Chapter Summaries

After Meng Chen returned bloodied from an ambush, Qian Renxue vowed to uncover and punish those responsible. Ning Rongrong learned he was safe at the Crown Prince's Residence, though the identities of his attackers remained unknown.

• Meng Chen told Qian Renxue that Soul Ancestors had ambushed him outside Heaven Dou City, but hid his role in killing them and Gu Yuena's appearance.
• Qian Renxue reassured Meng Chen, sent him to rest, and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to identify who was behind the attackers and root them out.
• Ning Rongrong heard that Meng Chen had returned to the Crown Prince's Residence covered in blood and rushed to the council hall for help.
• Ning Fengzhi told Ning Rongrong that Meng Chen had escaped with his teleportation soul skill and was safe.

After learning Meng Chen was safe, Ning Rongrong demanded action against whoever had attacked him, while Ning Fengzhi arranged protection and an investigation. In her courtyard, Gu Yuena recovered from using her sealed Dragon King Origin and realized that Meng Chen had concealed the Golden Dragon King's power.

• Ning Rongrong asked to confront Prince Xue Xing, but Ning Fengzhi said there was no conclusive evidence and ordered the sect's contacts to assist the investigation.
• Ning Fengzhi stationed two Soul Saint-level covert guards near Heaven Dou Royal Junior Academy, and Chen Xin agreed to accompany Ning Rongrong to the Crown Prince's Residence.
• Gu Yuena suppressed the backlash from releasing a sliver of her Dragon King Origin and resealed it within her consciousness.
• Gu Yuena recalled Meng Chen's Golden Dragon Claw and concluded that he was still the Golden Dragon King, despite his rabbit-like appearance.
• Gu Yuena told herself she had saved Meng Chen only to preserve the Dragon Clan's power, then resolved to teach him a lesson if he acted sly in public again.

After recovering from the ambush, Meng Chen returned to the academy, where Ning Rongrong anxiously checked on him and Gu Yuena briefly met him. Ning Rongrong learned that Gu Yuena had helped save him, softening her hostility even as she kept her sharp tongue.

• Meng Chen returned to the academy after two days of recuperation, with his soul power strengthened by the battle.
• Ning Rongrong rushed to hug Meng Chen, checked him for injuries, and scolded him for going out without telling her.
• Meng Chen thanked Gu Yuena for helping him during the ambush, but she dismissed his gratitude and walked away.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Gu Yuena had distracted the attackers and realized she had helped save Meng Chen.
• Ning Rongrong's hostility toward Gu Yuena eased, and she followed Meng Chen toward class while glancing after Gu Yuena.

At the imperial court, Qian Renxue presented evidence that Prince Xue Xing had arranged an assassination attempt on Meng Chen, prompting Xue Ye to punish him and compensate the child. Xue Xing lost command of the City Guard Army and was confined, while Qian Renxue secured assets for Meng Chen and left with Ning Fengzhi.

• Xue Ye confronted Prince Xue Xing over the attack on six-year-old Meng Chen, but Xue Xing denied responsibility.
• Qian Renxue presented evidence linking the two assassins to Xue Xing's estate, and Ning Fengzhi warned that the attack threatened the safety of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's disciples.
• Xue Ye stripped Xue Xing of his City Guard Army command, withheld his stipend for three years, and confined him to his estate for six months.
• Xue Ye ordered Xue Xing's estate to pay Meng Chen one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and transfer farmland and three shops to him.
• Qian Renxue and Ning Fengzhi left the Imperial Study after Xue Ye asked Qian Renxue to protect Meng Chen's faith in the empire.

Meng Chen learned that Prince Xue Xing had been punished and made to compensate him for the assassination attempt, while Qian Renxue promised to pursue further revenge. The chapter ended with Qian Renxue urging Meng Chen to stand his ground at the academy, backed by the Crown Prince's Residence.

• Meng Chen returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, where Qian Renxue told him that two assassins had ties to Prince Xue Xing.
• Qian Renxue explained that Xue Xing had targeted Meng Chen because he was a talented ally of the Crown Prince.
• Xue Xing compensated Meng Chen with one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, farmland, and three shops, while Emperor Xue Ye stripped Xue Xing of his city guard command and confined him for six months.
• Meng Chen offered to give the compensation to Qian Renxue, but she insisted it was his property and told him to keep it.
• Qian Renxue vowed to make Xue Xing pay further in secret and promised the Crown Prince's Residence would protect Meng Chen at the academy.
• Qian Renxue mentioned Ning Rongrong's concern for Meng Chen and advised him to maintain their friendship and firmly answer anyone who provoked him.

