Chapter Summaries

Han Li, a transmigrator who intercepted the Golden Dragon King’s attack on newborn Tang Wulin, awoke thousands of years later in Aolai City with the Golden Dragon King Origin sealed inside him. On Awakening Day, he recognized Tang Wulin and his father, Tang Ziran, and considered how Tang San had shaped events to advance his son.

• As the Golden Dragon King launched a final attack on newborn Tang Wulin, Han Li’s radiance stopped it and entered the Douluo Plane.
• Han Li awoke thousands of years later in Aolai City, where the Golden Dragon King’s Origin lay within him in eighteen seals.
• On Awakening Day, Han Li arrived alone at Red Mountain Academy and reflected that unlocking the seals would bring power, pain, and trials.
• Han Li recognized Tang Ziran and Tang Wulin in the crowd and recalled how Tang San had arranged events to favor his son.

At Red Mountain Academy, Han Li awakened a rare Little Green Bottle Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, astonishing the Spirit Pagoda examiner. The examiner gave him a storage bracelet and encouraged him to join the Spirit Pagoda, while Han Li began planning how to cultivate his bottle Martial Soul alongside the Golden Dragon King Origin within him.

• A teacher escorted Han Li into the Awakening Chamber for his Martial Soul ceremony.
• Han Li awakened a jade-green bottle Martial Soul that he recognized as Heavenly Venerable Han's Heavenly Bottle.
• The Spirit Master tested Han Li and discovered he had level-ten Innate Full Soul Power and a life-attribute Martial Soul.
• Han Li considered how his support-type bottle Martial Soul could complement the Golden Dragon King Origin sealed inside him.
• The Spirit Master praised Han Li, gave him a storage Soul Guidance Device, and urged him to join the Spirit Pagoda.

Han Li accepted a Spirit Pagoda gift but decided his Heavenly Bottle Martial Soul gave him a better way to obtain Soul Rings. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin awakened twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, leaving his father Tang Ziran troubled by the resemblance to Tang San.

• Han Li accepted a Storage Soul Guidance Device from the Spirit Master and left without committing to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Wulin awakened Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer, and the Spirit Master discovered he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Tang Wulin told Tang Ziran he shared Tang San's Martial Souls and talent, prompting his father to wonder about his connection to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Han Li returned to Red Mountain Orphanage and explained his awakening to the director.
• Han Li decided not to join the Spirit Pagoda and planned to use the Heavenly Bottle to cultivate plant Soul Beasts for Soul Rings.

Han Li tested the Heavenly Bottle’s Green Liquid and discovered that each drop increased a plant’s age by roughly ten years, though it consumed all his Soul Power to produce. He chose to pursue a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring first and continued cultivating flowers while attending Red Mountain Primary Academy.

• Han Li left the orphanage to buy flowers, then used his Heavenly Bottle and discovered that forming Green Liquid depleted his Soul Power.
• After one drop of Green Liquid transformed a flower overnight, Han Li cut it and saw a white Ten-Year Spirit Ring emerge.
• Han Li treated a second flower with Green Liquid for ten days and obtained a yellow Hundred-Year Spirit Ring, confirming that each drop added about ten years.
• Han Li decided to aim for a Hundred-Year Spirit Ring rather than risk absorbing a Millennium Spirit Ring, since the Spirit Ascension Pagoda could raise its age later.
• Over the following two months, Han Li attended Red Mountain Primary Academy by day and cultivated flowers with Green Liquid at night.

Han Li absorbed a six-hundred-year Soul Ring that gave him the healing skill Life Liquid, then spent a year cultivating and preparing to break the first Golden Dragon King Seal. After raising four century flowers with the Heavenly Bottle, he left for Aolai City's auction house to sell them and buy the materials he needed.

