Chapter Summaries

After defeating Ye Xinglan, Xu Yue spoke with her as they left the arena, explaining how his Martial Intent let him wield Sword Intent despite having no sword martial soul. He brought her to Eastsea Academy's Zero Class lounge, where Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue reacted to seeing her.

• Ye Xinglan stopped Xu Yue after the match, introduced herself, and asked to talk with him as they left the arena.
• Xu Lizhi watched them go, grew jealous, blamed Xu Yue, and ran after them.
• Ye Xinglan asked Xu Yue about his martial souls and swordsmanship, and he explained that his transformed Spear Intent became Martial Intent.
• Xu Yue told Ye Xinglan about learning the spear and comprehending Martial Intent as they walked to the Zero Class lounge.
• Xu Yue invited Ye Xinglan inside, where Xu Xiaoyan rushed to greet him and Gu Yue eyed Ye Xinglan with suspicion.

Xu Yue welcomed Ye Xinglan, became friends with her, and revealed that he was a Soul Ancestor with a Soul Power Level of forty-one. After Ye Xinglan returned to Shrek’s lounge and described Xu Yue’s sword intent, Xu Lizhi accused her of hiding their conversation, and she angrily confronted him for following her.

• Xu Yue introduced Ye Xinglan to Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan, then talked with her in the lounge while Xu Lizhi watched and grew jealous.
• Ye Xinglan asked Xu Yue if they were friends and learned that his Soul Power Level was forty-one.
• Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue questioned Xu Yue about Ye Xinglan after he escorted her out.
• Ye Xinglan returned to Shrek’s lounge, told Ning Ya that Xu Yue had defeated her, and described his mastery of sword intent.
• Xu Lizhi accused Ye Xinglan of hiding her long conversation with Xu Yue, and Ye Xinglan furiously demanded to know why he had followed her.

Ye Xinglan explained why she had spoken with Xu Yue, while Xu Lizhi grew resentful after Shen Yi reprimanded him. After Zero Class won its match, Wei Xiaofeng told Xu Yue that Shrek had seriously injured Xu Xiaoyu, leaving Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan rushing to the arena.

• Ye Xinglan demonstrated her newly comprehended sword intent and explained that she had stayed with Xu Yue to thank him.
• Shen Yi reprimanded Xu Lizhi for following Ye Xinglan and speculating about Xu Yue, deepening Xu Lizhi's resentment toward Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue led Zero Class to victory in its afternoon team match and told the students to recover for their next match.
• Wei Xiaofeng told Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan that Shrek's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon captain had seriously injured Xu Xiaoyu.
• Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan rushed to the youth division arena and saw medical staff carrying Xu Xiaoyu away on a stretcher.

Xu Yue and Zero Class encountered Yu Tianxiao after Xu Xiaoyu was badly injured in their match. Yu Tianxiao mocked Xu Xiaoyu and patronized Xu Yue, leaving Zero Class furious as Xu Yue promised to handle the insults and comforted Xu Xiaoyan.

• Xu Xiaoyan and Xu Yue met the injured Xu Xiaoyu, who asked Xu Yue to look after the rest before being taken for treatment.
• Yu Tianxiao and the Shrek team passed through the corridor, where Yu Tianxiao boasted that he had not held back against Xu Xiaoyu and mocked his strength.
• Yu Tianxiao patted Xu Yue's shoulder and offered to guide him in future matches, angering Zero Class.
• Ye Xinglan apologized to Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan for Yu Tianxiao's behavior, and Xu Yue told her she was not responsible for someone else's mistakes.
• After the Shrek team left, Xu Yue comforted the crying Xu Xiaoyan and promised to handle Xu Xiaoyu's injuries and Yu Tianxiao's insults.

Xu Yue and Zero Class won the youth division individual, doubles, three-person, and other events, while Xu Xiaoyu recovered from his injuries. The chapter ended as Zero Class and Shrek prepared to face each other in the seven-person team final.

• Xu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan visited the injured Xu Xiaoyu, who urged Xu Yue to win the championship.
• Zero Class, led by Xu Yue and Gu Yue, advanced through the round of sixteen, quarterfinals, and semifinals, while Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin's team was eliminated.
• Xu Yue, Gu Yue, and their teammates claimed multiple youth division titles as the tournament reached its final day.
• Yu Zhen celebrated Eastsea Academy's wins, while Wu Zhangkong told Shen Yi he could only advise Xu Yue and Gu Yue about choosing an academy.
• The announcer introduced Zero Class and the Shrek Team as the finalists in the youth division seven-person team match.

Xu Yue led Zero Class into the youth seven-person team final against Shrek Academy and chose to face the entire opposing team alone. After warning Yu Tianxiao to use his Battle Armor, Xu Yue stood ready as the referee started the match.

