Chapter Summaries

Tang Qingye comforted Leng Yaozhu, then gave her a spiritual birthday gift that formed a God-Defending Sword in her Sea of Consciousness. Leng Yaozhu thanked him with a kiss, leaving their relationship at an intimate turning point.

• Tang Qingye found Leng Yaozhu asleep and soothed her as she pleaded for him not to leave.
• Leng Yaozhu woke and admitted she had made a fool of herself, and Tang Qingye told her he had come to see her for a reason.
• Tang Qingye presented Leng Yaozhu with a handmade birthday cake and wished her a happy birthday.
• Tang Qingye transferred a pale green sword into Leng Yaozhu's Sea of Consciousness, where it took root as a God-Defending Sword.
• Leng Yaozhu embraced Tang Qingye and kissed him before he could finish speaking.

Tang Qingye woke to find Leng Yaozhu had ruined her first attempt at cooking, while Qiangu Dongfeng accused the Tang Sect of serious crimes in a nationally televised Federation Court hearing. After the court verified key evidence against Glorious World Tang Sect, a reporter’s question prompted Qiangu Dongfeng to announce an investigation into Shrek Academy.

• Tang Qingye found Leng Yaozhu beside a wrecked stove and a table of burned dishes, and she warned him not to criticize her cooking.
• Qiangu Dongfeng formally accused the Tang Sect and Glorious World Tang Sect of espionage, ecological destruction, and selling weapons to hostile empires, then submitted evidence to the court.
• The defense challenged the evidence as forged, but the presiding judge presented a Federation verification report matching the shell records to Glorious World Tang Sect’s registered factory batches.
• After the hearing, Qiangu Dongfeng told reporters that the case had gone smoothly and fielded questions outside the Federation Court.
• A reporter asked whether Shrek Academy was involved, and Qiangu Dongfeng announced that he would investigate Shrek Academy and restore justice.

A youth from the Eight Pill-Gobbling Clan tried to persuade the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's dean that the Foundation Establishment Pill could transform its students and help them surpass Shrek. Elsewhere, Leng Yulai delivered Holy Spirit Cult slaves to Bi Ji's pill-refining base, where the two women discussed the young master.

• The Eight Pill-Gobbling Clan youth told the dean that the Foundation Establishment Pill had no toxins or side effects and could improve cultivation, bodies, and aptitude; the dean's skepticism gave way to shock.
• Leng Yulai used the Spacetime Shuttle to bring a batch of Holy Spirit Cult slaves to the organization's base in Mingdu.
• Bi Ji finished refining pills and thanked Leng Yulai for bringing workers to ease her burden.
• Leng Yulai asked Bi Ji what kind of person the young master was, and Bi Ji described his decisiveness, steadiness, and care for his people, adding that he had taught her pill refining.

Three Federation employees watched Qiangu Dongfeng accuse the Tang Sect in court and debated whether the Star Dou attack was part of a wider plot involving stolen weapons. They then criticized Shrek’s influence across Federation institutions, leaving their private conversation full of dangerous accusations.

• Old Xu, Zhou Kai, and Liao Shan watched Qiangu Dongfeng declare that he would investigate Shrek Academy and restore justice.
• Zhou Kai replayed the trial, and the three men discussed the Tang Sect’s attack on the Spirit Pagoda’s Star Dou territory.
• Liao Shan linked the attack to stolen high-grade shells and missing weapons, speculating that an unknown power might be trying to turn the major factions against each other.
• The men discussed Shrek’s influence in the Federation, the War God Temple, and the Blood God Legion, including accusations against Cai Yue'er, Yun Ming, and Zhang Huanyun.
• Zhou Kai warned Xu Song to stop speaking so freely, but Xu Song continued criticizing the Federation and offered to show them an alliance association forum.

One kun-year later, Tang Qingye tried to persuade Tang Wulin to study in Eastsea City by promising him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for recruiting talented people into the Spirit Pagoda. The meal’s teasing exchange with Gu Yuena recalled how she had once rushed to Tang Qingye after his attempt to create a Dragon God primordial embryo injured him, then succumbed to the pull of his divine blood.

