Chapter Summaries

One year earlier, Gu Yue sealed her cultivation into a human body so she could infiltrate human society and learn about Soul Masters, Battle Armor, Soul Spirits, and the Spirit Pagoda. In the present, Xu Yuan and the Shrek team arrived in Skysea City for an Exhibition Match, while Shen Yi clarified which Tianhai Academy team they would face.

• Gu Yue told Di Tian that she needed to understand human society and seal her power to avoid exposing her identity as she sought to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• Gu Yue sensed an unusual aura near Aolai City and recalled that she had given Na Er the Silver Dragon Spear before Yun Ming and another person took Na Er as their disciple.
• Xu Yuan arrived at Skysea Station with the Shrek students and considered retrieving a Dark Gold Terrorclaw External Soul Bone from the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda.
• Shen Yi and the Shrek team met the Skysea Alliance organizers and traveled to the Grand Arena.
• Shen Yi rejected an Exhibition Match against Tianhai Academy's adult team and requested a match against its previous Youth Group champions instead.

Xu Yuan returned to Skysea City and learned that his uncle had found a Soul Spirit suited to his Heaven Origin Brush. The chapter ended as Xu Shengqun raised a book of materials to reveal what kind it was.

• Shen Yi persuaded the Governor to approve an Exhibition Match and offered the Skysea Alliance ten extra Inner Courtyard Special Admission Slots each year if Shrek lost.
• Yu Yuanfeng told the Governor that his Soul Power Level was forty-five.
• Shen Yi showed Xu Yuan, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi around the competition venue before the match began the day after tomorrow.
• Xu Yuan left to visit his uncle, Xu Shengqun, at the Xu Family home in Skysea City.
• Xu Shengqun told Xu Yuan that he had found a Soul Spirit for the Heaven Origin Brush, but it was not one of the types Xu Yuan had considered.
• Xu Shengqun raised the book of materials as Xu Yuan asked what kind of Soul Spirit it was.

Xu Yuan learned that Xu Shengqun had spent years researching a Paper Soul Spirit, including a possible way to make it from tangible energy paper with space powers. The idea gained promise through a space-attribute Paper Titled Douluo, and the chapter ended with Xu Shengqun surprised by Xu Yuan’s progress in spear techniques.

• Xu Shengqun told Xu Yuan that researchers had found a costly way to induce specially made paper into becoming a Soul Spirit, though its Soul Skills and advancement remained uncertain.
• Xu Shengqun explained that he had explored making paper from energy and Space Power, then revealed that a Paper Titled Douluo with a space-attribute Martial Soul could create temporary sheets of tangible energy paper.
• Xu Yuan became optimistic that a Paper Soul Spirit could help him record and develop his rune-drawing techniques with the Heaven Origin Brush.
• Xu Yuan demonstrated the first three absolutes of the Forbidden Arts Seven Absolutes, and Xu Shengqun was surprised by his progress.

Xu Yuan explained his progress with the Forbidden Arts Seven Absolutes, then joined Ye Xinglan in finding Xu Lizhi before the exhibition match. The Shrek Team faced Tianhai Academy’s previous Youth Group champions, and the crowd and Tang Wulin wondered whether the younger team could keep up.

• Xu Shengqun praised Xu Yuan’s mastery of the first three Forbidden Arts Seven Absolutes and offered to teach him techniques for controlling Spear Intent after the competition.
• Xu Yuan and Ye Xinglan found Xu Lizhi getting food from Tang Wulin and his friends, and Xu Yuan invited Tang Wulin to join them for a meal after the match.
• Xu Yuan noticed Gu Yue keeping her distance from Tang Wulin’s group and wondered what had changed their relationships.
• The host announced that seven Shrek Academy students under fifteen would face Tianhai Academy’s previous Youth Group champions in an exhibition match.
• Tang Wulin and the spectators were surprised by the age gap and questioned whether the Shrek Team could challenge the older champions.

