Chapter Summaries

Wu Zhangkong began practical combat training by having Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie fight Xiling, who defeated them quickly using only physical attacks. He criticized their poor teamwork and ordered them to keep training against Xiling until they coordinated seamlessly.

• Wu Zhangkong assigned Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie to attack Xiling together, while Xiling agreed not to use soul skills or weapons.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue launched a disorganized combination of attacks, but Xiling evaded them and repeatedly knocked each of them down.
• Xie Xie complained that Xiling had targeted him, but Wu Zhangkong dismissed the protest and said Xie Xie lacked skill.
• Wu Zhangkong criticized the three students' individual combat weaknesses and their failure to work as a team.
• Wu Zhangkong ordered the trio to keep fighting Xiling until they mastered coordinated offense and defense, then told them to begin again.

Xiling considered how to protect Na'er from merging with Gu Yue, but chose to seek another solution and invited Gu Yue to his apartment to discuss it. The chapter ended with Gu Yue following him through a spatial passage into his home.

• Wu Zhangkong tested the students' spiritual power and discovered that Xiling's score of four thousand five hundred matched his own Spirit Sea Realm level.
• After considering killing Gu Yue to preserve Na'er, Xiling accepted Gu Yue's homemade food and decided to look for a solution that could protect them both.
• More than two months passed, and Xiling reached soul power level thirty-two while the promotion tournament approached; Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King bloodline remained dormant.
• Xiling invited Gu Yue to his apartment, and she mistakenly thought his invitation was romantic before he clarified that he wanted to ask her something.
• After special training, Xiling took Gu Yue through a spatial passage to his apartment and began making tea.

Xiling confronted Gu Yue about her identity as the Silver Dragon King and revealed that Na'er’s wager would ultimately make her disappear. He sought a way to save Na'er, and Gu Yue revealed that the Dragon God's Heart might help.

• Xiling identified Gu Yue as the Silver Dragon King and recounted how she and Na'er had split, then made a wager over which of them the boy would choose.
• Xiling warned Gu Yue that Na'er's share of the Silver Dragon King's origin power could not sustain her separation and would eventually return to Gu Yue.
• Xiling asked whether the Golden Dragon King's origin power could replace Na'er's Silver Dragon King's origin power, and threatened Gu Yue when she challenged him.
• Gu Yue said the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings' origin powers could not replace one another without destroying Na'er's divine soul.
• Gu Yue revealed that the Dragon God's Heart could offer a way to save Na'er.

Xiling told Gu Yue that the Golden Dragon King’s origin had been sealed inside Tang Wulin and explained its history. As the Class Promotion Tournament began, Gu Yue and Xie Xie bickered over joining a dinner outing with Xiling, who let them go together.

• Xiling revealed that the Golden Dragon King’s origin was sealed inside Tang Wulin and recounted how the God Kings had placed it there to save a newborn child.
• Gu Yue accepted Xiling’s plan to wait for the right opportunity to deal with the Golden Dragon King’s origin and help Na'er fuse with it.
• Xiling sent Gu Yue through a spatial passage back to the girls’ dormitory, and their relationship became more natural afterward.
• Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin defeated Galong, Lin Zunyuan, and Moss from Class Four in the Class Promotion Tournament.
• Xie Xie invited Xiling to dinner, Gu Yue insisted on joining, and Xiling stopped their bickering and agreed that they could all go together.

Xie Xie brought Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xiling to the braised beef shop he had visited with his late mother and opened up about his grief. When they returned and found Uncle Li beaten by Guang Long and his lackeys, Xiling crippled all three men’s cultivation.

• Xie Xie took his friends to Uncle Li’s shop, where the owner warmly welcomed him and shared that Xie Xie’s mother had loved coming there.
• Xie Xie told Tang Wulin that his mother had died before his busy father returned, then broke down; Xiling teased him gently, easing the mood.
• The group returned to find Guang Long and two lackeys had wrecked the shop and beaten Uncle Li for failing to pay protection money.
• Xiling stopped Guang Long from kicking Uncle Li and destroyed the cultivation of Guang Long and both lackeys with spatial power.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie recoiled at Xiling’s ruthlessness as the bystanders watched in stunned silence.

Xiling kept Leng Yulai imprisoned while Class Five of Year One won its second Class Promotion Tournament match without him. Afterward, Guang Biao arrived at Eastsea Academy with his crippled brother and demanded that Xiling be handed over, and Xiling stepped forward to face him.

