Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin left Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan with the restaurant bill, and Xu Lizhi took the blame rather than reveal the truth. Ye Xinglan tried to find a way to pay and vowed to punish Tang Wulin if she saw him again, while Tang Wulin anticipated their next meeting would be awkward.

• Tang Wulin made an elegant excuse and left with Xie Xie, leaving Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan behind.
• After finishing his meal, Xu Lizhi called for the bill, and Ye Xinglan realized Tang Wulin had not paid.
• Xu Lizhi concealed that he had been treating Tang Wulin and let Ye Xinglan believe Tang Wulin had tricked them.
• Ye Xinglan discovered that neither she nor Xu Lizhi had enough money and prepared to call their teacher for help.
• Tang Wulin sneezed, guessed Ye Xinglan was cursing him, and thought their next meeting would be awkward.

Tang Wulin accompanied Donghai Academy to the Heavensea Alliance Grand Competition, where Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan shocked the crowd by revealing their thousand-year Soul Rings. As the team prepared for its first match, Ye Xinglan appeared and challenged Tang Wulin to fight.

• Xie Xie asked Tang Wulin about Ye Xinglan and her companion, and Tang Wulin said they were new acquaintances from another academy.
• Tang Wulin arrived at the crowded competition venue with Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie, then took a seat as a substitute.
• Donghai Academy was called to face Jianghai Academy in the Youth Division's first 3v3 match, and spectators questioned why such young students were competing.
• Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan revealed purple thousand-year Soul Rings, stunning the audience and Jianghai Academy's team.
• Ye Xinglan approached Tang Wulin and demanded that he fight her.

Tang Wulin met Ye Xinglan at the junior division competition just as Eastsea Class Zero defeated Riversea City Academy’s team. After spectators and representatives marveled at the victory, Tang Wulin teased Ye Xinglan and claimed he was only an ordinary substitute who was too weak to compete.

• Ye Xinglan found Tang Wulin at the competition venue, and he said they could fight later.
• Eastsea Class Zero’s Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie defeated Riversea City Academy’s team without Tang Wulin competing.
• The referee declared Eastsea Academy the winner, and spectators and representatives praised the team’s strength and predicted Shrek Academy would take notice.
• Tang Wulin explained that the opponents were weak, then told Ye Xinglan he was an ordinary substitute who lacked the strength to compete.

Ye Xinglan challenged Tang Wulin to a fight, and Gu Yue grew hostile when she learned about it before accepting Tang Wulin’s reassurance that Ye Xinglan could not beat him. The two substitutes met at an arena, where Ye Xinglan asserted Shrek Academy’s superiority and Tang Wulin said he needed only one sword to defeat her.

• Ye Xinglan challenged Tang Wulin, and he casually agreed to fight her.
• Xu Lizhi arrived, apologized inwardly to Tang Wulin for an earlier incident, and failed to persuade Ye Xinglan to reconsider the fight.
• Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan joined Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue became hostile when she heard Ye Xinglan wanted to fight him.
• Tang Wulin reassured Gu Yue that Ye Xinglan could not beat him, and the group went to an arena.
• Ye Xinglan identified herself as a Shrek Academy substitute and claimed there was no comparison between them, while Tang Wulin said he needed one sword to defeat her.

Tang Wulin challenged Ye Xinglan to a sword duel and defeated her by breaking her Stargod Sword with his Life Sword. The chapter ended with Ye Xinglan shocked by his strength as Tang Wulin declared that one strike had been enough.

• Ye Xinglan summoned her Stargod Sword and challenged Tang Wulin, confident in her swordsmanship and Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Tang Wulin produced the Life Sword, whose aura surpassed the Stargod Sword, while Gu Yue and the others watched.
• Ye Xinglan attacked with her first soul skill, but Tang Wulin effortlessly blocked her strikes without counterattacking.
• Tang Wulin told Ye Xinglan she only needed to hurt him to win, prompting her to demand that he draw his sword.
• Tang Wulin unleashed the Life Sword in a single strike and shattered Ye Xinglan's Stargod Sword.

Tang Wulin defeated Ye Xinglan with a single sword strike, shattering her Martial Soul and her confidence. Ye Xinglan refused his offer to exchange contact information, but turned back when she learned Xu Lizhi had treated Tang Wulin to the meal she thought Tang Wulin had skipped paying for.