Shrek Team defeated Tianhai Team in a one-minute rout, with Xu Yuan’s three purple Soul Rings drawing attention despite his barely having to act. Wu Zhangkong revealed that Xu Yuan and two other Shrek students were only ten years old, leaving Tang Wulin’s chances of becoming team leader in doubt.

• Xu Lizhi made recovery Big Meat Buns for his teammates, and Shrek Team released their Martial Souls as the match began.
• Yu Yuanfeng displayed a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and unleashed his Lightning Domain, but after one minute all seven Tianhai Team members lay defeated.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue discussed Tianhai Team’s strength, while Gu Yue declared that they would surpass them by the same age.
• Wu Zhangkong told Tang Wulin and the others that Xu Yuan, Xu Lizhi, and Ye Xinglan were all ten years old.
• Wu Zhangkong reconsidered whether Tang Wulin could compete with Xu Yuan for the leader’s position.

After the Exhibition Match, Xu Yuan treated the Shrek group to a seafood barbecue and Xu Lizhi brought Tang Wulin along. Shen Yi discovered Tang Wulin was Wu Zhangkong’s student, while Yu Yuanfeng recognized Wu Zhangkong’s name and learned that Tang Wulin was his disciple.

• The Shrek group finished its mission, and Xu Yuan invited them to a seafood restaurant in Skysea City.
• Xu Lizhi brought Tang Wulin to join the meal, and Xu Yuan encouraged him to eat freely.
• Shen Yi asked Tang Wulin about the Tianhai Competition and learned that he studied at Eastsea Academy under Wu Zhangkong.
• Shen Yi revealed that Wu Zhangkong was her senior brother, and Yu Yuanfeng recognized him as Heaven Ice Wu Zhangkong, a former Shrek Seven Devils candidate.
• Tang Wulin relaxed and ate voraciously, surprising Shen Yi and the others.

After sharing a huge meal with Xu Yuan and Xu Lizhi, Tang Wulin sought a way to learn Xu Yuan’s cultivation technique and instead challenged him to a tournament match. Xu Yuan accepted, and Tang Wulin returned to Wu Zhangkong to recount the evening.

• Tang Wulin, Xu Yuan, and Xu Lizhi each ate a third of a nearly two-hundred-jin tuna, impressing the others with their appetites.
• Xu Yuan suggested Tang Wulin had exceptional physical talent and mentioned a sect that suited him, but Tang Wulin said he had already joined the Tang Sect.
• Old Tang told Tang Wulin that Xu Yuan’s cultivation technique could greatly accelerate his blood essence growth, prompting Tang Wulin to look for a way to ask about it.
• Tang Wulin blurted out a challenge to Xu Yuan, then clarified that he wanted a fair three-on-three match at the tournament.
• Xu Yuan accepted the challenge and planned to use the fight to study Tang Wulin’s blood essence circulation.
• Tang Wulin returned to the hotel and told Wu Zhangkong what had happened, leaving Wu Zhangkong frowning in silence.

Tang Wulin learned why Xu Yuan’s three Thousand Year Soul Rings made him such a formidable opponent, but he still resolved to challenge him with Old Tang’s help. As Xu Yuan agreed to spar, Tang Wulin’s teammates questioned his decision, and Gu Yue warned that they knew nothing of Xu Yuan’s strength.

• Tang Wulin asked Wu Zhangkong about Xu Yuan, and Wu Zhangkong explained that Xu Yuan’s physical constitution must be extraordinary to withstand three Thousand Year Soul Rings at age ten.
• Tang Wulin insisted on fighting Xu Yuan, and Old Tang offered to temporarily double his bloodline power during the match.
• Tang Wulin worried that using Old Tang’s help would count as cheating and objected to using force to learn Xu Yuan’s cultivation method.
• Xu Yuan agreed to spar with Tang Wulin, while privately wondering why Tang Wulin had challenged him and sensing his embarrassment, guilt, and panic.
• Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan objected to Tang Wulin challenging a Soul Elder, and Gu Yue warned them that they knew nothing of Xu Yuan’s strength.

