Chapter Summaries

Zhong Shenxiu activated the Energy Storage Crystal after completing its third-stage charging, but a sudden surge from the Aquarius Star Dragon statue and a bolt of silver-black lightning disrupted the process. The lightning corrupted the golden motes of light, and the mutation began spreading toward both the altar and the statue.

• Leng Yulai had no strength left to respond as Zhong Shenxiu admired the Energy Storage Crystal, which had completed its third-stage charging.
• Zhong Shenxiu entered the Dragon Fighting Plane and found its land, altar, and Six Elemental Aspects restored and flourishing.
• Zhong Shenxiu activated the Energy Storage Crystal and drew the golden motes toward it.
• The Aquarius Star Dragon statue erupted with light and pulled the crystal and motes toward itself.
• A silver-black lightning bolt struck and severed the stream of motes, corrupting them and spreading the change toward the altar and the Aquarius Star Dragon statue.

Zhong Shenxiu witnessed the Black Death Dragon invade the Dragon Fighting Plane and watched the Four Great God King Dragons drive back its power. After silver-black lightning struck him and flooded him with information, Psychedelic Black Hand addressed him as its master, leaving Zhong Shenxiu intrigued by what he had learned.

• The Four Great God King Dragons combined their power to illuminate the sky and repel the Black Death Dragon's silver-black lightning.
• Zhong Shenxiu recognized the enormous eyes in the sky as belonging to the Black Death Dragon, which had hijacked the third charging stage.
• Psychedelic Black Hand appeared before Zhong Shenxiu, bowed, and greeted him as its master.
• Silver-black lightning bypassed the dragons' barrier and struck Zhong Shenxiu between the brows, sending a torrent of information into his mind.
• Zhong Shenxiu recovered, looked at the submissive Psychedelic Black Hand, and remarked that what he had learned was interesting.

Zhong Shenxiu subdued Illusion with the Dragon Fighting Plane’s primordial Light Power and ordered it to recover its strength. Illusion agreed to regain ninety percent of its power in seven days, while Zhong Shenxiu remained aware that Black Death Dragon was watching him.

• Zhong Shenxiu asked Illusion what it remembered, and Illusion answered arrogantly while looking at the statues of the dragons.
• Zhong Shenxiu struck Illusion with primordial Light Power, forcing it to beg for mercy and submit to him.
• Zhong Shenxiu sensed Black Death Dragon watching from beyond the Dragon Fighting Plane and reflected on the power and inheritance within him.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked how long Illusion needed to recover, and Illusion said it could regain ninety percent of its strength in seven days.
• Illusion explained that recovering its remaining ten percent required slaughter and death, and Zhong Shenxiu granted it seven days before vanishing from the plane.

Zhong Shenxiu returned from the Dragon Fighting Plane and continued draining Leng Yulai’s Soul Power to charge the Energy Storage Crystal. After seven days, the fourth stage reached ninety percent, while Leng Yulai was so exhausted that her cultivation foundation was at risk of permanent damage.

• The Psychedelic Black Hand withdrew from the God King Dragon statues, wary after Zhong Shenxiu’s Lightning of Light nearly killed it.
• Zhong Shenxiu returned to the dim room and found Leng Yulai staring at him in a daze before she snapped back to herself in embarrassment.
• Zhong Shenxiu ordered Leng Yulai to get up and continue charging the Energy Storage Crystal.
• Over the next three days, Zhong Shenxiu repeatedly drained Leng Yulai’s Soul Power whenever she recovered enough to continue.
• After seven days, Leng Yulai brought the fourth charging stage to ninety percent, but her Soul Power recovery slowed and her level ninety-seven cultivation was in danger of permanently declining.

Zhong Shenxiu stopped draining Leng Yulai’s power to preserve her chance of reaching Limit Douluo, then asked her about the Holy Spirit Cult. Leng Yulai explained that the cult was mostly a label for scattered Evil Soul Masters until the Demon Empress appeared.

• Zhong Shenxiu withdrew the Energy Storage Crystal and chose not to further weaken Leng Yulai, whose potential could let her reach Limit Douluo.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked Leng Yulai to tell him about the Holy Spirit Cult, and she admitted she was not truly part of it.
• Leng Yulai explained that the Four Heavenly Kings had little connection with one another and that the Holy Spirit Cult had become a symbol after Shrek Academy destroyed it ten thousand years earlier.
• Leng Yulai said Evil Soul Masters acted independently until the Demon Empress appeared, and Zhong Shenxiu grew serious at the name.

