leng Yaozhu left for the Spirit Pagoda, while Na'er and Gu Yue stayed to keep him company as he resumed training.

• Li Chen stabilized law-power patterns across his chest and abdomen, completing the first layer of torso training.
• Leng Yaozhu, Na'er, and Gu Yue visited Li Chen, and Gu Yue identified a dark mark from an earlier deviation in his guidance.
• Gu Yue gave Li Chen a medicinal ointment to ease the buildup of medicinal power.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Li Chen a Fire Spirit Stone, asked him to report his training progress daily, and returned to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Na'er brought food and stayed with Gu Yue in the training room while Li Chen continued cultivating in the medicinal pool.

Mu Ye discovered Li Chen had advanced into the dangerous ninth Bone Tempering level and ordered him to wait for supervision before cultivating his cervical spine. He gave Na'er a Body Sect Inner Court pass, while Li Chen rested and prepared to continue toward Gold-Grade Awakening.

• Mu Ye arrived with medicinal chicken soup and found Na'er, Gu Yue, and Li Chen had furnished the training chamber.
• Li Chen told Mu Ye he had begun tempering his spine and had stabilized the thoracic and lumbar sections; Mu Ye warned him not to attempt the cervical section without supervision.
• Mu Ye explained that Han Tianyi had worried about Li Chen's reckless cultivation, and Na'er teased Mu Ye about their sect seniority.
• Mu Ye offered to teach Na'er two Body Sect force-redirection techniques, and she accepted his Inner Court pass token.
• Mu Ye told Li Chen to rest and promised to guard him while he cultivated the cervical section the next day, adding that Li Chen was close to completing all twelve formulas for Gold-Grade Awakening.

Li Chen completed his Body Martial Soul Gold-Grade Awakening by absorbing the divine power of a God Position Fragment and joining the Creation Rune with the Ark Core and Pluto Martial Soul. He and Mu Ye left the hidden site to return to Gu Yue and Na'er, who had been waiting outside.

• Li Chen finished Bone Tempering, and Mu Ye took him to the Body Sect’s sealed hidden site to complete his awakening.
• Mu Ye explained that the site held a God Position Fragment once guarded by the Zhong Family of the Holy Spirit Cult, and told Li Chen to draw its divine power into himself.
• Inside the fragment’s space, Li Chen’s Ark Core and Pluto Martial Soul confronted the woman on the throne, whose Divine Power of Creation tested him.
• Li Chen’s Ark Core and Pluto Martial Soul coordinated their powers, and he joined them with the Creation Rune as the Death God Position faced the fragment’s divine consciousness.
• Li Chen awakened before the stele with the Creation Rune linking his powers, completing his Gold-Grade Awakening.
• Mu Ye told Li Chen that Gu Yue and Na'er had waited nearly half a day and hurried him out of the hidden site.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er stopped five Evil Soul Masters from sacrificing the passengers on their train to Shrek City. After the Tang Sect mission target was captured before Tang Wulin could act, he left determined to become stronger.

• Li Chen bid farewell to Mu Ye and Zhen Hua, collected pills from Leng Qiu, and met Gu Yue and Na'er at the Heaven Dou City station.
• Li Chen recognized Tang Wulin aboard the train, then Gu Yue detected five Evil Soul Masters and helped clear poison mist from the carriages.
• Gu Yue and Na'er defeated four Evil Soul Masters while Li Chen suppressed the Soul King leader and prevented him from self-destructing.
• The City Defense Army arrested all five attackers and discovered their talismans were part of an array intended to drain every passenger's Soul Power.
• Tang Wulin learned Li Chen and the others had already captured his mission targets, then said goodbye in Shrek City and vowed to become stronger.

Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er met with Spirit Pagoda Master Qiangu Dongfeng, who tried to recruit them into the Qiangu Family and asked how they would handle Shrek's retaliation. After they left, Qiangu Dongfeng warned Qiangu Zhangting that their influence threatened his future control of the Spirit Pagoda.

