Chapter Summaries

After Long Yeyue attacked him, Xiling revealed that the Golden Ancient Tree had willingly given him its energy and unleashed peak quasi-god-level power. He spared Long Yeyue’s life but struck through her strongest defense, leaving the outcome of the blow unresolved.

• Xiling withstood Long Yeyue’s attack unharmed as Wu Zhangkong, Tang Wulin, Yun Ming, Ya Li, Na'er, and the Sea God Pavilion elders gathered.
• Xiling told Yun Ming that he had reached an agreement with the Golden Ancient Tree and condemned Long Yeyue for trying to kill him before learning the truth.
• Xiling activated his six soul rings and released pressure that the elders recognized as peak quasi-god-level, overwhelming Long Yeyue and the surrounding area.
• Yun Ming apologized on Long Yeyue’s behalf and tried to mediate, while Xiling said he would spare her life for the Golden Ancient Tree and Na'er’s sake.
• Xiling sent a spatial longsword at Long Yeyue, whose Yin-Yang Vastness defense failed to impede it as the sword passed through.

Xiling overwhelmed Long Yeyue with his spatial powers, piercing her Light-Dark Holy Dragon and shattering her Battle Armor before she launched a final attack. Leng Yaozhu and Bella arrived as Xiling was swallowed by Long Yeyue’s strike, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Long Yeyue countered Xiling’s attack with Two Extremes Explosion, but the clash left her stunned by his strength.
• Xiling isolated the battlefield with Spatial Severing and sent six Subspace Spears through Long Yeyue’s Light-Dark Holy Dragon and Battle Armor.
• Long Yeyue was badly wounded and knocked backward, while Bella stopped Yun Ming from interfering and Leng Yaozhu arrived to watch the fight.
• Long Yeyue unleashed Light-Dark Silence at Xiling, who did not dodge as the attack swallowed him and struck the spatial barrier.
• Long Yeyue rose from the ground and believed Xiling could not have survived her attack.

Xiling defeated Long Yeyue after she attacked him, then explained the misunderstanding and accepted Shrek Academy’s compensation. He left with Leng Yaozhu after Shrek apologized and Long Yeyue’s injuries were treated.

• Xiling revealed that the apparent figure was a spatial projection, and Long Yeyue collapsed after his spatial power shattered much of her Battle Armor and seriously injured her.
• Leng Yaozhu and Bella stood by Xiling as he explained how Long Yeyue had attacked him, while Tang Wulin and Wu Zhangkong reacted with shock at his strength.
• Ya Li healed Long Yeyue, and Yun Ming recognized that Shrek had no grounds to demand an explanation from Xiling.
• Na'er checked that Xiling was safe, and he urged her not to get involved in the dispute.
• Yun Ming apologized and offered two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones and one billion Federation credits, which Xiling accepted before leaving with Leng Yaozhu.

Xiling found that his cultivation had stalled at Soul Power Level sixty-nine and wondered whether the Cosmic Will was behind it. Before Shrek Academy reopened, he met Tang Wulin and Luo Guixing, who arranged a friendly class match, then encountered an exhausted Xie Xie.

• Xiling realized that no normal cultivation method could raise his Soul Power Level beyond sixty-nine and considered using Honkai Energy to advance.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to support Xiling, but he left before she could tell him that he had been selected as a reserve Spirit Envoy.
• Xiling met Tang Wulin at the work-study dormitory, where Luo Guixing invited Tang Wulin's class to a friendly match the next afternoon; Tang Wulin accepted.
• Xie Xie arrived looking exhausted from training with Liang Xiaoyu, and Xiling teased him about his determination to marry Yuanen Yehui.

Xiling reflected on seeking the truth, then became the teaching assistant for Tang Wulin's class at Shrek Academy. The chapter ended as Tang Wulin's team and Luo Guixing's team began their friendly match.

• Xiling watched Xie Xie train and wash, then stood alone on a cliff and decided it might be time to seek the truth.
• At Shrek Academy's opening ceremony, Xiling listened to Cai Yue'er before Shen Yi assigned the class training to begin attempting one-word Battle Armor.
• Wu Zhangkong introduced Xiling as the class's new teaching assistant, prompting doubts from the students and quiet confidence from Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin reminded Luo Guixing of their arranged match, and both teams gathered at the competition platform that afternoon.
• Wu Zhangkong started the match between Tang Wulin's five-person team and Luo Guixing's five-person team.

