Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Xie Xie tells Li Qingyue that he, Na’er, and Gu Yue have killed someone. Li and Leng Xiaoyue hurry to the snack street.
• Outside a clay-pot restaurant, Light Dragon lies dead, killed by a single thrust from Na’er’s Silver Dragon Spear. He had been terrorizing local businesses and threatened to abduct and sell Na’er.
• The shopkeeper urges the youths to flee, warning that Light Dragon’s brother, Guang Biao—a powerful Soul Emperor and Mecha Brigade captain—will retaliate.
• Li arrives and recognizes that Na’er killed Light Dragon. Leng Xiaoyue releases the aura of her five Soul Rings, scattering the crowd. Li then kicks the corpse into the road and leads everyone into the restaurant.

Character developments

• Na’er acts decisively to protect herself and her companions, showing no fear of the consequences. When Li arrives, however, she turns to him with wounded, pleading innocence, revealing her emotional dependence on him.
• Xie Xie and Gu Yue stand by Na’er and show little outward anxiety after the killing.
• Li Qingyue responds calmly rather than reprimanding Na’er, suggesting acceptance and confidence in her. He takes control of the situation without explaining his intentions.
• Leng Xiaoyue follows Li’s lead without question. She reflects that her relationship with him has fundamentally changed since he brought her back to life, and she no longer presumes to act as his guardian.
• The shopkeeper proves compassionate and selfless, risking his own safety to urge the children to escape rather than blaming them.

Significant themes

• Justice versus law: The crowd sees Light Dragon as a notorious abuser who “deserved to die,” even as his powerful family ties make the killing dangerous.
• Protection and loyalty: Na’er acts against a direct threat, while the shopkeeper and the group show concern for one another.
• Power and intimidation: Light Dragon’s influence came less from his own strength than from his brother’s position; Leng Xiaoyue’s Soul King aura quickly controls the crowd.
• Dependence and changing relationships: Na’er seeks Li’s reassurance, while Leng Xiaoyue recognizes that her bond with him has shifted.

Character interactions

• Xie Xie reports the killing to Li, who trusts the group enough to come without demanding an explanation.
• The shopkeeper urges the youths to flee, but they remain composed.
• Na’er seeks comfort from Li, who responds with a sigh rather than anger; Leng Xiaoyue watches quietly.
• Li signals Leng Xiaoyue to clear the crowd. She understands immediately, uses her power, and the group enters the restaurant together.

Plot points and events

• After killing Light Dragon, Li Qingyue’s group returns to Uncle Li’s restaurant. Uncle Li is terrified by the Soul King aura of Li’s companion and fears retaliation, but stays because his gravely ill wife needs care.
• The children eat the restaurant’s beef while Uncle Li watches anxiously. Li Qingyue reflects that Guang Biao, Light Dragon’s brother, may eventually take revenge on Uncle Li and his family.
• Xie Xie’s mother arrives, confirms her son is unharmed, and hears what happened. She is alarmed by the danger posed by Guang Biao, a powerful Soul Emperor with influence in the Mecha Brigade.
• She calls Xie Xie’s father. He says he can protect his son but will not risk the family’s limited favors to protect Li Qingyue and the others. Xie Xie and his mother are upset and ashamed by his refusal.
• Li Qingyue stays composed and says help is already coming—and Guang Biao will not survive the day.

Character developments and interactions

• Uncle Li is frightened and feels trapped by his wife’s illness and Guang Biao’s power. Li Qingyue suspects he will be targeted later.
• Na’er is unconcerned about the consequences of Light Dragon’s death and eats freely, while remaining considerate enough not to take Li Qingyue’s food.
• Xie Xie is protective of his friends and angrily challenges his father’s refusal to help them.
• Xie Xie’s mother is relieved to find her son safe and grateful to Li Qingyue, but feels conflicted when her husband declines to protect him.
• Xie Xie’s father prioritizes the limits of the family’s political favors, creating tension with his son and wife.
• Li Qingyue remains relaxed and confident throughout, refusing to burden the Xie family and implying that he has the means to deal with Guang Biao himself.

Significant themes

• Loyalty versus self-interest: Xie Xie and his mother feel indebted to Li Qingyue, while his father weighs that debt against the family’s limited resources.
• Power and vulnerability: Guang Biao’s rank and connections frighten ordinary people like Uncle Li, even before he acts.
• Gratitude and obligation: Li Qingyue’s past rescue of Xie Xie’s mother shapes the family’s response, though it does not guarantee their support.
• Composure amid danger: Li Qingyue’s calm contrasts with the anxiety and anger around him, foreshadowing his confidence in the coming confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Li Qingyue dismisses Xie’s Father’s refusal to help. He says he never expected loyalty from the Xie Family and had chosen not to ask powerful allies for assistance.
• He believes Guang Biao is a weak Soul Emperor and that Leng Xiaoyue can defeat him, especially after receiving the Power of Abundance.
• At Uncle Li’s restaurant, Xie’s Mother and Xie Xie are shaken by Li Qingyue’s confidence, while Na’er focuses on eating. Xie’s Mother orders more beef, and nobody challenges Li Qingyue further.
• Outside the Mecha Brigade, Leng Xiaoyue destroys Guang Biao’s yellow Mecha and kills him before escaping. She later returns to the restaurant with his severed head and kneels before Li Qingyue to report that the threat is gone.
• Li Qingyue pays Uncle Li tens of thousands of Alliance Coins to repair the damage, leaves the remainder as credit, and says he will return for more food.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue reveals that his goodwill toward the Xie Family is gone because of Xie’s Father’s callousness. He will not retaliate because he values Xie Xie and appreciates Xie’s Mother, but he will not help the family in future. His calm focus on the restaurant’s food contrasts with the gravity of Guang Biao’s death.
• Leng Xiaoyue demonstrates formidable strength and complete composure, killing a Soul Emperor despite being a Soul King. She treats Li Qingyue with formal loyalty, addressing him as “my lord.”
• Xie’s Mother remains grateful to Li Qingyue and uneasy about the situation, but avoids confronting him directly. Her order for more food helps restore the meal’s ordinary rhythm.
• Xie Xie watches Li Qingyue with uncertainty; Na’er remains unbothered and eats enthusiastically.
• Uncle Li is initially doubtful but cannot leave his injured wife. After recognizing Guang Biao’s head, he is frightened by the consequences, while Li Qingyue responds by compensating him.

