Recaps

Zhong Shenxiu’s box absorbed the Twelve Star Dragons’ beams, then the four God King Dragons bestowed their powers on him. He reached peak level twenty-seven, while his Earth Dragon Lizard transformed into a 999-year Soul Spirit.

• The box flew from Zhong Shenxiu’s neck and absorbed all twelve beams, revealing a ring of the Twelve Star Dragons with an empty center.
• The East Sun King Dragon, Luo Sea God Dragon, Overlord God Dragon, and Heavenly Mountain King Dragon awakened and displayed their powers to Zhong Shenxiu.
• The four God King Dragons sent beams into Zhong Shenxiu, shattering his level-twenty-one bottleneck and raising him to peak level twenty-seven.
• Zhong Shenxiu’s Earth Dragon Lizard grew and transformed, developing dragon features and reaching 999 years.

Zhong Shenxiu received four God King Dragon inheritances, reached Soul Power level twenty-seven, and raised his Soul Spirit to nine hundred and ninety-nine years. The next day, Wu Zhangkong began Zero Class lessons by introducing Battle Armor and Second Professions, while Xie Xie asked when the students could start learning about Battle Armor.

• The four God King Dragons’ inheritances gave Zhong Shenxiu four new powers and raised his Soul Power to level twenty-seven and his Soul Spirit to nine hundred and ninety-nine years.
• Zhong Shenxiu grasped the Dragon Fighting Card Box and sensed a connection between himself, the statues, and the world.
• The six Zero Class students sat divided into two factions as Wu Zhangkong began their first lesson.
• Wu Zhangkong explained Battle Armor and Second Professions and gave the students three days to choose a Second Profession.
• Xie Xie asked Wu Zhangkong when the students could start coming into contact with Battle Armor.

Wu Zhangkong cleared the classroom and told the students that five of them lacked basic combat ability outside their martial souls. He challenged their belief that soul skills were enough, setting the focus for upcoming practical combat classes.

• Wu Zhangkong told the students to move their desks aside, and all six—including the reluctant Zhong Shenxiu—made room in the middle of the classroom.
• Wu Zhangkong gathered Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi and said their upcoming practical combat classes would address their weaknesses.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that the five lacked basic combat ability when not using martial souls, even though their experience with soul skills was not severely lacking.
• Wu Zhangkong challenged the five for thinking soul skills were everything and said that belief kept them from reaching their full potential.

Wu Zhangkong demonstrated basic combat techniques by sparring with Zhong Shenxiu, whose swift, lethal attacks pushed his teacher to take the fight seriously. The exchange continued as Zhong Shenxiu launched a powerful downward kick.

• Wu Zhangkong praised Zhong Shenxiu and invited him to demonstrate basic combat abilities in front of the five students.
• Zhong Shenxiu attacked Wu Zhangkong with a fast punch, narrowly missing his throat and prompting Wu Zhangkong to counter with a finger strike.
• Zhong Shenxiu followed with an elbow strike and a series of rapid punches, grapples, hand strikes, and knee attacks that Wu Zhangkong evaded or blocked.
• Zhong Shenxiu aimed paired punches at Wu Zhangkong's throat and heart, then feinted with a sweeping kick before launching a second kick toward his neck.
• Wu Zhangkong ducked and struck at Zhong Shenxiu's supporting ankle, but Zhong Shenxiu leapt into the air and chopped down with his right leg.

Wu Zhangkong stopped his sparring match with Zhong Shenxiu and showed his students how Zhong Shenxiu’s lethal close-combat instincts surpassed their own. He then explained that mastering a Martial Soul meant understanding and applying its power beyond fixed soul skills, leaving the five students to consider how much they still had to learn.

• Wu Zhangkong ended his exchange with Zhong Shenxiu after recognizing that the boy’s battle instincts surpassed those of most adult Soul Masters, even himself.
• Zhong Shenxiu instinctively avoided Wu Zhangkong’s gentle attempt to ruffle his hair, and Wu Zhangkong withdrew his hand.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin realized that Zhong Shenxiu’s attacks targeted vital points and that they would likely have been unable to use their soul skills against him.
• Wu Zhangkong told the five students that none of them would have had a chance to use a soul skill against Zhong Shenxiu.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that soul skills were fixed ways of expressing Martial Soul power and demonstrated how understanding that power could produce effects without using a soul skill.
• Wu Zhangkong said that basic combat ability helped Soul Masters unleash their Martial Souls’ full power.

