Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Tang Sect enforcers detain Li Qingxun over a report that he badly injured Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng. Li insists the accusation is misleading and calls his teacher, Wu Changkong.
• Wu arrives, proves his Tang Sect membership, and explains what happened. The enforcement captain realizes the report was false, apologizes, and promises to investigate and punish whoever filed it. Wu also assures Li that the Tang Sect will not continue to harass or surveil him.
• Wu reminds Li that Class Zero has its weekly visit to the Spirit Ascension Platform, and tells him to meet the others. Li joins Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, and Xie Xie, and they set off by Soul Guidance Bus.
• Privately, Li is angered that the three students he spared have retaliated by reporting him. He considers using the Spirit Pagoda’s records—or the academy’s files—to locate their families.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingxun stays outwardly calm during the detention and uses Wu’s Tang Sect standing to resolve the situation. Beneath that composure, he becomes more determined to retaliate and considers exploiting institutional databases to track down his accusers.
• Wu Changkong supports Li, clarifies the incident to the enforcers, and uses his authority to protect him. He is briefly embarrassed to identify himself by his nickname, “Eastsea Little Changkong.”
• The Tang Sect captain shifts from suspicion to respect once Wu’s identity is confirmed, then recognizes the team was misled and promises an investigation.
• Li and Wu have a trusting, practical relationship: Li calls for help, and Wu quickly intervenes. The confrontation also contrasts Li’s calm presentation with his simmering resentment.

Significant themes

• Institutional loyalty and influence: The enforcers readily trust Wu once they confirm he belongs to the Tang Sect, prompting Li to consider the advantages of having allies inside powerful organizations.
• False accusations and accountability: The chapter highlights the danger of a misleading report, while the captain promises consequences if it is proven false.
• Restraint versus revenge: Li presents himself as composed, but his thoughts show that he views the students’ retaliation as unforgivable and is already considering how to find them.

Key plot points and events

• On the bus, the group travels in an awkward silence. Before they arrive, Wu Changkong tells Li Qingxun that the Tang Sect has ended its investigation and surveillance of him. Li is relieved, though he considers the Sect’s monitoring powers excessive for a civilian organization.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, Li studies the building’s layout, thinking ahead to a possible future raid by Toji Fushiguro. He also weighs the risks of future investigations and considers gathering information on Shrek Academy and other organizations.
• The group is taken to the Spirit Ascension Platform. Wu Changkong reviews the rules: the students will start in different locations, must find one another, and can use the emergency button if needed.
• Once inside the simulated world, Li recognizes how realistic it feels. He uses his unusually powerful spiritual perception to locate Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie—but instead of joining them, he heads deeper into the area.
• Li senses a brass-colored “key,” a contingency connected to Huo Yuhao. He hopes it will help him find a vulnerability in the platform and access its underlying code, uncovering what Huo Yuhao or Tang San may have left behind.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingxun remains cautious and strategic. He keeps his Fantasy Dragon abilities hidden, disguises how little the platform’s sleep-inducing force affects him, and uses his spiritual power to pursue his own objective.
• Wu Changkong notices the students’ tense silence but chooses not to interfere. He later reassures Li that the Tang Sect’s surveillance has stopped and gives the group practical instructions.
• The Snow Empress is intrigued by the platform’s lifelike environment and senses that it is being watched. She holds back from appearing, while Li is unbothered by the observers.
• Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie are nearby, but Li deliberately does not seek them out.

Significant themes

• Surveillance and institutional power: Li questions the Tang Sect’s authority to monitor citizens, while the Spirit Pagoda’s observers watch participants inside the platform.
• Secrecy and control: Li hides his abilities and pursues his own plans without revealing them to his companions.
• Investigation and hidden truths: The platform is not merely a training ground to Li; he sees it as a system whose code and buried contingencies may reveal a larger secret.

Plot

Li Qingxun searches the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform for a way into its underlying Code, hoping to find the contingency Huo Yuhao (Tang San) left behind. Because he cannot use the Error Path directly, he locates three small vulnerabilities in the platform’s middle region and breaks them open: an unusually tall tree, an oversized rhinoceros Soul Beast, and an otherwise ordinary clearing.
Once the flaws combine into a larger breach, Li Qingxun hides behind a tree and pretends to be exhausted. He forms a key and uses it alongside Reality Distortion to send his consciousness through the breach and into the platform’s underlying Code. There, he finds a vast sea of information and power—and, at its depths, a seated human figure.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingxun shows careful planning and stealth, disguising his search with an erratic route and concealing his breakthrough from observers. He kills the few beasts that attack him with ease, but the effort brings him little benefit because the Snow Empress provides his early Soul Rings.
• Wu Changkong watches Li Qingxun with some puzzlement but does not interfere, trusting the strength he has already shown.
• Gu Yue senses Li Qingxun’s presence but does not approach him.
• Li Qingxun passes two struggling Soul Masters without helping, prioritizing his mission.

