Chapter Summaries

The Aromatic Silk Beauty survived its first lightning tribulation and became a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, while Jiang Yu and Wu Feng emerged from their cocoon with transformed martial souls and bodies. Ning Tian was left alarmed after overhearing their suggestive exchange and demanding to know what they had done behind her back.

• The Aromatic Silk Beauty survived the lightning tribulation and reached the hundred-thousand-year level, then used its power to repel the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect experts.
• Three days later, Jiang Yu and Wu Feng emerged from their cocoon with transformed appearances and stronger abilities.
• Jiang Yu revealed his Space-Time Dragon martial soul and demonstrated effortless spatial movement, while Wu Feng showed off her evolved Crimson Radiance Dragon.
• Wu Feng confronted Jiang Yu after he teased her about what happened while she absorbed his dragon bloodline power.
• Ning Tian overheard them and asked what they had done behind her back.

Jiang Yu negotiated with the Aromatic Silk Beauty, which agreed to sacrifice itself to help Ning Yunxiu overcome her martial soul’s limits in exchange for vengeance against the immortal herbs. Ning Yunxiu and Ning Tian both advanced to nine treasures, and Ning Tian began absorbing the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s soul bone and essence.

• Jiang Yu and Wu Feng reassured Ning Tian that their strange behavior had resulted from accidents during martial soul evolution, then Wu Feng revealed that her martial soul had evolved into the Crimson Radiance Dragon.
• Illusion Douluo told Jiang Yu that the Aromatic Silk Beauty had survived its tribulation and wanted to see him.
• Jiang Yu met the damaged Aromatic Silk Beauty, which demanded that the immortal herbs, including the Infernal Delicate Apricot, be denied rebirth forever in exchange for sacrificing itself to Ning Yunxiu.
• Jiang Yu promised to fulfill the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s demand, and it agreed to help Ning Yunxiu break through her martial soul’s limits.
• After a blood-colored light filled Nine Treasure Mountain, Ning Yunxiu gained her ninth spirit ring and her Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda became a nine-tier pagoda.
• Ning Tian absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s essence and hundred-thousand-year torso soul bone, then evolved her pagoda from seven treasures to nine.

Ning Yunxiu announced that she had become the Nine Treasure Douluo, while Jiang Yu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to absorb the Thunderclap Hellvine as his fifth spirit ring. He persuaded the nearly sixty-thousand-year-old vine to consider working with him, but his promise to help it awaken its Thunder God bloodline triggered its violent release.

• Ning Yunxiu formally announced her Nine Treasure Douluo title to the sect’s senior leadership.
• Jiang Yu, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ning Tian and Wu Feng each obtained a ten-thousand-year fourth spirit ring and advanced to Soul Ancestor.
• Jiang Yu prepared to absorb the Thunderclap Hellvine and tried to negotiate with it rather than risk its destructive power.
• Jiang Yu promised to help the Thunderclap Hellvine reach a hundred thousand years and awaken its Thunder God bloodline, causing it to erupt from its colored seal.
• The Thunderclap Hellvine summoned dark clouds and an enormous thunder pool as Jiang Yu sat calmly among its lashing vines.

Jiang Yu absorbed the Thunderclap Hellvine, gaining the Space-Time Divine Thunder soul skill and an Ultimate Thunder Left Leg Bone. After returning to Shrek Academy, he, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng asked to skip grades, and the leaders were shocked by the girls’ power.

• Jiang Yu completed the Thunderclap Hellvine fusion, gained a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and named his fifth soul skill Space-Time Divine Thunder.
• Jiang Yu received the Ultimate Thunder Left Leg Bone, then left the scorched forest with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Jiang Yu, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng met Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun at Shrek Academy and asked to skip grades.
• Ning Tian and Wu Feng requested admission to the sixth year and revealed that they were both Soul Ancestors.
• Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun saw Ning Tian’s Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and Wu Feng’s evolved Crimson Radiance Dragon, and reacted with shock.

Yan Shaozhe learned that Ning Tian and Wu Feng had undergone extraordinary transformations and that Ning Yunxiu had become a Titled Douluo. After Jiang Yu revealed his five-ring cultivation and newly fused Space-Time Dragon martial soul, Yan Shaozhe took him to meet Zhang Lexuan for an Inner Court assessment.

• Wu Feng revealed that Ning Yunxiu had broken through to Titled Douluo, and Yan Shaozhe inferred that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had found aromatic silk beauty.
• Yan Shaozhe approved Ning Tian's and Wu Feng's applications for the sixth-grade entrance assessment and advised Jiang Yu to wait before entering the Inner Court.
• Jiang Yu refused to wait and revealed five spirit rings, then told Yan Shaozhe that he had fused his twin martial souls into the Space-Time Dragon.
• Yan Shaozhe decided Jiang Yu had to enter the Inner Court and personally escorted him to meet Zhang Lexuan.
• Yan Shaozhe tested Jiang Yu by walking quickly to Sea God Lake, but Jiang Yu kept pace effortlessly and saw Zhang Lexuan there.

