Recaps

Wu Zhangkong sent Class Five on a punishing run without Soul Power, while telling Lin An he did not have to go. Gu Yue challenged Wu Zhangkong and pulled Lin An along with the others.

• Tang Wuling woke Lin An by climbing into his dormitory, and Lin An pushed her away and complained about her lack of boundaries.
• Gu Yue arrived at morning assembly exhausted after Leng Yaozhu kept her awake, then glared at Tang Wuling for approaching Lin An.
• Wu Zhangkong ordered Class Five to run without Soul Power until they were completely exhausted, warning them that the opportunity came at a great price.
• Wu Zhangkong told Lin An he did not need to join the run, prompting Gu Yue to accuse him of deliberately targeting Lin An.
• Wu Zhangkong called the commoner students trash and urged them to fight with everything they had before ordering them to run.
• Gu Yue grabbed Lin An's wrist, stuck her tongue out at Wu Zhangkong, and dragged Lin An after the class.

Lin An and the students ran through rain polluted with radiation and industrial exhaust, which harmed their bodies while boosting their cultivation. Shadow Brake explained that Eastsea City’s poor families had resisted environmental reforms because the pollution gave their children a chance to improve their prospects, leaving Lin An stunned by the system’s cruelty.

• Wu Zhangkong led the students into a polluted industrial district and ordered them to endure the rain without using Soul Power.
• As students coughed, bled, and lost their hair, Wu Zhangkong told a distressed girl she could quit, but she continued running.
• Shadow Brake warned Lin An and Gu Yue that radiation levels were far above safety standards, while she kept Lin An sheltered beneath her umbrella.
• The group saw students from Class One running out of the polluted area, and Zhou Changxi declared that the exposure was improving his Soul Power, martial soul, and spiritual power.
• Lin An asked Shadow Brake why the exhaust was released into the atmosphere, and she explained that parents had protested his environmental reforms because they wanted their children to benefit from the pollution.
• Shadow Brake added that dead students could continue working through Artificial Soul Spirits, whose scarcity made their deaths economically useful.

Lin An ordered Shadow Brake to halt the radiation and industrial emissions at the cultivation zone, then tried to bring Tang Wuling back before she could overwork herself. As Tang Wuling acted shy under his touch, Lin An began to suspect she was deliberately pretending to be sweet to trick him.

• Lin An told Shadow Brake to stop all radiation and emissions immediately while allowing the medicinal waste to continue being discharged.
• Shadow Brake agreed to carry out Lin An's order despite the financial losses, while Gu Yue decided she would punish those harming nature after reclaiming the Dragon God's power.
• Lin An found Tang Wuling cultivating in the most radioactive area and offered to cover the cost of her medicine if she returned with him.
• Tang Wuling refused to leave because her Soul Power was nearing level fifteen, so Lin An took her wrist and rubbed the cowlick on her head.
• Gu Yue angrily watched Tang Wuling act embarrassed, while Lin An suspected the performance was a trap because Tang Wulin had once wanted to sleep with him.

Lin An’s promise to cover the students’ medicine stirred envy as Wu Zhangkong warned Class Five that enduring the radiation was their only chance at promotion. The group reached Class One’s far more dangerous training area, where Ye Yingluo renewed her resentment after Wu Zhangkong ignored her.

• The students envied Lin An’s offer, but Wu Zhangkong warned that medicine alone could not change their talent and urged them to endure their final hour of training.
• Tang Wuling worried about losing her hair, and Tang San explained that the radiation was slowing the Golden Dragon King’s feminizing influence on her.
• Tang San observed that the radiation could gravely harm ordinary people, while the group continued toward Class One’s training area.
• Class Five reached the core area and saw Class One’s students suffering severe radiation damage, including tumors, corroded skin, and premature aging.
• Ye Yingluo greeted Wu Zhangkong, but he walked past without acknowledging her, and she vowed to make him notice and regret ignoring her.

After Wei Xiaofeng collapsed from prolonged exposure to mutant energy, Ye Yingluo blamed Lin An and confronted him over the fines that had driven her students to desperation. A federal warning revealed that Lin An was protected by a True God-Grade mecha, and Ye Yingluo realized her students had provoked him without knowing the danger because they could not afford modern communicators.