Xu Xiaoyan overwhelmed Luo Guixing’s team with her Stellar Domain, star restraints, and powerful spear attacks, winning the match in under a minute. She became known as the Starlight Goddess, while Xiling quietly watched her victory and left.

• Xu Xiaoyan opened the match by trapping Luo Guixing in her Stellar Domain and knocking him out with Heavenly Star Throw.
• Wu Sidu, Xu Yucheng, and Yang Nianxia attacked Xu Xiaoyan while Zheng Yiran used poisonous mist to hinder Tang Wulin’s group.
• Xu Xiaoyan immobilized the four attackers with Brilliant Starlight and eliminated them one by one with her star spear.
• Luo Guixing conceded defeat and admitted his team had underestimated Xu Xiaoyan.
• Xu Xiaoyan gained the nickname Starlight Goddess, and Xiling watched her triumph before quietly disappearing.

After Xu Xiaoyan's victory made her famous, Xiling appeared in class and reassured her with a look of approval. He challenged the students who doubted his qualifications, then revealed six purple-gold soul rings and an overwhelming aura, leaving the class under pressure.

• Xu Xiaoyan felt disappointed that Xiling had not watched her win, despite the Outer Court celebrating her performance.
• Xiling arrived during class and gave Xu Xiaoyan an approving look, dispelling her doubts.
• Xiling invited anyone who considered him unqualified to step forward, but the students stayed silent.
• A student reminded the class that Xiling ranked first on the Young Genius Ranking, though many still doubted his reputation.
• Xiling revealed six purple-gold soul rings and released an aura that overwhelmed the class, making Luo Guixing's martial soul submit.

Xiling’s appearance stunned the students, and Xie Xie revealed that Xiling had taught Xu Xiaoyan how to transform her abilities. Wu Zhangkong hired Xiling to teach the class, and Xiling agreed only on the condition that he could reshape their lessons and remove Shrek Glory from their hearts; Shen Yi objected as soon as she heard.

• After class, Xie Xie told Luo Guixing and the others that Xiling had taught Xu Xiaoyan everything behind her recent improvement, and Xu Xiaoyan confirmed it.
• Xie Xie recalled that Xiling had suppressed Wu Zhangkong in battle as a child and urged the students to watch recordings of the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that he wanted Xiling to help the students learn the Four Major Sub-Professions without slowing their cultivation.
• Xiling agreed to teach the class if the academy provided every resource he needed, gave him control over future lessons, and let him remove Shrek Glory from the students’ hearts.
• Wu Zhangkong accepted Xiling’s conditions, but Shen Yi objected strongly to removing Shrek Glory.

Xiling took charge of Class One, Grade One and explained that combining theory with practical work would improve the students’ learning and leave more time for cultivation. He then condemned Shrek’s glory as a force that enslaved students’ minds, provoking nearly the entire class to rise in defense of it.

• Wu Zhangkong told Shen Yi that Shrek Academy was a place to educate and nurture people, not merely preserve its glory.
• Xiling arrived to teach Class One, Grade One, while Wu Zhangkong sat at the back to observe.
• Luo Guixing asked whether students could keep up with combined theory and practical lessons, and Xiling said applying knowledge as they learned it would save time.
• Xiling began his lesson by calling Shrek’s glory worthless and arguing that it bound students’ lives and standards of conduct to the academy.
• Ye Xinglan and another student angrily defended Shrek’s glory, and nearly the whole class stood up to oppose Xiling.

Xiling challenged the students’ devotion to Shrek by questioning their absolute condemnation of Evil Soul Masters and revealing that Ma Xiaotao had once become one. His comparison left the class unable to reconcile Shrek’s treatment of Ma Xiaotao with the judgments they had just voiced.

• Xiling told the class that their angry defense of Shrek’s glory showed they had been conditioned to uphold it without understanding what it meant.
• Ye Xinglan and most of the students declared that anyone who became an Evil Soul Master deserved to die, regardless of the circumstances.
• Xiling described how Ma Xiaotao became a Dark Phoenix and an Evil Soul Master before Huo Yuhao rescued her and she later rose to a revered position at Shrek.
• Ye Xinglan defended Ma Xiaotao by saying she had been controlled and her circumstances were understandable.
• Xiling asked whether Shrek students received understanding while outsiders were condemned, leaving the class silent and their faith in Shrek’s glory shaken.

Xiling challenged Grade One Class One’s judgment of Evil Soul Masters by contrasting Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya, then used an illusion to make the students experience persecution for possessing dark-attribute Martial Souls. The students remained unconscious as Wu Zhangkong questioned whether the fabricated experience would change their views.