• Xiling gave the money he had taken from Guang Long and the others to Uncle Li, arranged Spirit Pagoda protection, and warned Guang Biao to stay away.
• Xiling visited the imprisoned Leng Yulai and wondered why the Holy Spirit Cult had not tried to recover her or the Spacetime Divine Shuttle.
• Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin defeated Class Three of Year One’s Gu brothers in a quick match, winning for Class Five without Xiling.
• Gu Yue met Xiling at the school gate, where he was waiting in case trouble arose over his confrontation with Guang Long.
• Guang Biao arrived at Eastsea Academy with Guang Long on a stretcher and demanded that the academy hand over Xiling.
• Xiling told Long Hengxu that he was responsible and would handle Guang Biao himself.

Xiling defeated Guang Biao after the Mecha Brigade captain demanded revenge for his brother, crippling him with spatial power. As Xiling and Gu Yue prepared to return to Eastsea Academy, a familiar voice questioned whether he would use its name to handle the Federation investigation.

• Xiling admitted that he had crippled Guang Long and refused to apologize, so Guang Biao challenged him to cripple his cultivation or be crippled himself.
• Guang Biao revealed his six Soul Rings and attacked Xiling, while Xiling stopped his punch by locking the battlefield in space.
• Xiling sent his six Subspace Spears through Guang Biao, destroying his Soul Power channels and Martial Soul and leaving him crippled.
• Gu Yue praised Xiling, and he said Guang Biao was strong among ordinary Soul Masters but weaker than genius Soul Emperors.
• As Xiling and Gu Yue prepared to return to the academy, a familiar voice asked whether Xiling would use its name to settle the Federation's investigation.

Xiling brought Leng Yaozhu through a spatial passage to meet his gift: her long-lost younger sister, Leng Yulai. Their reunion ended in shock when Leng Yulai revealed that she had become an evil Soul Master and a Four Heavenly Kings member of the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Xiling left Gu Yue and met Leng Yaozhu at the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, where she questioned him about invoking her name and was surprised by his strength.
• Xiling opened a spatial passage and took Leng Yaozhu to a sealed room, warning her to prepare herself for what she would see.
• Leng Yaozhu found Leng Yulai, her younger sister who had been missing for decades, badly injured and disheveled.
• Leng Yulai accused Leng Yaozhu of hypocrisy and revealed that she was Dark Phoenix Douluo, a Four Heavenly Kings member of the Holy Spirit Cult and an evil Soul Master.
• Leng Yaozhu was left pale and stunned by Leng Yulai's revelation.

Leng Yulai revealed that a misunderstanding over Leng Yaozhu’s meeting with Yun Ming had fueled decades of hatred and her descent into evil. After Xiling left the sisters alone, they confronted their regret and resentment, while Leng Yulai acknowledged Xiling’s peaceful life with faint envy.

• Leng Yulai told Leng Yaozhu that she had mistaken Leng Yaozhu’s meeting with Yun Ming for rejection and had destroyed herself to make her sister suffer with guilt.
• Leng Yaozhu broke down and admitted she had never known why Leng Yulai hated and avoided her.
• Xiling left Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai alone, carrying Benares out of the room.
• Leng Yulai’s fury faded, but she told Leng Yaozhu that her silence had ruined her life, and Leng Yaozhu could offer no defense.
• Leng Yulai noticed the warmth of Xiling’s home and told Leng Yaozhu she had taken in a good disciple.

Leng Yaozhu used thought manifestation to reveal the truth behind Leng Yulai’s lifelong resentment, then collapsed from the cost. Leng Yulai tried to kill herself, but Xiling stopped her, and Leng Yaozhu later asked him whether she could spare her sister’s life while crippling her powers.

• Leng Yaozhu spent her Life Origin to project her memory of asking Yun Ming to show Leng Yulai affection.
• Leng Yulai realized Leng Yaozhu’s thought manifestation revealed the truth and that her hatred had been based on a mistaken belief.
• Leng Yulai’s injured origin broke down, and she gathered dark elements to kill herself.
• Xiling burst into the room, destroyed the dark power, and stopped Leng Yulai from choosing death before helping Leng Yaozhu to bed.
• Leng Yaozhu told Xiling she wanted Leng Yulai to bear her sins by losing her martial soul and soul power but keeping her life.
• Xiling said Leng Yaozhu could handle Leng Yulai’s fate however she wanted.

Leng Yaozhu thanked Xiling for accepting her weaknesses, then crippled and imprisoned Leng Yulai to remove the threat of Dark Phoenix. At Eastsea Academy, Xiling’s victory over Guang Biao drew widespread attention, while Tang Wulin resolved to ask him about the Golden Dragon King sealed inside him.

