Chapter Summaries

Qiangu Dongfeng paid Han Li a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to represent the Skysea side against Shrek, hoping to humiliate the academy despite the danger of retaliation. Han Li insisted he needed no teammates, and Administrator Xia was stunned after seeing the boy’s extraordinary record.

• Qiangu Dongfeng offered Han Li a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to fight Shrek and accepted the risks of Shrek’s retaliation.
• Elder Ye introduced Han Li to Administrator Xia and Director Fang as the Skysea side’s prospective representative.
• Administrator Xia offered to let Han Li meet the original team so they could choose a suitable replacement.
• Han Li declined and said he alone was enough to fight Shrek.
• Elder Ye gave Administrator Xia Han Li’s file, and Xia was shocked by his spiritual power, strength, and Ten-Thousand-Year third Soul Ring.

Administrator Xia entrusted Han Li with handling the Shrek students after learning that Han Li had immense strength without equipment. At the Sky Sea Alliance Grand Competition's opening ceremony, the crowd learned Han Li would face Shrek's entire youth division alone, leaving the stadium in uproar.

• Administrator Xia closed Han Li's file, bowed to him, and entrusted him with dealing with the Shrek students.
• Zero Class's students waited at Sky Sea Stadium while Ye Yingluo and Wu Changkong handled the competition draws.
• Xie Xie explained that an exhibition match would pit Shrek experts against the previous generation's Skysea Alliance champions, and Xu Xiaoyan argued the Alliance must have a plan.
• Tang Wulin noticed Han Li was missing, and his teammates said they had not seen him that morning.
• The stadium announcement named Han Li as the Skysea Alliance genius youth who would face Shrek Academy's entire youth division, stunning the spectators before they erupted into discussion.

Han Li faced Shrek’s seven-member youth team alone at the Tianhai Grand Competition, leaving the arena stunned after he said the alliance feared Shrek would lose too badly if it sent more opponents.

• Tang Wulin remembered Wu Changkong’s belief that Han Li’s talent surpassed even the greatest geniuses and understood why he had been chosen to fight alone.
• Shrek’s seven young students took the stage, troubled by the choice between an embarrassing victory over a younger opponent and an even more humiliating defeat.
• Han Li walked onto the platform as the crowd watched in silence.
• The Shrek team’s leader challenged the alliance’s decision to send only Han Li, calling it an insult to the academy.
• Han Li replied that one opponent was enough because the alliance feared Shrek would lose too badly, setting off a louder uproar.

Han Li faced Shrek Academy’s team and defeated all seven members with a single Golden Dragon Claw attack. The stadium erupted in cheers for Han Li as the match ended.

• Shrek’s leading youth mocked Han Li and decided to cripple him to defend the academy’s honor.
• Xu Lizhi gave his teammates enhancement Steamed Buns, and a girl used the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda to strengthen the charging leader.
• The leading youth unleashed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Skill that filled the platform with lightning, but Han Li’s dragon roar weakened it and golden light erased it.
• Han Li advanced through the golden light and struck with his Golden Dragon Claw, sending the leading youth and the other six Shrek members off the platform.
• The stadium fell silent, then erupted into cheers chanting Han Li’s name.

After Han Li defeated the seven Shrek Academy students with one punch, Shen Yi accused the Skysea Alliance of rigging the match and challenged the result. Han Li invited her to fight him, and Shen Yi donned her Two-Word Battle Armor, raising her aura to the level of an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo.

• Shen Yi rushed out and accused Han Li's victory of being fishy, sparking fierce arguments among the spectators.
• Administrator Xia defended the Skysea Alliance and its geniuses, but Shen Yi insisted that seven students capable of fighting a Six-Ring Soul Emperor could not have lost to Han Li in one strike.
• Han Li told Shen Yi that she could fight him if she was unconvinced.
• Shen Yi accepted and activated her Two-Word Battle Armor, whose amplification raised her strength from the Soul Emperor level to the Eight-Ring Soul Douluo level.

Han Li defeated Shen Yi with his Golden Dragon King blood essence, destroying her Two-Word Battle Armor before an astonished crowd. After he returned to the Eastsea Academy delegation, Wu Changkong rebuked him for humiliating a Shrek teacher, and Han Li revealed that Wu Changkong was a Shrek student.