• Xiling cited Tang Ya’s voluntary transformation into an Evil Soul Master and asked whether the students still believed every Evil Soul Master deserved to die.
• Xiling argued that Shrek Academy’s glory came from its talented students and challenged their devotion to the academy.
• Xiling used spatial and spiritual power to cast the students into an illusion, giving them new identities as kind-hearted people with dark-attribute Martial Souls.
• In the illusion, a Shrek Soul Master killed the students’ parents because of their Martial Souls, and members of the Holy Spirit Cult saved them.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Xiling what he had done and whether the illusion would matter after the students woke up; Xiling said their experienced pain would leave a lasting impression.

After Xiling’s illusion forced Grade One Class One to question Shrek’s treatment of Dark Martial Soul possessors, he left Wu Zhangkong to handle the fallout. The next day, Cai Yue'er suspended Wu Zhangkong’s teaching authority and ordered him to answer to the Sea God Pavilion.

• Xiling ended the illusion, leaving the students unsettled and questioning Shrek’s policies toward Dark Martial Soul possessors.
• Na'er arrived to become Xiling’s student, then sparred with him at Spirit Ice Plaza and showed formidable Golden Dragon King strength and spear skill.
• Wu Zhangkong brought Grade One Class One to Spirit Ice Plaza for their next lesson, where Cai Yue'er arrived instead of Xiling.
• Cai Yue'er accused Wu Zhangkong of failing to stop Xiling’s criticism of Shrek and suspended his authority pending an investigation.
• Cai Yue'er ordered Wu Zhangkong to accompany her to the Sea God Pavilion.

Xiling stopped Cai Yue'er from confronting Wu Zhangkong, sent her to the Far North, and took his stunned students to meet those he had fought in the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament. Cai Yue'er landed in a crater surrounded by powerful Honkai Beasts, while Xiling's class continued.

• Xiling appeared beside Wu Zhangkong, froze Cai Yue'er, and blasted her away to the Far North after claiming responsibility for his lesson.
• Xiling explained to the shocked students that his place on the Wind and Cloud Ranking reflected his strength, then led them to meet the tournament opponents whose Inner Court prospects Cai Yue'er had restricted.
• Cai Yue'er fell into a deep crater in the Far North and, injured and furious, realized several powerful Honkai Beasts were closing in.
• Dozens of Honkai Beasts charged Cai Yue'er as she raised her silver moon and fought back.

Xiling led Wu Zhangkong and the students through Shrek City while discussing why Shrek Academy could not reform without risking destruction. He brought them to confront the young Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon wielder who had lost to him, and the students learned that Elder Cai had stripped the young man of his chance to enter the Inner Court.

• Xiling concealed the group in a spatial layer and led them toward Shrek's outer city.
• Xiling told Wu Zhangkong that Shrek Academy's power and privileges made reform unlikely, and that giving them up could bring its destruction.
• Wu Zhangkong acknowledged Xiling's reasoning but silently held on to his hope for reform.
• Xiling brought the group to a courtyard and knocked on the door of the young man who had represented Shrek Academy at the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament.
• The young man confronted Xiling about his loss and revealed that Elder Cai had stripped him of his Inner Court qualifications; the students were shocked by the punishment.

Xiling took Grade One Class One to confront former Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament participants whose Inner Court qualifications had been revoked, prompting the students to question Shrek’s infallibility. He later taught the class his newly named Heavenly Mysterious Skill, which Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan recognized as essentially the Tang Sect’s Mysterious Heaven Skill.

• Xiling brought his students to visit the former tournament participants, who blamed him for their revoked Inner Court qualifications and their families abandoning them.
• Xu Xiaoyan and the other students grew angry at the participants’ claims that Shrek and Elder Cai were blameless, while the class began to question whether they might adopt the same attitude.
• After returning to the academy, the students looked to Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi for reassurance, but their silence confirmed the visits had not been staged.
• Xiling attended a Spirit Pagoda meeting to become a reserve Spirit Envoy, then returned to teaching Grade One Class One as usual.
• Xiling taught the class the Heavenly Mysterious Skill and said its effects rivaled the Tang Sect’s Mysterious Heaven Skill.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan realized the new method was essentially the Mysterious Heaven Skill under a rearranged name, and Xiling told the class to test it through meditation.

Xiling taught Grade One Class One the renamed Mysterious Heaven Skill and trained them to open their Eight Extraordinary Meridians. When Cai Yue'er returned from the Far North gravely wounded and carrying an aura of Honkai, Xiling rushed there to investigate.