• Han Li absorbed the transformed flower's six-hundred-year Soul Ring, reached level eleven, and gained the Life Liquid healing skill.
• Han Li decided the healing skill would let him fight aggressively once he unlocked the Golden Dragon King Martial Soul.
• Over the next year, Han Li cultivated to level fourteen and studied the Heavenly Bottle while planning to break the first seal with ice and fire fruits and dragon-blooded Soul Beast blood.
• Han Li used Green Liquid to grow four century flowers and stored them in his Storage Bracelet.
• Han Li left the orphanage for Aolai City's auction house, prepared to sell the flowers despite the possibility of attracting suspicion.

Han Li visited Aolai City's auction house and sold four century-old plant soul beasts after using his Spirit Pagoda bracelet to secure respectful treatment. The auctioneer offered eight million Federal Currency, which Han Li accepted.

• Han Li arrived alone at the Aolai City auction house and showed the greeter his Spirit Pagoda Storage Soul Guidance Device.
• The greeter recognized the bracelet as a sign of Spirit Pagoda favor and escorted Han Li to a private reception room.
• Han Li presented four century-old flowers to the auctioneer, who recognized them as rare plant soul beasts.
• The auctioneer offered two million Federal Currency per flower, and Han Li agreed to sell all four for eight million.

Han Li sold four century-old plant soul beasts at an auction house, then bought three rare materials with the proceeds. To avoid being followed, he waited for three hours in the Aolai City Spirit Pagoda before leaving.

• Han Li received eight million Federal Currency for selling four century-old plant soul beasts.
• Han Li bought a Century Ice Crystal Fruit, a Century Red Flame Fruit, and ten drops of blood from a century-old soul beast with dragon bloodline, leaving seven million on his bank card.
• Han Li avoided returning to the orphanage because he feared the auction house might follow him and investigate his background.
• Han Li went to the Aolai City Spirit Pagoda and sat quietly in its main hall for three hours.
• Han Li left the Spirit Pagoda, puzzling the staff who had watched him wait without asking for anything.

Han Li used the Century Ice Crystal Fruit, Century Red Flame Fruit, and dragon-blooded soul beast blood to break the Golden Dragon King's first seal and gain the Golden Dragon Claw. Two years later, the story moved to Han Li's room at Red Mountain Orphanage.

• Han Li returned to the orphanage after misleading the auction house into thinking he had ties to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Han Li mixed the two spiritual fruits with ten drops of dragon-blooded soul beast blood and drank the resulting liquid.
• Han Li directed the opposing energies through his body until he absorbed the first seal's energy and gained greatly enhanced physical strength.
• Golden scales covered Han Li's right hand, transforming it into the Golden Dragon Claw.
• Han Li tested the Golden Dragon Claw on a flowerpot and shattered it with a touch.
• Two years later, morning sunlight fell across the floor of Han Li's room at Red Mountain Orphanage.

After two years of cultivation, Han Li reached Soul Power level twenty-seven, graduated from Red Mountain Academy, and traveled to Eastsea City to attend Eastsea Academy. He settled into a dormitory with Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, where Xie Xie arrived and demanded Tang Wulin give up the lower bunk.

• Han Li raised his Soul Power to level twenty-seven, gained the healing skill Light of Life, upgraded his first Soul Ring to a Millennium Spirit Ring, and saved more than thirty million.
• Han Li graduated from Red Mountain Academy and left the orphanage for Eastsea City after saying goodbye to the headmistress.
• Han Li arrived at Eastsea Academy and discovered he had been assigned to the same dormitory as Tang Wulin and Xie Xie.
• Han Li punched Zhou Changxi and Yun Xiao when they visited, making them back down without further trouble.
• Xie Xie entered the dormitory while Tang Wulin unpacked and demanded that Tang Wulin move to the top bunk.

Han Li punched Xie Xie and Tang Wulin after Xie Xie demanded the lower bunk, then reflected on how the martial-soul hierarchy had changed. At Eastsea Academy’s opening ceremony, he saw that he, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin had been placed in Class One while Wu Changkong taught Class Five, and he questioned whether Wu could make ordinary students succeed.

