Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen and Yuan Bao'er celebrated Mu Xi and Xu Yue’s successful dual-person Spirit Forging, while Gu Yue privately decided to intervene in their growing relationship. The next morning, Muye hosted Xu Yue, Mu Xi, and Xu Xiaoyan for breakfast, then challenged Xu Yue to demonstrate his abilities.

• Mu Chen watched Zhen Hua’s footage of Mu Xi and Xu Yue completing dual-person Spirit Forging and began drafting a message to monitor their relationship, but Yuan Bao'er deleted it and told him to let the children decide for themselves.
• Gu Yue saw a photograph of Mu Xi and Xu Yue together in a message from Xu Xiaoyan and decided she would need to use some methods to speed things up.
• Zhen Hua brought Xu Yue, Mu Xi, and Xu Xiaoyan to a private dining hall, where they met Muye, the Sect Master of the Body Sect.
• Muye served the three youngsters a lavish breakfast, and Xu Yue ate most of the steamed buns as their Soul Power and blood vitality surged.
• After breakfast, Muye told Xu Yue that he wanted to see what he was made of and led him away to help him digest the meal.

Xu Yue demonstrated his strength and bloodline power to Muye, impressing the Body Sect master enough that he offered to take Xu Yue as his disciple. Xu Yue refused, leaving the two in a tense standoff.

• Muye asked Xu Yue to show his basic strength, and Xu Yue’s punch surprised him with strength far beyond his cultivation level.
• Xu Yue used his dragon bloodline power, and his crystallization ability injured Muye despite the Body Sect master’s formidable defenses.
• Muye healed his wound and told Xu Yue that he had passed the test Zhen Hua had arranged.
• Muye offered to make Xu Yue his disciple and teach him the Body Sect’s secret techniques.
• Xu Yue refused Muye’s offer, and the two faced each other in a suddenly tense silence.

Xu Yue declined Muye’s offer to make him a personal disciple, explaining that he already had teachers, including Leng Yaozhu. After learning Xu Yue’s Xu Family lineage and hearing Zhen Hua clarify that he had no actual ties to the family, Muye agreed to teach him, Mu Xi, and Xu Xiaoyan for a month.

• Xu Yue rejected Muye’s offer to take him as a personal disciple, saying he already had teachers.
• Xu Yue revealed that Leng Yaozhu was his master, and Muye reconsidered his offer after learning her identity.
• Xu Yue disclosed his Dragon Clan blood and Xu surname, prompting Zhen Hua to explain his parents’ background and lack of ties to the Xu Family.
• Muye accepted Xu Yue despite his lineage and agreed to teach him for a month.
• Xu Yue bowed to Muye as his teacher, and Muye also agreed to teach Mu Xi and Xu Xiaoyan.

Xu Yue, Mu Xi, and Xu Xiaoyan began intensive forging and physical training under Zhen Hua and Muye. As Muye’s lessons helped Xu Yue grow stronger, Xu Yue questioned whether Muye had ever considered changing the Body Sect, which he believed was close to extinction.

• Zhen Hua taught Xu Yue and Mu Xi about Spirit Forging, Soul Forging, and spirit alloys, helping Mu Xi approach Level 5 and Xu Yue deepen his forging foundations.
• Muye began physical training for Xu Yue, Mu Xi, and Xu Xiaoyan after praising their constitutions.
• Xu Yue showed Muye his precisely controlled Gravity Domain, and Muye ordered him to perform every training course at five times the usual load without using Soul Power to enhance his body.
• Xu Yue completed the demanding training ahead of schedule and felt the residual energy from his first seal being digested.
• Xu Yue asked Muye whether he had ever considered changing the Body Sect, which Xu Yue saw as a tiny group nearing extinction.

Xu Yue told Muye that the Body Sect could escape its decline by developing martial arts based on strengthening the blood essence everyone possessed. He revealed that blood essence could condense into a ring and pointed to his own example, leaving Muye startled as he recognized what he had seen the day before.

• Muye explained that the Body Sect had declined because other factions recruited body martial soul masters and the sect could no longer gather them as it once had.
• Xu Yue argued that the Body Sect had followed the wrong path and asked Muye to reconsider what counted as a body martial soul master.
• Xu Yue proposed that people without martial souls or Soul Power could strengthen their bodies by cultivating blood essence, calling the discipline martial arts.
• Muye doubted ordinary people could increase their blood essence without spiritual medicines, while Xu Yue insisted the idea was worth testing.
• Xu Yue said powerful blood essence could condense into something like a soul ring and revealed that he had one, prompting Muye to recognize the object from the previous day.