Jiang Yu joined the Inner Court without an entrance exam after Dean Yan Shaozhe revealed he was already a Soul King, shocking Zhang Lexuan and the new students. As they crossed Sea God Lake, Zhang Lexuan explained Inner Court life and promised to arrange a senior student to guide him, though her choice left Jiang Yu uneasy.

• Yan Shaozhe told Zhang Lexuan that Jiang Yu would enter the Inner Court without taking the entrance exam and asked her to look after him.
• Jiang Yu told Zhang Lexuan he was already a Soul King, and the four new students abandoned their resentment over his exemption.
• Zhang Lexuan sent the new students across Sea God Lake in their own ways, leaving Zhang Kai to row her small boat while Jiang Yu flew after her.
• Zhang Lexuan explained the Inner Court's living arrangements and requirements as she and Jiang Yu crossed the lake.
• Jiang Yu asked Zhang Lexuan to assign him a pretty, lovestruck senior girl as his guide, and she teased him before promising to choose someone he would like.

Jiang Yu returned to Sea God Island, where Zhang Lexuan warned him that Dai Yueheng might seek revenge for what he had done to Dai Huabin and his sister-in-law. Jiang Yu revealed his brutal childhood and settled into a courtyard overlooking Sea God Lake, then heard Ning Tian speak through his Crimson Spirit Jade Pendant.

• Zhang Lexuan warned Jiang Yu that Dai Yueheng, a powerful Inner Court student and Dai Huabin's older brother, could target him.
• Jiang Yu said he would destroy the White Tiger Duke's lineage if it became his enemy, and explained that he had been a beggar before the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect adopted him.
• Jiang Yu told Zhang Lexuan that after older beggars beat and robbed him, his martial soul awakened and he killed three of them.
• Jiang Yu chose a small courtyard overlooking Sea God Lake, and Zhang Lexuan handed him its key before leaving.
• Jiang Yu cleaned his new residence, then heard Ning Tian's voice through his Crimson Spirit Jade Pendant.

Wu Ming arrived to look after Jiang Yu, but was startled by his mature appearance and found herself attracted to him despite his being eleven. While showing him around Sea God Island, she smelled the cockscomb phoenix sunflower’s aura on him and became infatuated with the scent, leaving Jiang Yu unsure how to shake her off.

• Wu Ming came to Dorm 91 to meet Jiang Yu and was shocked that he looked far older than eleven.
• Wu Ming introduced herself and took Jiang Yu around the Inner Court for the day.
• Wu Ming brought Jiang Yu to a scenic slope to watch the sunset and noticed a pleasant fragrance coming from him.
• Jiang Yu realized the scent came from the cockscomb phoenix sunflower’s medicinal aura, which strongly attracted fire-attribute Soul Masters like Wu Ming.
• Wu Ming draped herself over Jiang Yu and asked to smell him every day, while Jiang Yu worried he would not be able to get rid of her.

Jiang Yu left the Inner Court to meet Ning Tian and Wu Feng, then hosted a lavish gathering for promising Outer Court students. As they strolled through Shrek City afterward, Ning Tian invited him to join them at the upcoming Treasure Appraisal Fair.

• Wu Ming escorted Jiang Yu around the Inner Court for three days and grew excited after he promised to treat her to a meal, then Jiang Yu left Sea God Island to meet Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Wu Feng teased Jiang Yu about his flashy red outfit at the academy gates, and the three headed to the Shrek Grand Hotel.
• Jiang Yu and Ning Tian greeted a large gathering of talented Outer Court students, and Jiang Yu paid 780,000 Gold Soul Coins for the meal.
• After the gathering, Jiang Yu, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng walked through Shrek City, where Ning Tian invited Jiang Yu to join them at the Treasure Appraisal Fair.

Jiang Yu took Ning Tian and Wu Feng to the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where they bought several valuable items and claimed treasures that would otherwise have become Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s opportunities. Afterward, Jiang Yu planned to visit Mu En at the Sea God Pavilion once he had mastered the Space-Time Dragon.

• Jiang Yu remembered the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and ten-thousand-year whale glue at the fair and decided to go with Ning Tian and Wu Feng.
• Ning Tian used her invitation to bring the three into the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where Jiang Yu’s Inner Court status drew respectful attention.
• Wu Feng spotted the Golden Radiance Left Arm Bone and bought it with her own money.
• Jiang Yu bought the ten-thousand-year whale glue and left it for Ning Tian to consume, while Ning Tian purchased many other useful items.
• Jiang Yu decided he would visit Mu En at the Sea God Pavilion after mastering the Space-Time Dragon and considered one more matter he needed to confirm.