• Xie Xie demanded Tang Wulin give up the lower bunk, so Han Li punched both boys and left them stunned by his strength.
• Han Li considered how the Clear Sky Hammer had lost its former status and how his Golden Dragon King Martial Soul stood above ordinary martial souls in close combat.
• At Eastsea Academy’s opening ceremony, Han Li noticed Wu Changkong and learned that he, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin had been assigned to Class One.
• Han Li observed that Wu Changkong’s Class Five students had ordinary or useless martial souls and doubted the claim that there were no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters.

Han Li reflected on the celebrated students whose talents and opportunities, rather than their teachers or Shrek’s running method, had driven their rise. When Na'er arrived in Eastsea City, she sensed the Golden Dragon King aura within Han Li and focused on him instead of Tang Wulin, but Han Li left her at an orphanage, convinced he would never be with a soul beast.

• After the opening ceremony, Han Li attended Class One’s ordinary theory and cultivation lessons and dismissed Shrek’s long-running training method as an uncertain cause of its students’ success.
• Three years earlier, Na'er had arrived in Aolai City, but Tang Wulin’s lack of the Golden Dragon King aura meant she did not choose him; Han Li took her to an orphanage while Tang Wulin watched enviously.
• A week later, Han Li encountered Na'er near an alley, where she recognized the Golden Dragon King aura within him and fixed her attention on him.
• Han Li asked Na'er a few questions, learned she had no name, family, or home, and took her to an orphanage in Eastsea City.
• After completing Na'er's admission, Han Li left as she watched him disappear, and he resolved that he would never be with a soul beast.

Gu Yue joined Class One after demonstrating her control over seven elements, then defeated Xie Xie in practical combat. Assigned to sit beside Han Li, she remembered that he had sent her to an orphanage when she was a child and decided to make him fall in love with her before abandoning him.

• Gu Yue displayed her command of seven elements, and Ye Yingluo admitted her to Class One.
• Xie Xie challenged Gu Yue during combat training, but her elemental barrage defeated him.
• Ye Yingluo assigned Gu Yue the seat beside Han Li, and Gu Yue scrutinized him as she sat down.
• Gu Yue recalled that Han Li had sent her to an orphanage after finding her in Aolai City.
• After recovering her memories and contacting Di Tian and the others, Gu Yue resolved to make Han Li fall in love with her and then abandon him.

Gu Yue, whose memories and identity as Gu Yuena had returned, privately decided to pursue Han Li. At practical combat training, Ye Yingluo asked Han Li to stop watching from the sidelines, and he agreed, eager to test Tang Wulin.

• Gu Yue recalled that he was still Gu Yuena and the Silver Dragon King, then decided to make Han Li his personal goal.
• Class One and Class Five gathered on the training field for simultaneous practical combat sessions, with Wu Changkong leading Class Five.
• Ye Yingluo reflected that Class Five's ordinary Martial Souls limited its students despite their hard work, and doubted Wu Changkong could make them outstanding.
• Ye Yingluo asked Han Li, Class One's monitor, to join the practical combat training instead of watching from the sidelines.
• Han Li agreed and looked forward to finding out how strong Tang Wulin was.

Ye Yingluo arranged a match between Han Li and Tang Wulin, who had ranked first in recent actual combat training. Tang Wulin revealed his Ten-Year Spirit Ring and charged at Han Li, leaving the fight poised to begin.

• Ye Yingluo asked Han Li and Tang Wulin to spar, and Tang Wulin accepted.
• The students cleared the field as Tang Wulin and Han Li took their positions.
• Tang Wulin released his martial soul and displayed a white Ten-Year Spirit Ring.
• The chapter explained that Tang Wulin could not afford a better Soul Spirit and that Qiangu Dongfeng had rejected his Spirit Pagoda application because of his connection to the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Wulin warned Han Li to be careful, then charged forward.

Han Li defeated Tang Wulin with one strike, using his Golden Dragon Claw’s raw strength to overpower Tang Wulin’s Clear Sky Hammer. The training grounds fell silent, and Tang Wulin accepted his loss as Xie Xie gave up on challenging Han Li.

