Chapter Summaries

Xu Mengqing led Class Zero into the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform for their final exam, where they had to survive for an hour and hunt Spirit Beasts. As the team advanced through the forest in formation, Wu Zhangkong watched from the observation room and considered the students’ potential, though Tang Wulin remained difficult for him to understand.

• Xu Mengqing and the others prepared their equipment, then reunited with Wu Zhangkong after the holiday ended.
• Wu Zhangkong warned the six students that everyone inside the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform was an enemy and that failing the exam would cost them their holiday.
• The group entered the platform together and formed up in the forest, with Gu Yuena in the center and Tang Wulin ready to pull his companions to safety.
• The students activated their Martial Souls and began advancing, aiming to survive for an hour and hunt as many Spirit Beasts as possible.
• From the observation room, Wu Zhangkong assessed the students’ abilities and wondered how far they could go, while finding Tang Wulin especially hard to read.

Xu Mengqing instantly killed a hundred-year Iron-Armed Ape with a brutal Blue Silver Grass attack, frightening his companions before a second ape arrived. He let Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi defeat the Explosive Ape themselves, and its energy entered the four attackers.

• Xu Mengqing led the group through the forest while Zhang Yangzi reported that no Spirit Beasts were nearby.
• Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena attacked a hundred-year Iron-Armed Ape, and Xu Mengqing killed it with a giant Blue Silver Grass vine.
• The others recoiled from Xu Mengqing’s brutal strike, then absorbed the golden energy released by the Iron-Armed Ape along with Gu Yuena.
• Xu Mengqing sensed a hundred-year Explosive Ape approaching and told Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi to fight it while he and Gu Yuena stood guard.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi worked together to kill the Explosive Ape, and its energy split among the four of them.

Xu Mengqing led Class Zero through the Spirit Ascension Platform, sharing Spirit Beast energy and helping the team defeat several beasts as they moved deeper. After a Man Faced Demon Spider killed Zhang Yangzi’s Spirit Soul, the group faced a larger, more powerful spider.

• Xu Mengqing led the group away from the site of their earlier battle and, over two hours, helped them hunt Spirit Beasts, including a Thousand-Year Clear Water Beast whose energy he shared with the team.
• After completing their assessment task, Xu Mengqing ordered Class Zero deeper into the Spirit Ascension Platform, where they defeated a Thousand-Year Lightning Eagle using a Blue Silver net and coordinated attacks.
• Xu Mengqing left several Hundred-Year Spirit Beasts for Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi to handle as the team continued through the forest.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider pierced and destroyed Zhang Yangzi’s Spirit Soul, Xiao Hei, leaving Zhang Yangzi in severe pain.
• The group saw a larger Man Faced Demon Spider land before them, its body glowing pale purple.

Xu Mengqing and Class Zero faced a seven-hundred-year Man Faced Demon Spider, whose strength and venom threatened the group. Xu Mengqing overcame its attack with holy light and a powerful strike, leaving the spider badly injured as the others prepared for its counterattack.

• Xu Mengqing sensed the Man Faced Demon Spider and warned the group that it had reached seven hundred years of cultivation.
• Xu Mengqing restrained the spider with Blue Silver Grass and steadied Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi, who were shaken by memories of being killed by it.
• Xu Mengqing summoned his Holy Light Lizard Martial Soul as the others activated their Martial Souls, and the spider attacked the group with a poisonous web.
• Gu Yuena tried to deflect the web with a gale, but Xu Mengqing used a spinning shield to cut through it as the spider leaped toward the group.
• Xu Mengqing rushed in front of Wang Jinxi, raised a holy light barrier, and struck the spider with his Platinum Beast Claw, hurling it into the woodland and badly injuring it.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi watched the wounded spider, ready for its counterattack.

Xu Mengqing and the others fought the severely wounded Man Faced Demon Spider after it activated Spider God Possession. Xu Mengqing destroyed it with a homemade Soul Tool Bomb, and the group began absorbing its Spirit Beast Spiritual Power as Spirit Pagoda staff watched in astonishment.

• The Man Faced Demon Spider struggled to rise, and Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi prepared to attack or defend.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider activated Spider God Possession, so Xu Mengqing switched to his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and bound its legs with Blue Silver Vines.
• Xu Mengqing placed several homemade explosives on the spider and warned everyone to retreat before the blast killed it.
• Xie Xie and Wang Jinxi asked about Xu Mengqing's Soul Tool Bomb, while he kept its construction to himself.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Wang Jinxi coveted the golden Spirit Beast Spiritual Power, and the group began absorbing it under Xu Mengqing's arrangements.
• A Spirit Pagoda staff member praised the group's potential and asked Wu Zhangkong whether they might join the Spirit Pagoda, but Wu Zhangkong ignored him.

