Chapter Summaries

Leng Yaozhu reunited with her missing sister, Leng Yulai, over a call, but Li Zha suspected the Evil Soul Master was luring them into an assassination plot. He urged Leng Yaozhu to prepare for Leng Yulai’s arrival in Eastsea City.

• Leng Yaozhu warned Li Zha not to provoke the Holy Spirit Cult, then received an unexpected call from Leng Yulai.
• Li Zha waited with Wu Changkong as Dark Hummingbird suffered under the flames, and Wu Changkong thanked him for delivering the captive.
• Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai spoke for the first time in years, and Leng Yulai arranged to meet her at the Eastsea City soul guidance station the next day.
• Leng Yaozhu told Li Zha that her sister was coming home, and Li Zha recognized Leng Yulai as an Evil Soul Master who might be targeting them.
• Li Zha told Leng Yaozhu to return to Eastsea City and prepare, warning that Leng Yulai might use their meeting to lure her away while she tried to assassinate him.

Li Zha warned Leng Yaozhu that Leng Yulai was an Evil Soul Master and arranged for allies to protect her in Eastsea City. Leng Yulai arrived to assassinate Li Zha, but found Yun Ming and the others waiting instead, and believed Leng Yaozhu had lured her into a death trap.

• Li Zha urged Leng Yaozhu to stay in Eastsea City and call for reinforcements, but she insisted on handling her sister herself.
• Li Zha secretly summoned Han Tianyin, Mu Ye, Yuanen Zhentian, and Yun Ming to defend Leng Yaozhu from Leng Yulai.
• Yuanen Zhentian revealed that his strength had improved, then joined the others above Eastsea City to await the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Leng Yaozhu waited at the station past noon, while Leng Yulai led her concealed subordinates toward the Spirit Pagoda.
• Leng Yulai searched the empty Spirit Pagoda for Li Zha and found Yun Ming and the others, who had killed her subordinates.
• Leng Yulai accused Leng Yaozhu of betraying her and flew into a rage.

Leng Yulai was exposed as the Dark Phoenix, and Yun Ming clarified that her belief he had loved Leng Yaozhu was a misunderstanding that had driven her to become an Evil Soul Master. Yuanen Zhentian and Han Tianyin defeated her and took her away to decide her fate with Li Zha, while Yun Ming and Heavenly Phoenix Douluo went with them.

• Leng Yulai revealed her identity as the Dark Phoenix and confronted Yun Ming, who explained that his past embrace of Leng Yaozhu had been a farewell rather than a romance.
• Realizing she had abandoned her former life over a misunderstanding, Leng Yulai broke down, but Yuanen Zhentian struck her and sent her flying through the Spirit Pagoda wall.
• Yuanen Zhentian, Han Tianyin, and Mu Ye pursued Leng Yulai, keeping her from reaching the crowds and battling her in the air.
• Mu Ye took Leng Yulai's attack without his mecha, while Yuanen Zhentian and Han Tianyin overwhelmed her and shattered her Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Yuanen Zhentian captured the gravely wounded Leng Yulai and said Li Zha had supplied the information about her location; Yun Ming and Heavenly Phoenix Douluo joined him in taking her away.

Leng Yaozhu crippled Leng Yulai and took her away after Li Zha let her decide her sister’s fate, then Li Zha resolved to repay the Spirit Pagoda’s resources and sever his ties with his teacher. After Dark Hummingbird died, Li Zha unlocked the ability to command Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, invested Yuanen Yehui, and stunned Yun Ming with the apparent divine power.

• Yuanen Zhentian and Yun Ming brought the captured Leng Yulai to Leng Yaozhu and explained that she had tried to assassinate Li Zha.
• Li Zha left Leng Yulai’s fate to Leng Yaozhu, who shattered her soul core and took her to be imprisoned in her family’s forbidden grounds.
• Li Zha told Yuanen Zhentian he would repay the Spirit Pagoda’s resources and sever his ties with Leng Yaozhu because she had spared her murderous sister.
• Dark Hummingbird died, granting Li Zha 100,000 karmic flame points and unlocking the ability to command Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Li Zha invested Yuanen Yehui with Heavenly Soldier Armor and discovered that he could share thoughts, damage, and power with those he invested in.
• Yun Ming saw the power surrounding Li Zha and Yuanen Yehui and asked whether Li Zha had received a divine inheritance.