Over ten days of brutal combat training, Zero Class endured Wu Zhangkong’s instruction while Zhong Shenxiu’s Soul Power cultivation rose to Rank 28. During a spiritual power test, Tang Wulin shocked his classmates by breaking through into the Spirit Connection Realm.

• Xie Xie dreaded Wu Zhangkong’s daily combat lessons, while Tang Wulin and the others continued training and Zhong Shenxiu advanced to Rank 28.
• Wu Zhangkong brought the five students to a technological testing room and began measuring their spiritual power.
• Wang Jinxi’s reading was eighteen, and Zhang Yangzi’s was forty-one; Wu Zhangkong urged Wang Jinxi to raise his spiritual power.
• Tang Wulin’s spiritual power surpassed Zhang Yangzi’s and continued climbing past fifty, changing the test scale from white to yellow.
• Tang Wulin’s reading reached sixty-six, leaving his classmates stunned that he had entered the Spirit Connection Realm as a first-year student.

Gu Yue scored 153 in spiritual power, but Zhong Shenxiu’s test result of 273 stunned everyone. After the others left, Zhong Shenxiu challenged Wu Zhangkong to a fight, and the two met at the Indoor Training Room at six o’clock.

• Gu Yue tested at 153 spiritual power, reaching the Spirit Connection Realm at age nine.
• Zhong Shenxiu’s spiritual power climbed to 273, leaving the other students and Wu Zhangkong shocked.
• The chapter explained that Zhong Shenxiu’s recent growth came from the Dragon Fighting Plane and the inheritances of the Four Direction Dragon Kings.
• After the other students left, Zhong Shenxiu asked Wu Zhangkong to fight him that night, and Wu Zhangkong agreed.
• Zhong Shenxiu waited outside the Indoor Training Room, and Wu Zhangkong arrived at six o’clock.

Zhong Shenxiu faced Wu Zhangkong in a training match and revealed that his strength and speed had surged again. The duel left Wu Zhangkong struggling to suppress him even after lowering his power to that of a four-ring Soul Ancestor.

• Wu Zhangkong opened the training session, and Zhong Shenxiu immediately attacked with faster, stronger hand-to-hand strikes than before.
• Zhong Shenxiu summoned the Sky Light Dragon Spear, whose light resonated with his dragon scales and transformed his eyes into molten-gold vertical pupils.
• Wu Zhangkong drew the Sky Frost Sword and prepared to fight seriously, using the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Purple Demon Eye while suppressing his strength to four rings.
• Zhong Shenxiu exchanged precise, lethal spear strikes with Wu Zhangkong, repeatedly forcing him to defend and counter at close range.
• Wu Zhangkong realized Zhong Shenxiu's physical strength and reaction speed were so overwhelming that even his four-ring power and Purple Demon Eye could barely keep up.

Zhong Shenxiu activated Clear Dragon Heart and saw through Wu Zhangkong’s seven-image sword attack, then ignited Burning Heaven Holy Flame and launched a fierce assault. The chapter left them locked in combat as Wu Zhangkong deflected Zhong Shenxiu’s spear with his Frost Scar sword beam.

• Zhong Shenxiu used Clear Dragon Heart to identify the center of Wu Zhangkong’s seven afterimages and struck his real sword.
• Zhong Shenxiu ignited Burning Heaven Holy Flame and challenged Wu Zhangkong to attack again.
• Zhong Shenxiu charged through Wu Zhangkong’s fire-and-ice steam and forced him to block a life-threatening spear strike.
• Zhong Shenxiu continued attacking recklessly, and Wu Zhangkong narrowly avoided his spear before launching Frost Scar.
• Zhong Shenxiu refused to evade the sword beam, so Wu Zhangkong redirected it into the spear shaft, where ice and fire collided.

Zhong Shenxiu pushed Wu Zhangkong into a fierce training-room battle, revealing his immense combat potential and a reckless craving for fighting on the brink of death. After their near-fatal exchange, Wu Zhangkong raised his power to the Five-ring Soul King realm and prepared to face him again.