Xu Mengqing's group continued hunting Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform until an arrogant three-ring Soul Elder confronted them and demanded their accumulated energy. Gu Yuena stopped the youth's attack on Xie Xie, and Xu Mengqing stepped forward to face him alongside her.

• After absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider's energy, Gu Yuena and the others thanked Xu Mengqing and said their Spirit Souls had gained about a hundred years of cultivation.
• Xu Mengqing led the group deeper into the forest, where they hunted several more Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts.
• A blue-haired three-ring Soul Elder demanded that Xu Mengqing's group hand over their Spirit Beast energy and leave the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xie Xie provoked the youth by complimenting his blue-haired companion, so the youth attacked him with his Ice Wheel Spirit Skill.
• Gu Yuena teleported in front of Xie Xie and shattered the Ice Wheels by striking their weak points with Ice Cones.
• After Gu Yuena rebuked Xie Xie and Xu Mengqing's group restrained him, Xu Mengqing stood beside Gu Yuena and offered to fight the Soul Elder with her.

Gu Yuena defeated a three-ring Soul Elder and his sister on the Spirit Ascension Platform by erasing his Ice Cones and unleashing a fusion of four elements. After the blue-haired siblings were eliminated, their accumulated Spirit Beast spirit energy flowed to the rest of Class Zero, while Gu Yuena shared a tender moment with Xu Mengqing.

• The blue-haired young man offered to spare Gu Yuena and Class Zero if they surrendered, but Gu Yuena refused and Xu Mengqing said he trusted her.
• The young man summoned thousands of Ice Cones to overwhelm the group and gave them five seconds to press their exit buttons.
• Gu Yuena blinded the blue-haired siblings with light, made the Ice Cones disappear, and gathered wind, ice, fire, and earth into an Elemental Fusion Technique.
• The blue-haired young man sent his sister out and was then swallowed by Gu Yuena's storm, eliminating both siblings from the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi showed new respect for Gu Yuena, and she reassured Xu Mengqing that he had been right to trust her.
• The siblings' accumulated Spirit Beast spirit energy flowed into everyone from Class Zero except Gu Yuena.

After Gu Yuena and Xu Mengqing’s team were chased by a pack of Flame Demon Lions, Xu Mengqing refused to leave Gu Yuena behind and joined her to hold off the beasts. They began targeting the two thousand-year leaders, but the rest of the pack surrounded them with fire.

• Xu Mengqing sensed at least thirty Flame Demon Lions approaching and ordered the team to retreat while Gu Yuena boosted their speed with wind elemental power.
• Wang Jinxi fell behind and withdrew from the trial, scattering his unabsorbed Spirit Beast spiritual energy among the others.
• As Gu Yuena’s Soul Power ran low, she stayed behind to block the pack, but Xu Mengqing stopped the others and returned to fight beside her.
• Xu Mengqing sent Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Tang Wulin toward the eastern valley, then used his second Martial Soul’s holy aura to make the Flame Demon Lions hesitate.
• Xu Mengqing restrained the two thousand-year leaders with Blue Silver Diamond Transformation vines while Gu Yuena attacked them with wind-and-fire tornadoes.
• The remaining Flame Demon Lions surrounded Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena and filled the area with pillars of fire.

Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena fought off a pack of Flame Demon Lions, defeating both thousand-year leaders and forcing the survivors to flee. As Xie Xie and the others hurried to rejoin them, dense Spirit Beast energy from the fallen lions began gathering toward Xu Mengqing.

• Gu Yuena protected Xu Mengqing from an ambushing Flame Demon Lion while they battled the pack and wounded its two leaders.
• Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena joined forces to kill one of the thousand-year Flame Demon Lion leaders.
• Xu Mengqing trapped the remaining lions with Blue Silver Grass as Gu Yuena suppressed their flames, and together they killed the last leader.
• The leaderless Flame Demon Lions fled, and Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena prepared to regroup with the others before more Spirit Beasts arrived.
• Spirit Beast energy rose from the fallen lions and gathered toward Xu Mengqing as Xie Xie and the others hurried to the battlefield.

After defeating the Flame Demon Lions, Xu Mengqing absorbed most of the battle’s spiritual energy, while the team recognized Gu Yuena and Xu Mengqing’s strength and prepared to find a safe place to recover. As Xu Mengqing sensed danger, a dark-gold giant bear burst from the forest and ambushed them.

• Xu Mengqing absorbed most of the spiritual energy from the defeated Flame Demon Lions, strengthening his Soul Power and body.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Zhang Yangzi praised Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena, and Xie Xie agreed to follow Gu Yuena’s command.
• Gu Yuena warned that the battle’s disturbance could attract enemies, so Xu Mengqing decided the team should leave and recover somewhere concealed.
• Xu Mengqing sensed a deadly presence in the forest and warned Xie Xie to watch out on the right.
• The dark-gold giant bear burst from the forest and charged at the group in a surprise attack.

Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Zhang Yangzi escaped the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and returned safely from the Spirit Ascension Platform. Outside, Wu Zhangkong and the Spirit Pagoda staff questioned the beast’s unusually persistent pursuit as Wang Jinxi and Long Hengxu helped the exhausted students.

• Xu Mengqing used his remaining Soul Power to shield Xie Xie from the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, giving Xie Xie time to escape the attack.
• Xu Mengqing told Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Zhang Yangzi to activate their Rescue Signal Devices, and the three teleported out before Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena followed.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear smashed the empty clearing in fury, then withdrew into the forest after losing its prey.
• Spirit Pagoda staff and Wu Zhangkong watched the escape on the monitoring screen, and Wu Zhangkong suspected the staff had tampered with something because the bear’s pursuit was abnormal.
• Xu Mengqing, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Gu Yuena emerged from their teleportation pods, where Wang Jinxi and Long Hengxu helped support the exhausted students.

Wu Zhangkong assessed Class Zero after their dangerous Spirit Ascension Platform trial, treating Zhang Yangzi’s Spirit Soul injury and assigning scores for the team’s performance. The group left the Spirit Pagoda, where Wu Zhangkong promised to investigate the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s unusual pursuit of Xu Mengqing, and the students resumed teasing Tang Wulin.

• Zhang Yangzi told the group that the Man Faced Demon Spider had injured his Spirit Soul, and Wu Zhangkong ordered him to rest and take calming medicine.
• Wu Zhangkong gave Wang Jinxi, Tang Wulin, Zhang Yangzi, and Gu Yuena full marks, while Xu Mengqing received ninety-nine for bringing Soul Tool Bombs and Xie Xie received ninety-nine for provoking the enemy and using Xu Mengqing’s boots.
• Staff tested the students, and Xu Mengqing’s readings showed only slight Spiritual Power exhaustion as he sensed he was close to reaching level twenty-four.
• Wu Zhangkong said he would investigate why the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear had pursued Xu Mengqing and told Class Zero to focus on recovering.
• Xu Mengqing and Xie Xie teased Tang Wulin about meeting a senior girl during his morning run, and the group laughed as they walked through the academy.

Xu Xiaoyu brooded over his defeat by Gu Yuena while Xu Xiaoyan hoped to rely on her strength. In class, Wu Zhangkong praised Class Zero’s teamwork but warned them about recklessness and human greed, leaving Xu Mengqing reflecting on the Spirit Pagoda’s history as Gu Yuena briefly turned a cold gaze toward him.

• Xu Xiaoyu guessed that Gu Yuena and her companions attended Eastsea Academy, then vowed revenge as he shattered a wine bottle with his ice ability.
• Xu Xiaoyan recalled her rare talent and her fear of hunting Spirit Beasts, which had left her with little spiritual energy on the platform.
• Wu Zhangkong praised Class Zero’s examination results and teamwork, then criticized Xu Mengqing for becoming careless after gaining too much on the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that students should flee from a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and that humans had hunted Spirit Beasts for valuable Spirit Bones.
• Xu Mengqing reflected on Huo Yuhao’s rushed legacy and the Spirit Pagoda’s failure to protect Spirit Beasts, while Gu Yuena briefly looked at him with a cold gaze.

Xu Mengqing cultivated in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space and broke through to level twenty-four before joining his classmates for combat training. Wu Zhangkong brought Class Zero to the Trial Hall and challenged all six students at once, leaving them to coordinate their first attack against him.

• Xu Mengqing absorbed the remaining Spirit Beast energy within him and broke through to level twenty-four.
• Xu Mengqing practiced spear techniques, used Rain of Life to help Blue Silver Grass seeds germinate, and then slept through the night.
• The next morning, Wu Zhangkong told Class Zero that their combat training would change and led the six students to the Trial Hall.
• Wu Zhangkong suppressed his Soul Power to their level, released his Sky Frost Sword, and challenged all six students to fight him.
• Xu Mengqing organized the group, then advanced with Tang Wulin as Gu Yuena launched fireballs toward Wu Zhangkong.

During a training match, Wu Zhangkong discovered that Wang Jinxi’s Bone Dragon King Martial Soul had mutated under Tang Wulin’s bloodline influence, causing his fusion skill with Zhang Yangzi to fail. Wang Jinxi was left to choose between restoring the fusion skill by ending their joint cultivation or continuing to develop his Martial Soul, while Class Zero grew tense and divided.