• Zhang Yangzi told Ye Yingluo that Wei Xiaofeng had fainted after staying in the radiation zone overnight, and Ye Yingluo found him covered in tumors and leaking pus.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi carried Wei Xiaofeng toward the factory district's main road while Ye Yingluo watched her students struggle under their debts.
• Ye Yingluo confronted Lin An and blamed him for ruining her students' futures, while Wu Zhangkong watched without intervening.
• Ye Yingluo's communicator warned her that the mecha Rainbow Light Verdict was tracking her actions and that provoking federally protected Lin An could incur a fine.
• Ye Yingluo learned that Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi had used old-model communicators and had received no warning before they provoked Lin An.

Lin An left the irradiated factory grounds after Ye Yingluo let him pass, while Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi learned that Wei Xiaofeng was beyond saving. Back at the dormitory, Gu Yue feigned a stomachache and asked Lin An to rub it for her.

• Ye Yingluo greeted Lin An warmly and let him leave, then recalled her contact with the Holy Spirit Cult and the gruesome death that had frightened her into hiding.
• Lin An encountered Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi carrying Wei Xiaofeng, and a healer said Wei could not be saved and might become a Special-Class Artifact Spirit after death.
• Zhang Yangzi glared at Lin An, while Gu Yue mocked Wei for having fined her and disrespected Lin An.
• Wei Xiaofeng woke on the stretcher and threatened Lin An before Lin An left for the factory gates.
• Back at the dormitory, Lin An finished washing off the radiation and caught Gu Yue pretending to study amid hidden snacks.
• Gu Yue abandoned her workbook, claimed her stomach hurt, and asked Lin An to rub it.

Gu Yue worried that her revenge against humanity would put her at odds with Lin An, but his teasing and care reassured her. She ended the chapter clinging to him and complaining that he never kept her company.

• Gu Yue imagined that her goal of destroying humanity could force Lin An and her into a tragic conflict.
• Lin An caught Gu Yue pretending to read her exercise book upside down and pinched her cheek.
• Lin An made Gu Yue spit out the spirit fruits she had swallowed whole and told her she would always have enough to eat.
• Gu Yue hugged Lin An from behind and blamed her overeating and need for companionship on his making her do problems.

Gu Yue worried that Lin An did not love her, while Lin An tried to reassure her by petting her tail. Tang Wuling arrived drenched by the radiation rain and asked Lin An for a shirt, leaving Gu Yue bristling with jealousy as Tang Wuling secretly savored his scent.

• Gu Yue asked Lin An whether he disliked her, and he pinched her cheeks while telling her not to overthink things.
• Gu Yue insisted she was better than Tang Wuling and urged Lin An to pet her tail, but she grew disappointed when he stroked it without affection.
• Gu Yue curled up on the sofa and worried that Lin An might oppose her if she fought humanity for the Soul Beasts.
• Tang Wuling arrived soaked, with her uniform damaged by the radiation rain, and asked Lin An to lend her clothes.
• Lin An gave Tang Wuling a clean T-shirt, and she cried while thanking him before hugging the shirt and breathing in his scent.

Tang Wuling fled Lin An’s doorway after Gu Yue threatened her, then asked Tang San for advice as her Golden Dragon King bloodline continued assimilating her. In the Sea of Consciousness, the Golden Dragon King broke down over Gu Yue living with Lin An and imagined the Silver Dragon King stealing the Dragon Queen from him.

• Lin An recognized Tang Wuling despite her changed appearance and watched her clutch his shirt without offering to let her stay.
• Gu Yue confronted Tang Wuling at the doorway and threatened to bite her unless she left.
• Tang Wuling hurried away, resolved not to give up on turning Lin An into a girl, and asked Tang San what she should do.
• Tang San told Tang Wuling she seemed to be enjoying herself, while she denied that she was crying.
• Tang Wuling and Tang San saw the Golden Dragon King weeping and cursing the Silver Dragon King for living with and embracing the Dragon Queen.

Tang San tried to bargain with the Golden Dragon King, but the king raged over Tang Wuling’s dreams of the Dragon Queen and blasted her from the Sea of Consciousness. Back in the dormitory, Gu Yue warned Lin An that Tang Wuling might threaten their relationship and admitted she regretted lacking the means to pursue him.