Li Zha told Yun Ming and Yuanen Zhentian about the new Divine Realm and its godhood Investiture, but Yun Ming learned that no godhood had chosen him. He decided to leave his secluded studies and serve Shrek City, then spotted young Soul Masters threatening a boy in an alley.

• Li Zha claimed he had received the Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas's inheritance and explained that he could grant godhood through Investiture.
• Yun Ming learned that Yuanen Yehui had received the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses godhood, while no godhood had responded to him or Yuanen Zhentian.
• Li Zha explained that Yuanen Yehui's struggle against fate and her resemblance to the deity may have drawn the godhood's attention.
• Yun Ming decided to serve Shrek City and trust that his actions might attract a godhood, then flew back toward the city.
• Yun Ming disguised himself and entered Shrek City, where he saw young Soul Masters demanding money from a boy carrying a backpack.

Yun Ming cracked down on crime and corruption in Shrek City, while Tang Wulin's attempt to enter Shrek early was blocked by the academy's new rules. Li Zha convinced Wu Changkong that Long Bing might be revived, giving him a reason to live and a new purpose.

• Yun Ming stopped thugs from robbing a boy, ordered their arrest, and called for a Sea God Pavilion meeting to overhaul Shrek City's laws, patrols, and student placements.
• Yuanen Zhentian escorted Li Zha and Yuanen Yehui as his family prepared to relocate and enter seclusion.
• Tang Wulin asked Wu Changkong to arrange early admission to Shrek, but Zhuo Shi refused while the academy was reviewing its practices, leaving Tang Wulin to return to Skysea City.
• Wu Changkong prepared to leave the group after thanking Li Zha for helping him take revenge, and Li Zha warned him that Long Bing might be revived through the King of Hell godhood.
• Wu Changkong chose to stay with Li Zha, help find the King of Hell's inheritor, and assist with Li Zha's One-Word Battle Armor.

Li Zha returned to the Genius Training Camp, where Na'er and Gu Yue sparred verbally over Yuanen Yehui before the group examined the Young Prodigy Rankings. He vowed to defeat the three senior Soul Kings within a year, then met Qiangu Zhangting, who introduced himself and said he wanted to get to know Li Zha.

• Li Zha arrived at the crowded Genius Training Camp while Yuanen Zhentian went to cultivate in seclusion.
• Na'er greeted Li Zha and challenged Yuanen Yehui with a pointed welcome, while Gu Yue joined in to irritate Na'er.
• Yuanen Yehui declared that she was a lesbian and would not pursue Li Zha, prompting Na'er to wonder if she was interested in her and Gu Yue.
• Na'er showed Li Zha the Young Prodigy Rankings, where Li Zha stood fifth, Na'er sixth, and Gu Yue tenth behind three older Shrek Soul Kings.
• Li Zha said he would defeat the three top-ranked students within a year before they aged out of the rankings.
• Qiangu Zhangting waited outside Li Zha's room, introduced himself, and said he wanted to get to know Li Zha.

Li Zha decided to leave the Spirit Pagoda after Leng Yulai protected an Evil Soul Master, and Na'er chose to follow him. The chapter ended with Leng Yaozhu panicking after Gu Yue told her that both of them had left.

• Qiangu Zhangting flirted with Gu Yue and promised to protect the group, while Li Zha and Na'er found his behavior repulsive.
• Li Zha told Na'er and Gu Yue that he was leaving the Spirit Pagoda because he could not accept Leng Yulai shielding an Evil Soul Master, and he planned to rely on support from the Divine Craftsman and the Body Sect.
• Li Zha gave Na'er a storage Soul Tool Ring containing repayment for his Spirit Pagoda expenses and left for the Divine Craftsman's place.
• Na'er wrote an IOU for three years of cultivation resources, handed Li Zha's repayment and her note to Gu Yue, and chased after Li Zha.
• Gu Yue stayed behind because she believed the soul beasts' cause depended on her, then told Leng Yaozhu that Li Zha and Na'er had left.
• Leng Yaozhu panicked when she heard that both Li Zha and Na'er had left.