Ning Rongrong brought Meng Chen nourishing pastries and, after learning Gu Yuena had saved him, offered her half as thanks. Gu Yuena accepted the gift and thanked her, easing their old hostility.

• Meng Chen noticed the academy's noble students treated him differently after news spread that Prince Xue Xing had been punished and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect supported him.
• Ning Rongrong brought Meng Chen Spirit Jade Snow Cakes and told him they could nourish his meridians.
• Ning Rongrong took half the pastries to Gu Yuena, explaining that she owed her for saving Meng Chen and offering the gift on behalf of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Gu Yuena sensed Ning Rongrong's sincerity, tasted a pastry, and thanked her.
• Ning Rongrong declared she would no longer hold their old grudges against Gu Yuena and returned to her seat with Meng Chen.

After receiving compensation for the Southern Suburbs ambush, Meng Chen invited Gu Yuena and Ning Rongrong to dinner at the Listening Cloud Tower. Gu Yuena discovered her delight in human cuisine, then asked Meng Chen to speak with her privately after Ning Rongrong left for home.

• Meng Chen thanked Gu Yuena for saving him and invited her and Ning Rongrong to dinner with his compensation money.
• Gu Yuena accepted the invitation, curious about human food and wanting to observe Meng Chen more closely.
• At the Listening Cloud Tower, Gu Yuena tried the dishes and became absorbed in eating the lavish meal.
• After dinner, Ning Rongrong left in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's carriage, and Gu Yuena asked Meng Chen to talk with her in private.

Gu Yuena questioned Meng Chen about the power he had revealed in battle, and he disguised his knowledge of his Golden Dragon King bloodline while agreeing to keep it secret. Meanwhile, the Benevolent Heart Apothecary delivered the millennium sea dragon marrow Meng Chen had been seeking to Qian Renxue, who looked forward to giving it to him.

• Gu Yuena led Meng Chen to a secluded riverside path and asked what he had used to defeat a four-ring Soul Ancestor.
• Meng Chen claimed that golden dragon scales had appeared when his blood and right arm reacted to danger, and asked Gu Yuena whether he was going to die.
• Gu Yuena reassured Meng Chen that the power was formidable and told him not to reveal it to anyone, including Xue Qinghe, until he had mastered it.
• The Benevolent Heart Apothecary's head shopkeeper brought Qian Renxue the millennium sea dragon marrow after securing it through the merchant network.
• Qian Renxue praised the shopkeeper, ordered reimbursement plus thirty percent, and looked forward to giving the jade box to Meng Chen.

Meng Chen received the millennium sea dragon marrow from Qian Renxue and prepared to use it with three other treasures to temper his body before consuming the dragon scale fruit and breaking the Golden Dragon King's second seal. As he began mixing the medicinal bath in his room, Snake Lance Douluo stood guard outside in case the procedure harmed him.

• Meng Chen returned to Qian Renxue, who showed him the millennium sea dragon marrow she had obtained from the Benevolent Heart Apothecary.
• Qian Renxue warned Meng Chen about the dangers of body tempering with the potent marrow, and he promised to stop if his meridians showed signs of damage.
• Qian Renxue ordered Snake Lance Douluo to secretly guard Meng Chen and intervene if he suffered a backlash.
• Meng Chen gathered the millennium sea dragon marrow, blue vein vine, earth dragon tendon, and dragon scale fruit, the four treasures needed to break the Golden Dragon King's second seal.
• Meng Chen pounded the blue vein vine, earth dragon tendon, and part of the sea dragon marrow into a medicinal slurry and poured it into his boiling bath.

Meng Chen endured the violent physical and mental trials of releasing the Golden Dragon King's second seal and awakened his bloodline power. After discovering his greatly strengthened body and Golden Dragon Claw, he caused a disturbance in the Crown Prince’s Residence, and Qian Renxue rushed in to check on him.

• She Long watched Meng Chen begin the dangerous medicinal bath and prepared to intervene if he was in danger.
• Meng Chen swallowed the Dragon Scale Fruit, entered the medicinal bath, and attacked the second seal as conflicting forces battered his body.
• Meng Chen endured three days and nights of physical agony and the Golden Dragon King's bloodlust without losing his consciousness.
• Meng Chen awoke with scarlet-gold eyes, found his body dramatically strengthened, and manifested a golden Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Meng Chen tested his strengthened Golden Dragon Claw, creating a thunderous blast that alerted the Crown Prince’s Residence.
• Qian Renxue and a hooded figure burst into Meng Chen’s room, and Qian Renxue anxiously asked whether he was all right.