• Zhong Shenxiu relentlessly attacked Wu Zhangkong with his Burning Heaven Holy Flame spear, forcing Wu Zhangkong to defend against his escalating power.
• Wu Zhangkong countered with Frost Whisper Ice Wheel and Frost Mist, but Zhong Shenxiu used his spear and flames to break through the attacks.
• Wu Zhangkong's sword caught Zhong Shenxiu during a gap in his defense, but Zhong Shenxiu counterattacked toward Wu Zhangkong's temple rather than protect his chest.
• Wu Zhangkong diverted his sword and dodged Zhong Shenxiu's spear, while the sword left a deep scratch across Zhong Shenxiu's chest.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked Wu Zhangkong to fight again, and Wu Zhangkong lifted his suppression to the Five-ring Soul King realm.

Zhong Shenxiu fought Wu Zhangkong with fierce resolve, but Wu Zhangkong’s fifth soul skill shattered his spear and knocked him into a wall. Wu Zhangkong carried the injured Zhong Shenxiu toward his quarters, wounded himself by the boy’s final attack.

• Zhong Shenxiu and Wu Zhangkong clashed with spear and sword as fire and frost engulfed the training room.
• Wu Zhangkong unleashed his fifth soul skill, Ice Age, and redirected its strike to shatter Zhong Shenxiu’s Sky Light Dragon Spear.
• Zhong Shenxiu lunged with a punch after his spear broke, but Wu Zhangkong dodged and struck him into the wall.
• Wu Zhangkong carried Zhong Shenxiu through the empty corridor, bearing burns and a shoulder wound from their battle.

After Zhong Shenxiu injured Wu Zhangkong in their battle, Wu Zhangkong carried him to his dormitory and carefully treated his wounds. Zhong recovered quickly and returned to his solitary, disciplined routine in Zero Class.

• Wu Zhangkong carried the unconscious Zhong Shenxiu to his dormitory and tended to his many wounds.
• Zhong Shenxiu woke the next morning, thanked Wu Zhangkong, and left after Wu Zhangkong told him not to push himself so hard.
• Zhong Shenxiu returned to his single dormitory and found that his wounds had healed rapidly under the Burning Heaven Holy Flame.
• Zhong Shenxiu summoned the Sky Light Dragon Spear and practiced thrusting as time passed.
• Zhong Shenxiu continued his orderly daily routine, waking at dawn and checking the Soul Guidance Energy Conversion Storage Device.

Zhong Shenxiu used stored energy to charge the Dragon Fighting Plane, but the second stage’s crystal barely brightened, and he continued his emotionless daily routine. Gu Yue struggled to get close to him, while Xie Xie privately compared Zhong Shenxiu to Wu Zhangkong; the chapter ended with Wu Zhangkong announcing a class trip to the Spirit Pagoda.

• Zhong Shenxiu entered the Dragon Fighting Plane and found that an enormous amount of energy barely brightened its crystal ball.
• Zhong Shenxiu returned to his routine of charging the plane, attending class, cultivating, and sparring with Wu Zhangkong.
• Xie Xie watched Zhong Shenxiu and privately nicknamed Gu Yue a stepmother chasing after Wu Zhangkong’s child.
• Gu Yue lamented that Zhong Shenxiu’s constant cultivation left her no chance to follow the galgame route she had imagined.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked Gu Yue why she was looking at him, then turned back to the window without continuing the conversation.
• Wu Zhangkong entered the classroom and announced that the class would visit the Spirit Pagoda.

Wu Zhangkong took Zero Class to the Spirit Pagoda, where the academy had arranged weekly access to the Spirit Ascension Platform. After arriving underground, the six students entered scanning compartments to begin their first session.

• Wu Zhangkong announced that the six students would gather at the school gate and took them to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Wu Zhangkong told the students that the academy had secured them one weekly, unlimited-time admission to the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Long Hengxu met Wu Zhangkong and the students at the Spirit Pagoda and led them inside.
• Zhong Shenxiu sensed an enormous mass of energy beneath the Spirit Pagoda when the Clear Dragon Heart activated.
• A Spirit Pagoda staff member explained the precautions and prepared the six students for entry into the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The six students lay in metal compartments, were attached to scanning instruments, and were sealed into darkness.

Zhong Shenxiu entered the Spirit Pagoda’s demiplane and defeated two Nether Wolves with ease. The energy from their deaths transformed his Earth Dragon Lizard Soul Spirit into an Earth Dragon, breaking through the thousand-year threshold.