Gu Yue revealed that Xu Yuan’s Spiritual Power, Soul Rings, elemental affinity, and command of momentum made him too strong for her to fight, so she withdrew. Tang Wulin and the others arranged to face Xu Yuan at night and began planning around Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Staff.

• Gu Yue told Tang Wulin, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie that Xu Yuan had Spirit Sea Realm Spiritual Power, three thousand-year Soul Rings, and mastery of momentum.
• Gu Yue refused to fight Xu Yuan and advised the others to seek an evening match, when Xu Xiaoyan’s Star Staff could give them a chance.
• Tang Wulin agreed that Gu Yue would be suppressed and said the remaining three should fight Xu Yuan.
• Tang Wulin asked Xu Lizhi to arrange for Xu Yuan to join a team competing at night, and Xu Lizhi agreed.
• Tang Wulin began planning tactics with Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan, emphasizing that Xu Xiaoyan’s first Soul Skill needed to control Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan faced Tang Wulin in a challenge match and used his Brain Martial Soul to counter Xu Xiaoyan’s absolute control. After clashing with Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Claw, Xu Yuan discovered that its power could strengthen his Five Elements Spear Spirit, while Gu Yue considered having Xiong Jun test Tang Wulin.

• Xu Yuan agreed to face Tang Wulin’s team at night and planned to test his method against Xu Xiaoyan’s absolute-control skill.
• On the fourth day of the competition, Tang Wulin challenged Xu Yuan, and his two teammates left the arena to leave the match to them.
• Xu Yuan used Dream Realm Space and Mirage Bubble to create a false outer layer that made incoming energy attacks intangible.
• Tang Wulin activated his Golden Dragon Claw and clashed with Xu Yuan’s spear, while Gu Yue watched and considered asking Xiong Jun to test Tang Wulin.
• Xu Yuan learned that the Golden Dragon Claw’s shattering effect could temper the Five Elements Spear Spirit, and the spirit identified Tang Wulin’s Bloodline Power as being like a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure.

Xu Yuan used the Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear and his Dream Realm abilities to defeat Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan in a brief battle. After witnessing Xu Yuan’s strength, Old Tang urged Tang Wulin to befriend him and seek to learn his cultivation method.

• Xu Yuan recognized that Tang Wulin’s powerful Bloodline Power could be refined like medicinal energy, but he chose not to try devouring it during their battle.
• Xu Yuan countered Tang Wulin and Xie Xie with successive spear thrusts, then pulled Xie Xie into the Dream Realm Space with a glare.
• Xu Xiaoyan immobilized Xu Yuan with her Star Wheel skill, but a substitute shell continued the attack until Xu Yuan stopped his spear before Tang Wulin’s chest.
• Xu Yuan drew Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan into the Dream Realm Space and declared them defeated.
• Wu Zhangkong learned from Shen Yi that Xu Yuan had earned full marks in six consecutive Inner Courtyard assessments.
• Old Tang realized he had not detected Xu Yuan’s Brain Martial Soul or substitute shell, and advised Tang Wulin to befriend Xu Yuan and seek to learn his cultivation method.

Tang Wulin and his friends struggled to accept their crushing defeat by Xu Yuan, while Wu Zhangkong encouraged them to improve their Sub-Professions and become Battle Armor Masters. Tang Wulin then asked Wu Zhangkong to help him learn the cultivation method Xu Yuan and Xu Lizhi used.

• Tang Wulin lost some confidence in Old Tang after learning that he could not solve Tang Wulin's cultivation method problem, while Xu Yuan wondered whether Tang San had intervened to protect Tang Wulin from his Mental Soul Skill.
• Xu Yuan revealed his Twin Martial Souls to Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan, who remained dejected after their defeat.
• Wu Zhangkong told the three students that Xu Yuan's Sub-Profession was only third grade and urged them to catch up through their own Sub-Professions and Battle Armor.
• Tang Wulin asked Wu Zhangkong to investigate the origins of Xu Yuan and Xu Lizhi's cultivation method and help him negotiate to learn it.