• Leng Yaozhu gave Li Chen a Soul Spirit configuration recommendation and said the Leng Family's Life-Bound Inheritance Soul Spirit might suit him.
• Qiangu Zhangting escorted Li Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er to meet Qiangu Dongfeng at Headquarters.
• Qiangu Dongfeng offered to recruit the three into the Qiangu Family, but Li Chen declined on behalf of the Leng Family.
• Qiangu Dongfeng asked how Li Chen planned to respond to Shrek, and Li Chen avoided giving a serious answer while Na'er proposed fighting, fleeing, or calling Leng Yaozhu.
• After the three left, Qiangu Dongfeng told Qiangu Zhangting to watch their influence, especially Li Chen's, as an obstacle to Zhangting's future control of the Spirit Pagoda.

Li Chen consulted Electrolux about forming his Second Soul Spirit without upsetting the five powers balanced within him. He persuaded Phoenix God to oversee the process, and Electrolux urged him to complete the fusion that day and address another matter.

• Li Chen visited Electrolux in the Underworld and explained the five powers balanced by the Creation Rune.
• Electrolux determined that the Ark Core's analysis, decomposition, and reconstruction abilities could work with the Genesis Law and Life-and-Death Reincarnation to build a Soul Spirit.
• Electrolux compared nine possible methods and concluded that Phoenix God was the best choice to oversee the Soul Spirit.
• Li Chen persuaded Phoenix God by appealing to the decline of winged soul beasts and the danger that her remnant consciousness would fade.
• Phoenix God agreed to help and told Li Chen to summon her when it was time to form the contract.
• Electrolux urged Li Chen to settle the Second Soul Spirit that day and said it was time to address another matter.

Li Chen and Electrolux restored Phoenix God's divine consciousness in a new Phoenix body, then used the Ark Core to create three subordinate gods for the Underworld. Li Chen postponed exploring its depths until the next day so he could recover and let his new subordinates adjust.

• Electrolux guided Li Chen through analyzing, purifying, and reconstructing Phoenix God's divine consciousness into a multicolored Phoenix, then Li Chen sealed their contract with the Law of Death.
• Electrolux urged Li Chen to create three subordinate gods from Lesser Origin Fragments, and Li Chen designed one focused on time, one on support, and one on physical strength.
• The Ark Core created Hainuo, Doria, and Yuantan, whose abilities complemented one another and whose contracts let them travel between Douluo Continent and the Underworld.
• Electrolux advised Li Chen to rest before taking the new subordinates into the Underworld's depths, while Phoenix God and the three gods returned to Li Chen's sea of consciousness and the Gray Plains.
• Li Chen departed through the mist, and Electrolux asked him to bring tea leaves when he returned the next day.

After a year of Deep Meditation, Li Chen awakened with a far deeper grasp of the Law of Fate and a sealed, incomplete Primordial Body framework. He reunited with Gu Yue and Na'er and left with them to eat, while his next steps remained open.

• Li Chen emerged from a year of Deep Meditation having organized the applications of the Law of Fate and named the vast cultivation technique he had glimpsed the Primordial Body.
• The Phoenix God praised Li Chen's progress, and Li Chen criticized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's sacrifice as a crude use of fate.
• Li Chen left the cultivation chamber and found Gu Yue and Na'er waiting for him.
• Na'er complained that Li Chen owed her chicken wishbones, while Gu Yue welcomed his return.
• Na'er led Li Chen and Gu Yue toward a barbecue restaurant and planned to notify Leng Yaozhu.

While shopping with Na'er and Gu Yue, Li Chen intervened when Yue Zhengyu accused Lengxiang Cottage employee Yuanen Yehui of being an Evil Soul Master and tried to take her away. He stopped Yue Zhengyu and promised to protect Yuanen Yehui, who revealed that her dark aura came from her family bloodline, and the group left her to continue working.