Jiang Yu was drawn into a mysterious Silver Palace after the Heart of Space stabbed his brow, where a voice revealed that he had finally arrived to receive an inheritance. He entered a strange lake-filled realm and sensed its unusual spatial laws.

• Jiang Yu examined the Heart of Space and complained that it had kept him waiting without offering an inheritance.
• After Jiang Yu fell asleep, the Heart of Space stabbed the center of his brow and knocked him unconscious.
• Jiang Yu awoke in spiritual form inside a Silver Palace above the clouds, where a voice invited him to enter and mentioned its inheritance.
• Jiang Yu entered the palace and found a vast lake surrounded by ancient trees and exotic plants beneath a full moon.
• The voice explained that the realm demonstrated the profundity of space and expressed surprise that Jiang Yu could sense its laws at the Soul King level.

Jiang Yu met the silver-haired deity who had brought his soul to the Divine Realm and explained how he knew about gods. She accepted him as her disciple, revealing that she was the Space God, a First-Level Main God, though she withheld her name.

• The Space God summoned Jiang Yu to her side, teased him about his earlier muttering, and transformed the lakeside into a grand hall.
• The Space God asked how Jiang Yu knew gods and the Divine Realm existed, and he explained that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had produced the Nine-Colored Goddess.
• Jiang Yu realized the Space God had observed him for only about a day in Divine Realm time, and said he felt an affinity with the Time-Space Divine Crystal.
• The Space God told Jiang Yu to perform a ceremony to become her disciple, and he formally paid his respects as her student.
• The Space God revealed that her godhood was the Space God, one of the Divine Realm's thirty-three First-Level Main God positions, but declined to tell Jiang Yu her name.

Space God confronted Time God over secretly placing divine power in Jiang Yu and explained why she had chosen him as her disciple. Time God suggested he might also accept Jiang Yu as his successor, leaving Space God considering whether Jiang Yu could become a second Dual-God Incarnation.

• After sending Jiang Yu back to the Douluo Continent, Space God summoned Time God, who had been watching from outside her hall.
• Space God accused Time God of secretly planting a seed of divine power in Jiang Yu’s soul and questioned his motives for targeting her disciple.
• Space God praised Jiang Yu’s rare talent for space and time and revealed her fears about conflict within the Divine Realm and dangers beyond it.
• Time God said he might test his ideas for reaching Supreme Godhood and consider Jiang Yu as a successor if the young man met his standards at seven rings.
• Space God realized that Time God meant to share Jiang Yu as a successor, potentially making him the second Dual-God Incarnation after Sea God.

Jiang Yu discovered that the Space God's Divine Nature Seed had enhanced his Soul Power and went to meet Elder Mu at the Sea God Pavilion. The chapter left Xuan Zi marveling at Jiang Yu's Spatial Traversal before he secretly ate a dropped chicken leg and decided to get more food.

• Wu Feng tried to pinch Jiang Yu's nose while he pretended to sleep, but he caught her and slapped her backside before she overturned him.
• Ning Tian entered and scolded Wu Feng and Jiang Yu for fooling around, while Jiang Yu privately wondered about Ning Tian's conflicted reaction.
• After breakfast, Jiang Yu noticed a silver divine quality in his Soul Power and headed to the Sea God Pavilion to meet Elder Mu.
• Xuan Zi directed Jiang Yu to Elder Mu's room, then stared in astonishment as Jiang Yu used Spatial Traversal to disappear.
• Xuan Zi picked up and ate the chicken leg he had dropped, then decided to ask the dining hall for another three hundred roast chickens.

Mu En tested Jiang Yu’s judgment by asking what he thought of Shrek Academy, and Jiang Yu condemned its rigid admissions, lack of accountability, outdated teaching, and political interference. Impressed by Jiang Yu’s talent and insight, Mu En wanted to recruit him despite the risk of offending the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Jiang Yu visited Mu En in the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En praised his rapid mastery of spatial power and spoke about the responsibilities that came with strength.
• Mu En explained his bond with Zhang Lexuan and admitted that he had dragged her into the academy’s troubles, while Jiang Yu listened without commenting.
• Mu En asked Jiang Yu for his honest opinion of Shrek Academy, and Jiang Yu called it rotten to the core, citing its elitism, failures of fairness, outdated teaching, and interference in the empires.
• Mu En recognized the force of Jiang Yu’s criticism and was impressed by his judgment, prompting him to consider recruiting Jiang Yu despite the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Jiang Yu agreed to help preserve Shrek Academy’s legacy in exchange for Mu En’s promise to nurture him, but refused to reconcile with Huo Yuhao. Mu En then told him about a dangerous space-time vortex in an ancient ruin and suggested he explore it once he was strong enough.