• Zhong Shenxiu sensed that the demiplane was a real world with dense spiritual energy.
• Three Nether Wolves approached Zhong Shenxiu in a hunting formation.
• Zhong Shenxiu killed two Nether Wolves with swift strikes from his Sky Light Dragon Spear.
• The energy from the Nether Wolves flowed into Zhong Shenxiu’s Soul Spirit and began transforming it.
• The Earth Dragon Lizard’s dragon blood awakened, and it completed its transformation into an Earth Dragon.

Zhong Shenxiu realized the Spirit Ascension Platform’s energy could nourish the Dragon Fighting Plane, then proved it by diverting the light released from slain Soul Beasts into the plane’s crystal ball. He left with a feasible way to restore the world, while still aware that absorbing the demiplane itself would require patience and greater strength.

• The Earth Dragon Lizard crossed the thousand-year threshold, and Zhong Shenxiu sensed the Spirit Ascension Platform’s demiplane boundaries trembling.
• Zhong Shenxiu encountered a pack of Nether Wolves and charged into their encirclement with the Sky Light Dragon Spear.
• Zhong Shenxiu killed the Nether Wolf King and dozens of its pack, while the surviving wolves fled.
• Zhong Shenxiu sensed the Clear Dragon Heart craving the light released from the wolf corpses and redirected the energy away from his Soul Spirit.
• The energy flowed into the Dragon Fighting Plane’s crystal ball, confirming that Soul Beast energy could help restore the plane.

Zhong Shenxiu realized that killing Soul Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform charged his Dragon Fighting Plane far faster than absorbing ambient energy, and he set out to hunt. As Wu Zhangkong secured more platform time for Zero Class, the broadcast followed Zhong Shenxiu to a valley where a thousand-year Single-Horned Dragon Lizard appeared.

• Zhong Shenxiu recognized the Spirit Ascension Platform as a much faster source of energy and went hunting for more Soul Beasts.
• Long Hengxu praised Zhong Shenxiu’s defeat of a Nether Wolf pack, and Wu Zhangkong declared his talent unmatched and his future boundless.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Long Hengxu for half of Eastsea Academy’s Spirit Ascension Platform slots next month, saying once a week was too little.
• The Spirit Pagoda staff tracked Zhong Shenxiu to a valley, where Long Hengxu saw a thousand-year Single-Horned Dragon Lizard.

Zhong Shenxiu killed a thousand-year Single-Horned Dragon Lizard in the Spirit Ascension Platform and felt his Soul Power nearing level twenty-nine. The monitoring room watched in shock as he continued hunting, and he suffered severe injuries after killing a Flame Lion.

• Zhong Shenxiu battled the Single-Horned Dragon Lizard, crippled its hind leg, broke its horn, and killed it with a blade of light.
• Zhong Shenxiu sensed that his Soul Power was loosening and that level twenty-nine was close, then headed toward more Soul Beasts in the forest.
• Long Hengxu watched the battle on the monitoring screen and marveled that nine-year-old Zhong Shenxiu had defeated a thousand-year Soul Beast on his first Spirit Ascension Platform entry.
• Wu Zhangkong told Long Hengxu that Zhong Shenxiu was his student.
• Zhong Shenxiu killed a thousand-year Flame Lion but suffered deep claw wounds and burns in the process.

Zhong Shenxiu, already badly injured and exhausted, fought a three-thousand-year Golden Violent Bear in the forest clearing. As the bear lunged to kill him, he suddenly saw the image of the Taurus Star Dragon.

• Zhong Shenxiu tried to leave the clearing after killing the Flame Lion but spotted a Golden Violent Bear watching him from the forest.
• Zhong Shenxiu summoned the Sky Light Dragon Spear and wounded the bear’s right leg as they crossed paths, but its claw struck his back and hurled him into a tree.
• Zhong Shenxiu struggled to stand despite his injuries as the Golden Violent Bear turned and charged at him.
• The Golden Violent Bear lunged for Zhong Shenxiu’s head, and he saw the Taurus Star Dragon in his mind at the last moment.

Zhong Shenxiu awakened the Dragon Fighting Card Box’s power and used Taurus Star Dragon’s Thunder Light Strike to kill the Golden Violent Bear. He realized the box could channel the remaining power of the Doulong in the Dragon Fighting Plane through cards.

• The Dragon Fighting Card Box opened as the Golden Violent Bear closed in, and a card bearing the name Thunder Light Strike emerged.
• Zhong Shenxiu crushed the card, absorbing Taurus Star Dragon’s lightning power and summoning its phantom behind him.
• Zhong Shenxiu formed a lightning spear and pierced the Golden Violent Bear’s throat, killing it.
• Zhong Shenxiu observed the lingering lightning around his hand and inferred that the Dragon Fighting Card Box released the Doulong’s power through cards.