Xu Yue showed Muye his Blood Essence Soul Ring and argued that the Body Sect could develop the technique despite its reliance on bloodlines. He revealed that his Truth Gem could analyze and reproduce anything he understood, then invited Muye to join him in changing the world.

• Xu Yue released his golden Blood Essence Soul Ring, and Muye realized it drew heavily on Xu Yue's dragon bloodline.
• Xu Yue encouraged Muye not to lose hope, comparing the development of Blood Essence Soul Rings to the gradual advances in forging, mechas, Battle Armor, and Soul Tools.
• Xu Yue revealed his Second Martial Soul, the Truth Gem, and explained that it let him analyze and recreate what he understood.
• Muye realized the Truth Gem could potentially let Xu Yue reproduce a Level 12 God-Slaying Missile without limit.
• Xu Yue urged Muye to risk failure for the chance to make the Body Sect's legacy endure, then offered his hand and asked him to change the world together.

Xu Yue convinced Muye to help forge a Blood Essence Martial Path, and Muye attempted to condense his blood essence into a ring. Though the attempt failed, Muye believed the method was viable and took Xu Yue to an active volcano for an undisclosed purpose.

• Xu Yue asked Muye to join him in changing the world, and Muye agreed to help develop a new path for the Body Sect.
• Muye rushed Xu Yue to a secret chamber, where Xu Yue used the Authority of Reason to analyze his Blood Essence Soul Ring and explain its formation.
• Muye attempted to condense his blood essence into a ring, but the unstable ring collapsed after a few breaths.
• Muye felt the attempt had revealed the method's potential and thanked Xu Yue for sharing the foundation of a new path.
• Muye took Xu Yue out of Heaven Dou City and brought him to a sulfurous region beside an active volcano.

Muye began teaching Xu Yue the Body Sect’s Flawless Golden Body by forcing him to temper his body in a volcano. After Xu Yue collapsed and recovered, Muye praised his progress and declared that the training would grow even harder.

• Muye thanked Xu Yue for helping develop the Blood Essence Martial Path and offered to teach him the Flawless Golden Body.
• Muye sealed Xu Yue’s Soul Power and threw him into the volcanic heat, where Xu Yue began practicing the first innate secret art, Body Penetration.
• Muye told Mu Xi and Xu Xiaoyan that Xu Yue was safe and training, while Zhen Hua warned him to keep Xu Yue from harm.
• Xu Yue pushed deeper into the crater until he lost consciousness, and Muye’s god-grade mecha, Little Red, rescued him.
• Xu Yue awoke in the Heaven Dou City Blacksmith Association, ate the food Muye provided, and agreed to even more intense training the next day.

Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan entered the Heaven Dou City Spirit Pagoda’s beginner Spirit Ascension Platform so Xu Xiaoyan could gather enough spirit energy to upgrade her soul spirit. After they killed a wounded Black Savage Giant Wolf, a girl accused them of stealing her prey, and Xu Yue used his spiritual power to locate another life aura and form a glowing yellow crystal.

• Xu Yue brought Xu Xiaoyan to the Spirit Pagoda after her body had reached the level needed to withstand a thousand-year soul spirit.
• Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan hunted soul beasts together in the beginner Spirit Ascension Platform, with Xu Yue weakening each beast for Xu Xiaoyan to finish.
• Xu Yue crippled a charging Black Savage Giant Wolf with his dragon claw, and Xu Xiaoyan killed it with an ice lance.
• A girl emerged from the woods and accused Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan of stealing the Black Savage Giant Wolf she had been pursuing.
• Xu Yue stopped the argument and used his spiritual power to detect a distant life aura, causing a bright-yellow crystal to appear beside him.

Xu Yue helped Xu Xiaoyan complete her spirit ascension, giving her two thousand-year soul rings, while Ye Xinglan reflected on his strength and the security he had provided. Xu Yue carried the exhausted Xiaoyan away, and Ye Xinglan left with her father, unsettled by thoughts of the dependable companion she wanted.

• Xu Yue launched a yellow crystal with Gravity Slingshot, severely wounding the soul beast and telling Ye Xinglan that it was compensation for her.
• Xu Xiaoyan absorbed the spiritual energy and gained two thousand-year soul rings while the crystal shield protected Ye Xinglan as she absorbed energy from the wounded beast.
• Ye Xinglan thanked Xu Yue, killed the injured soul beast, and was astonished to discover Xu Xiaoyan's new soul rings.
• Outside the Spirit Ascension Platform, Xu Xiaoyan celebrated her success with Xu Yue, then grew sleepy and rode on his back as he carried her away.
• Ye Xinglan's father warned her about her impulsive performance, and she watched Xu Yue carry the sleeping Xiaoyan before following her father away.