• Mu En offered Jiang Yu the academy’s best resources and his personal guidance in return for help preserving Shrek Academy’s legacy after Mu En’s death, and Jiang Yu agreed.
• Mu En asked Jiang Yu to reconsider his hatred of Huo Yuhao, but Jiang Yu insisted that their personal enmity remained separate from the academy’s earlier compensation.
• Mu En explained that his own rise to Ultimate Douluo had followed his discovery of an ancient ruin that seemed to be part of a larger place fused with the Douluo Continent.
• Mu En revealed that the ruin contained a powerful space-time vortex leading to a vast land, and that he had been badly injured when he tried to enter it.
• Mu En advised Jiang Yu to explore the vortex after reaching seven rings and gaining adequate protection, suggesting that a supreme treasure might lie beyond it.

Han Ruoruo tied up Wu Ming and interrogated her about her close relationship with the eleven-year-old Jiang Yu, then revealed his powerful connections and another woman’s feelings for him. Jiang Yu arrived downstairs and invited Wu Ming to dinner, leaving her to respond to the unexpected revelation.

• Han Ruoruo restrained Wu Ming with the Seven-Ring Shaking Gold Rope and teased her during an interrogation.
• Han Ruoruo asked about Jiang Yu after hearing Wu Ming had spent three days with the new junior.
• Wu Ming revealed that Jiang Yu was eleven years old and had five rings, though she knew little about his Martial Soul or background.
• Han Ruoruo recognized Jiang Yu’s name and explained that he was the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Master’s adopted son and could become the sect’s second-in-command.
• Han Ruoruo said the sect’s next leader had feelings for Jiang Yu, while Jiang Yu called from downstairs and invited Wu Ming to dinner.

Han Ruoruo grew suspicious of Jiang Yu’s intentions toward Wu Ming but decided to wait for a chance to warn her. Over the next half month, Jiang Yu settled into Inner Court life and reflected on his growing command of space and time, while remaining uncertain whether Bei Bei and Tang Ya’s story would end as it had before.

• Jiang Yu treated Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming to an extravagant meal, and Han Ruoruo teased him about the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s wealth.
• Han Ruoruo recognized Jiang Yu’s intelligence and suspected he was knowingly accepting the feelings and plans surrounding him, putting Wu Ming at risk.
• Han Ruoruo saw Wu Ming tenderly serving Jiang Yu and decided to wait until they were alone before trying to warn her.
• Jiang Yu increased his cultivation time in the Inner Court and continued developing his understanding of space and time through the Time-Space Divine Crystal.
• Over half a month, Jiang Yu grew familiar with Han Ruoruo and other Inner Court figures, while Zhang Lexuan checked on how he was settling in.
• Jiang Yu wondered how Tang Ya had won Bei Bei over and doubted that their story would end as it had in the original, given the hidden danger within Tang Ya.

Jiang Yu attended the Inner Court Treasure Appraisal Fair with Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo, where he met Hua Yao and Gu Fan. After learning Gu Fan was in love with Hua Yao, Jiang Yu hinted that Gu Fan might already have won her affection.

• Jiang Yu went with Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s Inner Court fair and learned that its core area often featured Soul Bones.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo greeted Hua Yao and Gu Fan in the core area.
• Jiang Yu noticed Gu Fan’s feelings for Hua Yao and teased him about staring at her.
• Gu Fan told Jiang Yu that confessing should claim a sure prize rather than gamble on uncertain feelings.
• After Gu Fan dismissed his chances with Hua Yao, Jiang Yu said he could congratulate him on no longer being single.

Jiang Yu helped Hua Yao and Gu Fan finally reveal their long-standing feelings for each other, then found a spatial Soul Bone he wanted to claim for free using his Red-level Rating. As he prepared to take it, he encountered Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, and the atmosphere turned hostile.

• Jiang Yu brought Hua Yao back to Gu Fan, whose self-deprecation prompted Hua Yao to confront him and reveal her feelings.
• Jiang Yu explained to Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo that he had noticed Hua Yao and Gu Fan's affection through their eyes and behavior.
• Jiang Yu spotted a fifty-thousand-year Space-Binding Thorn Right Leg Bone with the innate Soul Skill Space Thorn Domain and decided to claim it using his annual free-treasure privilege.
• Jiang Yu encountered Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng in the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, and their auras made the display stands creak as he reacted coldly.