Chapter Summaries

After Yun Ze absorbed the Spirit Transfer Pagoda’s Lava Monarch Soul Spirit, Branch Tower Master Wei Yang kept him and Gu Yue Na at the Branch Tower while headquarters decided how to respond. Pagoda Master Qian Gu Dong Feng chose to negotiate a partnership with Dragon Phoenix Hall rather than risk forcibly extracting the Soul Spirit, and Leng Yaozhu agreed to lead the talks.

• Wei Yang told Gu Yue Na that Yun Ze’s absorption of the Lava Monarch Soul Spirit had been reported to headquarters and asked Yun Ze to remain at the Branch Tower until a decision was made.
• Yun Ze calmed Gu Yue Na, accepted the temporary stay, and asked Wei Yang to prepare a generous meal before showing them around the Branch Tower.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng convened a meeting with the Spirit Transfer Pagoda’s senior leaders to discuss the loss of the Unyielding Soul Spirit.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng and Leng Yaozhu argued against forcibly extracting the Soul Spirit because it could harm Yun Ze and antagonize Dragon Phoenix Hall and its allies.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng directed Leng Yaozhu to negotiate a long-term partnership with Dragon Phoenix Hall, offering another top-tier fire-element Unyielding Soul Spirit if needed.

Qian Gu Dong Feng feared Yun Ze’s rapid growth and secretly encouraged the Holy Spirit Cult to kill him, while Leng Yaozhu negotiated a pill partnership between the Spirit Pagoda and Dragon Phoenix Hall. The chapter ended as Di Tian heard Leng Yaozhu propose that Dragon Phoenix Hall provide its formulas and production technology while the Spirit Pagoda handled sales.

• Qian Gu Dong Feng watched footage of Yun Ze absorbing the Lava Monarch’s flames and concluded that Yun Ze’s talent posed a threat.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng told a Holy Spirit Cult member about Yun Ze’s strength and offered help arranging his death.
• The Holy Spirit Cult member vowed that Yun Ze would not kill the cult’s members without consequence.
• Leng Yaozhu called Yun Ze, offered to waive the Spirit Pagoda’s compensation claim, and proposed purchasing pills with a ten percent discount.
• Leng Yaozhu asked to discuss long-term cooperation with Di Tian, then proposed that Dragon Phoenix Hall provide pill formulas and technology while the Spirit Pagoda handled promotion and sales.

Leng Yaozhu proposed that the Spirit Transfer Pagoda help Dragon Phoenix Hall expand, but Di Tian said the family would only consider expansion in two or three years. After the call failed to secure a partnership, Qian Gu Dong Feng devised a plan to stage an attack on Yun Ze and have the Spirit Transfer Pagoda rescue him.

• Leng Yaozhu pitched a partnership that would let Dragon Phoenix Hall sell pills through Spirit Transfer Pagoda Branch Towers across the continent.
• Di Tian said the Yun Family Patriarch wanted Dragon Phoenix Hall to establish itself in Mingdu before expanding, so he could only promise to consider cooperation.
• Leng Yaozhu offered the Unyielding Soul Spirit as a gift, but Yun Ze instructed Di Tian to give the Spirit Transfer Pagoda a fifty percent discount on the pills to settle any obligation.
• Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian left the Spirit Transfer Pagoda after discussing whether Yun Ze might use another Unyielding Soul Spirit later.
• Leng Yaozhu reported the failed negotiations to Qian Gu Dong Feng, who decided to wait before raising cooperation again.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng considered arranging an Evil Soul Master attack on Yun Ze so the Spirit Transfer Pagoda could rescue him and make Dragon Phoenix Hall feel indebted.

Yun Ze worked on Ninth Level Soul Tools while Gu Yue Na absorbed the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, and Dragon Phoenix Hall completed its trade with the Spirit Pagoda. Dragon Phoenix Hall's sanctions and Shrek Academy's countermeasures escalated into a blockade over pills and medicinal ingredients, leaving Shrek City businesses and prospective students weighing their choices.