• Wu Zhangkong defeated the students’ coordinated attacks, and Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi’s Dark Eagle Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill failed during the fight.
• Wu Zhangkong identified Wang Jinxi’s Martial Soul mutation as the reason the fusion failed and suspended practical combat class to examine him and Tang Wulin.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that Tang Wulin’s bloodline was elevating Wang Jinxi’s Martial Soul but had severed its compatibility with Zhang Yangzi’s, and that stopping their joint cultivation could reverse the change.
• Wang Jinxi asked for time to consider his choice, while Tang Wulin apologized and Wu Zhangkong warned that continued cultivation together could further raise Wang Jinxi’s potential.
• Class Zero’s atmosphere became strained as Zhang Yangzi grew quiet and Wang Jinxi withdrew to consider his future.

Wang Jinxi decided to give up cultivating with Tang Wulin and transfer schools with Zhang Yangzi because Tang Wulin’s bloodline aura was affecting his mind and Martial Soul. After saying goodbye, the two left, and Tang Wulin’s friends comforted him as the final exam was postponed until the next day.

• Wang Jinxi told Wu Zhangkong he would stop cultivating with Tang Wulin and leave the academy with Zhang Yangzi.
• Wang Jinxi explained that Tang Wulin’s bloodline aura had caused him distress and difficulty meditating, and Zhang Yangzi embraced him in tears.
• Wu Zhangkong accepted their decision, arranged to speak with the academy, and postponed the final exam until the next day.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi returned to their dormitory to pack and leave, while Tang Wulin grieved their departure.
• Xu Mengqing, Xie Xie, and Gu Yuena comforted Tang Wulin and invited him to go out with them.

After a barbecue eased the sadness of parting with Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi, Xu Mengqing and the others followed Wu Zhangkong to the Eastsea Soul Guidance Technology Park for the second part of their final examination. The group passed through a spatial transfer inside a Tang Sect-affiliated facility, leaving Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yuena astonished by humanity’s technology.

• Tang Wulin shyly spoke with Ouyang Zixin outside a barbecue restaurant while Xie Xie watched and Xu Mengqing and Gu Yuena went inside.
• The five ate together, then left after a man called Ouyang Zixin; Xie Xie teased Tang Wulin about his crush as the group headed home.
• The next morning, Wu Zhangkong led the four students by Soul Guidance Bus to the Eastsea Soul Guidance Technology Park for their second final examination.
• At a dark-blue building, Wu Zhangkong used his palm to open the entrance, and the students put on identity-verification Bracelets before following him inside.
• The group passed through a corridor and was transported elsewhere by spatial technology, surprising Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yuena.

Xu Mengqing entered the Hall of Valor’s intermediate trial and faced a phantom of Dai Mubai. Their opening clash ended with Xu Mengqing meeting Dai Mubai’s tiger claws with a Blue Silver Grass spear.

• Wu Zhangkong activated the trial system, which confirmed four testers and began the assessment.
• Xu Mengqing was transported to the Hall of Valor, where the system identified him and set his first-round requirement: survive for thirty seconds.
• A phantom of Dai Mubai appeared as Xu Mengqing prepared his Blue Silver Grass and waited for battle to begin.
• Dai Mubai completed his White Tiger Martial Soul Possession and charged as Xu Mengqing formed a Blue Silver Grass spear.
• Xu Mengqing and Dai Mubai exchanged a head-on attack, their spear and claws colliding in an explosive clash.

Xu Mengqing honed his spear techniques against a level-twenty-four Dai Mubai Phantom before defeating it with his first Spirit Skill. As the Hall of Valor began its second assessment, he faced and slew a stronger level-thirty Dai Mubai Phantom.

• Xu Mengqing fought the level-twenty-four Dai Mubai Phantom using basic spear techniques and refined his offense and defense without activating any Spirit Skills.
• Xu Mengqing used Blue Silver Diamond Transformation to pierce the phantom’s chest and smash its head, destroying it.
• Wu Zhangkong and the Tang Sect Vice Hall Master discussed Xu Mengqing’s potential and his lack of interest in joining the Tang Sect; the Vice Hall Master said the Sect would not force him and would keep its doors open.
• The Hall of Valor began its second assessment and summoned a level-thirty Dai Mubai Phantom.
• Xu Mengqing dismantled the stronger phantom’s attacks with his spear and slew it.

Xu Mengqing fought the strengthened Dai Mubai Phantom in the first stage of the High-Level Assessment and defeated him. The assessment system confirmed that he had cleared the stage beyond its requirements.

• Xu Mengqing dodged the Dai Mubai Phantom’s enhanced attack and blocked its follow-up strike with a Blue Silver Long Spear.
• Xu Mengqing used Rain of Life to recover, activated Blue Silver Diamond Transformation, and exchanged dozens of attacks with the phantom.
• Xu Mengqing ensnared the phantom with Blue Silver Vines, switched to Holy Light Lizard possession, and attacked with his Platinum Beast Claw.
• Xu Mengqing shattered the phantom’s White Tiger Protection Barrier and destroyed its head, defeating it.
• The system announced that Xu Mengqing had cleared the first stage of the Hall of Valor High-Level Assessment beyond the requirements.