Chapter Summaries

Yun Ming tried to recruit Xiao Chen and Na'er after watching their matches, but the three youngsters reacted with indifference and suspicion. Xiao Chen rejected Yun Ming's offer to become his disciple, leaving Yun Ming's recruitment plan in ruins.

• Ya Li introduced Yun Ming as the Sea God Pavilion Master and the continent's strongest person, but Xiao Chen, Na'er, and Gu Yue showed no interest.
• Yun Ming praised the three for their arena performances, but they remained silent, and Na'er grew wary when he addressed her by name.
• Yun Ming asked Na'er to demonstrate her Silver Dragon Spear techniques, but she refused and kept her distance.
• Yun Ming asked Xiao Chen whether he had a teacher, and Xiao Chen named Zhen Hua as his forging teacher.
• Yun Ming directly offered to take Xiao Chen as his disciple, but Xiao Chen refused without giving a reason.
• Yun Ming abandoned his lofty manner and realized his talent recruitment plan had probably failed.

Yun Ming challenged Xiao Chen to a spar, claiming he would suppress his cultivation and offer guidance. Xiao Chen used Wither to detonate its Charged Explosion against him, and Yun Ming emerged from the blast realizing he had badly underestimated the attack.

• Ya Li tried to ease the tension and reminded Yun Ming of his Sea God Pavilion duties, but Yun Ming singled out Xiao Chen and challenged him to fight.
• Yun Ming promised to match Xiao Chen's Soul Power and avoid Soul Skills, and Xiao Chen accepted the spar in the pavilion clearing.
• When Yun Ming offered Xiao Chen the first move, Xiao Chen retreated and summoned Wither instead of fighting at close range.
• Yun Ming struck Wither with the Qingtian Divine Spear, expecting to shatter the Detached Martial Soul and cause Xiao Chen backlash.
• Wither endured the spear thrust and used Xiao Chen's fifth Soul Skill, Charged Explosion, engulfing Yun Ming in destructive black mist.
• Yun Ming walked out of the mist ashen-faced and admitted to himself that he had been careless and failed to dodge.

Yun Ming conceded defeat to Xiao Chen and abandoned his plan to make him a disciple. Ya Li then let Xiao Chen remain her student while studying independently, and he immediately left to handle his own affairs.

• Yun Ming admitted defeat after deciding that continuing to rely on his physical strength would amount to bullying Xiao Chen, and he gave up on teaching him.
• Xiao Chen bluntly rejected Yun Ming's advice to follow the righteous path, prompting Yun Ming to leave before he lost his temper.
• Ya Li told Xiao Chen that ordinary classes could limit his talent and proposed letting him manage his own cultivation and schedule.
• Na'er and Gu Yue asked to receive the same freedom, but Ya Li said the arrangement applied only to Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen accepted the arrangement and left, ignoring Na'er's protests that he should stay.

Xiao Chen relaxed at the villa until Gu Yue and Na'er confronted him for leaving them behind, then spent the evening teasing Na'er while Gu Yue watched enviously. Gu Yue left upstairs in silence, still uncertain of her place in Xiao Chen’s life.

• Xiao Chen lounged at the villa, drinking coffee and scrolling through his phone instead of cultivating.
• Gu Yue and Na'er stormed in and demanded to know why Xiao Chen had left them behind after class.
• Na'er tried to take Xiao Chen's phone, but he used his Wither Martial Soul to evade her and kept it out of her reach.
• Xiao Chen subdued Na'er and sat on her back while she pleaded for him to get off.
• Gu Yue watched Xiao Chen treat Na'er warmly, then went upstairs without saying anything.

Di Tian visited Gu Yue to urge her to merge with Na'er, but she refused and warned him against coercing her other half. He then reported that strange gray-skinned attackers had inflicted heavy losses on the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area, leaving Gu Yue baffled by their inexplicable nature.

• Di Tian appeared in Gu Yue's room and urged her to restore her complete form by merging with Na'er.
• Gu Yue refused, explaining that forcing the merger would trigger a backlash and doom the soul beasts, and she warned Di Tian not to use Xiao Chen to pressure Na'er.
• Gu Yue told Di Tian that Xiao Chen might be this era's Child of Destiny, so provoking him could bring the Douluo Plane's hostility.
• Di Tian reported that unknown humans had attacked the Star Dou Great Forest's Core Area and caused heavy losses.
• Di Tian described gray-skinned attackers with primitive weapons, no martial souls or soul rings, beast-like cultivation, and bodies that vanished when killed.
• Gu Yue listened to Di Tian's account in disbelief and asked whether he had gone mad.