Xu Yuan refused to trade his Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art to help Tang Wulin cultivate his bloodline, fearing the Tang Sect could misuse or claim the art. He still offered to discuss trading other things when Tang Wulin and Wu Zhangkong arrived.

• Wu Zhangkong learned from Shen Yi that Xu Yuan had developed the Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art himself and asked her to arrange a meeting.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Tang Wulin that acquiring a unique Ultimate Art would require an equivalent offer, and Tang Wulin struggled to think of one.
• Shen Yi told Xu Yuan that Tang Wulin needed his art for Bloodline Cultivation, and Xu Yuan refused the trade.
• Xu Yuan reasoned that the art could let someone devour Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline Power and worried the Tang Sect might exploit it.
• Xu Yuan told Shen Yi that he would not trade the Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art but had other things he could offer Tang Wulin.
• Wu Zhangkong and Tang Wulin arrived, and Xu Yuan restated his refusal while inviting them to discuss other terms.

Xu Yuan offered Tang Wulin a secret technique to fuse his vital energy with his True Dragon bloodline, and Tang Wulin chose to cultivate it despite the danger to his seals. Old Tang agreed to stabilize the seals by entering a true slumber, while Xu Yuan waited to hear what Tang Wulin would offer in return.

• Wu Zhangkong tried to persuade Xu Yuan to discuss Tang Wulin’s trade, but Xu Yuan said the Body Sect’s rules prevented him from sharing the Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art with outsiders.
• Xu Yuan offered Tang Wulin a Fusion Secret Technique that could help merge his vital energy with his True Dragon Type Bloodline Power.
• Old Tang warned Tang Wulin that the technique could destabilize his Golden Dragon King seals, then offered to stabilize them by falling into a true slumber.
• Tang Wulin chose to cultivate the technique because he felt too weak, and Old Tang told him to continue negotiating with Xu Yuan.
• Xu Yuan waited as Tang Wulin asked what he wanted in exchange for the secret technique.

Xu Yuan arranged for Tang Wulin to help develop a Body Sect secret technique and then traveled to Eastsea City to seek the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the Spirit Ascension Platform. The chapter ended as the bear attacked Xu Yuan and Wu Zhangkong shielded the Zero Class students from its claw lights.

• Xu Yuan asked Tang Wulin to serve as a reference for his Vital Energy Martial Soul secret technique, assist with forging using the Golden Dragon Claw, and keep the technique secret.
• Old Tang assessed the secret technique and told Tang Wulin to wait before cultivating it, while Gu Yue noticed that the Divine Sense protecting Tang Wulin had disappeared and planned to test whether it was truly gone.
• Xu Yuan entered the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda’s Primary Spirit Ascension Platform and spent five days hunting Soul Beasts, increasing the cultivation of his three Soul Rings by five hundred years each.
• After failing to find the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Xu Yuan threatened to enter the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, and the bear suddenly appeared and attacked.
• Wu Zhangkong sensed the danger and used his Soul Power to shield himself and the Zero Class students from the bear’s claw lights.

Xiong Jun’s attack on Tang Wulin’s train was stopped by a Clear Sky Hammer powerhouse, while Gu Yue inferred Tang Wulin’s connection to Tang San and left with her allies. In the Spirit Ascension Platform, Xu Yuan fought a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and resolved to forge its claws into his Five Elements Spear Spirit.

• Xiong Jun’s five Dark Gold Terror Claws nearly destroyed the Soul Train, but a Clear Sky Hammer powerhouse intervened and forced him to retreat.
• Di Tian told Gu Yue that the rescuer belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, and Gu Yue concluded Tang Wulin was tied to Tang San and the God Realm.
• Gu Yue left the scene, while Tang Wulin and the others returned to Eastsea City without learning who had attacked them.
• Xu Yuan clashed with a hundred-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the Spirit Ascension Platform and decided to fuse its claws into his Five Elements Spear Spirit.
• Xu Yuan and the bear’s attacks met evenly, and Xu Yuan entered an unprecedented state of perception as his spear strikes grew stronger.