• Xu Yue reassured Wei Xiaofeng that he could handle the match and led Zero Class onto the arena.
• Yu Tianxiao dismissed Zero Class's other members as threats and told Ning Ya and Xu Lizhi to support him.
• The Soul Sage referee began the final, and Xu Yue sent Gu Yue and the other five Zero Class members to the arena's edge.
• Xu Yue challenged Yu Tianxiao to equip his Battle Armor, enraging the Shrek captain.
• The referee declared the preparation phase over and started the match.

Xu Yue revealed his immense power against the Shrek team, summoning Azhdaha and displaying four ten-thousand-year soul rings as he prepared a devastating attack. Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong rushed to stop him, but his fourth soul skill was already taking effect.

• Xu Lizhi and Ning Ya boosted Yu Tianxiao, who equipped two pieces of One-Word Battle Armor and charged at Xu Yue.
• Xu Yue summoned Azhdaha, then revealed his first ten-thousand-year soul ring, stunning the spectators and Shrek team.
• Azhdaha called out three soul skills as Xu Yue formed a mountain and gathered vast earth-element energy.
• Shen Yi and Wu Zhangkong recognized the danger and raced toward the arena as Xu Yue activated his fourth ten-thousand-year soul ring.
• Azhdaha unleashed the fourth soul skill, Brilliant as... Blazing Sun, while golden light poured from the sky.

Xu Yue unleashed a devastating celestial-star soul skill in the Skysea Grand Stadium, petrifying the arena and everyone caught in its center. He defeated Yu Tianxiao and declared his name as a member of Eastsea Academy's Zero Class.

• After Azhdaha's final words, Xu Yue summoned a massive golden star that broke through the stadium's protective barrier and crashed into the arena.
• The star's impact petrified the arena, the referee, Yu Tianxiao, and others, while Xu Yue and Ye Xinglan remained unharmed.
• Xu Yue gathered earth element and punched Yu Tianxiao, sending his petrified body flying into the resting area.
• Shen Yi, Wu Zhangkong, the referee, and the other Shrek team members recovered from petrification and found the arena destroyed.
• Xu Yue reminded Yu Tianxiao that he was from Zero Class of Eastsea Academy and gave his name before Yu Tianxiao passed out.

Xu Yue defeated Shrek’s team in the Skysea Alliance Tournament, and Shen Yi was forced to surrender after Shrek’s authorities ordered her back. Ling He declared Eastsea Academy’s Zero Class the champions, and the crowd celebrated Xu Yue as the Rock King.

• Shen Yi found Yu Tianxiao badly injured and challenged Xu Yue, who defended his actions and questioned her for entering the arena before the match had ended.
• Shen Yi prepared to keep arguing with Xu Yue until Ling He arrived, but a call from her teacher Zhuoshi ordered her to return, and she announced Shrek’s surrender.
• Shen Yi carried Yu Tianxiao away while the other Shrek team members left, and Ye Xinglan exchanged a complicated look with Xu Yue before following them.
• Ling He announced Xu Yue and Eastsea Academy’s Zero Class as the youth division team champions, and the crowd began chanting “Rock King.”
• Gu Yue lifted Xu Yue with a hurricane, and the Zero Class teammates tossed him into the air while cheering.

After Xu Yue defeated Shrek, news of his victory spread among the major factions. At Spirit Pagoda headquarters, Leng Yaozhu emerged from seclusion as a Limit Douluo, learned of Xu Yue and Gu Yue's performance, and decided to contact Xu Yue the next day.

• Zhen Hua and Muye watched Xu Yue's match and praised his victory and potential.
• Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen watched the match footage and discussed Xu Yue's power and his future as a Spirit Pagoda Master candidate.
• Leng Yaozhu emerged from seclusion and confirmed that she had advanced to the Limit Douluo rank.
• Leng Yaozhu reacted with concern when she heard Xu Yue was involved, then watched the footage and learned why he had fought Shrek.
• Bai Zhicen told Leng Yaozhu that Gu Yue had also excelled in the tournament, and Leng Yaozhu said she would visit both students.
• Leng Yaozhu considered contacting Xu Yue but decided to wait until the next day.

Qian Gu Dongfeng learned that Xu Yue was Leng Yaozhu’s disciple and ordered the Spirit Pagoda to promote him as its top young genius, while warning him not to harbor improper ambitions. The Xu Family confirmed Xu Yue was Xu Ziyang’s son and debated bringing him home, but Xu Huang argued that he should remain outside and that the family should amplify the attention surrounding him and Shrek’s defeat.