• Wu Siduo and Leng Nu Jiao competed to serve Tang Qingye food while Gu Yuena watched, and Tang Wulin complained that he did not want to leave home for school in Eastsea City.
• Tang Qingye insisted Tang Wulin go to school and promised him a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if he recruited outstanding talents into the Spirit Pagoda.
• Gu Yuena silently protested Tang Qingye’s promise, then signaled that she wanted their encounter repeated three times.
• Tang Qingye used the Golden Dragon King's destructive power and the Silver Dragon King's origin of creation to try to nurture a Dragon God primordial embryo inside the Seven-Colored Gourd, but the powers violently rejected each other.
• The backlash injured Tang Qingye and destroyed the embryo, while the resonance of his bloodline reached Gu Yuena and led her to his meditation chamber.
• Gu Yuena treated Tang Qingye’s wounds, but his divine blood stirred her instincts, and she drank from one of his bleeding wounds as her Soul Power boiled.

Qiangu Zhangting trained in the Unyielding Staff Technique but angered Qiangu Dongfeng by letting his thoughts wander. Meanwhile, Shrek students arrived to challenge the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, which prepared a Federation-wide broadcast of the contest as Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena waited at the stadium.

• Qiangu Dongfeng taught Qiangu Zhangting the Unyielding Staff Technique, praised his performance as passable, then struck him when he stopped paying attention.
• Five arrogant students from Shrek's first-year Outer Court arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and demanded an open match.
• The academy supervisor reported the challenge to the headmaster, who ordered the Sun Moon Grand Stadium opened and the battle broadcast across the Federation.
• Tang Qingye agreed to watch the contest with Gu Yuena, then playfully pulled her onto his lap and teased her for becoming flustered.
• The academy publicized the challenge, and spectators filled the stadium as the contest began.

Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Academy faced off in a packed stadium, while Gu Yuena and Tang Qingye watched and debated which captain would win. The match had not begun when Tang Qingye favored Sun Moon’s eerie, gu-using competitor over the Darkness Sacred Dragon.

• Ling Yao rejected his teacher’s request to follow the team’s tactics and insisted he would choose how to fight.
• Shrek Academy’s five competitors entered first and endured the crowd’s scrutiny while Sun Moon Academy kept them waiting.
• Sun Moon Royal Academy’s team entered to a deafening home-crowd welcome, drawing particular attention to its eerie lead competitor.
• Gu Yuena scanned the competitors with her spiritual power, found Ling Yao the strongest, and chose the Darkness Sacred Dragon to win.
• Tang Qingye favored Sun Moon’s eerie competitor, and Gu Yuena questioned his choice before Tang teased her for imitating flirtatious behavior.

Sun Moon Academy defeated Shrek after the black-clad boy used his Gu abilities to incapacitate one opponent and disrupt Ling Yao, allowing his teammates to trap the captain in their Frost Sky Cold Prison. The boy nearly collapsed from the strain, but Sun Moon won and the match became a Federation-wide sensation.

• Ling Yao led Shrek into battle, and Shrek's control-type soul master fell unconscious after the boy's Worry Gu and Resentment Gu disrupted his mind and soul power.
• The boy used Foolishness Gu to unsettle Ling Yao and his remaining teammates while Sun Moon's fighters engaged them across the platform.
• Ice Spirit and the Cold Jade Ice Toad combined their powers to trap Ling Yao in Frost Sky Cold Prison, and the rest of Sun Moon's team joined the assault as he tried to break free with his battle armor.
• The boy endured severe mental and physical strain to maintain the Gu effects while Sun Moon's team repeatedly reinforced the ice and wore Ling Yao down.
• The referee declared Sun Moon Academy the winner, and the boy nearly collapsed before Ice Spirit caught him.
• The match spread across the Federation's news networks, where outlets reported Sun Moon's upset victory and the dean celebrated Shrek's defeat.