Xu Yue completed the Body Sect’s body infusion trial in the volcanic secret ground, forging Star Rock Dragon Bone and fully absorbing the bloodline energy beneath his first seal. His deep meditation transformed his Soul Power, and he broke through to level forty.

• Muye reassured Mu Xi and Xu Xiaoyan that Xu Yue’s trial was nearly over and praised his progress.
• Xu Yue finished body infusion after twenty-seven days, tempering his body with the volcanic heat and forming Star Rock Dragon Bone.
• Xu Yue’s bones fully absorbed the remaining Golden Dragon King bloodline energy beneath the first seal.
• Xu Yue entered deep meditation as his Soul Power and vital energy circulated and transformed.
• Xu Yue broke through to level forty, and Muye sensed his rising aura.

Xu Yue completed his body tempering, reached Soul Ancestor, and created True Martial Intent by merging the first three forms of Thousand Crags. After celebrating with Muye, Mu Xi, Xu Xiaoyan, and Zhen Hua, he woke the next day ready to reveal the result of a month of discussion and begin a new path for Douluo.

• Azhdaha appeared beside Xu Yue as he broke through to the forty-first rank Soul Ancestor.
• Xu Yue combined Muye's joint-locking technique with his spear intent and unleashed Thousand Crags: Third Form, Fire Rat—Indarias.
• Xu Yue's spear intent transformed into True Martial Intent, which could take the forms of different martial intents, and his spiritual power reached the solidification stage.
• Xu Yue reunited with Mu Xi, Xu Xiaoyan, and Muye, then celebrated his breakthrough at a feast with them and Zhen Hua.
• The next day, Xu Yue woke and prepared to announce the result of a month of discussion and begin a new path for Douluo.

Xu Yue helped Muye form a Blood Essence Soul Ring, overcoming Douluo Star’s resistance with the Authority of Reason, his status as the Child of the Stars, and the plane’s will. After the new cultivation system was born, Muye asked Xu Yue to condense another Blood Essence Soul Ring so they could examine its problems.

• Xu Yue used the Eye of Truth to guide Muye as he condensed his Bloodline Power into a blood-red Soul Ring.
• Douluo Star’s laws pressured the forming ring, making it crack and disrupting Muye’s Bloodline Power.
• Xu Yue joined forces with the plane’s will to open a path for the new cultivation system, stabilizing Muye’s ring.
• Muye celebrated the birth of the Blood Essence system and told Xu Yue that he had encountered several problems.
• At Muye’s request, Xu Yue began condensing another Blood Essence Soul Ring and noticed that his golden Soul Ring had changed in subtle ways.

Xu Yue and Muye discussed the Blood Essence Martial Path’s lack of soul skills and the problems they still needed to solve before it could be widely taught. After Xu Yue left Heaven Dou City, Ye Xinglan met Xu Yuzhi at Shrek Academy and learned that they would soon attend the Skysea Alliance Tournament.

• Xu Yue explained that blood-essence rings naturally lacked soul skills because they were condensed from pure blood essence rather than formed through a martial soul and soul beast.
• Xu Yue argued that martial artists could rely on Self-Created Soul Skills and teach techniques such as Muye’s joint techniques and the Thousand Rock Spear Art, while he and Muye discussed how to make the path reproducible and accessible.
• The next morning, Xu Yue, Mu Xi, and Xiao Yan departed Heaven Dou City as Muye and Zhen Hua watched them leave.
• Muye urged Zhen Hua to cultivate the perfected qi-and-blood system, saying it might address the drawbacks of Heavenly Forging for Divine Craftsmen.
• At Shrek Academy, Ye Xinglan met Xu Yuzhi, scolded him for gaining weight, and heard him mention their upcoming trip to the Skysea Alliance Tournament.

Xu Yue returned to Eastsea City, shared a tender farewell with Xu Xiaoyan, and reunited with Mu Chen’s family. He helped Mu Chen form a Blood Essence Soul Ring, which strengthened his Bloodline Power and stirred his Soul Power bottleneck, leaving Xu Yue to wonder whether Shrek could withstand the future influx of ordinary people.

• Xu Xiaoyan kissed Xu Yue goodbye and embraced him before her brother Xu Xiaoyu interrupted them.
• Mu Chen welcomed Xu Yue home, and the family shared dinner together.
• Mu Chen asked Xu Yue to help him try the Blood Essence Martial Path, and Xu Yue agreed with the condition that they stop if danger appeared.
• Mu Chen condensed a Blood Essence Soul Ring, which strengthened his Bloodline Power and stirred his rank-eighty-nine Soul Power toward its bottleneck.
• Xu Yue congratulated Mu Chen and reflected on how Shrek might handle the future impact of ordinary people.