Li Zha began extreme-gravity training with Na'er and Yuanen Yehui while learning forging from Zhen Hua. After a month, Yun Ming launched reforms at Shrek, removed Long Yeyue and Cai Yue'er from their posts, and Qiangu Dongfeng feared his plans were being exposed.

• Li Zha divided the gravity room into zones, trained at two hundred times gravity, and had Na'er and Yuanen Yehui practice at fifty times gravity.
• Li Zha spent a month training at the Mingdu Training Camp and learning forging from Zhen Hua as upheaval spread through Shrek and the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yun Ming confronted Cai Yue'er over her poor student evaluations and accused Long Yeyue of neglecting her duties and risking war with the Spirit Pagoda.
• Yun Ming cited Long Yeyue's past relationship with Chen Xinjie, removed her as deputy Pavilion Master, and demoted Cai Yue'er to an ordinary teacher outside the Sea God Pavilion.
• Qiangu Dongfeng berated Leng Yaozhu for letting Li Zha leave the Spirit Pagoda and worried that Yun Ming's investigation would uncover his Holy Spirit Cult plot to bomb Shrek.

Leng Yaozhu regretted protecting Leng Yulai and cried over losing Li Zha, while Li Zha and Na'er settled into the Mingdu Training Camp with the Body Sect's support. Leng Yaozhu left for Shrek City and the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters as Li Zha and Na'er prepared to cultivate together.

• Leng Yaozhu realized Li Zha had suffered when she protected Leng Yulai, blamed herself as a teacher, and cried herself to sleep.
• Leng Yaozhu threatened Qiangu Zhangting to stop pestering Gu Yue, then left the Mingdu Training Camp for Shrek City and the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
• A Ruheng visited Li Zha and Na'er, bringing Body Sect supplies, a Gravity Soul Tool, and his cultivation notes.
• Na'er said she would not let Li Zha leave her behind, and Li Zha set a goal for them to reach Soul Ancestor within a year.

Qiangu Dongfeng pressured the Federation Speaker to delay Yun Ming's reforms and decided to accelerate the bombing of Shrek Academy. In Mingdu, Li Zha proposed that he and Yuanen Yehui try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyin defended Li Zha's choice to leave the Spirit Pagoda, and Qiangu Dongfeng angrily dismissed the meeting.
• Qiangu Dongfeng learned that Yun Ming was investigating Shrek and reforming Shrek City's defenses and legal procedures, threatening to expose the bombing plot.
• Qiangu Dongfeng ordered the Federation Speaker to lure Yun Ming away for at least three months, then resolved to strike Shrek within a year.
• Qiangu Dongfeng flew to the Far North to negotiate with the Holy Spirit Cult in person.
• After training and dinner in Mingdu, Li Zha suggested that he and Yuanen Yehui try a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Li Zha and Yuanen Yehui discovered they could create the domain-type Martial Soul Fusion Skill Shatter the Firmament, then spent half a year advancing their training and professions. The chapter ended with Li Zha entering Mingdu’s Spirit Ascension Platform to obtain his second Soul Spirit and break through to Soul Ancestor.

• Li Zha and Yuanen Yehui fused their Martial Souls and manifested Shatter the Firmament, a domain that disrupted enemies’ domains, Martial Souls, weapons, and fusion skills.
• Li Zha realized their fusion skill came from their inheritances from Nezha and Wukong, while Na'er resented that he could fuse with Yuanen Yehui.
• Li Zha left to study forging, while Yuanen Yehui and Na'er pursued mecha repair and mecha design and manufacturing, respectively.
• Over the next half year, Li Zha reached the threshold of level thirty-nine Soul Power and became a level-six blacksmith capable of Spirit Forging.
• Mu Ye and Zhen Hua brought Li Zha to the Spirit Ascension Platform, where he prepared to obtain his second Soul Spirit and advance to Soul Ancestor.