• Tang Wulin defeated Ye Xinglan with one sword strike, breaking her sword and shattering her Martial Soul.
• Ye Xinglan admitted Tang Wulin was strong, while Tang Wulin tried to comfort her and wondered if his healing power could repair her Martial Soul.
• Tang Wulin asked Ye Xinglan to exchange contact information and offered to treat her to a meal, but she rejected him because she still believed he had left without paying before.
• Tang Wulin explained that Xu Lizhi had treated him to the previous meal, prompting Ye Xinglan to turn back and demand an explanation.
• Tang Wulin froze as he realized Xu Lizhi's role in Ye Xinglan's misunderstanding.

Ye Xinglan confronted Tang Wulin over conflicting accounts of who paid for a meal, and Xu Lizhi confessed that he had lied to avoid being scolded. After Ye Xinglan apologized to Tang Wulin and announced she would beat him next time at Shrek Academy, she ran back to exchange contact information with him.

• Ye Xinglan questioned Tang Wulin after learning that Xu Lizhi had treated him to a meal instead of the other way around.
• Xu Lizhi arrived and, pressed by Ye Xinglan, admitted he had lied about Tang Wulin paying because he feared her anger.
• Ye Xinglan condemned Xu Lizhi for making her attack and accuse Tang Wulin, then apologized to Tang Wulin for wronging him.
• Tang Wulin teased Ye Xinglan about being unable to beat him, and she said she would defeat him when they met again at Shrek Academy.
• Ye Xinglan turned back as she was leaving and asked Tang Wulin to exchange contact information.

Tang Wulin exchanged contact information with Ye Xinglan after their duel, while questioning whether Xu Lizhi could become a future companion. The group then joined Wu Zhangkong, where they unexpectedly met Ye Xinglan again after she revealed that her Stargod Sword Martial Soul had been shattered.

• Ye Xinglan asked Tang Wulin to exchange contact information, and he agreed while inviting her to visit Eastsea Academy.
• Ye Xinglan left with Xu Lizhi trailing behind, and Tang Wulin credited Xu Lizhi’s actions for helping them become friends while doubting his suitability as a future companion.
• Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan questioned Tang Wulin about exchanging numbers, and he explained that he wanted to build connections and spar with Shrek Academy students.
• Gu Yue told Tang Wulin and the others that Wu Zhangkong wanted to introduce them to talented geniuses at the competition venue.
• Shen Yi reunited with her senior brother Wu Zhangkong, then Ye Xinglan arrived and showed them her shattered Stargod Sword Martial Soul.
• Tang Wulin entered the private room with his companions, saw Ye Xinglan again, and remarked on their repeated encounter.

Tang Wulin and his classmates met Shen Yi, Ye Xinglan, and Xu Lizhi, whom Wu Zhangkong introduced as young Shrek Academy geniuses. The reunion left Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi awkwardly confronting their history with Tang Wulin.

• Tang Wulin led Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie into the room, where Wu Zhangkong and Shen Yi waited with Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi.
• Wu Zhangkong introduced Shen Yi as a Shrek Academy teacher and Soul Sage, and presented Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi as young geniuses entering the academy.
• Tang Wulin and his classmates introduced themselves, while Ye Xinglan recognized Tang Wulin as the person she had challenged and failed to defeat.
• Xu Lizhi introduced his bun Martial Soul and offered to treat everyone to meat buns, but Tang Wulin responded coolly.

Tang Wulin revealed that he was a healing-type Soul Master after Ye Xinglan learned he had shattered her Martial Soul, then helped her during her stay in Skysea City. After the Heavensea Alliance Grand Competition ended, Ye Xinglan prepared to return to Shrek Academy and challenged Tang Wulin to defeat her when they met again.

• Tang Wulin and Ye Xinglan’s earlier conflict came up, and Shen Yi arranged for the Eastsea students to show the Shrek visitors around.
• Ye Xinglan revealed that Tang Wulin had shattered her Martial Soul, and Tang Wulin demonstrated his healing ability with his Blue Silver Emperor.
• Gu Yue led Eastsea City’s youth division to the championship, while Xu Xiaoyu’s young adult division placed third in the Heavensea Alliance Grand Competition.
• Tang Wulin spent more time with Ye Xinglan as the competition continued and ended.
• Ye Xinglan said she was returning to Shrek Academy, invited Tang Wulin to study there, and vowed to defeat him when they met again.