After Shrek’s students lost to Sun Moon Royal Academy, Cai Yue'er escaped a severe punishment with Long Yeyue’s intervention, and the two planned to go to Sun Moon to seize a student and demand justice. At Shrek, Yuanen Yehui heard that Sun Moon’s students had grown powerful with a purchasable pill, and she quietly became interested in obtaining it.

• Cai Yue'er asked Long Yeyue for help as Shrek’s elders condemned the disastrous match and questioned Cai Yue'er over her decision to send the students to Mingdu.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders initially removed Cai Yue'er as Outer Court dean and suspended her authority for five years, but Long Yeyue persuaded them to reduce the punishment to a major demerit and a written self-criticism.
• Cai Yue'er accused a three-ring Sun Moon student of being an Evil Soul Master, and Long Yeyue agreed to go with her to capture him and confront Sun Moon’s principal.
• Yun Ming watched the hall erupt in argument and noticed that Ya Li had left, while Shrek’s teachers and students grew angry over the public mockery of their defeat.
• While Yuanen Yehui earned contribution points by cleaning Spirit Ice Plaza, she overheard students say a pill sold in Mingdu had helped Sun Moon’s students grow stronger.
• Yuanen Yehui, anxious to gain strength and escape the danger of her fallen angel martial soul, quietly became interested in obtaining the pill.

Qiangu Dongfeng published a poem condemning Shrek over the Mingdu bloodshed, while Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena joked over a wager before discussing a business deal with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. The chapter ended with Tang Qingye offering to heal the dean’s ailing father in exchange for the academy supporting the Tilting Moon Pavilion and handing over the Dragon Core.

• Qiangu Dongfeng wrote and published “Reflections on Mingdu,” stirring a wave of discussion across the Douluo Continent.
• Tang Qingye claimed his wager with Gu Yuena and asked for rare treasures, prompting her to tease him with an offer to make him her Dragon Queen.
• The dean entered while Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena were close together, then thanked Tang Qingye for recommending the boy who helped secure the academy’s victory.
• The dean proposed using the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s channels to publicize the Tilting Moon Pavilion.
• Tang Qingye asked about the dean’s aging father and offered a Foundation-Nurturing Pill that could restore vitality, ease old injuries, and stabilize cultivation.
• Tang Qingye offered to heal the dean’s father in exchange for the academy supporting the Tilting Moon Pavilion, opening its resources, and giving him the Dragon Core.

Tang Wulin arrived at Eastsea Academy seeking enrollment and defeated Xie Xie in a trial match, earning Wu Changkong’s approval as his student. As they joined the class’s run, Tang Wulin asked Xie Xie to find out who the academy’s other genius students were.

• Tang Wulin presented a recommendation letter to Wu Changkong, who learned that the nine-year-old had Blue Silver Grass and rank twenty-one Soul Power.
• Wu Changkong ordered Xie Xie to fight Tang Wulin, and the two prepared for a match after Xie Xie recovered from the run.
• Tang Wulin revealed two Thousand-Year Soul Rings and used his Blue Silver Grass armor and spear to repel Xie Xie’s attacks.
• Wu Changkong stopped the match and declared Tang Wulin the winner, accepting him as his student.
• Tang Wulin joined the run and asked Xie Xie to identify other genius students at Eastsea Academy, prompting Xie Xie to claim he was one himself.

Tang Qingye settled into Tilting Moon Pavilion and gave Bi Ji a Foundation-Nurturing Pill recipe while explaining how the pills would build the organization’s wealth and influence. He planned to leave with Gu Yuena and Di Tian, and promised to personally suppress trouble at future auctions.