Xu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Gu Yue returned to Zero Class after the break with startling gains in cultivation. Xu Yue revealed four ten-thousand-year soul rings, leaving Wu Zhangkong frozen in place.

• Xu Xiaoyan revealed that she had reached Rank 25 and gained two thousand-year soul rings during the break.
• Gu Yue displayed three purple soul rings and announced that she had reached Rank 33.
• Xu Yue quietly summoned four black ten-thousand-year soul rings, stunning his classmates and Tang Wulin and Xie Xie.
• Wu Zhangkong entered the classroom, saw Xu Yue's soul rings, and froze in disbelief.

Zero Class completed spiritual power testing, where Xu Yue achieved a score of 2,463 and shocked Wu Zhangkong and his classmates. Wu Zhangkong announced their upcoming Skysea Alliance Tournament and began combat training by challenging Xu Yue with his full strength in his normal state.

• Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Zhang Yangzi, Wei Xiaofeng, and Wang Jinxi took their spiritual power tests and showed improvement over last semester.
• Xu Xiaoyan scored 265 points, while Gu Yue reached 620 points and the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Xu Yue scored 2,463 points, reaching the mid-stage Spirit Sea Realm and astonishing Wu Zhangkong and the class.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that Zero Class would compete in the young adult seven-person team event at the Skysea Alliance Tournament and encouraged them to enter other events as well.
• Wu Zhangkong began practical combat training by calling Xu Yue to face his full normal strength, and Xu Yue introduced himself as a rank forty-one Battle Soul Ancestor with Eden's Star.

Xu Yue sparred with Wu Zhangkong to test the strength of his body and Gravity Domain, then revealed powerful fire-element control against Wu Zhangkong’s ice attacks. Gu Yue watched in shock and began to wonder whether Xu Yue was a replica of the Dragon God.

• Xu Yue declined Wu Zhangkong’s offer to use battle armor, then used his Gravity Domain to crush Wu Zhangkong’s Frost Mark sword beams.
• Xu Yue urged Wu Zhangkong to fight seriously, and Wu Zhangkong struck him with Frost Sky Slash.
• Xu Yue shattered Frost Sky Slash with a bare-handed punch, and his knuckles healed quickly while his Star Rock Dragon Bone finger bones remained unharmed.
• Wu Zhangkong amplified his ice-element attacks with Frost Mist and Frost Ice Language, and Xu Yue activated his Rock Dragon King bloodline and Azhdaha’s Ley Line Draw to gather fire elements.
• Xu Yue’s flame-wreathed dragon fists shattered Wu Zhangkong’s strengthened ice sword aura, leaving Gu Yue to wonder if Xu Yue was a replica of the Dragon God.

Xu Yue tested his new abilities against Wu Zhangkong and defeated him with a powerful aerial punch. After the Zero Class students celebrated, Wu Zhangkong asked Xu Yue what move he had used.

• Wu Zhangkong unleashed his Frost Sky Sword techniques and charged Xu Yue with a full-force attack.
• Xu Yue split into three apparent copies, and Wu Zhangkong's sword passed through two of them as they were phantoms.
• Xu Yue attacked from above with a gravity- and flame-boosted punch that shattered the air and struck Wu Zhangkong.
• Wu Zhangkong revealed he had instinctively used his two-word battle armor to defend himself, then admitted defeat.
• Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yue, Wang Jinxi, Wei Xiaofeng, and the others praised Xu Yue before Wu Zhangkong asked him to explain his move.

Xu Yue explained how he created Phantylia, a deceptive technique using gravitational lensing, and helped Gu Yue conceal her use of space element. At Shrek Academy, Shen Yi revealed the youth team competition’s prize, prompting Yu Tianxiao to ask whether the exhibition team could compete.

• Xu Yue told Zero Class that his clone was a Self-Created Soul Skill derived from his domain and inspired by gravitational lensing.
• Xu Yue taught Gu Yue to make her space element invisible, then demonstrated how it created illusory images of his fireball; he named the technique Phantylia.
• Xu Yue said his fourth soul skill was a wide-range attack with a control effect, but kept its details secret.
• Shen Yi told Shrek’s exhibition team that the youth competition’s final reward was a thirty-thousand-year-old left arm soul bone.
• Yu Tianxiao asked Shen Yi whether the exhibition team could enter the youth competition, and she refused because Shrek’s participation would let them sweep the rewards.