Themes

The chapter emphasizes the difficulty of penetrating a system’s hidden structure, the tension between secrecy and time pressure, and the limits of repairing flaws in a complex, evolving system. Its cliffhanger—the mysterious figure beneath the information sea—raises the question of whether this person ever truly existed.

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Li Qingxun found a distant, slumbering figure carrying a remnant of the fantasy power he had left behind ten thousand years earlier. He took the power and vanished, ending the figure’s torment, while the figure recognized his power and wondered how he could still be on the Douluo Continent.

• Li Qingxun sensed the figure and wondered whether it was Huo Yuhao or another person he had once defeated.
• Li Qingxun drew the figure’s remaining fantasy power into himself, restoring his depleted power.
• The figure stirred and turned toward Li Qingxun, who erased himself from the area with Fantasy and Reality Distortion.
• The figure recognized Li Qingxun’s power, became furious, and shook the lower level of the Spirit Ascension Platform with his voice.
• Li Qingxun reflected that the stolen power could let him use a sequence 1 authority once, though his clone was too weak to reach the next sequence.

Li Qingxun learned that Tang San wanted him to join arena matches between the Divine Realms, and he agreed on the condition that Tang San fight him. If Tang San lost, Li Qingxun would be allowed to kill Rong Nianbing.

• Li Qingxun recalled how his powerful clone had been forced to seize Huo Yuhao's divine position after Tang San intervened.
• In the Divine Realm, Li Qingxun sensed that some of his power remained on the Douluo Continent and explained that he hoped to reconnect with his original body after it reached three rings.
• Li Qingxun told the Ice Empress and Mermaid Princess Liya that he wanted to send them back to the Douluo Continent to support his original body.
• Wang Dong'er and Meng Hongchen told Li Qingxun that Tang San had arranged arena matches with the other Seven Divine Realms and wanted him to participate.
• Li Qingxun agreed to go, demanding that Tang San fight him and promising to join only if Tang San could defeat him; otherwise, Tang San would let him kill Rong Nianbing.

After the Spirit Ascension Platform trial, Li Qingxun created Sasuke Uchiha and sent him to take Shrek Academy’s entrance examination. The chapter ended with the parents of three injured students in a Skysea City hospital, furious that they could not get help dealing with Tang Wulin.

• Li Qingxun pretended to be overwhelmed by soul beasts and left the Spirit Pagoda with Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie; Wu Changkong led the group back to Eastsea Academy.
• Li Qingxun decided to create Sasuke Uchiha as his fourth clone and send him to Shrek Academy rather than the War God Temple.
• Li Qingxun gave Sasuke a three-tomoe Sharingan and chakra powers, then used Reality Distortion to send him outside the city.
• Li Qingxun used pills to recover and fell asleep after exhausting his fantasy power.
• In Skysea City, the parents of three badly injured students complained that the Tang Sect and War God Temple had not helped them.

Wang Jinxi's parents and the other injured students' families agreed to hire the Holy Spirit Cult to assassinate Li Qingxun. After a three-day break, Wu Changkong began a team combat test, threatening extra training if the students failed to touch his clothes.

• Wang Jinxi's father proposed contacting the Holy Spirit Cult to avenge their sons, and the other parents agreed despite the risks.
• Wang Jinxi's mother demanded that Li Qingxun and, if possible, his relatives and friends be killed, so Wang Jinxi's father called a number he had long kept buried in his memory.
• During the three-day break, Tang Wulin invited Gu Yue, Xie Xie, and Li Qingxun to the Beef Clay Pot Shop, where Uncle Li appeared swollen and haggard.
• After classes resumed, Wu Changkong challenged the four children to touch the hem of his clothes, imposing fifty running laps and an extra training session if they lost.
• Wu Changkong summoned the Frost Sword and took a sword stance as the students prepared for the harsher combat training.

Li Qingxun and Wu Changkong fought as Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue joined the battle. Li Qingxun revealed his Fantasy Dragon scales and Clown abilities, then left Wu Changkong facing a barrage of forty-six frost cards.

• Li Qingxun attacked Wu Changkong with nine Ice and Snow Long Swords, while Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue launched attacks of their own.
• Wu Changkong shattered four of Li Qingxun’s swords, kicked Xie Xie away, and dispersed Gu Yue’s ice-and-fire attack as Tang Wulin restrained his Frost Sword.
• Wu Changkong shattered the Frost Sword and struck Li Qingxun with Frost Slash, but Li Qingxun blocked it with his Fantasy Dragon-scaled fist.
• Li Qingxun used his Clown ability to evade Wu Changkong’s sword-energy slashes and advanced toward him.
• Li Qingxun formed forty-six frost cards and sent them at Wu Changkong from overlapping angles.