• Tang Qingye and the other core members moved into the newly completed Tilting Moon Pavilion, where he gave Bi Ji a private lesson in pill refining.
• Bi Ji asked to accompany Tang Qingye, but he told her to stay and oversee the pavilion, then gave her the Foundation-Nurturing Pill recipe and challenged her to reach a forty-percent success rate.
• Tang Qingye told Bi Ji that the early Foundation-Nurturing Pills would be auctioned one at a time, then exchanged only for rare treasures rather than Federation currency.
• Tang Qingye warned Bi Ji that the pills could attract attacks and expose the Soul Beasts, so Di Tian would be the only high-level combatant to openly suppress trouble.
• Tang Qingye said he would personally deal with malicious attackers at future auctions to protect the organization.

Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena gained privileged positions and access to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s secret vault, while students reacted to Tang Qingye’s growing reputation. As Ya Li prepared to negotiate with the academy on Shrek’s behalf, Cai Yue’er urged her not to compromise Shrek’s pride.

• Tang Qingye became an honorary teacher and Gu Yuena became a librarian, and both received access to the academy’s Soul Tool Secret Vault.
• Gu Yuena studied the vault’s soul tool designs, including the Level 8 Defensive Soul Tool Azure Waves Cloud Veil.
• Su Wanqing asked a boy to secretly record Tang Qingye teaching and offered to connect him with rare-metal suppliers; he decided to help.
• Yun Ming and the Twin Moons sent Ya Li to the Sun Moon Academy to apologize, negotiate over the public backlash, and recruit students who had defeated Shrek.
• Cai Yue’er told Ya Li to make Shrek’s stance clear and insist that admission to Shrek was already a great opportunity.

Long Yeyue visited Shrek’s treasure vault and discovered a manual that inspired her to develop a new combat style, while Ya Li went to Sun Moon Academy to negotiate an exchange program. Tang Qingye intervened and set the terms, leaving Ya Li to stay at the academy until he could accompany the students to Shrek.

• Long Yeyue entered Shrek’s treasure vault, read Secret of the Body, and considered creating her own Light-Dark Nine Forms.
• Ya Li arrived at Sun Moon Academy and met with its dean to propose sending the students who defeated Shrek as exchange students.
• The dean explained that Fang Yuan was outside the academy’s authority, and Tang Qingye appeared to negotiate on behalf of Fang Yuan and his pupils.
• Tang Qingye required a five-year exchange, natural treasures for the students, and compensation for Shrek’s public-relations help, including a high-grade Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and rare metals.
• Ya Li accepted the terms and asked Tang Qingye to serve as an honorary teacher; he agreed and asked her to stay at Sun Moon Academy until he could escort the students to Shrek.

Leng Yaozhu entered seclusion to pursue Limit Douluo, leaving Tang Qingye to handle outside affairs. At the villa, Wu Siduo greeted Tang Qingye with a leap into his arms, shared her feelings, and received her first kiss from him before teasing him about his preferences.

• Leng Yaozhu assigned Spirit Pagoda duties to Da Bai, Xiao Bai, and Leng Nu Jiao, trusted Tang Qingye with outside affairs, and began her secluded breakthrough.
• Wu Siduo waited alone in Tang Qingye's room, and when he returned, she leaped into his arms and admitted she had been thinking about him.
• Tang Qingye gave Wu Siduo a sweet medicinal candy, then kissed her when she spoke after tasting it.
• Wu Siduo confirmed it was her first kiss and asked whether Tang Qingye had kissed Leng Nu Jiao, Gu Yuena, or Da Bai and Xiao Bai first.
• Wu Siduo teased Tang Qingye about whether he preferred black or white stockings, and he questioned whether she wanted to cater to his tastes.

Tang Qingye opened the jade box and revealed the silver dragon’s resentful Dragon Core, which he had obtained as a gift for Gu Yuena. As he forged alloy for their battle armor, Gu Yuena tried to persuade him to make a ninety-nine fusion-rate piece as a blessing for their love, but he demanded tangible payment instead.