Li Zha searched the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform for a suitable soul beast, using the Blazing Dragon Spirit’s arts of far-hearing and concealment. He found a powerful Tyrant Dragon that detected him, but Li Zha stopped its attack with his Fire-Tipped Spear and demanded that it become his soul spirit or die.

• Li Zha entered the forest with the Blazing Dragon Spirit and used its art of far-hearing to locate soul beasts.
• The Blazing Dragon Spirit used its art of concealment to hide Li Zha as he searched, but he rejected the beasts he found.
• Li Zha discovered a ten-thousand-year Tyrant Dragon lurking in a lake and ambushing a firebird.
• The Tyrant Dragon sensed Li Zha and lunged at him, but Li Zha raised his Fire-Tipped Spear to its eye and demanded its submission.

Li Zha absorbed the Tyrant Dragon as his fourth soul ring, becoming a rank-43 Soul Ancestor, and began forging his one-word battle armor. As Leng Yaozhu quietly sent him battle-armor designs and materials through Han Tianyin, Li Zha chose the name Lotus for his armor.

• The Blazing Dragon Spirit used the Golden Dragon King's aura to make the Tyrant Dragon submit to Li Zha, who absorbed it as his fourth soul ring without suffering spiritual impact.
• Li Zha gained Tyrant King's Annihilation Slash, broke through to rank 43, and announced that he would begin forging one-word battle armor.
• News of Li Zha's advancement spread through the Mingdu Training Camp, where Shrek's three One-Word Battle Armor Masters discussed his possible challenge before their retirement.
• Leng Yaozhu had Han Tianyin deliver her battle-armor designs and metal materials for Li Zha and Na'er to Mu Ye, asking him not to reveal that they came from her.
• Li Zha began forging his one-word battle armor and told Na'er he would name it Lotus.

Li Zha finished part of his battle armor and challenged Shrek’s three leading One-Word Battle Armor Masters to fight him, hoping to win recognition and leave the Mingdu Training Camp. As the packed arena awaited their clash, Yun Ming arrived with the Federation’s old chairman and urged Li Zha to go easy on Shrek’s students.

• Li Zha decided his completed arm guards and circlet were enough to challenge Shrek’s three ranked prodigies, and he rejected the battle-armor materials and blueprints sent by Heavenly Phoenix Douluo.
• Li Zha confronted Lei Dong, Su Yunxing, and Lan Yusheng, challenging all three to fight him together or in succession and declaring that he would leave the Training Camp after beating them.
• Lei Dong reacted angrily, while Su Yunxing noted that Li Zha could win the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if he succeeded; news of the challenge spread through the Training Camp.
• More than ten thousand prodigies gathered at the arena, where Na'er, Yuanen, Zhen Hua, Mu Ye, and A Ruheng came to watch as Li Zha entered without wearing his battle armor.
• Yun Ming arrived with the Federation’s old chairman and told Li Zha to go easy on Shrek’s students.

Li Zha defeated Lei Dong and Su Yunxing in the Training Camp arena, impressing Yun Ming and the watching geniuses. He faced Lan Yusheng next, whose corrosive poison damaged Li Zha’s Battle Armor, and answered by activating Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

• Yun Ming praised Li Zha and declared his confidence in him as Lei Dong prepared to fight.
• Li Zha protected himself from Lei Dong’s lightning, used the Heaven-and-Earth Silk to redirect his punch, and knocked him out of the arena with a Fire-Tipped Spear.
• Li Zha used concealment and his Wind Fire Wheels to seize Su Yunxing and force her to concede, earning cheers from the crowd.
• Lan Yusheng entered the arena and warned Li Zha that his netherworld jellyfish Martial Soul’s poisonous water could not be neutralized.
• After Lan Yusheng’s venom corroded his Battle Armor, Li Zha removed it, grew into a twenty-meter giant with Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and struck at Lan Yusheng.