• Tang Wulin unleashed the Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Silver Grass as Han Li’s aura shifted and his dragon might pressured the students.
• Han Li transformed his hand into a Golden Dragon Claw and destroyed Tang Wulin’s incoming Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang Wulin struck with the Clear Sky Hammer, but Han Li’s claw overwhelmed it and sent him flying seven or eight meters.
• The stunned students watched Han Li’s claw return to normal, while Xie Xie decided he could not afford to provoke him.
• Tang Wulin stood up, admitted defeat to Han Li, and the students began discussing the battle.

Wu Changkong offered Tang Wulin a place in Class Five and promised to help him develop his Clear Sky Hammer and obtain a hundred-year Soul Spirit. Tang Wulin chose to leave Class One, while Han Li set out the next day to find treasures needed to break his second seal.

• Wu Changkong arrived and offered to teach Tang Wulin in Class Five, promising to help evolve his Soul Spirit into a hundred-year one.
• Ye Yingluo challenged Wu Changkong for poaching Tang Wulin, then let Tang Wulin decide where he wanted to study.
• Tang Wulin apologized to Ye Yingluo, chose Wu Changkong, and followed him toward Class Five as the students watched in silence.
• The next day, Han Li left the dormitory for the auction house to seek heavenly treasures for breaking his second seal.

Han Li went to the East Sea Museum auction exhibition to find the millennium-grade materials needed for the second seal. He bought a Millennium Dragon Scale Fruit and a century-old Blue Vein Vine, planning to mature the vine with Green Liquid.

• Han Li reviewed his savings and remaining Plant Soul Beasts before heading to Eastsea City's auction house.
• Han Li searched the museum's spirit fruit displays and found that millennium-grade fruits were scarce.
• Han Li located a suitable Millennium Dragon Scale Fruit priced at four million and secured it through an auction house staff member.
• Han Li also bought a century-old Blue Vein Vine, intending to use Green Liquid to raise it to millennium age.

Han Li attended the auction hoping to find materials needed to break a seal, while Wu Changkong brought Tang Wulin to buy a Spirit Ascension Platform entry card. Han Li won a Millennium Earth Dragon Tendon, and the auction continued with his other goals still ahead.

• Han Li masked himself and took a seat in the auction hall, where he recognized Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong nearby.
• Wu Changkong explained that auctions sold Spirit Ascension Platform entry cards, which Tang Wulin needed to raise his Soul Spirit's age.
• Han Li planned to visit the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform and kill its Millennium Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear to obtain its right palm bone.
• The auction began, and Han Li waited as the first lots were sold without bidding.
• Han Li bid four million five hundred thousand Federal Currency for the Millennium Earth Dragon Tendon and won it.

Han Li bid up the price of three Primary Spirit Ascension Platform Entry Cards to make Wu Changkong pay far above market value, then stopped bidding and let him win them for three million. After the auction, the crowd filed out discussing the sale.

• Han Li watched the bidding for three Primary Spirit Ascension Platform Entry Cards begin as Wu Changkong raised the price to 500,000.
• Han Li entered the bidding from a masked seat in the corner, pushing the price past one million as Wu Changkong kept raising his bids.
• Wu Changkong bid three million for the cards, and Han Li politely yielded, revealing that he had only meant to drive up the price.
• Wu Changkong concealed his frustration while the crowd reacted to his costly purchase.
• The auction ended, and the attendees left while discussing the bidding war.

Han Li sold a thousand-year plant Soul Beast at the auction house, asked it to find Millennium Sea Dragon Marrow, and bought three Primary Spirit Ascension Platform Entry Cards. After avoiding Wu Changkong and Tang Wulin, he entered the Spirit Pagoda and prepared to use the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Han Li left the auction venue through a side door and sold a thousand-year plant Soul Beast to the auction house.
• Han Li asked the auction house to search for Millennium Sea Dragon Marrow and bought three Primary Spirit Ascension Platform Entry Cards.
• Wu Changkong left the auction with Tang Wulin, still angered by the bidding contest.
• Han Li waited until Wu Changkong and Tang Wulin had left the Eastsea City branch of the Spirit Pagoda, then went inside.
• Han Li lay down in a Spirit Ascension Platform device as the staff member began the connection process.