Li Qingxun defeated Wu Changkong in combat training by combining his fighting skill with hidden powers, then collected a Fantasy Orb left behind by one of his clones. While eating alone at the Beef Clay Pot Shop, he sensed a suspicious Evil Soul Master watching him and realized he had become a target.

• Li Qingxun used his combat techniques and Reality Distortion to force Wu Changkong to concede, and Wu Changkong assigned the next combat training round to the other three students.
• The following morning, Seven delivered a Fantasy Orb from the Far North Snowfield, and Li Qingxun transferred it into his ring.
• Li Qingxun examined the Fantasy Orbs he had recovered and recognized that the fourth-ring orb could grant him several uses of sequence six powers.
• Li Qingxun went alone to the Beef Clay Pot Shop and ordered two beef clay pots.
• Li Qingxun detected a handsome man in a black suit repeatedly observing him with sinister spiritual power and identified him as an Evil Soul Master.

Li Qingxun defeated an Evil Soul Master who had been hired to assassinate him and hypnotized the man into forgetting the encounter. He learned that Wang Tianyang had ordered the killing, then followed the assassin to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters in Eastsea City.

• The Evil Soul Master followed Li Qingxun from the Beef Clay Pot Shop into an alley and attacked him with his Soul Rings.
• Li Qingxun revealed that the attack was an illusion, subdued the kneeling assassin, and asked who had hired him.
• The assassin identified Wang Tianyang of Skysea City as the person who offered ten million Federal Coins for Li Qingxun’s death and showed him photographs of Wang Tianyang with his family.
• Li Qingxun used the Crystal Ball to hypnotize the assassin, erase his memory, and order him to go to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters in Eastsea City.
• Li Qingxun followed the assassin by taxi to a club in Eastsea City’s western district and went inside after him.

Li Qingxun entered the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground clubhouse in Eastsea City and unleashed his dawn giant power to wipe out the branch. He headed for the second basement level, still intent on clearing the organization before putting Sunday in charge.

• A young man used a Holy Spirit Cult token to bring Li Qingxun down to the third basement level, where cult members gathered.
• Li Qingxun decided to eliminate everyone there and later have Sunday take over the branch.
• Li Qingxun revealed himself, formed the Dawn Armor and Dawn Greatsword, and attacked the cult members.
• Li Qingxun overwhelmed the Soul Emperor and killed the gathered members, destroying the third-basement stronghold.
• Li Qingxun made himself unseen again and calmly proceeded toward the second basement level with an Ice and Snow Long Sword in his palm.

After setting Sunday to infiltrate and take control of the Holy Spirit Cult in Eastsea City, Li Qingxun observed the entrance exam at Shrek Academy through his Clone. When the academy ordered its new students to eliminate fifteen of their own, Li Qingxun told Sasuke Uchiha to choose fifteen, and Sasuke attacked a student.

• Li Qingxun summoned Sunday and ordered him to bring the Holy Spirit Cult in Eastsea City under his control.
• Sunday displayed his four Soul Rings and Puppet Soldiers, then left to carry out Li Qingxun's instructions.
• Li Qingxun sensed through his Clone that Shrek Academy planned to admit only 110 students and make the new students eliminate fifteen others.
• Sasuke Uchiha reported that Yue Zhengyu was absent from registration, and Li Qingxun decided to make the academy's unfair selection even more unfair.
• Li Qingxun ordered Sasuke to eliminate fifteen students, and Sasuke charged at the nearest male student with Chidori running along his blade.

Sasuke Uchiha fought his way through Shrek Academy’s admissions assessment and was accepted, giving Li Qingxun a powerful ally inside the school. Li Qingxun planned to probe the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda that night, then resolved to kill the families behind the latest attempt on his life.

• Sasuke Uchiha activated his Sharingan and defeated the students who attacked him during Shrek Academy’s admissions assessment.
• Cai Yue'er stopped the disturbance, eliminated everyone left on the ground, and directed the survivors to collect their uniforms and student identifications.
• Li Qingxun considered what he could learn from the assessment and concluded that Sasuke’s place at Shrek Academy gave him a powerful advantage.
• Li Qingxun planned for Toji Fushiguro to probe the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda in Skysea City that night.
• Li Qingxun recalled that the Holy Spirit Cult had sent a Soul King-level fighter after him and vowed to kill everyone involved, including the families of Wang Jinxi and the others.

Li Qingxun sent Toji Fushiguro to infiltrate Skysea City's Spirit Pagoda and steal its resources. Toji killed a Soul King to obtain his access card and made his way into the guarded upper floors.