Leng Yulai explained how Limit Douluos pursued Achieved Godhood before Zhong Shenxiu asked how much control she had over the Holy Spirit Cult’s Heaven Dou City stronghold. She led him to the disguised shopping center and summoned the Evil Soul Masters inside, who waited in the dark without knowing why they had been called.

• Leng Yulai described the three stages of Achieved Godhood and named Yun Ming as a Quasi-God.
• Zhong Shenxiu asked about Leng Yulai’s influence over the Heaven Dou City stronghold, and she said she controlled around seventy to eighty percent of it.
• Zhong Shenxiu ordered Leng Yulai to take him to the stronghold, and she agreed.
• Leng Yulai summoned the stronghold’s Evil Soul Masters to the shopping center’s top-floor entertainment hall after nightfall.
• The gathered Evil Soul Masters speculated about the reason for Leng Yulai’s summons but did not know what was coming.

Leng Yulai confirmed that forty-seven Evil Soul Masters had gathered, then introduced Psychedelic Black Hand as her Master’s chosen feast. Zhong Shenxiu watched from the shadows as Psychedelic Black Hand began killing them.

• Leng Yulai entered the hall, and the Evil Soul Masters knelt and hailed her as Dark Phoenix.
• Leng Yulai counted forty-seven people and told the unseen Master that the feast could begin.
• The Master ordered Illusion to enjoy the feast, and Psychedelic Black Hand emerged and obeyed.
• Psychedelic Black Hand paralyzed the Evil Soul Masters with fear and began harvesting their lives and souls.
• Zhong Shenxiu watched silently from the shadows as the Evil Soul Masters died.

Zhong Shenxiu watched the Psychedelic Black Hand slaughter forty-seven Evil Soul Masters, restoring part of his origin. The Psychedelic Black Hand asked to massacre Heaven Dou City to regain his peak strength, but Zhong Shenxiu refused.

• The Psychedelic Black Hand killed all forty-seven Evil Soul Masters in the hall and absorbed their vitality while Zhong Shenxiu and Leng Yulai watched.
• The Psychedelic Black Hand knelt before Zhong Shenxiu and reported that the slaughter had begun restoring his concept of origin.
• The Psychedelic Black Hand asked Zhong Shenxiu for permission to slaughter outside for one night so he could quickly return to his peak.
• Zhong Shenxiu refused, warning that the massacre would make the whole world his enemy within ten days.

Zhong Shenxiu decided he could avoid slaughtering ordinary people by targeting Evil Soul Masters, who were treated as legal prey across the Douluo Continent. Psychedelic Black Hand eagerly praised his master, while Leng Yulai stayed silent and the group contemplated the impunity such killings would bring.

• Leng Yulai reflected that even the Holy Spirit Cult avoided massacring an entire city and regarded Psychedelic Black Hand as more vicious than herself.
• Zhong Shenxiu considered the danger of killing people in Heaven Dou City and came up with a plan to kill Evil Soul Masters instead.
• Leng Yulai silently recoiled from Zhong Shenxiu's idea, while Psychedelic Black Hand praised him enthusiastically.
• The narration explained that the Federation, Shrek Academy, and Tang Sect all treated Evil Soul Masters as enemies whose deaths could bring rewards and public acclaim.
• The chapter concluded that if Zhong Shenxiu killed every Evil Soul Master in Heaven Dou City, powerful factions would compete to claim credit rather than investigate.

Zhong Shenxiu resolved to hunt Evil Soul Masters to charge the Dragon Fighting Plane’s Energy Storage Crystal and ordered Leng Yulai to take him to more strongholds. On a train to Eastsea City, he watched officials and Xuanshi Tang Sect Co., Ltd. take credit on the news for the cleanup he had carried out.

• Zhong Shenxiu saw that the Energy Storage Crystal had reached ninety percent charge and decided to target Evil Soul Masters for life force.
• Relying on the Badi Holy Dragon, the Psychedelic Black Hand, and Leng Yulai, Zhong Shenxiu ordered Leng Yulai to lead them to other strongholds.
• Leng Yulai agreed to take Zhong Shenxiu and the Psychedelic Black Hand to the next stronghold, unconcerned about the Evil Soul Masters’ deaths.
• On the train from Heaven Dou City to Eastsea City, Zhong Shenxiu watched Major General Tian Zongyi and Ye Xiao claim credit for the operation against Heaven Dou City’s Evil Soul Masters.

Zhong Shenxiu returned to Eastsea City after half a month of destroying Holy Spirit Cult strongholds, having completed the Dragon Fighting Plane’s fourth charge. The charge awakened Aquarius Star Dragon, who joined Zhong Shenxiu aboard the train as they neared the city.