Significant themes

• Conditional loyalty and distrust: Li Qingyue expects little from powerful families and withdraws his goodwill when treated callously.
• Power and underestimated strength: Leng Xiaoyue’s rank understates her capabilities, and Guang Biao’s title does not make him formidable.
• Restraint and obligation: Li Qingyue spares the Xie Family because of personal ties, even though he has rejected them.
• Everyday life amid violence: The characters continue eating while a deadly conflict unfolds, and Li Qingyue’s final concern is repairing the restaurant and returning for its food.

Key events

• After Li Qingyue’s group leaves, Xie Xie’s mother orders the dead attacker’s remains destroyed and gives Uncle Li 100,000 credits for the trouble. She demands secrecy and assures him that the authorities will not investigate. Uncle Li, frightened but relieved, accepts the situation.
• Li Qingyue has sent Leng Xiaoyue to recruit Believers and test their healing abilities. Once she understands their limits, she is to target the Spirit Pagoda and Tang Sect for resources. Li can temporarily take control of an Emanator’s body and Martial Soul, giving him a powerful advantage in battle.
• Li considers making Wu Changkong an Emanator by resurrecting Long Bing, whose return could also bring her into Abundance’s faith. He refuses to raise Wu’s hopes until he can genuinely resurrect her.
• At the school gate, Gu Yue asks to speak privately with Li Qingyue. After Na’er and Xie Xie leave, Gu Yue asks him to remove the Golden Dragon King bloodline from Tang Wulin.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue shows strategic ambition in planning to expand his network of Emanators and use them to attack powerful organizations. At the same time, his refusal to make Wu Changkong a false promise reveals a measure of restraint.
• Leng Xiaoyue is eager to become an Emanator and sees Li’s ability to control her in combat as a way to greatly increase her effectiveness.
• Uncle Li shifts from fear and despair to relief after Xie Xie’s mother compensates him and explains that he will be protected from official scrutiny.
• Na’er remains suspicious and possessive around Gu Yue, resisting the request to leave Li alone with her. She obeys only because Li asks her to.
• Gu Yue approaches Li directly despite her uncertainty about their mysterious connection, entrusting him with a request concerning Tang Wulin.

Significant themes

• Power and inequality: Wealthy, powerful families can act beyond the reach of ordinary law, leaving people like Uncle Li dependent on their mercy.
• Faith as strategy: Li’s plans connect Believer recruitment and healing to political and military expansion.
• Hope and honesty: Li believes that offering Wu Changkong a resurrection before he can deliver it would be a lie.
• Control and loyalty: Emanators’ devotion and Li’s ability to take over their bodies create both opportunity and an uneasy imbalance of power.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Yue asks Li Qingyue to help her take Tang Wulin’s bloodline power. She explains that an unknown force within Tang Wulin is weakening her resolve and making it increasingly difficult to act against him.
• She senses that Tang Wulin contains formidable, possibly God King-level power, along with another aura tied to the world itself. Directly attacking him could trigger serious consequences, and her attempts to take his bloodline have been thwarted.
• Li agrees to help, but requires her to begin with the deepest, most violent and chaotic parts of the bloodline, leaving the more visible layers untouched so the theft is less likely to be detected.
• As payment, he demands thousand- and ten-thousand-year Spirit Grass. Gu Yue accepts and returns to the academy.
• Li reflects that helping her will bring him into conflict with Tang San’s faction. He is determined to protect Na’er and pursue his ambitions, and plans to exploit his knowledge of the timeline to gain strength and resources.

Character developments

• Gu Yue is increasingly distressed and uncertain: her plan to kill Tang Wulin and reclaim his power now seems dangerous, while her feelings and judgment appear affected by the forces within him. She reluctantly relies on Li.
• Li Qingyue shows strategic resolve. His concern for Na’er is a major reason he agrees to help, and he accepts that this choice makes conflict with Tang San’s side unavoidable.

Character interactions

• Gu Yue candidly explains her predicament and agrees to Li’s cautious approach.
• Li sets clear terms: he will help when she is ready, but she must target the deepest bloodline layers first and provide Spirit Grass in return.
• Their Protector Contract underlies their unusual trust: Gu Yue cannot harm Li, leaving him seemingly unaffected by the forces influencing her.