Gu Yue learned that Di Tian had defeated four gray-skinned invaders who seemed to have no souls, and ordered him to guard Star Dou and investigate further. After a sleepless night, she met Xiao Chen the next morning, who asked her to tell Ya Li that he would leave campus and miss classes for a while.

• Di Tian reported that five gray-skinned invaders had attacked the soul beasts, killing many before he defeated four and captured their standard-bearer.
• Di Tian told Gu Yue that the invaders had no martial souls and that the captive seemed to have no soul, leaving their origins and purpose unclear.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to guard the captive, search the Core Area for more invaders, and preserve the balance with humanity.
• Gu Yue spent the night considering how to strengthen her position, take control of the Spirit Pagoda, win Xiao Chen over, and reunite with Na'er.
• The next morning, Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue to tell Ya Li that he would leave campus and miss classes for a while.

Xiao Chen planned to sneak into the Golden Ancient Tree to seek a gift that could help him control the Command Block and save the Douluo Plane. After Gu Yue agreed to tell Ya Li he would be away, Xiao Chen teleported into a cultivation chamber inside the tree, where its voice identified him as both the cause of the plane’s collapse and the world’s only hope.

• Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue to tell Ya Li he would leave for about ten days, but he refused to reveal that he planned to enter the Golden Ancient Tree.
• Gu Yue cooked breakfast for Xiao Chen and Na'er, and Xiao Chen accepted her offer to make his breakfast from then on.
• After Gu Yue and Na'er left for lessons, Xiao Chen used the Command Block to locate the Golden Ancient Tree and teleported into one of its cultivation rooms.
• The Golden Ancient Tree spoke to Xiao Chen, calling him the root of the plane’s collapse and the sole hope for the world’s rebirth.

Xiao Chen met Elder Jin, the Golden Ancient Tree, and demanded compensation before hearing why he had been summoned. Elder Jin explained that Ah Yin, Tang San’s birth mother, was secretly parasitizing its true body and asked Xiao Chen to use the Command Block to destroy her.

• Xiao Chen bluntly demanded compensation from Elder Jin before discussing anything else.
• Elder Jin admitted that it had probed Xiao Chen’s soul and readily agreed to compensate him.
• Xiao Chen pressed Elder Jin to explain why the Plane Spirit had sent him, and Elder Jin blamed the Plane Spirit for leaving out the reason.
• Elder Jin revealed that Ah Yin was secretly eroding the Golden Ancient Tree, the Douluo Plane’s Life Core.
• Elder Jin asked Xiao Chen to use the Command Block to destroy Ah Yin, claiming only he could defeat her.

Xiao Chen learned that Ah Yin was secretly consuming the Golden Ancient Tree and that Elder Jin and the Plane Spirit had expected him to wound her with the Command Block. Since his current permissions prevented him from using its offensive commands, he postponed the fight and began cultivating in Elder Jin’s chamber while Elder Jin went to prepare his promised rewards.

• Xiao Chen pieced together Tang San’s plan for Tang Hao and Ah Yin to seize control of the Douluo Plane, and Elder Jin confirmed that Ah Yin had eroded nearly half of his essence.
• Elder Jin revealed that he and the Plane Spirit had planned for Xiao Chen to wound Ah Yin with the Command Block before Elder Jin struck, but Xiao Chen explained that he could not use its offensive commands yet.
• Xiao Chen told Elder Jin to resist Ah Yin’s erosion and contact him when the threat became urgent, promising to help if he became capable of using the Command Block.
• Elder Jin offered Xiao Chen double compensation and a gift, which he would receive after breaking through to Soul Emperor and reaching level sixty.
• Xiao Chen began cultivating in the sealed chamber, and Elder Jin went to a hidden Sea God Pavilion treasury to choose what to take for him.

Elder Jin raided Shrek Academy’s treasure vault for rare items to compensate Xiao Chen while he cultivated to rank sixty. It tried to make Xiao Chen the Douluo Plane’s Child of Nature, but Wither and the Command Block rejected the Seed of Life, leaving the status unbestowed.

• Elder Jin secretly took a Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Left Arm Bone, a white dragon’s Dragon Core, and a two-hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant Head Soul Bone from Shrek’s vault.
• Xiao Chen cultivated in the chamber and broke through to rank sixty in less than a day.
• Elder Jin offered Xiao Chen the status of Child of Nature, and Xiao Chen agreed after learning he could give it up later.
• Elder Jin sent the Seed of Life toward Xiao Chen, but Wither and the Command Block repelled it before it could merge with him.
• Xiao Chen realized both Martial Souls rejected the Seed of Life and accepted that he could not become the Child of Nature.