• Tang San offered to help turn the Dragon Queen into a girl if the Golden Dragon King cooperated and stopped trying to assimilate Tang Wuling.
• The Golden Dragon King accused Tang Wuling of dreaming about the Dragon Queen and blasted her consciousness out of the Sea of Consciousness.
• Tang San questioned Tang Wuling about her dreams, but she blushed and refused to explain.
• Gu Yue shut the dormitory door and warned Lin An to stay away from Tang Wuling, whom she saw as a threat to their relationship.
• Gu Yue admitted she lacked the means to pursue Lin An and said she would have made a move on him if she had roots.

Lin An recoiled after Gu Yue warned him that Tang Wuling could get him pregnant, while Gu Yue tried to flirt with him and Shadow Brake intervened. Gu Yue remained upset that Lin An felt no attraction to her despite their past-life bond.

• Gu Yue warned Lin An to stay away from Tang Wuling and said he would have to abort any child they conceived.
• Lin An questioned how a man could become pregnant, and Gu Yue claimed male dragons could do so.
• Gu Yue cornered Lin An and flirted with him, but Shadow Brake grabbed her and pulled her away.
• Lin An asked Shadow Brake to protect him until Tang Wuling left, and she agreed.
• Gu Yue wondered why Lin An felt no attraction to her and ended by wailing into a sofa cushion.

Lin An scolded Gu Yue for neglecting her exercises and told her to study so she could manage Universal Group in the future. Gu Yue took his words as a promise of their future together, vowed to study hard and marry him, while Lin An broke through to Level 24 and his dormmates absorbed the power of his soul skill.

• Lin An checked Gu Yue’s workbook, found that she had completed only three problems and gotten them all wrong, and flicked her forehead when she tried to avoid him.
• Lin An told Gu Yue to study properly so she could manage Universal Group in the future, and she understood this as his plan for their future together.
• Gu Yue slapped herself, vowed to become worthy of Lin An and marry him, then began working through the workbook again.
• Lin An activated Seven-Colored Favor while cultivating, broke through the Level 24 bottleneck, and sent a rainbow glow across the boys’ dormitory.
• The boys in the dormitory woke to absorb the elemental energy from Lin An’s soul skill, joking about its benefits and their hair loss.

Tang Wuling struggled against the assimilation caused by absorbing Lin An’s cultivation light while greedily taking in its power. In Lin An’s dormitory, Gu Yue clung to him, wondered why the Dragon God’s memories held nothing about the Dragon Queen, and insisted Lin An was her wife as he failed to push her away.

• Tang Wuling curled under her blanket as the seven-colored light boosted her Golden Dragon King Bloodline and intensified her assimilation, which she could not resist absorbing.
• Gu Yue abandoned her workbook, watched Lin An cultivate, and pounced on him to lick his face.
• Lin An opened his eyes and glared at Gu Yue with undisguised disgust, but she refused to let go.
• Gu Yue searched the Dragon God’s memories for the Dragon Queen and found no face, name, or clear image.
• Gu Yue cursed the Dragon God, declared Lin An was hers, and rubbed against him while Lin An tried unsuccessfully to push her away.

Gu Yue became fixated on Lin An's scent and showered him with unwanted affection, provoking Shadow Brake's jealousy and a threat to kill her. Lin An calmed Shadow Brake and returned to cultivating, while her suppressed resentment and possessiveness remained.

• Gu Yue clung to Lin An and licked him until Shadow Brake rose and glared at her with murderous hostility.
• Lin An escaped Gu Yue's embrace, scolded her for interrupting his cultivation, and sent her to shower before she could touch him again.
• Shadow Brake offered to kill Gu Yue, but Lin An refused and seated her on the sofa.
• Lin An held Shadow Brake's cold hand and gently stroked her hair as he explained that Gu Yue meant no harm.
• Shadow Brake said she understood, though she continued to suppress her jealousy and possessiveness, and Lin An turned back to cultivating.

Shadow Brake cleaned Lin An’s dorm room while Lin An reflected that robots were better than Gu Yue. At Eastsea Academy, Long Hengxu and Wu Zhangkong clashed over Lin An’s exclusion from the Class Advancement Tournament, leaving Long Hengxu insisting he must compete for Universal Group’s reputation.

• Shadow Brake tidied Lin An’s dorm room and restocked the food while Lin An meditated and compared her favorably to Gu Yue.
• Long Hengxu confronted Wu Zhangkong for neglecting Lin An and taking him off the Class Advancement Tournament roster.
• Wu Zhangkong defended his decision, saying Lin An was physically weak and objecting to people sacrificing their lives to produce Artificial Soul Spirits.
• Long Hengxu added Lin An’s name to the tournament list, but Wu Zhangkong rejected the change and defended the existing slots for Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue.
• Long Hengxu insisted that Lin An could not be excluded because his participation concerned Universal Group’s reputation.