• Na'er led Gu Yue and Li Chen around Shrek City's commercial district and brought them to Lengxiang Cottage for ice cream.
• Yue Zhengyu barged into the shop, grabbed Yuanen Yehui, and accused her of having an Evil Soul Master aura.
• Li Chen stepped in, redirected Yue Zhengyu's Soul Power back at him, and explained that a darkness attribute did not prove someone was an Evil Soul Master.
• After the Yue Family steward identified Li Chen, Yue Zhengyu released Yuanen Yehui and left, warning that he might return.
• Yuanen Yehui told Li Chen that her dark aura came from her family bloodline and that the Leng Family had given her a job; Li Chen assured her he would help if Yue Zhengyu came back.
• Na'er guessed that Yuanen Yehui was a girl disguised as a boy, and Gu Yue teased her for figuring it out.

After Li Chen drove Yue Zhengyu away from the dessert shop, he offered Yuanen Yehui a place in the Spirit Pagoda and detailed the resources she could receive. Yuanen Yehui took his contact talisman to consider the offer, while Na'er and Gu Yue teased Li Chen about his recruiting pitch.

• Na'er helped Yuanen Yehui calm down after Yue Zhengyu left, and Yuanen Yehui thanked Li Chen for intervening.
• Li Chen recognized Yuanen Yehui as a Work-Study Student and asked whether she would join the Spirit Pagoda.
• Li Chen outlined the Spirit Pagoda's benefits, advancement support, and the Leng Family's long-term resources for Yuanen Yehui.
• Yuanen Yehui asked for time to consider the offer, accepted Li Chen's Communication Talisman, and returned to work with steadier hands.
• Na'er and Gu Yue teased Li Chen for preparing and delivering a polished recruitment pitch, and Li Chen joked that he was holding the family together.

Yuanen Yehui revealed her hidden Fallen Angel Martial Soul during an interview with Spirit Pagoda and secured a position there with Li Chen’s help. She signed the employment contract, chose the Spirit Pagoda over Yue Zhengyu’s offer, and left behind the burden of hiding her abilities.

• Yuanen Yehui recalled how Shrek’s powerful faction had delayed her resources and kept her Fallen Angel Martial Soul secret to avoid trouble.
• Yuanen Yehui told the Spirit Pagoda interviewers she had Twin Martial Souls and explained how she managed conflicts between the Titan Giant Ape and Fallen Angel.
• Li Chen arrived after the interview and got the personnel head to confirm that Yuanen Yehui had passed.
• Li Chen guided Yuanen Yehui through employment paperwork and explained her benefits, training plan, and dual-mentor assignments.
• Yuanen Yehui signed the contract, declared she did not regret joining the Spirit Pagoda, and tore up Yue Zhengyu’s butler’s business card.
• Na’er praised Yuanen Yehui as a woman who never admitted defeat.

After learning that Yuanen Yehui had gone to Spirit Pagoda, Cai Yue'er stormed its headquarters and accused Qiangu Dongfeng of poaching her. Cai Yue'er attacked him, and Qiangu Dongfeng imprisoned her, ordering Shrek to pay a ransom after three days.

• An Inner Court student reported Yuanen Yehui's visits to Spirit Pagoda, prompting Cai Yue'er to realize that her neglect might drive Yuanen Yehui away from Shrek.
• Cai Yue'er brought two stewards to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters and demanded that Yuanen Yehui be brought out.
• Qiangu Dongfeng said Yuanen Yehui had joined Spirit Pagoda voluntarily, while Li Chen exposed how Shrek had denied her Core Disciple status and resources.
• Cai Yue'er threatened Qiangu Dongfeng and tried to slap him, but he restrained her with his Soul Power.
• Qiangu Dongfeng bound Cai Yue'er and sealed her in Spirit Pagoda's detention chamber, then ordered Shrek to pay a ransom after three days.