• Zhong Shenxiu dismissed a television report crediting the military and other groups for the Holy Spirit Cult operation, then reflected on his own role in the campaign.
• Zhong Shenxiu, Leng Yulai, Psychedelic Black Hand, and Badi Holy Dragon worked together to destroy Holy Spirit Cult strongholds before Zhong Shenxiu returned to Eastsea City after Wu Zhangkong called him back for Zero Class training.
• Zhong Shenxiu completed the Dragon Fighting Plane’s fourth charge by absorbing the life force of more than a hundred Evil Soul Masters, restoring the plane’s life and beginning to revive its stone-statue inhabitants.
• Psychedelic Black Hand fully restored his origin concept, and Zhong Shenxiu gained several new Fighting Dragon Cards.
• The completed charge awakened Aquarius Star Dragon, who greeted Zhong Shenxiu as Master and later happily ate candies on the train nearing Eastsea City.

Zhong Shenxiu returned to Eastsea Academy, where Wu Zhangkong and the Zero Class students waited anxiously to welcome him. Gu Yue reached him first and threw herself into his arms, leaving Xu Xiaoyan behind.

• Zhong Shenxiu arrived in Eastsea City alone after Leng Yulai departed and he stored Psychedelic Black Hand and Aquarius Star Dragon in the Dragon Fighting Plane.
• Wu Zhangkong and Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue waited outside Eastsea Academy for Zhong Shenxiu.
• Wu Zhangkong called out to Zhong Shenxiu with relief when he saw him approaching.
• Xu Xiaoyan ran toward Zhong Shenxiu, but Gu Yue teleported ahead of her.
• Gu Yue embraced Zhong Shenxiu and privately thought that she had won against Xu Xiaoyan again.

Gu Yue welcomed Zhong Shenxiu back with an embrace while Xu Xiaoyan watched with envy. Three years later, Zero Class trained together at Eastsea Academy against Zhong Shuiping, the Aquarius Star Dragon who had taken human form and stayed as Zhong Shenxiu’s protector.

• Gu Yue threw herself into Zhong Shenxiu’s arms and welcomed him back.
• Zhong Shenxiu returned Gu Yue’s embrace as Xu Xiaoyan protested that Gu Yue had cheated, while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie watched.
• Three years passed as the members of Zero Class grew older at Eastsea Academy.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Zhong Shenxiu attacked Zhong Shuiping during special training.
• Zhong Shuiping, who had taken human form as the Aquarius Star Dragon, evaded the five-person siege in the training room.

Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, and Zhong Shenxiu attacked Aquarius Star Dragon together, but he calmly evaded and deflected their assaults. He left Tang Wulin and Xie Xie staggered with his speed and strength, while the fight remained unresolved.

• Tang Wulin charged Aquarius Star Dragon with his Golden Dragon Claw, but Aquarius redirected his blows and nearly forced him to his knees.
• Xie Xie attacked with his twin daggers, but Aquarius evaded his strikes and blocked Twin Dragon Storm with a curtain of light from the Long Water Bottle.
• Xu Xiaoyan sent three ice spears at Aquarius, and he shattered all of them with a swift sweep of his hand.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie attacked Aquarius together, but he knocked Tang Wulin backward and struck Xie's dagger aside.

Tang Wulin and his teammates fought Aquarius Star Dragon, whose physical strength and defenses overwhelmed their opening attacks. Gu Yue then unleashed a relentless elemental barrage that forced him back, but he closed in and attacked her directly.

• Xu Xiaoyan's Blizzard failed to penetrate Aquarius Star Dragon's shield, and he struck Tang Wulin into the training room wall.
• Aquarius Star Dragon seized Xie Xie and began to throw him, but Gu Yue's fire dragon forced him to release Xie Xie and retreat.
• Gu Yue attacked Aquarius Star Dragon with combinations of fire, wind, earth, and ice, driving him backward as he blocked each attack.
• Gu Yue trapped Aquarius Star Dragon between earth spikes, ice needles, and wind blades, but he used the Long Water Bottle's light curtain and spun to deflect the attacks.
• Aquarius Star Dragon rushed toward Gu Yue and reached for her throat; she kicked at him and raised an ice wall, which he punched through.

Zhong Shenxiu joined the training-room battle and wounded Aquarius Star Dragon with a powerful slash. He then pressed him with relentless blade-and-spear attacks, leaving Aquarius Star Dragon struggling to counter.