Long Hengxu used a photograph of Long Bing to make Wu Zhangkong confront the possibility that her soul still existed, and Wu agreed to arrange Lin An's competition slot in exchange for her safety. The next morning, Lin An woke in the dormitory with his whole body aching.

• Long Hengxu showed Wu Zhangkong an old photograph of Long Bing and told him that death could be another beginning under Universe's power.
• Wu Zhangkong realized Long Bing might have become a Soul Spirit and warned Long Hengxu not to let anything happen to her.
• Wu Zhangkong agreed to arrange Lin An's competition slot but threatened anyone who harmed Long Bing.
• Lin An woke the next morning in pain, feeling as though his bones had been taken apart and put back together.

Gu Yue confessed that she had nearly strangled Lin An in her sleep and treated him with life force, leaving him bruised and furious. At class, Tang Wuling misread his bruises as signs of intimacy, while Wu Zhangkong canceled the day's trip to the nuclear power plant.

• Lin An woke bruised and in pain, and Gu Yue admitted she had hugged him too tightly while he slept and nearly killed him.
• Lin An left for breakfast and class with Gu Yue following behind him, her cheeks marked with red handprints and tears on her lashes.
• Tang Wuling saw the bruises on Lin An's neck, inferred that Gu Yue had left them, and returned to her seat in distress.
• Wu Zhangkong entered class looking exhausted and announced that an unexpected situation had canceled the trip to the nuclear power plant, leaving the students to study on their own.

Wu Zhangkong selected Lin An, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wuling for the Class Advancement Tournament, despite the class doubting Lin An’s ability. He led them to training, where Gu Yue and Tang Wuling stayed close to Lin An and warned him about each other.

• Wu Zhangkong announced that Lin An, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wuling had been selected for the Class Advancement Tournament, and no students dared challenge his decision.
• Gu Yue eagerly accepted the selection, Tang Wuling nodded in agreement, and Xie Xie mused that being surrounded by three beauties made him feel like a protagonist.
• Wu Zhangkong warned the four that selection did not guarantee a place and told them to follow him to the training grounds.
• Gu Yue tried to hook her arm around Lin An, but he sidestepped her, and she and Tang Wuling walked beside him as Xie Xie followed.
• Xie Xie teased Lin An about spending the previous night with Gu Yue and called her a mad dog, prompting Tang Wuling to warn Lin An to stay away from her.

Lin An supported Gu Yue, Tang Wuling, and Xie Xie during Wu Zhangkong’s combat training, and his buffs awakened the power of their dragon bloodlines. Gu Yue and Tang Wuling prepared to fight, while Xie Xie found himself in their way.

• Tang Wuling warned Lin An not to let Gu Yue get close, while Xie Xie mistakenly concluded that they had shared a bed and left Tang Wuling heartbroken.
• Wu Zhangkong announced daily combat training and assigned Gu Yue, Tang Wuling, and Xie Xie to take turns fighting.
• Wu Zhangkong told Lin An to stay out of the fights and use his shields and buffs on the others.
• Lin An’s Seven-Colored Favor and Seven-Colored Battle Armor empowered Gu Yue, Tang Wuling, and Xie Xie, with the boosts especially intensifying the two dragon bloodlines.
• Gu Yue and Tang Wuling glared at each other, and Xie Xie’s confidence faltered when they both turned on him.

Gu Yue and Tang Wuling fought savagely during training, while Lin An watched and suggested they might be a couple with him as the third wheel. Xie Xie recalled that without Lin An, Gu Yue and Tang Wulin had grown close at Eastsea Academy.

• Xie Xie hid behind Lin An and warned him about Gu Yue and Tang Wuling as the two stepped forward.
• Tang Wuling challenged Gu Yue over her reasons for getting close to Lin An, and Gu Yue reacted with jealousy and anger.
• Wu Zhangkong ordered Gu Yue and Tang Wuling to begin, and they fought hand-to-hand, leaving both badly battered.
• Lin An asked Xie Xie whether Gu Yue and Tang Wuling seemed like a couple and whether he was the third wheel.
• Xie Xie objected, then recalled that Gu Yue had paid special attention to Tang Wulin at Eastsea Academy when Lin An was absent.