Xu Yuan killed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, absorbed its right palm bone, and recovered from the painful fusion. At Eastsea Academy, he learned that the seniors he was expecting had been delayed by a terrorist attack on their Soul Train.

• Xu Yuan entered a state of unity with the Five Elements Spear Spirit and killed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear with a spear thrust to its neck.
• Xu Yuan found the bear’s dark gold right palm bone and absorbed it, enduring the pain as his blood and qi rebuilt his shattered bone around the Dark Gold Terror Claw.
• Yaoyao used Dream Realm Space to help Xu Yuan recover, and he left the Spirit Pagoda after half an hour.
• Xu Yuan arrived at Eastsea Academy, where Director Long welcomed him and explained that a terrorist attack had delayed the seniors’ return to Eastsea City.

Xu Yuan learned that Xiong Jun had attacked the Soul Train and waited for Tang Wulin to return before helping him master the Fusion Secret Technique. After Old Tang fell dormant, Xu Yuan began testing whether Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon Claw could help forge the Dark Gold Terrorclaw into his bloodline and Five Elements Spear Spirit.

• Director Long told Xu Yuan that five dark gold beams had attacked the Soul Train, injuring Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan, and Xu Yuan suspected Xiong Jun had launched them.
• Xu Yuan spent two days studying the Dark Gold Terror Claw and planning how to integrate it into the Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear.
• Tang Wulin and the other Zero Class members returned, and Xu Yuan offered to guide Tang Wulin through the Fusion Secret Technique.
• Tang Wulin successfully attempted the Fusion Secret Technique, and Old Tang briefly awakened before warning him about Xu Yuan’s techniques and falling dormant.
• Ten days later, Xu Yuan asked Tang Wulin to test the Golden Dragon Claw’s pulverizing effect against his Dark Gold Terror Claw and began directing the collisions with his Five Elements Power.

Xu Yuan fused the Dark Gold Terror Claw into his Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear while Tang Wulin struck it with his Golden Dragon Claw, and Tang Wulin gained insight into Thousand Refined First Grade forging. After the fusion, Xu Yuan planned to certify as a Fourth Grade Forging Master at the Eastsea Forging Master Association.

• Xu Yuan urged Tang Wulin to repeatedly strike his Dark Gold Terror Claw, using the impacts and his cultivation art to fuse the soul bone with his Bloodline Power and Five Elements Spear Spirit.
• Tang Wulin realized Xu Yuan was integrating the Dark Gold Terror Claw into both his Bloodline Power and spear, while he and Xu Yuan entered a forging state and deepened their understanding of Thousand Refined First Grade.
• Xu Yuan used Mental Link to help Tang Wulin sense the forging, and Tang Wulin reached the threshold of Thousand Refined First Grade.
• After the final strike, Xu Yuan's Dark Gold Terror Claw condensed into the dark-gold Heaven Origin Five Elements Spear.
• Xu Yuan secretly drew some of Tang Wulin's Bloodline Power into the Dream Realm Space for research and told him he would seek Fourth Grade Forging Master certification in Eastsea City.

Xu Yuan earned Fourth Grade Forging Master certification in Eastsea City by forging Thousand Refined First Grade Sinking Silver, while Mu Chen recognized his Auxiliary Forging Method and learned he was from the Body Sect. Tang Wulin revealed that he could also achieve Thousand Refined First Grade, and Zhen Hua waited in vain for Mu Chen to call.

• Xu Yuan registered for Fourth Grade Forging Master certification at the Eastsea City Forging Master Association, where Mu Chen oversaw his assessment.
• Xu Yuan forged Sinking Silver to Thousand Refined First Grade, and Mu Chen recognized the forging inheritance as the Auxiliary Forging Method.
• Xu Yuan told Mu Chen that he had learned from his martial uncle and was from the Body Sect, then left the association.
• Mu Chen urged Tang Wulin to work harder, and Tang Wulin revealed that he could also forge Thousand Refined First Grade.
• Zhen Hua learned that Mu Chen had personally overseen Tang Wulin's assessment, but Mu Chen did not call him back.