• Qian Gu Dongfeng reviewed Xu Yue’s information, realized Leng Yaozhu had concealed that Xu Yue was her disciple, and ordered the Spirit Pagoda to rank him first and publicize him widely.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng praised Xu Yue’s defeat of Shrek but privately warned that he disliked Xu Yue’s talent and cautioned him against improper thoughts.
• Bright Moon Douluo Xu Jingxing learned that Xu Yue was Xu Ziyang’s child, and the Xu Family elders debated whether to bring him back and enter him into the ancestral registry.
• Xu Huang advised Xu Jingxing to let Xu Yue remain outside the family and to intensify public attention around him and Shrek’s retreat from the Skysea Alliance.

After receiving the tournament championship award, Xu Yue and Zero Class were given valuable Blood Jade Corals by Ling He, who explained their victory had greatly benefited the Skysea Alliance. Ling He asked them to remember their homeland and help the Alliance when they became powerful, leaving their response unstated.

• Xu Yue accepted the championship soul bone from Ling He at the delayed award ceremony.
• Yu Zhen led Zero Class to a VIP lounge, where Ling He presented each member with a thousand-year Blood Jade Coral.
• Ling He explained the gifts were deserved because Xu Yue's victory over Shrek had brought the Skysea Alliance more than one billion Federation credits in economic value.
• Xu Yue accepted the coral first, and the rest of Zero Class stored their gifts in their Soul Tools.
• Ling He asked the students to remember the Skysea Alliance and lend it their strength in the future.

Xu Yue received a valuable draconic right arm soul bone, then learned that the Spirit Pagoda had ranked him first among young geniuses and that online commenters were calling him the “Rock King Sovereign.” After Leng Yaozhu called him, she asked whether he had absorbed the soul bone, leaving Xu Yue wondering what was wrong.

• Ling He praised Xu Yue and the others for remembering their hometown, then left with Yu Zhen after advising Xu Yue to examine his soul bone carefully.
• Xu Yue opened the jade box and learned from Gu Yue that the soul bone was a thirty-two-thousand-year-old draconic right arm bone chosen with his dragon-type martial soul in mind.
• Xu Yue considered whether to absorb the rare soul bone immediately, but Wei Xiaofeng interrupted to announce that the Spirit Pagoda had ranked Xu Yue first and Gu Yue seventh on its Youth Genius Rankings.
• Wang Jinxi and Xu Xiaoyan showed Xu Yue online posts calling him the “Rock King Sovereign” after his imperial family background was leaked.
• Xu Yue answered a call from Leng Yaozhu, who asked whether he had absorbed the soul bone yet.

Leng Yaozhu advised Xu Yue not to absorb his soul bone yet and discussed the online attention surrounding his identity. After the Xu Family disavowed him, Xu Yue wondered whether they meant to free him from political restrictions before setting the matter aside to prepare to go home.

• Leng Yaozhu explained that Xu Yue should wait before absorbing the thirty-thousand-year sub-dragon arm bone and offered to find him a better one.
• Xu Yue told Leng Yaozhu that Ling He had also given him Blood Spirit Coral and intended to invest in him, and she recounted Ling He's reputation as Heaven Crane Douluo.
• Xu Yue told Leng Yaozhu about the online discussion calling him Rock King, and she identified the Young Genius Rankings and some of the publicity as efforts by rival factions.
• Leng Yaozhu told Xu Yue that the Xu Family had declared he was not a member because he had been taken away as a child and his martial soul had mutated.
• Xu Yue accepted Leng Yaozhu's reassurance, considered whether the Xu Family had intended to free him from restrictions, then headed to the VIP room to prepare to go home.

Shrek’s elders argued over how to respond to the public backlash after Xu Yue’s team defeated Yu Tianxiao’s team in the Skysea Alliance Tournament. Yun Ming proposed presenting the defeat as an internal sparring match if Xu Yue joined Shrek, but Long Yeyue rejected the idea.

• Zhuoshi reported to Yun Ming what Shen Yi had told him about the tournament, and Yun Ming initially wanted to let the matter end.
• Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er demanded action to defend Shrek’s reputation, but Yun Ming argued that another match would make the academy look worse.
• Zhuoshi explained that Yu Tianxiao had applied to the tournament for its soul bone prize, and Yun Ming placed the blame on Yu Tianxiao for provoking a stronger opponent and losing.
• Cai Yue'er claimed the online backlash had been fueled by the Spirit Pagoda, and Long Yeyue threatened to confront Qian Gu Dieting.
• Yun Ming proposed that Shrek present Xu Yue’s team as Wu Zhangkong’s students and recruit Xu Yue so the defeat could be called an internal sparring match.
• Long Yeyue slammed the table and declared that Xu Yue absolutely could not join Shrek.