• The Dragon Core’s history and violent power were revealed as it unleashed memories of the silver dragon’s death and hatred.
• Tang Qingye worked on Fusion Forging in the academy’s battle armor room while Gu Yuena watched and imagined defeating him and making him her consort.
• Tang Qingye’s alloy achieved a fusion rate of ninety-two, and Gu Yuena teased him before taking the piece for her battle armor.
• Gu Yuena asked Tang Qingye to forge alloy with a ninety-nine fusion rate so it could carry a wish for their love to last forever.
• Gu Yuena offered intimate payment, but Tang Qingye asked for something tangible, prompting her to bite his neck and complain that he would not play along.

Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena fought fiercely in the canyon before discussing their hopes for humans and Soul Beasts. Gu Yuena asked him to help her, then embraced him after his silence, while Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Xiong Jun watched and speculated about their relationship.

• Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi JI, and Xiong Jun watched Tang Qingye and Gu Yuena spar and placed their bets on the outcome.
• Tang Qingye used the Azure Luan's Breath of the Azure Sky and Heavenly Hand to counter Gu Yuena's elemental and spatial attacks.
• Gu Yuena told Tang Qingye she wanted Soul Beasts to rise again and asked whether he would help her; he remained silent.
• Gu Yuena's One-Word Battle Armor, Moon, strengthened her attacks, but Tang Qingye eventually stood composed as the battle's energy subsided.
• Gu Yuena let her armor fade, embraced Tang Qingye, and Di Tian moved to interrupt before Bi Ji stopped him.
• Xiong Jun suggested that Gu Yuena had captured Tang Qingye's heart, and the scene ended with an imagined future in which humans called Tang Qingye a traitor for siding with Soul Beasts.

Tang Qingye, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian entered the Tang Sect Secret Realm to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After Di Tian destroyed the poisonous miasma guarding Sunset Forest, they arrived at the well, where hostile presences confronted them.

• Tang Qingye, Gu Yuena, and Di Tian used a Spatial Gate to reach the outskirts of Heaven Dou City and headed for Sunset Forest.
• Tang Qingye sent Second Baby to locate the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well beneath Sunset Forest's poisonous miasma.
• Di Tian burned away the seven-colored poison miasma and passed through the jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers without harming them.
• Tang Qingye and his companions reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Di Tian sensed the Dragon Souls of two fallen Dragon Clan kings in its waters.
• Di Tian shattered the hostile divine senses that probed the group, prompting angry voices and powerful auras to rise from the valley.

Tang Qingye, Di Tian, and Gu Yuena claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but its plant guardians summoned the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ souls to attack. Gu Yuena revealed her Silver Dragon King power and subdued the dragons, leaving the guardians helpless as she questioned Tang Qingye about how he found the site.

• Tang Qingye used the Seven-Colored Heaven-Slaying Gourd to seal off the area and announced that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well belonged to the Tilting Moon Pavilion.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty and the other plant Soul Beasts resisted, but Di Tian forced them to kneel with his command.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty called upon the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ souls, which rose from the springs and attacked alongside the plants.
• Gu Yuena summoned the Silver Dragon King’s power, shattered the attacks, and cowed the two dragon souls with her bloodline authority.
• Gu Yuena asked Tang Qingye how he had found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then tried and failed to pinch his steel-hard waist.

Tang Qingye, Gu Yuena, and the dragon souls stripped the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its surrounding treasures into the Seven-Colored Gourd, then escaped after planting a bomb. A Tang Sect Law Enforcement Team rushed toward the devastated site after the explosion.

• Tang Qingye asked Gu Yuena to summon the two dragon souls so they could help him move everything into the Gourd.
• The dragon souls drew the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ corpses and the spring water from the depths while the Gourd seized the ice and fire core.
• Tang Qingye rejected Aromatic Silk Beauty’s offer of a pact and sucked the Plant-type Soul Beasts, springs, soil, and spiritual herbs into the Gourd.
• Gu Yuena enlisted the dragon souls’ legacies for the dragon race’s revival, and Tang Qingye concealed a timed high-explosive Soul Tool in poisonous mist before the three departed.
• The bomb exploded at the former site of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and a leading Titled Douluo sent the Tang Sect Law Enforcement Team rushing toward it.