• Shen Yi attacked Han Li with her whip, but Han Li's golden blood essence shattered it and overwhelmed her, leaving her unconscious in a crater with her Two-Word Battle Armor broken.
• The crowd applauded Han Li as he left the platform and returned to Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, and the others.
• Wu Changkong criticized Han Li for beating a Shrek teacher in public, leaving Tang Wulin and the others confused.
• Han Li told Wu Changkong that he understood his loyalty as a Shrek student, surprising Tang Wulin and the others.
• Wu Changkong did not deny Han Li's revelation, confirming that he was a student of Shrek Academy.

After Han Li defeated Shen Yi, Wu Changkong criticized him and urged him to attend Shrek Academy, but Ye Yingluo challenged his double standards. Han Li rejected Wu Changkong’s claims about Shrek’s resources and declared that he would follow his own path.

• Wu Changkong defended his criticism of Han Li as objective advice and warned that Han Li would face trouble for offending Shrek.
• Ye Yingluo accused Wu Changkong of staying silent when Shen Yi slandered the Skysea Alliance and attacked Han Li, then blaming Han Li after his victory.
• Wu Changkong argued that Han Li needed Shrek’s resources and questioned whether Ye Yingluo could teach him as well as Shrek could.
• Han Li dismissed the distinction between Shrek and Eastsea Academy, and Wu Changkong insisted that Shrek could guarantee Han Li’s future success.
• Han Li rejected Wu Changkong’s promise and said he would walk his own path without needing others to judge it.

Han Li rejected Wu Changkong’s attempts to recruit him to Shrek, and Qiangu Dongfeng arrived to support him. Yu Zhen dismissed Wu Changkong from Eastsea Academy, and Qiangu Dongfeng took Han Li and the others to the Spirit Pagoda in Skysea City.

• Han Li declared that he would walk his own path, refusing Wu Changkong’s persuasion.
• Qiangu Dongfeng revealed himself and confronted Wu Changkong, insisting that he would not let Shrek take Han Li.
• After Ye Yingluo explained what had happened, Yu Zhen told Wu Changkong to seek employment elsewhere.
• Wu Changkong withdrew his Soul Power under Qiangu Dongfeng’s pressure, then left without a word.
• Qiangu Dongfeng led Han Li, Tang Wulin, and the others to the Spirit Pagoda and brought them to its top-floor office.

Qiangu Dongfeng offered Han Li a choice between an advanced academy and the Blood God Legion, and Han Li accepted the Legion assignment. Qiangu gave him a rank-nine defensive Soul Tool for the dangerous frontline, leaving Han Li prepared to begin his training there.

• Qiangu Dongfeng praised Han Li for defeating Shen Yi and warned that Shrek Academy might retaliate, though the Spirit Pagoda would protect him.
• Qiangu asked Han Li about his plans after the Tianhai Grand Competition and offered to arrange an advanced academy.
• Han Li explained that he had his own cultivation plan and asked Qiangu what arrangement he had in mind.
• Qiangu proposed sending Han Li to the Blood God Legion, where combat against the Abyss Plane could strengthen him and might awaken his Golden Dragon Spear.
• Han Li agreed to go to the Blood God Legion, and Qiangu gave him a rank-nine triggered defensive Soul Tool called a Heart Protector Mirror.

Han Li accepted Qiangu Dongfeng’s recommendation to join the Blood God Legion after the competition and told Ye Yingluo and Yu Zhen he would leave Eastsea Academy. On Sea God Island, the Sea God Pavilion elders convened to discuss Shrek’s defeat and Shen Yi’s injuries, with the elders demanding action to protect the academy’s reputation.

• Qiangu Dongfeng gave Han Li a Heart Protector Mirror and a recommendation letter for the Blood God Legion, and Han Li left the Spirit Pagoda.
• Han Li told Ye Yingluo and Yu Zhen he would join a legion after the competition instead of attending an advanced academy, and they supported his decision while expressing concern for him.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders gathered under Yun Ming, while Zhuo Shi brooded over Shen Yi’s lasting injuries and loss of cultivation.
• Cai Yue'er argued that Shrek’s defeat at the Tianhai Grand Competition had damaged its reputation and needed to be addressed quickly.
• An elder questioned who had selected Shrek’s competitors and why the Spirit Pagoda’s schemes had gone unnoticed.

After Shrek's candidates lost to the Spirit Pagoda, the Sea God Pavilion elders debated who should take responsibility and whether to retaliate against Han Li. Yun Ming urged caution and suggested recruiting Han Li, whose talent might secure Shrek's future.