Significant themes

• Influence and agency: Gu Yue fears that unseen forces are eroding her ability to choose and act freely.
• Trust and obligation: The Protector Contract and Li’s concern for Na’er shape the alliance.
• Power, ambition, and conflict: Li’s plans to grow stronger and protect Na’er put him on a collision course with Tang San’s faction.
• Knowledge as advantage: Li intends to use his knowledge of future events to secure resources and outmaneuver established powers.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue’s first day back on campus passes without incident after Guang Biao’s death; nobody attempts to avenge him.
• The next morning, Li Qingyue and Xie Xie arrive at their new classroom. Class Zero is unusually small, with fewer than ten students.
• The students gather in an uneasy, quiet atmosphere. Wu Changkong announces that Class Zero has officially begun and hints that the academy has arranged special support.
• He leads the class to a waiting soul-guided bus and reveals their destination: the Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Wu Changkong confirms that each student will receive one visit per week, a major opportunity given the platform’s usual cost.

Character developments and interactions

• Na’er warmly invites Li Qingyue to sit beside her. He accepts, while Xie Xie sits nearby; Na’er keeps asking Li questions.
• Tang Wulin sits beside Gu Yue. She reacts with a frown but stays silent, troubled by a growing, unexplained problem within her body.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi privately doubt that the former Class Two students deserve to be in Class Zero. They respect Li Qingyue and Xie Xie, but remain confident in their own abilities and possible Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xu Xiaoyan arrives late and embarrassed, while the rest of the class keeps mostly to themselves.
• Xie Xie eagerly asks where the bus is taking them and whether they will truly be allowed onto the platform. Wu Changkong confirms it.

Significant themes

• Opportunity and privilege: Class Zero’s students receive unusually valuable training, especially access to a platform many families cannot afford.
• Classroom tension and status: The students’ silence, rivalries, and differing assessments of one another establish an unsettled group dynamic.
• Uncertainty and anticipation: Wu Changkong’s cryptic announcement builds curiosity, while Gu Yue’s unexplained condition introduces a more personal concern.

Key plot points and events

• Wu Changkong announces that the class will visit the Spirit Ascension Platform, a costly training ground that the school’s group trip makes accessible to the students.
• At the Spirit Pagoda, the staff member explains the platform’s dangers and emergency exit button. Wu Changkong raises the pain setting to ten percent, despite the employee’s concern and some students’ misgivings.
• The students enter the platform through stasis pods. Li Qingyue has unusual difficulty being drawn in and must consciously relax to let his awareness enter.
• In the forest-like simulation, Li Qingyue confirms that his Power of Abundance works. He uses vines to travel quickly and flowers to extend his perception, then heads directly toward his classmates.
• Watching from outside, Wu Changkong notices Li Qingyue’s unusual plant control and accurate navigation. He suspects the boy has a sensory ability unlike that of an ordinary healing-type Martial Soul.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Changkong asserts firm control over the training conditions, prioritizing a more realistic and demanding experience. His interest in Li Qingyue grows as he observes the boy’s abilities.
• Li Qingyue remains focused on strengthening his Fire Sparrow Soul Spirit, but discovers that his plant-based powers function inside the simulation and can help him sense and move through it.
• Xie Xie considers objecting to the pain setting but holds back. Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi are openly displeased, feeling less willing than Wu’s own students to accept his decision; Xu Xiaoyan is also among those originally taught by Ye Yingluo.
• The Spirit Pagoda employee hesitates to set the pain level so high, but yields to Wu Changkong’s authority.

Significant themes

• Training through risk: Greater realism may sharpen combat skills, but it also makes the experience more painful and intimidating.
• Technology and reality: The platform’s convincing environment blurs the boundary between simulated and physical experience.
• Hidden ability and observation: Li Qingyue’s unconventional powers attract Wu Changkong’s attention, hinting that his abilities may be more complex than they first appear.

Plot points and events

• Wu Changkong reflects on the exceptional potential of Li Qingyue’s Twin Martial Souls. Li’s healing ability appears to have formidable offensive power as well, making the combination unusually strong in both endurance and burst damage.
• Inside the Star Dou Great Forest, Li quickly kills two Ten-Year Soul Beasts with his Starry River longbow. Their spiritual energy barely affects his Soul Ring, so he treats the trial mainly as a chance to learn the terrain.
• The students have been deliberately scattered to prevent them from joining forces. Tang Wulin is chased by a powerful Hundred-Year ape, while Xu Xiaoyan is overwhelmed by a Hundred-Year, branch-controlling deer. Both are forced to flee.
• Li makes his way toward Na’er, who waits for him rather than wandering alone. After they meet, he senses the locations of nearby classmates and chooses to head toward Gu Yue, passing over Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Changkong’s view of Li shifts: he recognizes that Li’s healing Martial Soul is also dangerous in combat, making him far more formidable than expected.
• Li is confident and practical, conserving effort against weak Soul Beasts and using his ability to sense others to navigate the forest.
• Na’er shows trust in Li by waiting for him. She asks whether they should find Xie Xie and the others and remains alert with her spear ready.
• Tang Wulin’s training and reflexes help him evade the ape briefly, but he cannot fight it on equal terms. Xu Xiaoyan’s limited combat ability leaves her similarly vulnerable.
• The group is separated, so classmates who encounter one another can cooperate, while those alone must survive independently.