After the Skysea Alliance Grand Competition, Tang Wulin returned to Eastsea City with Wu Zhangkong and his classmates and began considering what to do next. He decided that staying in Eastsea City was not enough, though the chapter did not reveal his destination.

• Gu Yue questioned Tang Wulin about seeing Ye Xinglan off, and Xu Xiaoyan agreed that his intentions seemed suspicious.
• Two days later, Wu Zhangkong, Tang Wulin, and the others returned to Eastsea City after winning first place in the junior division and third place in the youth division.
• Wu Zhangkong praised the students’ performance and urged them to keep training, then gave them two days to rest.
• Tang Wulin wondered whether he should leave Eastsea City to pursue greater growth, and he ultimately made a decision that went against his ancestors.

After Tang Wulin left Donghai Academy to seek new opportunities, he used his Spacetime Power to travel sixty years into the past. He landed in the Spirit Pagoda garden, where he encountered a young Leng Yaozhu.

• Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie learned from Wu Zhangkong that Tang Wulin had left them a farewell letter before setting out to travel the world.
• Gu Yue worried about Tang Wulin traveling alone, while Xu Xiaoyan and Xie Xie regretted that he had not taken them with him.
• Tang Wulin returned to Mang Tian's Forging Workshop and activated his Spacetime Power to travel to a time within a thousand years in the past.
• Tang Wulin arrived in the Spirit Pagoda garden sixty years earlier and found Leng Yaozhu meditating there.
• Leng Yaozhu identified the location as the Spirit Pagoda and demanded to know where Tang Wulin had come from.

Tang Wulin accidentally traveled to the era when Leng Yaozhu was young and encountered her in the Spirit Pagoda’s forest. Leng Yaozhu challenged him to prove his strength, and he quickly defeated her, leaving her crouched on the ground in despair.

• Leng Yaozhu questioned Tang Wulin about how he had entered the Spirit Pagoda’s territory.
• Tang Wulin recognized Leng Yaozhu and realized he had traveled to the era of the previous generation’s youth.
• Tang Wulin claimed he had wandered into the forest while training, but Leng Yaozhu did not believe him.
• Leng Yaozhu challenged Tang Wulin to a fight to test whether he was qualified to train there.
• Tang Wulin defeated Leng Yaozhu, who crouched on the ground drawing circles in depression.

Tang Wulin sparred with Leng Yaozhu and easily defeated her by resisting her fire and overpowering her with his Elemental Dragon King Martial Soul. Qiangu Dongfeng arrived and was stunned to find Tang Wulin with her.

• Leng Yaozhu released her Sky Wind Martial Soul and challenged Tang Wulin to fight.
• Tang Wulin formed a hammer from the Blue Silver Emperor and let Leng Yaozhu attack him.
• Leng Yaozhu's phoenix flames vanished against Tang Wulin, and he dodged or shrugged off her attacks before striking her repeatedly with the hammer.
• Tang Wulin revealed his Elemental Dragon King Martial Soul and summoned a Fire Dragon, prompting Leng Yaozhu to concede.
• Qiangu Dongfeng arrived to see Tang Wulin beside Leng Yaozhu and demanded to know who he was.

Tang Wulin met Qiangu Dongfeng, who arrived to train with Leng Yaozhu, and introduced himself as her friend. Leng Yaozhu reluctantly accepted the label while Qiangu Dongfeng reacted with jealousy and offered to be Tang Wulin’s friend.

• Qiangu Dongfeng arrived in the forest to train with Leng Yaozhu, who was annoyed by his attention.
• Tang Wulin recognized Qiangu Dongfeng as the future Spirit Pagoda Master and wondered who he was in this era.
• Qiangu Dongfeng saw Tang Wulin beside Leng Yaozhu and angrily asked who he was.
• Tang Wulin introduced himself as Leng Yaozhu’s friend, and she reluctantly accepted the claim.
• Qiangu Dongfeng grew jealous when he heard Tang Wulin call himself her friend, then introduced himself and claimed Tang Wulin as his friend.