• Gu Yue narrowly dodged Aquarius Star Dragon's punch, and Wu Zhangkong called Zhong Shenxiu into the battle.
• Zhong Shenxiu unleashed Holy Dragon Sky-Severing Slash, shattered Aquarius Star Dragon's crystal defenses, and wounded his left arm.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue regrouped with Zhong Shenxiu to surround Aquarius Star Dragon.
• Zhong Shenxiu attacked Aquarius Star Dragon with the Light-Imperial Ninja Blade and Sky Light Dragon Spear, forcing him to evade and abandon chances to counterattack.
• Aquarius Star Dragon realized Zhong Shenxiu anticipated his habits and tactics.

Zhong Shenxiu and the Aquarius Star Dragon fought at full strength in the training room, trading powerful attacks that devastated the arena. The battle remained unresolved as Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue watched, unable to intervene.

• Zhong Shenxiu and the Aquarius Star Dragon exchanged rapid blows, and the Aquarius Star Dragon suffered a shallow cut.
• The Aquarius Star Dragon summoned the Long Water Bottle and attacked with Light Edge Cannon and Hydro-Electric Strike, while Zhong Shenxiu narrowly evaded both.
• The Aquarius Star Dragon entered his Battle Dragon combat form and blocked Zhong Shenxiu's Holy Dragon Sky-Severing Slash with both fists.
• Zhong Shenxiu and the Aquarius Star Dragon struggled over the Sky Light Dragon Spear before Zhong Shenxiu threw his Light-Imperial Ninja Blade to force the Aquarius Star Dragon to release it.
• The Aquarius Star Dragon drove Zhong Shenxiu backward with a double-fisted attack as the damaged training room neared collapse.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue watched from the edge of the room, unable to find a way to join the fight.

Zhong Shenxiu fought the Aquarius Star Dragon while Tang Wulin and the others watched from the edge of the training room. The Aquarius Star Dragon armored himself and intensified his attacks, and the two continued battling as the room and its protective array were damaged.

• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie said they could not interfere, and Wu Zhangkong told them to watch and recognize how far they were from a real battle.
• Zhong Shenxiu combined blade feints with a spear thrust, cut the Aquarius Star Dragon’s cheek, and struck him hard enough to send him flying.
• The Aquarius Star Dragon formed a full suit of blue armor around himself and launched a faster, more powerful assault.
• Zhong Shenxiu and the Aquarius Star Dragon traded relentless attacks across the training room, breaking the floor and cracking the walls as the Protective Soul Guidance Array weakened.
• Tang Wulin and the others retreated to the room’s edge, acknowledging that they could not match the fighters.

Zhong Shenxiu and the other Zero Class students finished a training battle against the Aquarius Star Dragon, whose strength exposed the gap between them. As the group recovered, the Aquarius Star Dragon ended the chapter by telling Wu Zhangkong, “You don't understand.”

• Zhong Shenxiu finished the battle nearly drained of Soul Power, but the Aquarius Star Dragon praised his strength as far beyond that of a Soul King.
• Zhong Shenxiu dismissed his progress as insufficient, while Xie Xie protested that he was only thirteen.
• Tang Wulin envied Zhong Shenxiu’s strength and regretted that he would not join the Tang Sect; Zhong Shenxiu encouraged him not to belittle his own improvement.
• Xu Xiaoyan praised Zhong Shenxiu’s Dragon Dawn Evil-Breaking Stab, while Gu Yue watched him and reflected on her growing desire to win him over.
• Wu Zhangkong thanked the Aquarius Star Dragon for training the students, and the Aquarius Star Dragon said Wu Zhangkong did not understand.

Over three years, Zhong Shenxiu’s Dragon Fighting Clan infiltrated and took control of the East Sea region’s underworld while he focused on growing strong enough to protect the recovering Dragon Fighting Plane. Meanwhile, Wu Zhangkong decided to send Zero Class to Shrek Academy, though he remained uncertain about Gu Yue and Zhong Shenxiu’s hidden intentions.

• As the Dragon Fighting Clan awakened, Psychedelic Black Hand and Leng Yulai infiltrated the East Sea region and replaced the Holy Spirit Cult’s underworld network with Zhong Shenxiu’s forces.
• Leng Yulai established a secret base near Eastsea City to train newly awakened Dragon Fighting Clan members in concealment and missions.
• Zhong Shenxiu focused on cultivation because he feared the recovering Dragon Fighting Plane would attract the Sun-Moon Federation before he was strong enough to defend it.
• Wu Zhangkong told Yu Zhen that Zero Class needed to attend Shrek Academy before its next recruitment opportunity, and Yu Zhen agreed after asking the students to return as Battle Armor Masters and lecture.
• Wu Zhangkong left the principal’s office and wondered about Gu Yue and Zhong Shenxiu’s secrets as he considered Shrek Academy the best path for the students.