• Yun Ze stayed at the Tenth Floor Workshop to study formation arrays and began preparing to assemble his Ninth Level Soul Tools, while Gu Yue Na absorbed the Golden Dragon King Bloodline under Ten Thousand Demons King and Zi Ji's protection.
• Gu Yue Na's body grew stronger and her soul power gained faint new colors, showing that her bloodline was moving toward the Dragon God Bloodline.
• Dragon Phoenix Hall and the Spirit Pagoda completed their exchange of pills and twenty high-quality Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirits, with Dragon Phoenix Hall paying 5.6 billion Federal Currency.
• Bear Lord finished forging Yun Ze's metals in three days, and Yun Ze began inscribing their formation arrays at the Tenth Floor Workshop.
• Dragon Phoenix Hall stopped selling pills to people connected with Shrek Academy, prompting some prospective students and Shrek City business owners to consider their options.
• Shrek Academy restricted herb merchants from supplying Dragon Phoenix Hall, so Dragon Phoenix Hall offered fifty percent above market price and some sellers defied Shrek's warning.

Yun Ze completed a golden, monkey-shaped mecha and transferred the Diamond Ape’s soul into it. The mecha came to life, and Di Tian restrained the excited Diamond Ape before it could leap into the ceiling.

• Yun Ze spent a month improving his cultivation and researching the arrays needed to build Ninth Level Soul Tools.
• Yun Ze assembled a nearly ten-meter-tall golden ape mecha while Di Tian, Bear Lord, and Bi Ji watched.
• Yun Ze opened the Diamond Ape’s Soul Spirit Ball and guided the Soul Beast into the mecha’s energy chamber.
• The Diamond Ape connected with the mecha, which began moving after several minutes.
• The Diamond Ape tried to jump, but Di Tian pinned it down to keep it from crashing into the ceiling.

Yun Ze and the others tested the Diamond Ape Mecha, which proved powerful enough to exceed ordinary Black Mechas. At the Star Dou Great Forest, Gu Yue Na finished absorbing the Golden Dragon King bloodline, and a lightning tribulation gathered over her as Yun Ze prepared to help her withstand it.

• Di Tian fought the Diamond Ape Mecha at Rank 91 to test its strength, defense, speed, and endurance.
• The mecha fought at full strength for more than half an hour before its energy ran out, impressing Di Tian, Bear Lord, and Bi Ji.
• Yun Ze led the group and the mecha to the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian calmed the hostile soul beasts.
• Yun Ze and the others found Gu Yue Na with her Golden Dragon King bloodline fully absorbed, and Di Tian and Zi Ji felt her bloodline pressure intensify.
• Yun Ze sensed dark clouds gathering above the energy barrier and told the others to help Gu Yue Na withstand the lightning tribulation.

Gu Yue Na survived her bloodline transformation after Di Tian shielded her from a powerful lightning tribulation. She revealed that she had gained a Quasi-Dragon God Bloodline and control over nine elements.

• Soul masters stationed outside the Metal Embankment opened the Energy Shield to let the tribulation strike and prepared cannons in case any soul beast tried to escape.
• Di Tian blocked the lightning bolts while Yun Ze, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and the others watched; the tribulation intensified until it injured him badly.
• Bi Ji healed Di Tian as Gu Yue Na awoke and thanked him for protecting her.
• Gu Yue Na told Yun Ze and the others that her bloodline had evolved into a Quasi-Dragon God Bloodline and greatly increased her physical strength.
• Gu Yue Na demonstrated her control over nine elements by forming a rotating nine-colored lotus in her palm.

After Gu Yue Na evolved her bloodline and reached Soul Power Level fifty-three, she challenged Yun Ze to another spar, confident her increased strength would let her win. They traveled to a remote testing ground, where Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, Bear Lord, and the Ten Thousand Demons King watched as the fight was about to begin.