Lin An watched Wu Zhangkong reprimand Gu Yue and Tang Wuling after their vicious brawl, then left Xie Xie to face their anger. He collided with a mysterious woman by the training field, who caught him before he fell.

• Lin An noticed that Xie Xie's gaze toward him had changed and wondered whether his bloodline awakening had erased Xie Xie's romantic feelings.
• Wu Zhangkong scolded Gu Yue and Tang Wuling for fighting by pulling hair, biting, and scratching instead of practicing Soul Master combat.
• Wu Zhangkong sent Lin An away, and Gu Yue and Tang Wuling turned on Xie Xie after hearing his remarks about them.
• Lin An rounded a corner without looking and collided with an unfamiliar woman, who caught him by the waist and told him to be careful.

Lin An encountered the dangerous new teacher Leng Yulai, who touched his cheek and watched him flee before heading to the infirmary. There, Leng Yulai found Wei Xiaofeng dying from radiation exposure and fed him flesh from an Abyssal Creature.

• Lin An noticed the entry [Nether Phoenix Nirvana] above Leng Yulai, endured her touching his cheek and head, then escaped around the ginkgo grove.
• An ancient will scrutinized Leng Yulai before Ye Yingluo emerged and warned her that approaching Universe's young master was dangerous.
• Leng Yulai ordered Ye Yingluo to take her to Wei Xiaofeng in the infirmary.
• Leng Yulai saw Wei Xiaofeng's radiation mutations and judged his hatred and emotions suitable for an experiment.
• Leng Yulai put a mass of Abyssal Creature flesh into Wei Xiaofeng's mouth.

Leng Yulai transformed Wei Xiaofeng’s hatred of Lin An into a surge of Abyssal power, then received orders from the Holy Spirit Cult to capture Lin An as its highest-priority target. Lin An sensed danger but chose to rely on Shadow Brake and Gu Yue for protection.

• Leng Yulai subjected Wei Xiaofeng to an Abyssal transformation, and he awakened with his hatred focused on Lin An.
• Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi feared for Wei Xiaofeng, while Ye Yingluo warned them not to ask questions about Leng Yulai.
• Leng Yulai received a Holy Spirit Cult message identifying Lin An as a suspected chief designer of Godslaying-grade nuclear weapons and ordering his capture under Ha Luosa’s supervision.
• Leng Yulai reconsidered acting early because Shadow Brake was monitoring Lin An and the True God-Grade Mecha protected him.
• Lin An sensed that the woman he had encountered posed a threat but decided to trust Shadow Brake and Gu Yue to handle any danger.

After a brutal spar left Gu Yue, Tang Wuling, and Xie Xie battered, Lin An considered how to help Leng Yaozhu overcome decades of heartbreak. Shadow Brake identified Leng Yaozhu as the likely subject of his question, while Lin An remained unsure whether to tell her about her younger sister Leng Yulai.

• Gu Yue lamented that her wife was away and planned to reveal Tang Wuling’s true colors, while Xie Xie accused Tang Wuling of changing after she fought him.
• Tang Wuling worried that Lin An had discovered she had pretended to be a girl to deceive him.
• Lin An ignored messages from Gu Yue, Tang Wuling, and Xie Xie, then recalled Leng Yulai’s identity and coveted her Space-Time Divine Shuttle.
• Lin An debated whether to tell Leng Yaozhu that her younger sister had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, then asked Shadow Brake how to help someone recover from decades of emotional pain.
• Shadow Brake analyzed Lin An’s question and identified Leng Yaozhu as its likely subject, noting her long, unrequited love for Yun Ming.

Shadow Brake tried to dissuade Lin An from pursuing Leng Yaozhu, then offered herself as an alternative, but he rejected her. Left alone, she concluded that he had rejected her because she was not human enough.

• Shadow Brake analyzed Leng Yaozhu’s age, romantic history, personality, and public-opinion risks, then warned Lin An not to pursue her.
• Shadow Brake sent Lin An a selfie and offered to let him vent his desires on her, but Lin An closed his communicator and refused.
• Lin An reflected on the bizarre people around him and wondered what he had transmigrated into this world for.
• Shadow Brake saw that Lin An had read her message without replying and questioned why he had rejected her.
• Shadow Brake searched her database and concluded that Lin An had rejected her because she was not yet completely human.