After Meng Chen emerged from a medicinal bath with a greatly strengthened body and rank twenty-eight Soul Power, Qian Renxue arranged a test of his physical strength. Meng Chen struck Tie Shan hard enough to stagger the rank fifty-two Soul King, leaving everyone stunned.

• Meng Chen hid his Blood Essence Soul Ring and credited the medicinal bath for his strengthened physique and rapid rise to rank twenty-eight.
• She Long examined Meng Chen and found his bones, sinews, and blood essence extraordinarily strong, without signs of damage to his foundation.
• Qian Renxue ordered She Long to bring Tie Shan for a contest of physical strength without Soul Skills.
• Tie Shan agreed to let Meng Chen throw the first three punches while Qian Renxue and She Long watched from the edge of the arena.
• Meng Chen shattered the obsidian floor with his charge and punched Tie Shan, forcing the rank fifty-two Soul King back several steps.

Meng Chen gravely wounded Tie Shan with a second punch, astonishing Qian Renxue, who gave him access to the imperial treasury to support his training. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Gu Yuena sensed that the Golden Dragon King power within Meng Chen had begun to awaken.

• Meng Chen used his Bloodline Power and Martial Soul Possession to smash Tie Shan into the arena wall, breaking his arms and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Qian Renxue stopped Meng Chen from striking again and ordered She Long to take Tie Shan for treatment and silence everyone who witnessed the fight.
• Qian Renxue gave Meng Chen a gold token granting him access to the highest floor of the imperial treasury so he could collect medicinal ingredients.
• Meng Chen arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and reassured Ning Rongrong after she scolded him for missing three days of class.
• Gu Yuena noticed the Golden Dragon King power inside Meng Chen had begun to burn and realized something within him had changed.

Meng Chen met Gu Yuena in a secluded ravine and revealed his Golden Dragon Body, transforming his rabbit ears into dragon horns. Gu Yuena recognized the power as the Golden Dragon King’s true form, and Meng Chen ended the display by claiming it made him feel like a creature consumed by slaughter.

• Ning Rongrong invited Meng Chen to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but he refused and claimed he needed to recover from training.
• After Ning Rongrong left, Meng Chen went to a secluded ravine to meet Gu Yuena.
• Gu Yuena sensed a change in Meng Chen’s body and demanded to know what had happened.
• Meng Chen awakened his Blood Essence Soul Ring and displayed his Golden Dragon Body, turning his rabbit ears into dragon horns.
• Gu Yuena recognized the Golden Dragon King’s form and ordered Meng Chen to put it away.
• Meng Chen withdrew the power and told Gu Yuena that using it made him feel driven by slaughter.

Gu Yuena warned Meng Chen to hide his Golden Dragon power from humans, and he spent the next five years cultivating at Heaven Dou Royal Academy. At twelve, he reached level fifty-nine and met Qian Renxue before a combat demonstration, where a girl called for him from below.

• Gu Yuena warned Meng Chen that humans might imprison him and exploit his Golden Dragon bloodline if they discovered his power, and he promised to reveal it only to her.
• Gu Yuena left Broken Ravine, and Meng Chen resolved to lie low until he could open the third seal before turning sixteen.
• Five years passed as Meng Chen cultivated, mastered control over his visible traits, and reached level fifty-nine at age twelve.
• Qian Renxue visited Meng Chen at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and explained that she had come to watch the Imperial Guard commander and Main Campus special-class students' combat demonstration.
• A girl's voice rang out from the training-ground steps, demanding that Meng Chen come out.

Ning Rongrong visited Meng Chen at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and urged him to accompany her to a strange academy in the Balak Kingdom that accepted only monsters. Meng Chen recognized it as Shrek Academy and, after years of sheltered cultivation, considered the need for real trials.

• Ning Rongrong arrived at the training grounds, greeted Qian Renxue respectfully, and relaxed after the Crown Prince left.
• Ning Rongrong scolded Meng Chen for avoiding her, and the two joked about why she had come to the academy.
• Ning Rongrong criticized Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s noble students and revealed she had heard of an unregistered academy in the Balak Kingdom that accepted only monsters.
• Ning Rongrong asked Meng Chen to go with her, saying her father would not scold her if Meng Chen accompanied her.
• Meng Chen recognized the academy as Shrek Academy, recalled Tang San and Xiao Wu’s expected journey, and reflected on his rank-fifty-nine cultivation and lack of life-and-death experience.