Shrek’s elders voted to invite Xu Yue into the academy to restore its reputation, and Yun Ming planned to meet him personally in Eastsea City. When Ya Li told Na'er that Xu Yue might become her junior brother, Na'er reacted with startled disbelief.

• Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er opposed Xu Yue joining Shrek because of his Xu Family bloodline, but Ya Li cited He Caitou’s choice to serve Shrek as proof that bloodline did not dictate loyalty.
• Yun Ming argued that accepting Xu Yue would help quell public outrage, and over eighty percent of the elders voted in favor.
• Yun Ming told Ya Li he would travel to Eastsea City to meet Xu Yue and admitted that he wanted to take the talented youth as his disciple.
• Na'er arrived and learned from Ya Li that Xu Yue might become her junior brother, then choked in surprise when Yun Ming named him.

Na'er worried that Xu Yue might already have a teacher, while Gu Yue awoke from a strange dream during the trip back to Eastsea Academy. After returning home, Xu Yue learned that Mu Xi would leave for Shrek in two days and comforted her as she asked him to spend the remaining time with her.

• Na'er suggested that Xu Yue might already have a teacher, and Yun Ming still planned to visit Eastsea City.
• Cai Yue'er resolved to deal with Xu Yue after he arrived at Shrek and remembered another academy member she wanted punished.
• Gu Yue woke suddenly on the bus, then told Xu Yue she had only had a nightmare.
• Wu Zhangkong announced three days off after Zero Class returned to Eastsea Academy, and Xu Yue went to the Blacksmith Association with Mu Xi.
• Mu Xi told Xu Yue she would leave for Shrek the day after tomorrow, and he promised to visit her during breaks.
• Mu Xi asked Xu Yue to spend the next two days with her, and he pulled her close to claim compensation.

Mu Xi left Eastsea City for Shrek, and Xu Yue returned to his routine at Eastsea Academy. That night, Yun Ming, the Master of the Sea God Pavilion, appeared in Xu Yue’s dormitory, and Xu Yue recognized him as Atlas Douluo.

• Xu Yue and Mu Xi said goodbye at Eastsea Soul Guidance Train Station before she boarded a train to Shrek City.
• Xu Xiaoyan comforted Xu Yue after Mu Xi departed, while Gu Yue hinted that they might meet Mu Xi again soon.
• The next day, classes resumed for Zero Class at Eastsea Academy, and Xu Yue continued cultivating toward Rank 42.
• A faint spatial disturbance alerted Xu Yue to a black-robed visitor in his dormitory.
• The visitor revealed himself as Yun Ming, Master of the Sea God Pavilion, and Xu Yue greeted him as Atlas Douluo.

Yun Ming took Xu Yue to the coast and tested him with Atlas Spear Intent after asking about the publicity caused by Xu Yue’s Skysea Alliance Tournament victory. Xu Yue’s three elemental spear intents fused and grew stronger under the pressure, and he ended the confrontation by declaring that he was not afraid.

• Yun Ming appeared in Xu Yue’s dormitory, and Gu Yue called Di Tian to stay alert in case anything unusual happened in Eastsea City.
• Yun Ming brought Xu Yue to the coast and asked whether he knew how much negative publicity his tournament victory had brought Shrek Academy.
• Yun Ming unleashed Atlas Spear Intent, and Xu Yue resisted with his rock, water, and fire spear intents.
• Xu Yue’s three spear intents fused into a divine spear and broke through Yun Ming’s pressure, strengthening Xu Yue’s intent and spiritual power.
• Yun Ming asked why Xu Yue had not dodged, and Xu Yue answered, “Not afraid means not afraid!”

Yun Ming tested Xu Yue’s courage and strength, then invited him to become his disciple and join Shrek Academy. After Xu Yue named Leng Yaozhu as his teacher, she negotiated with Yun Ming over the terms of his participation in Shrek’s admissions, and Xu Yue agreed while adding one more condition.

• Yun Ming struck Xu Yue with overwhelming Soul Power, but Xu Yue’s dragon transformation and powerful bloodline let him withstand the attack.
• Impressed by Xu Yue, Yun Ming offered to take him as a disciple, but Xu Yue refused and revealed that Leng Yaozhu was already his master.
• Yun Ming invited Xu Yue to join Shrek Academy, and Xu Yue called Leng Yaozhu to ask for her decision.
• Leng Yaozhu rejected Yun Ming’s initial offer and negotiated compensation, securing an agreement before Xu Yue accepted the invitation.
• Xu Yue asked Leng Yaozhu whether he could add one more condition.