• Leng Yaozhu embraced Xiling and thanked him before secretly leaving with Leng Yulai.
• Leng Yaozhu crippled Leng Yulai and confined her under strict guard, ending her identity as Dark Phoenix.
• Xiling returned to class with Benares on his shoulder, and his classmates reacted to news that he had instantly killed the Soul Emperor Guang Biao.
• Gu Yue sensed Benares’s immense, unfamiliar power, while Benares affectionately stayed beside Xiling.
• Tang Wulin recalled the Golden Dragon King’s warning that he would die if he failed to unlock its first seal before turning ten, and decided to ask Xiling for help.
• After Gu Yue and her classmates won their promotion match, Tang Wulin asked Xiling to speak privately, and Xiling led him toward the training field.

Tang Wulin told Xiling about the Golden Dragon King sealed inside him, and Xiling confirmed the danger and offered to remove it. After Tang Wulin chose to have it extracted, Xiling agreed to act after the promotion matches, while Gu Yue decided to stay with him for a week during the coming typhoon.

• Tang Wulin confided in Xiling about his dream and the Golden Dragon King sealed inside his body.
• Xiling confirmed the dream was real, explained that the Golden Dragon King had suppressed Tang Wulin's innate soul power, and described the risks and benefits of keeping it.
• Tang Wulin chose to have the Golden Dragon King removed, and Xiling told him to leave the matter to him after the promotion matches.
• Tang Wulin visited the auction house with Xie Xie, learned the required Ice Crystal Fruit was far beyond his means, encountered Wei Xiaofeng's mockery, and later learned at Mang Tian Workshop that his parents had gone away.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Xiling that a week-long typhoon would close the academy and suspend the promotion matches, and Gu Yue asked to stay at Xiling's home for the week.
• Xiling agreed to let Gu Yue stay in one of the spare rooms.

Grade One Class Five faced Grade One Class One in the delayed Class Promotion Tournament match. Gu Yue’s surprise attack eliminated Wang Jinxi, leaving Zhang Yangzi alarmed as the fight continued.

• Long Hengxu announced the postponed match, and Wu Zhangkong entered Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin against Ye Yingluo’s three students.
• Wei Xiaofeng taunted Xie Xie, and the two began fighting while Tang Wulin engaged Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi took to the air.
• Gu Yue gathered compressed fire element while the others focused on their opponents.
• Gu Yue used icy mist to obscure the arena, appeared behind Wang Jinxi, and blasted through his bone armor, forcing him out of the match.
• Zhang Yangzi sensed the danger after seeing Wang Jinxi eliminated.

Gu Yue’s powerful attacks secured Grade One Class Five’s victory over Grade One Class One in the Class Promotion Tournament. The next morning, Tang Wulin met Ouyang Zixin while running, learned her name and class, and found himself captivated by her.

• Gu Yue battered Zhang Yangzi and Wei Xiaofeng with an Ice-Snow Storm, then pierced Zhang Yangzi’s black wings with a spatially concealed flaming spear.
• With Zhang Yangzi and the other teammate unable to continue, Wei Xiaofeng admitted defeat, and Long Hengxu declared Grade One Class Five the winner.
• The students celebrated their victory, and Gu Yue’s Soul Power reached level nineteen as her control over spatial elements improved.
• The next morning, Tang Wulin ran into Ouyang Zixin, apologized, and ran alongside her after she challenged him to a race.
• Tang Wulin won Ouyang Zixin’s name and class, then watched her leave as Xiling teased him about liking her.

Eastsea Academy established Zero Class under Wu Zhangkong and secured six students with agreements granting them priority resources. Gu Yue paid Xiling to move in with him after choosing to commute instead of taking a dorm room.

• Xie Xie and Xiling teased Tang Wulin about Ouyang Zixin, while Gu Yue silently compared herself to the academy beauty.
• Eastsea Academy announced Zero Class with Xiling, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng as its students.
• Yu Zhen gave the students agreements to sign, and Xiling noticed his contract let him leave before finishing school while promising to help the academy if needed.
• Xiling, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi signed the agreements, while Wei Xiaofeng returned to Class Two to keep his options open.
• Gu Yue declined a single room and asked to live with Xiling, who agreed after charging her one hundred thousand Federation Credits per month.