Significant themes

• The advantages and risks of exceptional power: Twin Martial Souls can combine complementary strengths and surpass ordinary limits.
• Survival and adaptation: The scattered students face threats suited to their individual weaknesses and must rely on quick thinking or help from others.
• Trust and cooperation: Na’er’s reunion with Li highlights the value of dependable companions amid the dangerous trial.

Plot points and events

• Li Qingyue escorts Tang Wulin through the Spirit Ascension Platform at an unhurried pace, enjoying its clean, beautiful environment and imagining how it compares with his future Abundance Divine Kingdom.
• The group reunites with Gu Yue and Xie Xie, then hunts Soul Beasts. Xie Xie repeatedly struggles and is rescued by Li Qingyue, while Li Qingyue faces no real challenge.
• Wu Changkong ends the session and concludes that the ordinary platform cannot test Li Qingyue. He decides to send him into the intermediate platform next time, despite worrying it may be too dangerous.
• Li Qingyue reflects that school and the platform offer little to him. With three years until Shrek Academy, he plans to expand the Abundance faith across the Sun Moon Federation through Emanators and Believers while concealing his identity.
• He considers creating a loyal Emanator himself, using his ability to make a body and supply it with power and memories.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue remains modest and careful not to reveal his strength. He is bored by the lack of challenge but thinks strategically about building influence and maintaining secrecy.
• Wu Changkong recognizes that Li Qingyue’s combat ability has outgrown ordinary instruction and struggles to find a suitable way to train him. His decision to try the intermediate platform reflects both concern and confidence in Li Qingyue.
• Xie Xie is the only one who gets meaningful combat practice, repeatedly entering danger and relying on Li Qingyue’s rescue.
• Gu Yue and the others regroup with Li Qingyue and participate in the hunt, though they need less from it than Xie Xie.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and identity: Li Qingyue’s greatest advantage is that no one is likely to suspect the young student behind the growing Abundance movement.
• Ambition and preparation: Rather than focus solely on school, he plans to build a broad organization before reaching Shrek Academy.
• Isolation through exceptional ability: Li Qingyue’s strength leaves him bored and difficult to teach, while Wu Changkong struggles to find challenges suited to him.
• Control and loyalty: Li Qingyue prefers to create an Emanator himself, ensuring complete loyalty and control.

• Li Qingyue’s next challenge: After the group returns from the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform, Wu Changkong proposes sending Li Qingyue to the far more dangerous Intermediate platform, where Hundred- and Thousand-Year Soul Beasts—and potentially even a Ten-Thousand-Year beast—roam. Li accepts, prioritizing growth over relying on his current strength. Na’er and Xie Xie want to join him, but Wu refuses. Li skips combat training that evening to meditate.
• The faith of Abundance begins to spread: In a southern town, Leng Xiaoyue and other followers gather before an unfinished statue depicting Li Qingyue as the God of Abundance. Li manifests through an illusory body and considers the risks of spreading a faith that promises abundance and deathlessness. He chooses to proceed, guiding the followers onto the Path of Abundance rather than simply handing them power.
• A new power and a two-part strategy: The followers receive the teachings of Abundance and basic healing abilities, while powerful energy gathers around Li. Leng Xiaoyue awakens as his Emanator, and Li departs with emerald wings. His plan divides the followers’ roles: Soul Masters will attack Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda branches to seize resources, while ordinary followers will travel to cities, heal the sick, and spread the faith. As people benefit from these cures and the promise of eternal life, more are expected to join.
• Character developments and interactions: Li shows both ambition and restraint: he wants to consolidate power and expand his influence, but leaves room for others to advance beyond him on the Path of Abundance—even to replace him as its god. Leng Xiaoyue becomes a central figure in his movement. The followers respond with devotion, then disperse to carry out their assigned roles. Wu Changkong, meanwhile, acts as a strict mentor by directing Li toward a harder trial and keeping his companions from joining him.
• Themes: The chapter explores faith as both a source of healing and a tool for power. Abundance could relieve widespread suffering, but Li recognizes that its rapid spread could become dangerous and cause more harm than good. It also contrasts the world’s underdeveloped public health services with the movement’s ability to cure illness, making social need the engine of its expansion.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue considers how faith in the Hunt could complement the faith of Abundance: Hunt believers could restrain or eliminate Abundance followers who lose control, while gaining stronger offensive power themselves.
• Hunt worship remains undeveloped. Li Qingyue has only mastered the Reignbow Arbiter’s martial-soul “shell,” and must forge the Hunt’s path and inheritance himself before he can spread it widely.
• Leng Xiaoyue watches from her sea of consciousness as Li Qingyue controls her body and attacks a Tang Sect branch in a small city.
• Giant vines formed from the Power of Faith smash the branch’s factory and buildings. Because the factory is automated and holds no ordinary workers, the attack causes no wider civilian disaster.
• Leng Xiaoyue’s body enters the branch and kills Tang Sect members who emerge. Li Qingyue then surveys the compound and goes to its treasury.
• After one member threatens him and his loved ones, Li Qingyue kills him and breaks into the treasury, finding stacks of Federation Credits that he can use immediately.