• Xiling taught the class the Mysterious Heaven Skill under the name Heavenly Mysterious Skill, explaining that he had not finished his research into safely improving it.
• Na'er began attending Xiling's lessons, and Xiling later hid her in a spatial layer when her presence distracted the students.
• Grade One Class One began weekly Infinite Corridor sessions, while Na'er trained by sparring with Xiling and Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi stopped attending his classes.
• Yun Ming returned Cai Yue'er to Shrek Academy badly injured, with her Battle Armor shattered and her life barely holding on.
• Xiling sensed Honkai around Cai Yue'er, told Wu Zhangkong he had urgent business, and vanished to the Far North, where he saw Honkai Beasts patrolling beneath the snow.

Xiling discovered that Honkai Energy had spawned a horde of Honkai Beasts in the Far North and realized it had already spread into Douluo Star’s earth veins. After leaving Bella to manage the region, he began traveling across the continent to investigate further outbreaks.

• Xiling subdued the Honkai Beasts with his Herrscher aura and realized they had overwhelmed Cai Yue'er through their numbers and Honkai corrosion.
• Xiling spotted a concealed observer from the Holy Spirit Cult and struck them with the Subspace Spear, causing a massive explosion.
• Xiling concluded that Honkai Energy had invaded Douluo Star’s earth veins and that a Honkai eruption was only a matter of time.
• Bella arrived after Xiling departed and accepted his order to oversee the Far North, seeking help from the Northern Legion if needed.
• Xiling informed Leng Yaozhu, Gu Yue, Na'er, and Wu Zhangkong that he would be away, then set out to inspect the continent.

After investigating Douluo Star, Xiling explained Honkai and its threats to Leng Yaozhu, then traveled to Skysea City to join the Federation delegation bound for Star Luo Continent. He arrived at the hotel assembly point, where Pan Wen was waiting for him.

• After half a year of investigating Douluo Star, Xiling received the Federation's request to lead a delegation to Star Luo Continent and decided to accept after returning to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xiling gave Leng Yaozhu a booklet about Honkai and explained that the Far North monsters were Honkai Beasts born from Honkai Energy.
• Xiling warned Leng Yaozhu that stronger Honkai Beasts and Herrschers would emerge, and that even gods might struggle against them.
• After leaving the Spirit Pagoda, Xiling headed to Skysea City, believing humanity needed a chance to prepare for Honkai, which he had brought into the world.
• Xiling arrived at Skysea Hotel, where Pan Wen was waiting for the Federation delegation to assemble before traveling to Star Luo Continent.

Xiling joined the Federation delegation as its leader for a diplomatic visit to the Star Luo Continent, while Gu Yue arranged to accompany him. After the delegations gathered, they boarded ships for the voyage, where Xiling planned to meet Shrek Academy’s group.

• Xiling met Secretary-General Pan Wen, who welcomed him as the Federation’s delegation leader and offered to handle the political negotiations.
• Gu Yue visited Xiling at his hotel and revealed that she intended to travel with him to the Star Luo Continent.
• Three days later, Pan Wen organized the Federation and Star Luo delegations into buses and led them to the docks.
• Xiling and Gu Yue boarded one of the ships with Pan Wen, who invited them to visit Shrek Academy’s delegation.
• Xiling agreed to meet Shrek Academy’s group, which was led by Cai Yue'er and included Tang Wulin and the other students; the two ships carried members of both delegations together.

Xiling and Gu Yue reunited with Shrek Academy’s delegation as it boarded an ocean liner bound for the Star Luo Continent, where Xiling was introduced as the Federation’s youngest major general. After the students settled aboard, Xie Xie provoked Star Luo Royal Academy students, sparking a confrontation.

• Pan Wen told Cai Yue'er that Shrek Academy would travel with Star Luo Royal Academy students aboard an ocean liner, and Cai Yue'er mocked the arrangement.
• Xiling and Gu Yue arrived, and Pan Wen introduced Xiling as the Federation delegation leader and its youngest major general.
• Xiling brushed off questions about his six-month absence as the group boarded and received cabin keys; Cai Yue'er left after seeing him.
• A short Star Luo Royal Academy student insulted Shrek’s uniforms, and Xie Xie answered with an insult.
• The short student charged, but Yue Zhengyu collided with him after Xie Xie shoved Yue Zhengyu forward, and Xie Xie joked that he was using a teammate’s strengths.