• Elder Ye challenged Zhuo Shi to take responsibility for the defeat, and Zhuo Shi accepted the blame.
• Long Yeyue argued that Shrek should punish Han Li for injuring Shen Yi, while the elders stayed silent about her earlier attack on Qiangu Dieting.
• Cai Yue'er supported Long Yeyue, but Yun Ming warned that attacking a ten-year-old would damage Shrek's reputation.
• Yun Ming set retaliation aside and proposed that Shrek recruit Han Li, saying he might one day inherit his position and sustain the academy for centuries.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders recognized Han Li's extraordinary talent and grew eager at Yun Ming's suggestion.

Shrek Academy’s elders planned to recruit Han Li and discipline him, but he disappeared before they could invite him. After winning both Tianhai Grand Competition events, Han Li traveled to the Blood God Legion, where he joined as its youngest second lieutenant and rapidly cultivated by absorbing abyssal energy.

• Cai Yue'er and the Shrek elders agreed to recruit Han Li, with Cai Yue'er and Long Yeyue planning to take charge of him.
• Shrek Academy discovered that Han Li had left Eastsea Academy, leaving its elders stunned.
• Han Li won the Tianhai Grand Competition’s youth individual and five-person team championships, then secretly left for the Blood God Legion.
• Han Li reached the Blood God Legion’s mountain post without faltering in the cold and gained acceptance through Qiangu Dongfeng’s recommendation and a strength test.
• The Blood God Legion made Han Li a second lieutenant at age ten, breaking its record for the youngest officer.
• Over three years, Han Li used the Golden Dragon Spear to absorb abyssal energy and reached rank sixty-seven as a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.

Three years in the Blood God Legion had made Han Li a Six-Ring Soul Emperor with the strength to challenge Demigods and fight a Quasi-God. He decided to leave the legion to seek the Body Sect’s secret techniques, and Zhang Huanyun approved his departure.

• Over three years, Han Li’s spiritual power rose to the Spirit Abyss Realm, and he grew strong enough to fight Blood Two to a draw and withstand Cao Dezhi for nearly a hundred moves.
• Han Li decided to return to the Federation and seek the Body Sect’s sect master to learn the Body Secret Technique.
• Han Li went to Zhang Huanyun’s office and requested permission to leave the legion, explaining only that he had something to do.
• Zhang Huanyun approved Han Li’s departure, completed the paperwork, and asked when he planned to leave.
• Han Li said he would leave that day, and Zhang Huanyun expressed his reluctance to part with him.

Han Li left the Blood God Legion and traveled to Heaven Dou City, where he went to the Blacksmith Association headquarters to meet Mu Ye. He arrived on the top floor and found Mu Ye preparing a meal for Zhen Hua.

• Han Li reassured Zhang Huanyun that they would meet again, then left the camp.
• Three days later, Han Li arrived in Heaven Dou City and reflected on how the Body Sect's inheritance had been used by Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin while the sect dwindled to Mu Ye and Ruheng.
• Han Li entered the Blacksmith Association headquarters and bypassed the lobby by taking the soul-guidance elevator to the top floor.
• Han Li sensed the lingering lightning aura from Zhen Hua's recent Heavenly Forging and the powerful blood energy of Mu Ye.
• Han Li entered Mu Ye's room and found him preparing four dishes and a soup for Zhen Hua.

Han Li offered Mu Ye the Body Sect's inheritance in exchange for helping revive the sect, identifying Shrek as the reason it had declined. He challenged Mu Ye to test his strength, then unleashed blood and qi so immense that Mu Ye was stunned as Han Li threw a dragon-roar-backed punch.

• Han Li entered the Blacksmith Association and offered Mu Ye a deal: the Body Sect's inheritance in exchange for help reviving the sect.
• Mu Ye mocked Han Li's claim, but Han Li said Shrek had caused the Body Sect's decline by taking its inheritance and attracting Body Martial Soul users.
• Mu Ye doubted Han Li could oppose Shrek and asked how he planned to revive the sect.
• Han Li asked for a sparring room, and Mu Ye brought him to a sealed training room to test his strength.
• Han Li released golden blood and qi far denser than Mu Ye's, then threw a punch accompanied by a dragon's roar.