Character developments

• Li Qingyue reveals a long-term ambition to create a society where Abundance and Hunt coexist, with the Hunt serving as both a source of strength and a check on Abundance. He also accepts that his own rise involves taking resources, despite uncertainty about its ultimate consequences.
• Leng Xiaoyue remains composed while Li Qingyue controls her body, showing no resentment and observing events from within her consciousness.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: The Hunt could control the dangers created by Abundance, but would itself become a powerful and desirable force.
• Building a new order: Li Qingyue must create the Hunt’s path from scratch, unlike the complete inheritance of Abundance.
• The morality of power and plunder: Li Qingyue justifies robbing the Tang Sect by arguing that it, too, accumulates wealth at others’ expense—though he admits he cannot be certain his own methods will benefit people.
• Economic concentration: The chapter criticizes powerful organizations and families for hoarding currency and resources, which Li Qingyue sees as obstructing broader economic circulation.

Character interactions

• Li Qingyue uses Leng Xiaoyue’s body to carry out the raid, while she silently observes from her sea of consciousness.
• A Tang Sect member confronts and threatens Li Qingyue; he responds calmly but kills him, underscoring the brutal imbalance of power between them.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue reflects on the Tang Sect Branch robbery: it brought in roughly a million Federation Credits in cash and resources potentially worth tens of millions, possibly close to a hundred million.
• He meditates on the Abundance Divine Kingdom, whose pool of pure-white water continues to grow and whose power is helping him advance quickly.
• After a week of academy lessons, Li has learned more about Alchemy and continued studying Forging with Mu Chen, though he is in no rush to master either.
• The Tang Sect’s Soul Fighting Hall investigates the robbery but finds only ordinary Believers, many of whom could not have carried it out. The Sect monitors or imprisons them rather than killing them, partly to preserve its reputation.
• Weekend plans are set aside because Gu Yue intends to take Tang Wulin’s bloodline. She asks Li Qingyue to help.
• Gu Yue plans to bring Tang Wulin into her small world. If Tang San’s consciousness—or the consciousness of the world’s master—awakens, she wants Li to move Tang Wulin into his Abundance Divine Kingdom, whose concealment she considers exceptionally powerful.
• As payment, Gu Yue offers ten ten-thousand-year-old Spirit Grasses and around forty thousand-year-old ones. Li checks the box without opening it and senses that the promised valuable herbs are present.

Character developments

• Li Qingyue is practical and calculating: he values the robbery’s enormous returns, continues learning skills at his own pace, and agrees to assist Gu Yue without taking control of her decision.
• Gu Yue shows trust in Li and reveals the role she expects his mysterious Divine Kingdom to play. She also demonstrates that she has planned for the dangers surrounding Tang Wulin’s bloodline.
• Na’er remains with Gu Yue and Li, focused on the meal; her presence is one reason Li is willing to help.
• Xie Xie misses the outing and returns alone to his family, visibly disappointed.

Character interactions

• Li and Gu Yue discuss how to abduct and protect Tang Wulin while Gu Yue attempts to claim his bloodline. Li offers support but leaves the judgment and responsibility with her.
• Gu Yue compensates Li with a substantial collection of Spirit Grasses, which he verifies cautiously.
• The Tang Sect’s response to the robbery contrasts with the imagined harsher response of its rival organizations, illustrating how reputation shapes its treatment of suspects.

Significant themes

• Power, wealth, and pragmatism: Li sees the Tang Sect’s resources as an opportunity and regards robbery as more profitable than honest crafts.
• Reputation versus justice: The Tang Sect’s concern for its public image complicates its claim to righteousness, while the narrative criticizes its indifference to ordinary citizens.
• Trust and calculated cooperation: Gu Yue relies on Li’s unusual ability, while Li helps for personal reasons as well as loyalty and investment.
• Secrecy and danger: Both characters plan around hidden powers and the risk that powerful consciousnesses may awaken.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue stores a box of Spirit Grasses in his Abundance Divine Kingdom, where they enter the Faith Pool and begin absorbing the Power of Faith. He plans to use them to create special pills that work only for him and members of the Abundance System.
• He and Gu Yue arrange to meet that evening and secretly remove the Golden Dragon King Bloodline from Tang Wulin. They agree to take Tang Wulin away from Eastsea City to avoid discovery, especially by Teacher Wu.
• Na’er warns Li Qingyue that Gu Yue may be dangerous and curious about his powers and his resurrection. Li Qingyue takes her concern seriously but does not share all his suspicions.
• Li Qingyue reveals that he hopes Gu Yue’s plan will eventually let Na’er live independently. He intends to obtain Gu Yue’s Silver Dragon Spear and use it to stabilize Na’er, though he has a backup plan if Gu Yue refuses.
• That evening, Gu Yue brings Li Qingyue into her illusory space. He finds Tang Wulin unconscious there, along with a silent purple-haired, violet-eyed woman who leaves without explanation.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue remains composed and guarded around Gu Yue, while showing deep personal commitment to Na’er’s survival. He is willing to help Gu Yue, but only as part of a plan to protect Na’er.
• Na’er voices her distrust of Gu Yue and worry for Li Qingyue. His promise that she may one day live on her own leaves her stunned and speechless.
• Gu Yue stays reserved and determined. She agrees to the secret operation but keeps her own motives and knowledge concealed.
• Li Qingyue and Gu Yue cooperate cautiously, while Na’er’s bond with Li Qingyue is marked by trust and concern.