• Gu Yue Na celebrated reaching a half-step Dragon God Bloodline, and Yun Ze warned her to wait until her spiritual power reached the Divine Origin Realm before absorbing the remaining Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Gu Yue Na condensed a soul ring, broke through to Soul Power Level fifty-three, and gained a major increase in strength.
• Feeling confident, Gu Yue Na challenged Yun Ze to spar and limited him to using at most eight pieces of Battle Armor.
• Yun Ze agreed to the match, and they went to a deserted site where they had previously tested the Diamond Ape Mecha.
• Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and the Ten Thousand Demons King expected Gu Yue Na to win, while Bear Lord said he supported Yun Ze.

Gu Yue Na challenged Yun Ze to close combat, relying on her Nine-Colored Divine Dragon and Golden Dragon King physique, but Yun Ze’s superior technique and experience steadily overwhelmed her. He finally threw her clear of the fight, leaving her exhausted and unable to continue pressing him.

• Gu Yue Na summoned her Nine-Colored Divine Dragon, while Yun Ze called forth his phoenix and eight pieces of Battle Armor.
• Gu Yue Na and Yun Ze exchanged punches, then fought in the air using strength and technique.
• Yun Ze repeatedly anticipated Gu Yue Na’s attacks and suppressed her with precise counters, surprising Di Tian and the other watchers.
• Gu Yue Na regretted choosing close combat but could not escape Yun Ze’s relentless attacks or use her elemental abilities.
• Yun Ze seized Gu Yue Na’s hand and flung her away, allowing her to steady herself at a distance, flushed and panting.

Yun Ze fought Gu Yue Na seriously, using precise fire attacks to overcome her elemental and spatial abilities. He stopped the spar after narrowly trapping her with Rock Burst, and Gu Yue Na accepted that she had lost again.

• Gu Yue Na summoned her Nine-Colored Staff and attacked Yun Ze with wind and water, but Yun Ze countered her elements with controlled Phoenix Flames.
• Gu Yue Na attacked with spatially transported earthen spikes, but Yun Ze sensed their arrival and destroyed them with arrows.
• Yun Ze wounded Gu Yue Na’s shoulder and arm with Flame Arrows, then continued pressing her with rapid attacks.
• Gu Yue Na used the Destruction Element to erase the flames from Yun Ze’s arrows, but his Rock Burst sent a lava pillar surging beneath her.
• Gu Yue Na narrowly escaped the lava, and Yun Ze ended the spar, leaving her dejected after another loss.

After losing to Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na took his advice about accepting defeat and learned that he had also suffered many losses, including one that nearly cost him his life. Back at Dragon Phoenix Hall, she recovered and reflected on how she could improve, while Yun Ze began crafting his custom Ninth Level Soul Tool.

• Yun Ze comforted Gu Yue Na after defeating her and urged her to accept losses without losing her confidence.
• Gu Yue Na asked about Yun Ze's past defeats, and he recalled losing to his father and being ambushed by multiple enemies.
• Di Tian returned everyone to Dragon Phoenix Hall, where Bi Ji treated Gu Yue Na's injuries and she quickly regained her appetite and spirits.
• Yun Ze went to the Tenth Floor Workshop to work on his custom Ninth Level Soul Tool, whose intricate formations were difficult to inscribe.
• Gu Yue Na returned to her room to study her Quasi-Dragon God Bloodline and reflect on her lack of combat experience and unfamiliarity with her abilities.

Yun Ze told Xu Lin that he and Gu Yue Na would not return to Sun Moon Royal Academy soon, then learned about a friendly sparring match and a future exchange trip to Star Luo Continent. He declined to join the match and agreed to discuss the trip with Gu Yue Na before answering the next day.