Han Li proved his extraordinary physical strength to Mu Ye, who invited him to join the Body Sect and passed on its inheritance. While Han Li studied and trained at the Blacksmith Association headquarters, Shrek Academy began a demanding ten-day examination that required students to travel to Mingdu without their possessions.

• Han Li struck Mu Ye hard enough to send him crashing into a wall, then revealed his name when Mu Ye asked who he was.
• Mu Ye refused to give Han Li the Body Sect inheritance as an outsider but offered to teach him everything if he joined the sect.
• Han Li accepted, and Mu Ye gave him an ancient Storage Soul Guidance Device containing the Body Sect's inherited manuals and teachings.
• Han Li stayed at the Blacksmith Association headquarters to study and train, while Mu Ye fed him lavish meals and Zhen Hua complained about the favoritism.
• Shrek Academy began its final examination, requiring students to challenge unfamiliar Soul Masters in ten cities and reach Mingdu within ten days after surrendering all their property.

Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan struggled to plan how to afford travel for Shrek’s ten-city assessment, while Han Li agreed to Qiangu Dongfeng’s request to suppress Shrek freshmen in exchange for energy. The trio set out separately, and Tang Wulin reached Heaven Dou City, delayed by an encounter with an Evil Soul Master, and headed to the Blacksmith Association to earn money.

• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan worried that they lacked money for the Soul Guidance Train and could not find a quick way to earn travel funds.
• Han Li met Qiangu Dongfeng, who asked him to defeat every Shrek freshman in the assessment as a warning to the academy; Han Li agreed and asked for energy in return.
• The Shrek freshmen began their ten-city assessment, and Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan parted ways to travel independently.
• Tang Wulin took a train to Heaven Dou City and was delayed when he encountered an Evil Soul Master.
• Tang Wulin went to the Blacksmith Association headquarters to seek forging work and earn money before continuing his assessment.

Han Li trapped Tang Wulin and Wu Changkong in his Heaven and Earth Black and White domain, then killed Wu Changkong with a single attack. After the domain vanished, Han Li disappeared, leaving Tang Wulin stunned in the plaza.

• Han Li appeared before Tang Wulin and activated the Heaven and Earth Black and White domain, erasing the surrounding world into a black-and-white pocket space.
• Wu Changkong emerged from hiding, and Tang Wulin realized the tension between him and Han Li.
• Han Li attacked Wu Changkong with a black-and-white True Dragon formed from his blood essence.
• Wu Changkong's Heavenly Sword shattered against the True Dragon, which destroyed his Battle Armor and body.
• Han Li let the domain fade and disappeared around the street corner while Tang Wulin stood frozen beside the dark stains.

Han Li continued targeting Shrek freshmen, killing the teachers who intervened, and Shrek’s leaders sent Cai Yue'er to confront him. In Star Luo City, Cai Yue'er attacked Han Li after witnessing another teacher’s death, and his six Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings made her resolve to kill him.

• Han Li defeated Shrek freshmen in several cities, while their teachers attacked him and died.
• Cai Yue'er and Zhuo Shi urged Yun Ming to stop Han Li, citing the threat to Shrek’s assessment and Wu Changkong’s death.
• Yun Ming ordered Cai Yue'er to go after Han Li, and she eagerly agreed.
• In Star Luo City, Han Li defeated a spear-wielding freshman and killed the teacher who attacked him.
• Cai Yue'er arrived and unleashed her Moon Wheel and moon blades against Han Li.
• Han Li revealed six Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Rings, and Cai Yue'er decided he had to die if he could not be Shrek’s.

Han Li killed Cai Yue'er in Star Luo City, and news of her death spread across the Federation. As Shrek's elders debated who was responsible, Long Yeyue confronted Elder Ye over his criticism of her past actions.

• Han Li used Time Control to stop Cai Yue'er's moon blades, then killed her with a Golden Dragon Claw punch and vanished into the night.
• News of Cai Yue'er's death spread across the Federation, leaving the Soul Master world waiting for Shrek's response.
• At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Shrek's elders doubted that thirteen-year-old Han Li could have killed Cai Yue'er and called for an investigation.
• An elder blamed the Spirit Pagoda, specifically the Qiangu Clan, for opposing Shrek, and the elders fell silent over Long Yeyue's past conflict with them.
• Long Yeyue confronted Elder Ye about his dissatisfaction, then let light and darkness powers gather around her as she challenged him.