Significant themes

• Trust and secrecy: The characters cooperate while withholding important knowledge and guarding their motives.
• Protection and sacrifice: Li Qingyue is prepared to bargain or seek another path to keep Na’er alive.
• Identity and independence: The possibility of separating Na’er from Gu Yue raises the hope that she can exist as her own person.
• Power and vulnerability: Gu Yue and Li Qingyue may be linked in ways that constrain them, but each also has means to influence or threaten the other.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Yue begins drawing the violent Golden Dragon King blood from Tang Wulin, causing golden scales to spread over his body and blood to well from his brow.
• The extraction awakens a powerful fragment of Tang San’s consciousness inside Tang Wulin. Recognizing Gu Yue, Tang San confronts her and demands to know what happened to the Divine Realm and why his descendant is alone.
• Tang San attacks with God King-level spiritual power. Gu Yue counters using the Silver Dragon King’s preserved core power, and their clash shakes the Pocket Secret Realm.
• Li Qingyue intervenes, filling the realm with flowers and opening a rift to a place suffused with dense Power of Faith. His unfamiliar power overwhelms Tang San’s fragment and puts it to sleep, allowing Gu Yue to dismantle it.
• As Gu Yue draws out the blood, the Golden Dragon King’s corruption spreads through her. She loses control, but Li Qingyue restrains her and uses the Power of Abundance to restore her awareness. Gu Yue eventually falls asleep as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Yue remains determined and composed while extracting the blood, but its violent power makes her physically convulse and threatens to overwhelm her mind. She recognizes Tang San’s identity and later reacts with growing curiosity and shock at Li Qingyue’s abilities.
• Tang San appears as an intensely hostile guardian of Tang Wulin. His confidence falters when Li Qingyue’s power proves unfamiliar and suppresses his spiritual force.
• Li Qingyue reveals a power distinct from the Soul Power of this world. He first helps Gu Yue defeat Tang San’s consciousness, then restrains and stabilizes her when the Golden Dragon King’s influence takes hold.
• The confrontation shifts from a direct contest between Gu Yue and Tang San to an uneasy dependence on Li Qingyue’s intervention.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even God King-level force can be overcome by an unfamiliar kind of power.
• The danger of inherited power: The Golden Dragon King’s blood is potent but violently corrupting.
• Secrecy and unanswered history: Tang San’s questions about the vanished Divine Realm and his missing family remain unresolved.
• Control and dependence: Gu Yue’s resolve cannot fully protect her from the blood’s influence, forcing her to rely on Li Qingyue.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Yue wakes after being unconscious for a day and a night, having endured severe pain while the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings’ powers continued to merge. She thanks Li Qingyue for helping her suppress Tang San’s consciousness and apologizes for taking up his weekend.
• Li Qingyue tells her he had his own reasons for helping and urges her not to dwell on it. He leaves, while Gu Yue remains behind in silence.
• Tang Wulin discovers that his arm can transform into a golden dragon claw, despite not having collected the spiritual items a strange consciousness had said he needed. After checking that he is otherwise healthy, he tells Wu Changkong, who postpones a full test until classes resume.
• Tang Wulin briefly encounters Li Qingyue on the way to dinner. They exchange a few words before going their separate ways.
• In his room, Li Qingyue enters the Abundance Divine Kingdom and uses its power and his alchemy knowledge to refine two thousand-year-old Spirit Grasses. He produces twelve Spirit-Gathering Pills, which improve the efficiency of Soul Power absorption.

Character developments

• Gu Yue remains composed despite intense pain, but her faint smile and sincere thanks reveal unusual gratitude and trust toward Li Qingyue.
• Li Qingyue shows that his help for Gu Yue was partly self-motivated. He also demonstrates growing command of the Abundance Divine Kingdom and its power, adapting alchemy to work without a furnace or fire ability.
• Tang Wulin responds to his unexplained transformation with practical calm, choosing not to fret once he knows he is not ill. His solitude in Class Zero is evident, though he is content with it.

Significant themes

• Power and transformation: Gu Yue’s merging dragon powers and Tang Wulin’s golden dragon claw suggest major changes unfolding within both characters.
• Reciprocity and guarded trust: Li Qingyue helps Gu Yue while acknowledging his own interests, keeping their relationship sincere but not purely selfless.
• Pragmatism and resourcefulness: Tang Wulin sets aside what he cannot explain, while Li Qingyue finds an unconventional way to refine pills with the abilities available to him.
• Cultivation and preparation: The Spirit-Gathering Pills mark Li Qingyue’s effort to strengthen himself through alchemy.