Xiao Chen failed to receive the Child of Nature title, but Elder Jin used the Golden Ancient Tree to grant him a sixth Soul Ring and paid him the rest of his compensation. After examining his new Soul Skill and treasures, Xiao Chen chose to give the White Dragon Dragon Core to Gu Yue and teleported home to wait for her.

• Xiao Chen explained that his Wither and Command Block Martial Souls rejected the Seed of Life, so Elder Jin abandoned the Child of Nature plan.
• Elder Jin used the Golden Ancient Tree to raise Xiao Chen's Soul Power to rank sixty-two and give him the sixth Soul Ring, whose Soul Skill was Wither Rose.
• Xiao Chen discovered that Wither Rose could seal a slain creature's soul in a flower, reproduce its abilities, and inflict a Wither effect on nearby creatures.
• Elder Jin transferred Xiao Chen's compensation, including two Soul Bones, a White Dragon Dragon Core, and treasured Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, then left to guard against the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Xiao Chen decided to give the Dragon Core to Gu Yue as payment for her meals, teleported to the villa, and waited for her to return from class.

Xiao Chen returned to the villa and told Gu Yue he had deduced that her Martial Soul was a Seven-Colored Dragon rather than an Elemental Envoy, unaware that her true identity was the Silver Dragon King. After Gu Yue concealed her alarm with a fabricated backstory, Xiao Chen gave her a White Dragon Core as payment for caring for him, leaving her with the powerful gift.

• Xiao Chen returned to the villa, where Gu Yue and Na'er arrived and Na'er complained that she had to attend classes.
• Xiao Chen asked Gu Yue about her Martial Soul and said he suspected it was a Seven-Colored Dragon, causing her to fear he had discovered her Silver Dragon King identity.
• Gu Yue claimed her Martial Soul was a Seven-Colored Dragon and invented a story about hiding it because her secluded family had many enemies.
• Xiao Chen explained his deduction by citing Gu Yue's elemental abilities and her mother, the Purple Dragon Douluo, while Gu Yue hid her frustration.
• Xiao Chen opened a wooden box and gave Gu Yue a White Dragon Core as payment for her care.

Gu Yue accepted the Dragon Core Xiao Chen gave her as wages for cooking, while Na'er grew jealous and vowed to learn cooking to win back his favor. The two sisters silently competed over Xiao Chen as he brushed off their attempts to draw him closer.

• Gu Yue recognized the Dragon Core as a powerful light-aligned White Dragon's core and accepted it, imagining Xiao Chen had sought it out for her.
• Xiao Chen said he had casually bought the Dragon Core at auction and was giving it to Gu Yue as wages for cooking, dashing her romantic assumptions.
• Gu Yue led Xiao Chen toward the living room and offered to make lunch, but he avoided her attempt to take his wrist.
• Na'er asked Xiao Chen for a gift, but he said he had nothing for her and teased her for being jealous of Gu Yue.
• Na'er resolved to study cooking and surpass Gu Yue, while Gu Yue privately dismissed her rival and claimed Xiao Chen for herself.

Xiao Chen discovered that the Command Block had gained a strange gray Soul Ring and changed into a Chain Command Block, though he later learned to convert it back. After agreeing to go shopping with Gu Yue and Na'er, he spotted Yuanen Yehui working in a coffee shop.

• Xiao Chen found a gray Soul Ring attached to the Command Block, which had transformed into a Chain Command Block.
• An aged phantom lamented that another plane had fallen and urged a boy to hurry.
• Xiao Chen experimented with the Command Block and learned its Conversion Method, but could not determine the gray Soul Ring's purpose.
• Gu Yue invited Xiao Chen for a stroll, and Na'er asked him to go shopping; Xiao Chen agreed, prompting Na'er and Gu Yue to argue over who had won.
• Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er walked through Shrek Inner City's shopping district, where Xiao Chen recognized Yuanen Yehui working in a coffee shop.

Xiao Chen realized he could protect the Douluo Plane by feeding other planes to the Command Block, then spent Valentine’s Day shopping with Gu Yue and Na’er. When Gu Yue asked about his future partner, he said he would remain single because love carried too many risks, leaving both girls disappointed.