After the Spirit Pagoda detained Cai Yue'er, Yun Ming went to its headquarters to demand her return, arguing that Shrek should discipline its own elders. Qiangu Dongfeng refused, and Yun Ming and Qiangu Qingfeng prepared to fight outside the Pagoda.

• At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, the elders learned that Cai Yue'er had been detained after slapping Qiangu Dongfeng, and Long Yeyue backed Yun Ming's decision to retrieve her.
• Yun Ming told the Sea God Pavilion that he would bring Cai Yue'er back from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Qiangu Dongfeng, Leng Yaozhu, Qiangu Qingfeng, and Qiangu Dieting gathered at the Spirit Pagoda entrance as Yun Ming arrived alone.
• Yun Ming demanded Cai Yue'er's release, but Qiangu Dongfeng claimed the Spirit Pagoda had the right to detain her for attacking its leader.
• Qiangu Qingfeng challenged Yun Ming with the Purgatory Halberd, and Yun Ming summoned the Heaven-Propping Spear and warned that the halberd was not invincible.

Yun Ming fought Qiangu Dieting, Qiangu Dongfeng, Qiangu Qingfeng, and Leng Yaozhu at the Spirit Pagoda’s gates, demanding that they hand over Cai. As the battle continued and Yun Ming waited for Long Yeyue, Li Chen quietly prepared to give Shrek something to do.

• Qiangu Dieting joined the confrontation and warned Yun Ming that forcing his way into the Spirit Pagoda would break the balance between it and Shrek.
• Leng Yaozhu and Qiangu Dongfeng joined Qiangu Dieting and Qiangu Qingfeng in blocking the gates, and Yun Ming refused to leave without Cai.
• The four Limit Douluos coordinated their attacks against Yun Ming, who fought back with his Heaven-Propping Spear and was forced to retreat three steps.
• Qiangu Dongfeng warned Yun Ming to stop, but Yun Ming kept his spear aimed at the gates and waited for Long Yeyue.
• Li Chen decided it was time to give Shrek something to do and silently activated three Underworld Summoning Marks.

Three Rank 99 intruders attacked Shrek Academy, and Yuantan, Hainuo, and Doria overwhelmed the academy’s defenders with their coordinated powers. After Shrek’s forces surrendered, Yuantan refused to stop fighting and threatened to sink the academy.

• Hainuo, Yuantan, and Doria appeared above Shrek Academy’s main gate, and Yuantan shattered part of its defensive formation.
• Long Yeyue and Shrek’s top powerhouses confronted the intruders, but Hainuo’s time powers and Doria’s Water Light Domain blunted their attacks.
• Yuantan broke through Shrek’s formation and killed seven or eight Super Douluos while Doria healed the intruders and Hainuo disrupted the defenders’ techniques.
• An Inner Court senior elder declared Shrek’s surrender, but Yuantan struck him and said he would continue because his master had not told him to stop.
• A core elder warned Yuantan that Shrek would seek revenge, and Yuantan threatened to sink Shrek as he smashed through the elder’s protective Soul Power.

Yuantan overwhelmed Long Yeyue and Zang Xin at Shrek’s front gate while Doria secretly looted the Sea God Pavilion. After Hainuo called the mission complete and the group withdrew, Yun Ming learned of the losses and demanded that Cai Yue'er move aside.

• Yuantan drove Long Yeyue away, then shattered Zang Xin’s Battle Armor and left him gravely injured.
• Two Tang Sect hall masters rushed to protect Zang Xin, but Yuantan killed one and struck down the other.
• Hainuo’s Time Law stopped Zang Xin’s forbidden sword technique and trapped him in a Time Cage.
• While her Water Light Domain covered the battle, Doria infiltrated the Sea God Pavilion and took its valuables, including a sandalwood tea table.
• Doria returned to Hainuo, who declared the mission complete, and the three withdrew from Shrek’s front gate.
• At Spirit Pagoda Square, Yun Ming sensed the defeat and Long Yeyue’s flight, disengaged from the fight, and told Cai Yue'er to move aside.