Zhong Shenxiu exited the Spirit Ascension Platform after a grueling final battle and was overwhelmed by mental exhaustion. Wu Zhangkong checked on the students and canceled morning training so they could rest.

• Zhong Shenxiu pressed the SOS Signal Device after defeating the Golden Violent Bear, leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform before its energy could enter him.
• Zhong Shenxiu awoke in a metal chamber and recovered in silence, using his Soul Power and Clear Dragon Heart to calm his exhausted mind.
• Zhong Shenxiu saw that Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Gu Yue had also returned from the platform.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Zhong Shenxiu if he was all right, then excused him from morning training the next day.
• Wu Zhangkong told everyone to rest and said normal training would resume the day after.

After leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform, Zhong Shenxiu rejected Gu Yue’s invitation to go out, and Gu Yue rejected Tang Wulin in turn. Xie Xie teased Tang Wulin about being a “simp’s simp” as the group headed on.

• Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Zhong Shenxiu, and Gu Yue left the Spirit Pagoda after resting from their ordeal in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Gu Yue invited Zhong Shenxiu to visit a dessert shop and Soul Tool store the next day, but he said he had no time.
• Gu Yue became angry and walked away, while Tang Wulin watched her with mixed feelings.
• Tang Wulin tried to invite Gu Yue out, but she curtly refused and left.
• Xie Xie laughed at Tang Wulin and called him a “simp’s simp” for pursuing Gu Yue despite her interest in Zhong Shenxiu.

Tang Wulin chased Xie Xie after he teased him about cross-dressing, while Zhong Shenxiu investigated why only the Taurus Star Dragon had answered him and saw the Dragon Fighting Plane’s energy rise to fifty percent. By semester’s end, Zero Class had grown much stronger, and Xie Xie questioned whether they needed to take the Final Exam.

• Xie Xie teased Tang Wulin that he might look better cross-dressed than Gu Yue, and Tang Wulin chased him through the streets as Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi watched.
• Zhong Shenxiu found only the Taurus Star Dragon · Thunder Light Strike card in the Dragon Fighting Card Box and wondered why the other Twelve Star Dragons had not responded.
• Zhong Shenxiu entered the Dragon Fighting Plane and found that the central crystal ball’s energy had reached fifty percent after his trip to the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• The first semester at Eastsea Academy ended after Wu Zhangkong increased the class’s Spirit Ascension Platform sessions to twice a week, and Zhong Shenxiu reached three soul rings.
• Xie Xie asked Wu Zhangkong whether Zero Class had to take the Final Exam.

Wu Zhangkong announced that Zero Class’s Final Exam would take place in the Rioting Spirit Ascension Platform, where the students had to survive for an hour. Xie Xie learned that Zhong Shenxiu would join the five students and could still hunt them, leaving him in despair.

• Tang Wulin and the others reflected on how their Soul Power and combat abilities had improved during three months of training.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that the Final Exam’s first subject required them to survive for one hour in the Rioting Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xie Xie recalled how Zhong Shenxiu had repeatedly ambushed and eliminated him and the others inside the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Wu Zhangkong explained the riot period and said the academy had secured six entry slots, enough for the five students and Zhong Shenxiu.
• Xie Xie hoped Wu Zhangkong had misspoken about sending only the five students, but Wu Zhangkong revealed that Shenxiu could hunt them and left Xie Xie wailing in despair.

Wu Zhangkong announced that the five students would enter the Spirit Ascension Platform in three days to test their growth. Gu Yue invited Zhong Shenxiu out, but when he refused, she challenged him to a fight, leaving him surprised.

• Wu Zhangkong recalled how Zhong Shenxiu's repeated hunts in the Spirit Ascension Platform had improved the five students' skills and teamwork.
• Xie Xie protested the planned hunt, then agreed to participate after Wu Zhangkong offered a three-day break before it.
• Gu Yue approached Zhong Shenxiu and invited him to go somewhere with her, but he refused and tried to leave.
• Gu Yue stopped Zhong Shenxiu and asked what he would do if she wanted to fight him.
• Zhong Shenxiu remembered how easily he had defeated Gu Yue in the Spirit Ascension Platform and was surprised by her challenge.