• Seeing Yuanen Yehui, Xiao Chen devised a plan to use her future ability to open a passage to the Demon Plane and feed other planes to the Command Block.
• Xiao Chen joined Gu Yue and Na’er on a shopping trip through Shrek’s inner city, where Gu Yue bought supplies and Na’er sampled street food.
• As night fell, the three reached the riverbank and saw couples celebrating Valentine’s Day, prompting Gu Yue and Na’er to compete silently for Xiao Chen’s attention.
• Gu Yue asked Xiao Chen what kind of partner he wanted, and he replied that he would never have one.
• Xiao Chen explained that love brought uncertain risks and unwanted entanglements, leaving Gu Yue and Na’er to reconsider their chances of winning his affection.

Xiao Chen considered leaving Shrek Academy, but Gu Yue persuaded him that staying offered more freedom, so he abandoned the idea. Na'er agreed to follow him anywhere, while Gu Yue hoped to keep building her relationship with him at the academy.

• Gu Yue and Na'er followed Xiao Chen back to the villa after he dismissed their concerns about his views on romance.
• Na'er served a badly burnt fish for dinner, and Gu Yue took over cooking the meal.
• Xiao Chen announced that he planned to drop out of Shrek Academy and asked whether Gu Yue and Na'er would leave with him.
• Na'er immediately agreed to follow Xiao Chen, while Gu Yue argued that Shrek offered more freedom than returning to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xiao Chen accepted Gu Yue's reasoning and decided to stay at Shrek, then felt frustrated about having to wait five years to become an adult.

Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er completed their final exams easily, while Tang Wulin's squad suffered a crushing defeat against Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in Mingdu. Gu Yue dismissed the news and urged Xiao Chen to begin forging their one-word battle armor, as Shrek Academy's elders gathered for a tense meeting.

• Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er passed their theory and combat assessments and began their vacation.
• Xiao Chen watched a report showing Tang Wulin's squad defeated by Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in Mingdu.
• Gu Yue explained that Tang Wulin no longer mattered to her and said Shrek's defeat had nothing to do with them.
• Gu Yue asked Xiao Chen to help forge their battle armor, and he agreed to join her and Na'er.
• Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion elders gathered late at night in a solemn meeting.

The Sea God Pavilion elders argued over Shrek Academy’s disastrous defeat after its students challenged the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in Mingdu. Yun Ming suspended Wu Changkong and postponed further punishment to focus on restoring Shrek’s reputation, leaving Long Yeyue furious as she walked out.

• Long Yeyue demanded that Wu Changkong be expelled for leading the students to Mingdu and causing Shrek’s public humiliation.
• Zhuo Shi defended Wu Changkong, but Cai Yue'er challenged him to take responsibility for the incident.
• Yun Ming stopped the argument and suspended Wu Changkong, saying the elders needed to address the crisis to Shrek’s reputation first.
• Long Yeyue insisted that Wu Changkong be punished immediately, while Yun Ming and Zhuo Shi urged her to postpone the matter.
• Yun Ming declared that his decision as Sea God Pavilion Master was final, and Long Yeyue left in anger, warning him that he would regret it.

Cai Yue'er persuaded Yun Ming and the Sea God Pavilion elders to answer Shrek's defeat with another battle against the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er worked together to make their One-Word Battle Armor, and Xiao Chen's suit was completed without a name.

• Cai Yue'er rejected a proposal to settle the uproar quietly and rallied the elders to demand another match.
• Yun Ming agreed to fight again and began considering which students to send into battle.
• Xiao Chen forged the metals for the trio's Battle Armor, while Gu Yue supplied the designs and Na'er assembled the pieces.
• Na'er finished Xiao Chen's dark, sleek One-Word Battle Armor after a semester of learning mecha manufacturing.
• Xiao Chen said he would wait to name the armor until he fused it with his Diamond Armor Set.

After Na'er finished forging all three suits of One-Word Battle Armor, Xiao Chen carried her back to her room but refused to stay the night. The next morning, as Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er prepared to return to the Spirit Pagoda for vacation, Ya Li summoned them to the classroom, leaving Xiao Chen puzzled about what she wanted.

• Na'er completed Gu Yue's and her own One-Word Battle Armor after assembling Xiao Chen's suit, leaving her exhausted.
• Na'er pretended she could not walk and asked Xiao Chen to carry her, while Gu Yue accused her of acting spoiled; Xiao Chen agreed and carried her away.
• Na'er asked Xiao Chen to sleep with her, but he refused, told her to rest, and left her room.
• The next morning, Xiao Chen, Gu Yue, and Na'er packed to leave Shrek Academy and return to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Ya Li messaged Xiao Chen and told him to bring Gu Yue and Na'er to the classroom because their teacher wanted to speak with them.