Character interactions

• Gu Yue thanks Li Qingyue for helping her suppress Tang San’s consciousness; he downplays the favor and leaves her to recover.
• Tang Wulin reports his new ability to Wu Changkong, who arranges a later assessment.
• Tang Wulin and Li Qingyue share a brief, friendly exchange, though neither pursues a longer conversation.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue consumes twelve Spirit-Gathering Pills at once, using his ability to remove medicinal toxins to turn their power into a rapid boost to his cultivation and potential. He expects the supplies of Millennium Spirit Grass to last only a month or two, but believes the gains will be substantial.
• At the Statue of the God, Leng Xiaoyue presents resources and Century Spirit Grass collected by the Church. Li Qingyue accepts them, while she hopes his reaching the Fourth Ring will let him resurrect her younger brother.
• Li Qingyue warns Leng Xiaoyue that using his power causes dangerous Erosion, particularly when she draws heavily on the power of Abundance. She acknowledges the cost but remains determined.
• Before Li Qingyue can continue spreading his Faith, a force of Mechas arrives at the Abandoned Church. Their leader, a young Soul Emperor, accuses the Believers of robbing the Tang Sect.
• Realizing the Church’s rapid expansion—especially among people treated at hospitals—has exposed it, Li Qingyue watches as Leng Xiaoyue takes to the air to confront the intruders.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue is resourceful and confident in using pills to strengthen himself, but shows unusual concern for Leng Xiaoyue’s well-being. He promises to resurrect her brother while warning her that her power has a serious personal cost.
• Leng Xiaoyue remains single-mindedly devoted to bringing her brother back, even as she recognizes that using her Emanator power is worsening her mental state. She responds to the Church’s discovery by confronting the attackers herself.
• Their exchange highlights their bond: Li Qingyue offers reassurance and caution, while Leng Xiaoyue’s grief and resolve leave her unwilling to step back.

Significant themes

• Power and its price: Pills provide Li Qingyue a path to rapid growth, while Leng Xiaoyue’s supernatural power carries the corrosive cost of Erosion.
• Faith and exposure: The Church’s growing influence brings resources and followers, but its fast, poorly concealed expansion also attracts enemies.
• Grief and determination: Leng Xiaoyue’s desire to revive her brother drives her choices, even at the expense of her own well-being.

Plot points and events

• The Tang Sect launches an assault on Li Qingyue’s followers, using armed Mechas and trained Soul Fighters. The ordinary believers are badly outmatched.
• To protect them, Li Qingyue spends heavily from his lake of faith and summons enormous Vines to intercept the incoming fire. He sends the crowd fleeing in every direction.
• Some followers fight back. A three-ring Soul Elder, empowered by Li Qingyue’s Abundance inheritance, enlarges and extends his staff to smash a white Mecha.
• Meanwhile, Leng Xiaoyue battles a young Soul Emperor in Two-Word Battle Armor. Though she is gravely wounded repeatedly, her extraordinary recovery keeps her fighting.
• The young man recognizes her healing as potentially valuable technology for the Tang Sect and throws a large net-like Soul Tool over her as she tries to escape.
• Li Qingyue adds spikes and poisonous green gas to his Vines, escalating his intervention as the battle unfolds.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue protects his first believers despite the cost, while reflecting that Leng Xiaoyue’s reckless efforts to spread faith have exposed him too soon. He recognizes her loyalty and courage, but also her poor judgment and fixation on reviving her younger brother. Though angry at the risk she created, he decides he cannot abandon her.
• Leng Xiaoyue demonstrates fierce resolve, enduring severe pain and repeated injuries rather than surrendering. Her commitment is bound up with the hope of bringing her brother back to life.
• The Tang Sect attacker shifts from fighting Leng Xiaoyue to trying to capture her, seeing her regenerative ability as a way to strengthen the Sect’s military forces.
• The followers trust Li Qingyue’s warning and scatter immediately, while some Soul Masters resist the attackers.

Significant themes

• Faith and sacrifice: Li Qingyue spends the power accumulated through belief to save his followers.
• Loyalty versus recklessness: Leng Xiaoyue’s devotion is admirable but makes her dangerously impulsive.
• Power imbalance and survival: The Tang Sect’s trained forces overwhelm ordinary people, forcing them to flee or fight with whatever aid they have.
• The weaponization of healing: Leng Xiaoyue’s recovery is treated not only as a marvel but as a military asset to be seized.

Plot points and events

• Tang Sect forces corner Leng Xiaoyue and the Believers of Abundance with a vast, crackling net. Li Qingyue takes control of Leng Xiaoyue’s body, uses the power of Abundance to destroy and rapidly reconstruct it, then escapes with her into the Abundance Divine Kingdom.
• The Tang Sect pursues the remaining believers, who evade capture by hiding in nearby streets. The attackers do not chase Leng Xiaoyue after she vanishes.
• Back in the real world, Li Qingyue is exhausted: rescuing Leng Xiaoyue has consumed nearly half the water he had gathered. She emerges from the divine kingdom badly shaken, with severe pain and soul damage from the ordeal.
• Leng Xiaoyue apologizes for causing the crisis. Li Qingyue tells her to rebuild his following more cautiously and warns her not to strike the Tang Sect and then remain nearby. She is ordered to lie low near Eastsea City while she recovers.
• Li Qingyue reflects that his immediate safety is protected by powerful allies at school, but expanding his faith is a pressing problem. He needs a more capable preacher and considers possible future Emanators.