Wu Zhangkong introduced Battle Armor and explained why Soul Masters needed a second profession to become Battle Armor Masters. After Xiling insisted he did not need one, Wu Zhangkong moved the lesson into combat practice and challenged the students’ assumptions about basic skills.

• Wu Zhangkong began teaching the class about mecha and explained that Battle Armor combined a Martial Soul with mecha to greatly enhance a Soul Master’s strength.
• Xiling described Wu Zhangkong’s Two-Word Battle Armor and explained that Battle Armor Masters needed to participate in at least one of forging, design, production, or repair.
• Tang Wulin realized that his forging studies counted toward Battle Armor production, while Xiling claimed he did not need a second profession because he would reach the pinnacle through cultivation alone.
• Wu Zhangkong criticized the students’ basic combat ability after discussing Battle Armor, then cleared the classroom for practice and questioned whether basic skills mattered in a Soul Master’s battle.

Wu Zhangkong overwhelmed Tang Wulin and Xie Xie in a joint sparring match, then put Zero Class through more punishing training over the next ten days. He later led the students to a series of physical tests, where Gu Yue and Tang Wulin’s Mental Power scores stunned the others.

• Wu Zhangkong used only a teaching whip to defeat Tang Wulin and Xie Xie after Xie Xie attempted a sneak attack.
• Over the next ten days, Wu Zhangkong and Xiling trained Zero Class harshly, while Wu Zhangkong went easier on Gu Yue and Xiling showed no special consideration for anyone.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that combat training was suspended for a class so the students could undergo physical tests.
• Xie Xie scored thirty-one Mental Power, Wang Jinxi scored eighteen, and Zhang Yangzi scored forty-one.
• Tang Wulin scored sixty-six Mental Power and Gu Yue scored one hundred and fifty-three, leaving Xie Xie and the others amazed.

Xiling and the others completed their tests, revealing his extraordinary spiritual power and strength before he destroyed the testing machine with one punch. Later, Xiling declined Wu Zhangkong’s offers to study battle armor and the Tang Sect’s movement technique, then unexpectedly met Tang Wulin, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin near the dormitory.

• Xiling’s spiritual power reached 4,999 points, nearly entering the Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Gu Yue, Zhang Yangzi, Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Tang Wulin took the strength test, with Tang Wulin reaching 1,048 kilograms in his right hand.
• Xiling punched the strength-testing machine and broke it, leaving everyone stunned.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Xiling about battle armor and the Tang Sect’s Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, but Xiling declined both offers.
• Tang Wulin became Mu Chen’s disciple and later met Xiling with Mu Xi; Ouyang Zixin arrived, and Xiling introduced himself to her.

Xiling arranged for Tang Wulin to spend time with Ouyang Zixin by offering her a recommendation to the Mecha Masters Association. The chapter then followed Zero Class as Wu Zhangkong brought them to the Spirit Pagoda to begin weekly cultivation in the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Xiling introduced Tang Wulin to Ouyang Zixin and told her that Tang Wulin liked her, offering an exclusive recommendation letter to the Mecha Masters Association in exchange for a chance for them to get to know each other.
• Ouyang Zixin accepted after Xiling confirmed that he was Leng Yaozhu's disciple, and Xiling told Tang Wulin to make use of the opportunity without explaining what he meant.
• Xiling returned home and told Gu Yue that he had helped Tang Wulin as compensation for the painful Golden Dragon King bloodline extraction he would undergo later.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that Zero Class would spend one day each week cultivating in the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Xiling explained that it could increase the age of their soul rings.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Wu Zhangkong described murals depicting Ice Spirit Douluo's battles against beast tides and the Beast God Di Tian, while Gu Yue privately reflected on Xiling's presence.

Xiling and the others entered the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform, where they were scattered across a primeval forest. Xiling effortlessly defeated attacking soul beasts, rescued Wang Jinxi from a Human-Faced Demon Spider, and left the others to face the trial themselves as Gu Yue explored the forest.

• Long Hengxu and Wu Zhangkong led the six students into the Spirit Ascension Platform, where staff revealed Xiling’s status as Lord Xiling and prepared six entry pods.
• The group was randomly scattered through a primeval forest, and Xiling destroyed a flock of Black Feather Birds with spatial power.
• Zhang Yangzi was eliminated, while Xiling moved through the air and dispatched attacking soul beasts with ease.
• A Human-Faced Demon Spider trapped Wang Jinxi, but Xiling killed it with the Subspace Spear and warned Wang Jinxi to rely on himself.
• Gu Yue wandered through the forest and admired the Spirit Ascension Platform, drawing on memories she had gained from Na'er.