Li Zha defeated Lan Yusheng with his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and earned the right to choose a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone. He selected and absorbed a True-Blood Fire Dragon right leg bone almost instantly, then assessed the two Soul Skills it granted him.

• Li Zha crushed Lan Yusheng with two palm strikes, knocking him unconscious and winning their bout.
• Yun Ming confirmed that Li Zha qualified for Shrek's reward after defeating three One-Word Battle Armor Masters.
• Yun Ming and Ya Li presented Li Zha with three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones: a Silver Moon Wolf King torso bone, a Heavenly Horned Ant left arm bone, and a True-Blood Fire Dragon right leg bone.
• Li Zha chose the True-Blood Fire Dragon right leg bone and absorbed it on the spot in less than two minutes.
• Li Zha discovered that the Soul Bone granted him Fire Dragon's Breath and the ability to control lava.

Li Zha gave the Plane Spirit the Land God plaque, then absorbed the Golden Tree’s energy before setting off with Mu Ye for Dragon Valley on the Star Luo Continent. Meanwhile, Qiangu Dongfeng launched a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell at Shrek City.

• Li Zha gave the Plane Spirit the Land God plaque, which raised its standing to the level of a god and gave it hope of resisting Tang Hao.
• Li Zha absorbed the Golden Tree’s energy, completed his first Soul Core, and accepted equipment and travel privileges from Feng Wuyu.
• Li Zha told Mu Ye to take him to Dragon Valley on the Star Luo Continent to seek Soul Bones and the Dragon God Core.
• Na'er and Yuanen Yehui heard that Li Zha had left, and they continued their cultivation at the Mingdu Training Camp.
• Qiangu Dongfeng activated a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell in an underground Federation warehouse and launched it toward Shrek City.

Yun Ming sacrificed himself to deflect two Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and protect Shrek City, dying after grievously wounding the Ghost Emperor. Faith from the survivors preserved his soul, and the Heavenly Court appointed him Demon-Slashing Ancestral Master; he then appeared before Li Zha and entered his body.

• Yun Ming burned his incomplete godhood and destroyed his Four-Word Battle Armor to deflect the first cannon shell, then intercepted the second with his body and pierced the Ghost Emperor with his spear.
• Yun Ming died as his soul separated from his shattered body, while Ya Li sensed his death at the Mingdu Training Camp and fainted.
• Survivors of Shrek City prayed for Yun Ming, and their faith kept his soul from dissolving as it was drawn to the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court restored Yun Ming's soul and appointed him Demon-Slashing Ancestral Master, granting him divine status in soul form.
• Yun Ming appeared before Li Zha in Star Luo City, and Li Zha welcomed him into his body, suggesting incense power might someday rebuild his physical form.

After Shrek was destroyed, Ya Li organized the surviving students and returned to the ruins, where Li Zha told her Yun Ming’s soul had survived. Li Zha said he might eventually revive Yun Ming, but he was in the Star Luo Empire and warned Ya Li to keep the news secret while the mastermind remained unidentified.

• Su Yunxing, Lei Dong, and Lan Yusheng learned Shrek had been bombed and could not reach anyone at the academy, while Na'er and Yuanen Yehui reacted to the news.
• Zhen Hua took Na'er and Yuanen Yehui from the Mingdu Training Camp to the Forging Association in Heaven Dou City for safety.
• After waking, Ya Li learned Yun Ming had fallen, canceled Training Camp activities, and ordered the surviving Shrek students to stay together.
• Ya Li returned to Shrek City, received Yun Ming's Skyreach Spear from Long Yeyue, and began searching for survivors among the ruins.
• Long Yeyue wrongly concluded that Yun Ming's reforms had prompted the bombing and felt relieved that Shrek's destruction removed the obstacle between her and Chen Xinjie.
• Li Zha told Ya Li that Yun Ming's soul was with him and that he might be able to revive him, then urged her to keep the news secret while he remained in the Star Luo Empire.