Meng Chen agreed to travel to the Balak Kingdom with Ning Rongrong, then invited Gu Yuena to join them. She declined but urged him to visit the mysterious Burial Dragon Mountain Range, which Meng Chen suspected was Dragon Valley.

• Ning Rongrong persuaded Meng Chen to travel with her to the Balak Kingdom, and he agreed after setting conditions for the journey.
• Meng Chen visited Gu Yuena at Heaven Dou Royal Academy and told her he planned to leave Heaven Dou City.
• Meng Chen invited Gu Yuena to travel with him and Ning Rongrong, but she refused.
• Gu Yuena suggested Meng Chen visit the Burial Dragon Mountain Range, and he wondered if she meant Dragon Valley.

Meng Chen reflected on the Douluo world’s changing setting while traveling with Ning Rongrong, then investigated a disturbance in the forest. He found an unconscious, wounded Zhu Zhuqing and realized she was still being hunted.

• Meng Chen sat by the campfire with Ning Rongrong and thought about how the Douluo world had shifted from fantasy toward technology and space warfare.
• Two cat-eared sisters fought in the forest as the older sister pursued the wounded younger one, whom she called Little Qing.
• Meng Chen heard the disturbance, told Ning Rongrong he was going to relieve himself, and followed a faint presence and the scent of blood into the woods.
• Meng Chen found an unconscious Black-Clad Cat-Eared Girl in the grass and recognized her as Zhu Zhuqing.

Meng Chen treated Zhu Zhuqing after she collapsed while fleeing her family, and Zhu Zhuyun revealed that she had secretly helped her escape. Zhu Zhuqing woke the next morning, nearly healed, and met Meng Chen.

• Meng Chen carried the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing to safety, treated her abdominal wound, and called out Zhu Zhuyun, who had been watching from the woods.
• Zhu Zhuyun thanked Meng Chen and chose not to take Zhu Zhuqing back, saying she wanted her little sister to escape the family's rules and find freedom.
• Zhu Zhuyun kissed Zhu Zhuqing goodbye, urged her to keep running, and disappeared into the night.
• Meng Chen carried Zhu Zhuqing back to camp, where Ning Rongrong questioned him about the girl before he explained what had happened.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke the next morning with her wound nearly healed and saw Meng Chen standing nearby; she blushed when he greeted her.

Meng Chen, Ning Rongrong, and the injured Zhu Zhuqing arrived in Suotuo City, where the city lord received them and arranged their lodging. The next morning, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing went shopping together, and Ning Rongrong set her heart on an expensive necklace while Meng Chen insisted he had no money.

• Zhu Zhuqing thanked Meng Chen and Ning Rongrong for saving her, then learned they were traveling to Shrek Academy.
• Meng Chen and his companions reached Suotuo City, where city lord Talas welcomed them and arranged two houses for their stay.
• Meng Chen asked Talas to investigate Shrek Academy's admissions and its activities in Suotuo City.
• The following morning, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing browsed jewelry shops together while Meng Chen followed carrying their shopping bags.
• Ning Rongrong chose a fire-agate phoenix necklace priced at 6,666 Gold Soul Coins and looked to Meng Chen, who said he had no money.

While shopping at the Jade Scenery Pavilion, Zhu Zhuqing coldly rebuffed Dai Mubai, who then tried to attack Meng Chen. The proprietor stopped the fight and gave Meng Chen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong each a free item, and they later returned to the city lord’s residence.

• Ning Rongrong asked the shop attendant to set aside the Fire Agate Red Phoenix Necklace so she could return with enough money to buy it.
• Dai Mubai entered the shop with two women, and Zhu Zhuqing called him a coward who had fled from his family’s rules.
• Meng Chen taunted Dai Mubai while watching with a tub of popcorn, prompting Dai Mubai to attack him.
• The Jade Scenery Pavilion’s Soul Emperor proprietor blocked Dai Mubai’s punch and ordered him to leave despite his appeal to Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai left after threatening Meng Chen, and the proprietor offered Meng Chen, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong one item each as compensation.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing ended their shopping and returned with Meng Chen to the city lord’s residence.