• Li Qingxun used the Crystal Ball to form the Soul Liberation Blade for Toji Fushiguro in Skysea City.
• Toji Fushiguro used his stealth and Heavenly Restriction to slip past the Spirit Pagoda's defenses.
• Toji entered the upper floors using a layout Li Qingxun had prepared from an earlier visit.
• Toji killed a Soul King with the Soul Liberation Blade, took his special card, and passed through a checkpoint.

Li Qingxun used Toji Fushiguro to steal the Skysea City Spirit Pagoda’s resources and escape, then sent him to kill three awakened teenagers’ parents. Toji escaped the Spirit Pagoda pursuer, while Li Qingxun considered the talents he needed to improve future assassinations.

• Li Qingxun gave Toji Fushiguro a purple ring, and Toji broke into the treasury and took the Spirit Pagoda’s stored resources.
• Toji fled the Spirit Pagoda as its personnel pursued him, while a seven-ringed woman chased him through Skysea City.
• Toji entered a hospital and told three teenagers and their parents that he was the Heavenly Restriction Tyrant, a Sixth Deacon of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Toji killed the three parents, then escaped underground as the woman entered the hospital and lost track of him.
• Li Qingxun watched Toji get away and considered seeking healing, disguise, and concealment talents to strengthen his assassination plans.

Li Qingxun inspected the Spirit Pagoda treasury and agreed to help Gu Yue target Tang Wulin, promising to handle Tang San. After arranging to meet that night, he connected with Sunday and saw him confronting a woman in an abandoned building.

• Li Qingxun examined the Spirit Pagoda’s treasury and considered raiding its Eastsea City branch for its wealth.
• Gu Yue told Li Qingxun she was ready to act against Tang Wulin but worried Tang San would detect them, and Li Qingxun assured her he would handle Tang San.
• Gu Yue arranged to bring Tang Wulin to Eastsea Academy at seven that night and meet Li Qingxun at Apartment 137 in the East District.
• Li Qingxun returned to his room and connected with Sunday, finding Sunday and his puppets facing a delicate woman in an abandoned unfinished building.

Sunday secured control of the Holy Spirit Cult in Eastsea City and received orders from Li Qingxun to gather its Evil Soul Masters. That night, Li Qingxun went to Gu Yue's Small World as Gu Yue drew golden blood from Tang Wulin, awakening Old Tang and alerting Tang San in the Divine Realm.

• Sunday declared his ideal of an equal paradise, and the woman recognized him as a subordinate of Lord Dark Phoenix and granted him Eastsea City as his territory.
• Li Qingxun ordered Sunday to make every Evil Soul Master in Eastsea City serve him within half a month.
• Li Qingxun cultivated through the afternoon and planned to use the Seven Strings Ring to obtain resources from his clone through Old Tang's connection to Tang San.
• Li Qingxun went to No. 138 in the East District and entered Gu Yue's Small World with Gu Yue and two middle-aged men.
• Gu Yue drew a drop of golden blood from unconscious Tang Wulin, causing Old Tang to appear in his sea of consciousness and Tang San to awaken in the Divine Realm.

Tang San confronted Li Qingxun, who used his power to summon God King-level copies of Tang San and overwhelm him. As the battle escalated, Tang San invoked the Douluo God Realm Core, drawing the attention of the other Divine Realms.

• Tang San recognized the power of Old Tang within his son and faced Li Qingxun, who arrived with a young woman he regarded as an outsider occupying his daughter's body.
• Li Qingxun summoned Fake Tang San, who wielded a Golden Trident and used Unfixed Wind Wave to knock Tang San down.
• Li Qingxun summoned a second copy in the Asura state, and the two clones drove Tang San into retreat while the nearby God Kings watched.
• Tang San invoked the Divine Realm Core to strengthen himself, alerting powerful beings in the other seven Divine Realms to the disturbance.

Li Qingxun overwhelmed Tang San and held off four God Kings, then used his powers to sever and take over the link between Old Tang and Tang San. He descended into Tang Wulin’s body, leaving Di Tian terrified by the return of the figure who had once grievously wounded them.

• Tang San drew on the Divine Realm Core and attacked Li Qingxun, but Li Qingxun shattered his sword strike, regenerated his severed arm, and kicked him into the palace.
• Fake Tang San struck the fallen Tang San with Sea God Tang San’s Unfixed Wind Wave and Asura Tang San’s Asura Slash.
• Lie Yan, Ji Dong, Rong Nianbing, and Zhou Weiqing confronted Li Qingxun, but he warned them that he could summon more God King-level beings and crush two Crystal Balls to demonstrate his threat.
• Li Qingxun used a Crystal Ball and the authority of the Error Path to transfer Old Tang and Tang San’s karmic link to himself.
• Li Qingxun shattered Old Tang’s consciousness, concealed its memories with a Fantasy Dragon seal, and descended into Tang Wulin’s body.
• Di Tian recognized the figure in the illusory screen and reacted with fear as he recalled the man who had wounded them at the Lake of Life.