Character developments

• Li Qingyue shows both concern for his sole Emanator and frustration with her recklessness. He is pragmatic about the danger of recruiting powerful figures, fearing they might exploit or usurp him.
• Leng Xiaoyue is remorseful and physically and spiritually wounded. Though capable in combat, she is shown to lack the judgment and skill needed to manage the broader work of spreading the faith.
• Li Qingyue’s plans shift toward recruiting weaker, more trustworthy Emanators. He considers Wu Changkong and, especially, Long Bing as potential future partners in spreading the faith.

Character interactions

• Li Qingyue saves Leng Xiaoyue, then reprimands her gently but firmly for staying too close to the Tang Sect after attacking its branch.
• Leng Xiaoyue accepts his orders and leaves to recover.
• Li Qingyue assesses Wu Changkong and Long Bing as possible future Emanators, reasoning that Long Bing may be better suited to preaching and would be loyal to Wu Changkong.

Significant themes

• Faith, power, and dependence: Li Qingyue needs believers to grow stronger, yet currently depends on one flawed Emanator.
• Trust and control: Powerful recruits might become rivals, so Li Qingyue favors loyal, less powerful candidates.
• Sacrifice and consequence: Leng Xiaoyue’s escape is achieved at great cost to Li Qingyue’s reserves and to her own body and soul.
• Strategy and judgment: Strength in battle is not enough; effective leadership and careful planning are essential to spreading the faith.

Key plot points and events

• Li Qingyue considers a longer-term plan involving Wu Changkong, reviving Long Bing, and building a following, but recognizes that he needs to become stronger first.
• Gu Yue urgently asks Li Qingyue to return with her to the Spirit Pagoda. His suspicion makes her feel hurt, though she insists the summons is important. Na’er arrives as they leave.
• At headquarters, Leng Yaozhu reveals that the powerful Qiangu Family is attacking the Leng Family’s businesses, largely to get at Li Qingyue. With the Zhang Family refusing to help, the Leng elders have summoned her home, leaving her little choice but to go.
• Leng Yaozhu promises to restrain the Qiangu Family from afar and offers Li Qingyue and Gu Yue two exceptionally rare Spirit Grasses, each over fifty thousand years old.

Character developments and interactions

• Li Qingyue is cautious about the summons and worried that Gu Yue might deceive him, despite their recent cooperation. Leng Yaozhu’s impending departure also pushes him to prioritize strengthening himself.
• Gu Yue is serious and urgent, but Li Qingyue’s distrust wounds and angers her. She nevertheless persuades him to go.
• Leng Yaozhu feels guilty that she must leave the disciples she promised to protect. She tries to reassure them and gives them valuable resources before departing.
• Na’er arrives after the others have gathered, but has little direct interaction with them.
• Li Qingyue briefly considers seeking check-in rewards from Xu Xiaoyan, hoping to gain more strength, though he notes they have barely interacted.

Significant themes

• Protection and vulnerability: Leng Yaozhu wants to shield her disciples, but family politics force her away.
• Trust and hurt: Li Qingyue’s suspicion contrasts with Gu Yue’s earnestness and strains their relationship.
• Power and political pressure: The Qiangu Family’s influence threatens both the Leng Family and Li Qingyue.
• Preparation for danger: With his protector leaving, Li Qingyue turns his attention toward becoming stronger.

Plot points and events

• Leng Yaozhu gives Gu Yue and Li Qingyue two extremely rare Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Grasses, then says she must return to protect the Leng Family from the Qiangu Family’s growing pressure.
• Before leaving, she introduces Mo Qing, a Seven-Ring Soul Sage with Two-Word Battle Armor, as the new master of the Spirit Pagoda in Eastsea City and asks her to look after the two disciples.
• Li Qingyue reassures Leng Yaozhu that he can defend himself. She departs in a black Mecha, leaving Mo Qing behind.
• Li Qingyue privately doubts that Mo Qing will risk everything for him, despite her promise to help. He also sees the Spirit Pagoda as a promising place to recruit followers for the Faith of Abundance—and considers transforming Mo Qing into an Abomination of Abundance if she proves an unreliable ally.
• Gu Yue and Li Qingyue leave the Spirit Pagoda and return to Eastsea Academy. Gu Yue goes to her dormitory, while Li Qingyue heads to find Leng Xiaoyue. He plans to discuss spreading the faith in Eastsea City, anticipating that Qiangu Dongfeng may send assassins after him.

Character developments and interactions

• Leng Yaozhu shows genuine affection for her disciples, treating them as family, but chooses her obligations to the Leng Family over staying with them. Her farewell is both caring and reluctant.
• Li Qingyue presents himself as confident and ready to face danger, viewing threats as opportunities to grow and potentially gain followers. Beneath his courteous manner, he is calculating and prepared to exploit or control those who oppose him.
• Gu Yue remains close to Li Qingyue and leaves with him after Leng Yaozhu’s departure.
• Mo Qing offers polite support, but Li Qingyue does not trust that her loyalty to Leng Yaozhu will translate into wholehearted help for him.

Significant themes

• Family duty versus personal attachment: Leng Yaozhu must leave her disciples to defend her family.
• Faith as influence and control: Li Qingyue views powerful organizations and their members as fertile ground for spreading his faith.
• Danger as opportunity: Rather than avoid a possible assassination attempt, Li Qingyue hopes to use the danger to strengthen himself and advance his plans.