• Gu Yue Na drew motivation from her defeat by Yun Ze and focused on improving herself while both remained at Dragon Phoenix Hall.
• Xu Lin called Yun Ze to ask when he and Gu Yue Na would return to the academy, and Yun Ze explained that Gu Yue Na was stabilizing her cultivation after taking a Soul Ascension Pill.
• Xu Lin invited Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na to represent the academy in a friendly sparring match against young Soul Masters from Star Luo Continent, but Yun Ze declined because they were busy.
• Xu Lin invited them to join a delegation traveling to Star Luo Continent in a few months, and Yun Ze said he would discuss it with Gu Yue Na and reply the next day.
• Yun Ze resumed inscribing arrays, then went to dinner with Gu Yue Na while the Soul Beasts ate in separate rooms.

Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na decided to travel to the Star Luo Continent to investigate its Small Spaces, with Di Tian accompanying them. In the months before the trip, Yun Ze’s Spirit Ascension Pills helped Dragon Phoenix Hall form a major sponsorship partnership with the Sun Moon Royal Academy, while Shrek Academy remained quiet.

• Yun Ze told Gu Yue Na about four Small Spaces on the Star Luo Continent, and they agreed to have Di Tian search for them during their visit.
• Yun Ze called Xu Lin to announce the trip and ask him to arrange for Di Tian to accompany them, and Xu Lin agreed.
• Gu Yue Na returned to the academy after her Soul Power surged and her Martial Soul evolved, prompting Xu Lin to seek Yun Ze’s Spirit Ascension Pills.
• Yun Ze donated five Spirit Ascension Pills to the Sun Moon Royal Academy, and Dragon Phoenix Hall established a long-term sponsorship deal with the academy in exchange for recommending outstanding students.
• Dragon Phoenix Hall continued to amass wealth under Di Tian’s protection, while Shrek Academy maintained restrictions on its medicinal ingredients and took no further action.

Gu Yue Na assigned Bi Ji to oversee Dragon Phoenix Hall and protect its secrets while she, Yun Ze, and Di Tian traveled to Skysea City for the Star Luo Continent trip. After arriving, Yun Ze settled in and cultivated, having reached level thirty-seven over the past half year.

• Gu Yue Na put Bi Ji in charge of Dragon Phoenix Hall, ordered the others to obey her, and warned them to conceal that they were soul beasts in human form.
• Gu Yue Na charged Bear Lord with protecting the clansmen and praised Ten Thousand Demons King and Demon Spirit for finding precious medicinal herbs.
• Gu Yue Na told Bi Ji to contact the group through the headmaster of Sun Moon Royal Academy if trouble arose.
• Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian traveled with the academy delegation to Skysea City and checked in at the Tianhai Hotel.
• Gu Yue Na and Di Tian ate heavily at the hotel, while Yun Ze returned to his room and began cultivating.
• Yun Ze reflected on reaching level thirty-seven and planned to save the Dragon Pearl's remaining energy for later cultivation stages.

As the delegations prepared to leave for the Star Luo Continent, Wu Lin and his Shrek Academy companions spotted Yun Ze and renewed their hatred toward him. The chapter ended with Cai Yue'er unable to discern Yun Ze's cultivation because he had concealed his aura.

• Xie Xie pointed out Yun Ze to Wu Lin, who remembered the harm Yun Ze's family had caused him and silently vowed to kill him.
• Gu Yue Na recognized Wu Lin's remaining Golden Dragon King Bloodline and wanted to confront the group, but Yun Ze told her to wait for a better chance.
• Wu Lin and the others grew angry at Yun Ze's dismissive gaze, while Xu Xiaoyan admitted they were currently too weak to defeat him.
• Cai Yue'er urged the students to gang up on Yun Ze if they could find a suitable reason and avoid killing him, and Wu Lin and the others agreed to consider it.
• Cai Yue'er wondered why she could not see through Yun Ze's cultivation, which he had hidden with an Aura Concealing Pill.

Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian boarded a ship bound for the Star Luo Empire, where Yun Ze agreed to help Gu Yue Na research Artificial Soul Spirits. During the long voyage, their studies advanced while the ship steadily approached the Star Luo Continent.

• Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Di Tian boarded the Star Luo Empire's ship after the Federation delegation arranged for the two rival groups to travel separately.
• Di Tian received a luxurious room because of his Limit Douluo strength, while Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na kept their smaller rooms next to each other.
• Gu Yue Na visited Yun Ze and asked him to help solve a problem in her Artificial Soul Spirits research, and Yun Ze agreed.
• The ships departed the docks, and Yun Ze attended only the first onboard cocktail party while Gu Yue Na continued inviting him to dance.
• Yun Ze helped Gu Yue Na solve her research difficulty, and afterward they studied Artificial Soul Spirits together for two hours each day as the ship neared the Star Luo Continent.

Sun Moon Royal Academy was invited to the Star Luo Empire’s Youth Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition, and Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na agreed to compete. After registering for the events, they arranged to travel independently across the continent once the competition ended.

• The Star Luo Empire welcomed the Federation delegation, and Yang Fan returned with an invitation from Minister of Foreign Affairs Lan Xiao.
• Yang Fan explained the competition and its Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone individual-match prize, prompting the students to volunteer.
• Gu Yue Na initially refused to compete because she was repulsed by soul bones, but Yun Ze persuaded her to enter so they could claim the prize themselves.
• Yang Fan proposed that Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na enter the two-versus-two event and the academy team enter the seven-versus-seven event; they agreed to compete in all events.
• Yun Ze asked to travel independently with Gu Yue Na after the competition, and Yang Fan agreed on the condition that they stay in contact.

The delegation’s Soul Train was ambushed by more than a hundred Mechas and derailed in a series of explosions. As survivors escaped and Yun Ze rescued people from the flames, Pan Wen ordered the Federation forces to engage the attackers.

• A man confirmed by phone that Yun Ze and the others had boarded the train.
• Yun Ze sensed danger, and Di Tian warned the passengers of an approaching enemy attack.
• More than a hundred Mechas launched Soul Tool shells at the train while Di Tian prepared to confront a powerful foe hidden nearby.
• The shells derailed and tore apart the train, killing and injuring many passengers as Di Tian lifted Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na to safety.
• Yun Ze used a phoenix to absorb the flames and rescue burning survivors.
• Pan Wen ordered the Federation personnel to fight as the Star Luo Empire’s Mechas and the delegation’s Titled Douluo moved to engage the attackers.

More than a hundred skull-emblem mechs ambushed the Star Luo Empire's group, and Di Tian confronted the black-robed Quasi-God leading them. The man revealed himself as Ghost Emperor of the Holy Spirit Cult, and their battle moved into the sky while Cai Yue'er recognized him.

• Over a hundred enemy mechs, including two Red-Grade Mechs, attacked the six teachers and five students, and Yun Ze used Phoenix to absorb the bombardment's flames.
• Di Tian struck the hidden black-robed man, who revealed himself as Ghost Emperor and released his purple skull martial soul and nine Soul Rings.
• Ghost Emperor planned to use Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na as leverage while seeking to devour Di Tian's blood and improve his strength.
• Di Tian and Ghost Emperor exchanged powerful attacks, then took their battle a thousand meters into the air to keep it away from the others.
• Cai Yue'er recognized Ghost Emperor as one of the Holy Spirit Cult's two emperors and recalled his fierce battle against Yun Ming.

Yun Ze summoned two mechs inhabited by his Soul Spirits to protect himself and Gu Yue Na from five hostile mechs. The Lava Monarch and Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird overwhelmed their attackers and began striking other enemies across the battlefield.

• Five hostile mechs closed in on Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na while Yang Fan rushed to help them.
• Yun Ze released two specially made mechs, and flames from his body entered them, bringing them to life.
• The Lava Monarch’s humanoid mech punched a Tiger Mecha into a mountainside, leaving it smoking and disabled.
• The Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird Mecha attacked the other four mechs with energy fireballs, destroying two Purple Mechas and crippling a third.
• The Blazing Fire Nine-Headed Bird continued attacking nearby hostile mechs and began spreading its assault to other areas.