Tang Wulin met Qiangu Dongfeng, resisted his spiritual probe, and gained Spirit Transmission Power from the system. When Qiangu Dongfeng challenged him with his Break Evil Dragon, Tang Wulin’s Fire Dragon subdued it, leaving Qiangu stunned.

• Qiangu Dongfeng introduced himself to Tang Wulin, then tried to probe his mind but failed to affect him.
• Tang Wulin recognized Qiangu Dongfeng’s future ambitions and past crimes as he considered the Spirit Pagoda master’s reputation.
• The system rewarded Tang Wulin with Spirit Transmission Power, letting him extract one-tenth of a Soul Beast’s lifespan when he killed it.
• Tang Wulin struck Qiangu Dongfeng with a powerful Mental Shock after Qiangu wondered why his probe had failed.
• Tang Wulin invited Qiangu Dongfeng to spar, and Qiangu summoned his Coiling Dragon Staff and Break Evil Dragon.
• Tang Wulin summoned a Fire Dragon that dimmed the Break Evil Dragon with one claw, then asked Qiangu what he had said.

Tang Wulin dominated Qiangu Dongfeng, first crushing his Break Evil Dragon and taking his Coiling Dragon Staff, then defeating him with sword qi. Qiangu Dongfeng admitted defeat after Tang Wulin left him completely bald.

• Tang Wulin crushed Qiangu Dongfeng's Break Evil Dragon, leaving Qiangu Dongfeng shocked by the defeat.
• Qiangu Dongfeng attacked with his Coiling Dragon Staff, but Tang Wulin seized the weapon and claimed that taking an opponent's Martial Soul was part of the duel.
• Tang Wulin returned the Coiling Dragon Staff and summoned his Life Sword as Leng Yaozhu wondered at his strength.
• Tang Wulin used sword qi to defeat Qiangu Dongfeng and shave away all his hair.
• Qiangu Dongfeng admitted defeat through gritted teeth.

Tang Wulin defeated Qiangu Dongfeng in their spar and left him with an embarrassing bald patch, while Leng Yaozhu watched with amusement. When Qiangu explained that Yun Ming and other Shrek Academy students had returned to challenge weaker Soul Masters, Tang Wulin became interested in meeting Yun Ming.

• Qiangu Dongfeng surrendered, and Tang Wulin stopped attacking after giving him a bald patch with his Golden Dragon Claw.
• Leng Yaozhu secretly approved of Tang Wulin humiliating Qiangu Dongfeng, who resented Tang Wulin and felt ashamed in front of her.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Qiangu why he had come, and he explained that talented Shrek Academy students were again challenging opponents below Soul Ancestor level.
• Tang Wulin asked Qiangu about Yun Ming and learned that Yun Ming was exceptionally talented and had previously beaten Qiangu in a duel.
• Tang Wulin decided to go challenge Yun Ming himself.

Yun Ming defeated Yu Luo in the Shrek City Recruitment Hall and talked with Shrek Academy students Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu afterward. As Yun Ming considered Feng Wuyu’s future as a blacksmith, a handsome young man approached and asked to fight him.

• Yun Ming defeated the level 38 Yu Luo, who left the arena after conceding.
• Yun Ming returned to Zhuo Shi and Feng Wuyu, who praised his strength and joked about Feng Wuyu’s earlier fight.
• Yun Ming defended Feng Wuyu’s focus on forging and said he could become both a powerhouse and a Saint Craftsman.
• A handsome figure approached Yun Ming and asked to have a match with him.

Tang Wulin arrived at the Recruitment Hall with Leng Yaolai and Qiangu Dongfeng, where he spotted Yun Ming and asked to spar with him. Yun Ming accepted, and Tang Wulin received Sky-Piercing Power from the system.

• Leng Yaolai and Tang Wulin surveyed the Recruitment Hall while Qiangu Dongfeng tried unsuccessfully to join their conversation.
• Leng Yaolai asked Qiangu Dongfeng to identify Yun Ming, and Tang Wulin recognized him as a powerful figure from the future timeline.
• Tang Wulin decided to challenge Yun Ming, while Leng Yaolai sat down to watch and Qiangu Dongfeng grew frustrated.
• Tang Wulin asked Yun Ming to spar, and Yun Ming agreed.
• The system identified Yun Ming as a check-in character and awarded Tang Wulin Sky-Piercing Power.