Chapter Summaries

Li Yuan introduced Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, Tie Mu, and A Liang as Black Dragon Academy’s first-generation students and showed them the academy’s cultivation facilities and teaching staff. The academy was still being renovated, but its powerful resources and experienced teachers impressed the new students.

• Li Yuan announced that Black Dragon Academy would provide its students with free cultivation resources and might reward outstanding students with martial souls.
• Li Yuan led the group to the academy, where Tie Mu and the others experienced the fivefold soul power concentration created by its Soul Gathering Array.
• Li Yuan showed them three Mimicry Cultivation Fields that could simulate many environments and increase cultivation efficiency.
• Li Yuan showed them three Gravity Control Rooms, which could raise gravity up to fifty times normal, and pointed out their usefulness for Tie Mu.
• Li Yuan introduced the academy’s ten professional teachers, including a level seventy-one Soul Sage, and A Liang praised the academy.

Li Yuan set the Black Dragon Academy's first-generation students a one-year challenge to reach Soul Di Jun and a half-year Spirit Fighting Arena goal, then left for the Star Dou Great Forest with Long Yuan and Di Jun. In Soto City, residents discovered that the Spirit Hall building on West Street had vanished without a trace.

• The system assigned Li Yuan a mission to cultivate Tie Mu, Shui Bing'er, A Liang, and Dugu Yan to Soul Di Jun within one year, and he offered a top-tier martial soul and a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone to the first to succeed.
• Tie Mu, Shui Bing'er, Dugu Yan, and A Liang accepted Li Yuan's challenge, and he ordered their teachers to devise training plans.
• Li Yuan required the four students to earn Purple-Gold Spirit Fighting Badges within half a year, offering Soul Power Pills as prizes for their ranking.
• After explaining that each Soul Power Pill unconditionally raised soul power by one level, Li Yuan left for the Star Dou Great Forest with Long Yuan and Di Jun.
• A peddler, an old farmer, and a vegetable seller found the Spirit Hall building on West Street gone, with no foundations or debris remaining.

Li Yuan tested his new time-control abilities in the Star Dou Great Forest, killing a thousand-year soul beast with a powerful combination of slowing time around it and accelerating himself. He devoured its soul ring to strengthen his first ring and martial soul, leaving Di Jun and Long Yuan stunned by the scope of his talent.

• Li Yuan asked Long Yuan to locate a thousand-year soul beast and told Di Jun and Long Yuan not to interfere when he found an armored rhinoceros.
• Li Yuan used Spirit Word: Time Zero to slow the rhinoceros, then Spirit Word: Instant to unleash 128 punches and kill it.
• Li Yuan absorbed the rhinoceros's soul ring with his Devour talent, adding 610 years to his first soul ring and strengthening his martial soul.
• Li Yuan explained that Devour could convert soul rings into soul-ring age, martial-soul strength, or soul power, and Di Jun realized it could let him grow by hunting soul beasts.

Li Yuan raised his first soul ring to nearly eighteen thousand years before encountering Tang San and the others contesting a Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Serpent. He claimed the beast for himself, and Long Yuan revealed his overwhelming strength when Zhao Wuji insulted Li Yuan.

• Li Yuan hunted nearby soul beasts and used his Devour talent to raise his first soul ring to nearly eighteen thousand years, but refused to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring before his body was ready.
• Li Yuan and his followers discovered Zhao Wuji, Tang San, Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran arguing over a wounded Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Serpent.
• The system offered Li Yuan recruitment missions for the Dragon and Snake Duo, Zhao Wuji, and the Shrek Seven Devils, but Li Yuan ignored the latter two missions.
• Li Yuan decided to intervene before Meng Yiran lost the serpent to Tang San, then walked into the clearing and claimed the beast.
• Zhao Wuji dismissed Li Yuan, so Long Yuan unleashed his rank ninety-eight pressure and displayed eight black spirit rings and one hundred-thousand-year red ring.

Li Yuan claimed the Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Serpent, then challenged the Shrek Seven Devils and Meng Yiran to defeat him despite being only rank thirty. The eight accepted, and both sides prepared to fight as Di Jun and Long Yuan watched.

• Long Yuan revealed his nine soul rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and Zhao Wuji and Chao Tianxiang backed down from opposing Li Yuan over the serpent.
• Li Yuan offered the Phoenix-Tail Cockscomb Serpent to whoever among the Shrek Seven Devils and Meng Yiran could knock him down.
• Li Yuan said he was rank thirty, astonishing the group and prompting Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and the others to question his challenge.
• Li Yuan provoked the Shrek Seven Devils and Meng Yiran into accepting his challenge, and they surrounded him in the clearing.
• Di Jun and Long Yuan predicted Li Yuan would defeat them in two or three exchanges while Zhao Wuji and Chao Tianxiang watched, ready to intervene.
• Li Yuan beckoned the eight opponents to attack.