Recaps

During the fourth trial, Jiang Xia demonstrated that his Broken Dream ability could summon his teacher, Han Tianyi, who pressured Cai Yue'er into giving him full marks. The class then moved on to the secondary profession examination, where Jiang Xia chose mecha design and received a Two-Word Battle Armor design to analyze.

• Cai Yue'er asked Jiang Xia to demonstrate another ability after dismissing his Elemental Amplification as unremarkable.
• Jiang Xia manifested Han Tianyi through Broken Dream, and Han Tianyi's spiritual pressure forced Cai Yue'er to the ground.
• Yun Ming intervened, accepted Han Tianyi's explanation that the demonstration was Jiang Xia's own ability, and ordered Cai Yue'er to give him full marks.
• Cai Yue'er passed Jiang Xia and moved the class on to the secondary profession examination, forbidding him from calling for backup.
• Jiang Xia chose mecha design, and Cai Yue'er assigned him a Two-Word Battle Armor design to explain and analyze.

Cai Yue'er tried to make Jiang Xia's assessment difficult with her Two-Word Battle Armor blueprint, but Jiang Xia exposed its flaws and copied the complete designs for later study. As Tang Wulin and the others faced their assessments, Cai Yue'er was further embarrassed when Gu Yue revealed she was Leng Yaozhu's disciple.

• Cai Yue'er gave Jiang Xia a complete Two-Word Battle Armor blueprint, and Jiang Xia recognized it as the design for her own armor.
• Jiang Xia identified the armor's crescent-shaped design and its flaws, then revealed he was a rank-five Mecha Designer.
• Cai Yue'er handed Jiang Xia the complete set of designs, and he used Broken Dream to imprint them for later study.
• Jiang Xia decided to begin making One-Word Battle Armor after reaching rank five in his three major secondary professions and attaining the Soul Ancestor realm.
• Cai Yue'er also made things difficult for Tang Wulin and the others, but Gu Yue countered by showing that she was a rank-five Mecha Designer and Leng Yaozhu's disciple.

Jiang Xia completed Shrek Academy’s assessments, secured a private dorm, and considered how to use the academy’s people and resources for his own plans. He decided to focus on making One-Word Battle Armor from Thousand Refinements-level spirit alloy.

• Tang Wulin insisted on attempting Spirit Forging, succeeded after nearly suffering a blood-essence backlash, and drew Zhuo Shi’s threat against Cai Yue'er if anything happened to him.
• Jiang Xia passed the remaining assessments with full marks and teamed with Gu Yue to defeat second-year students in a practical combat match.
• Jiang Xia exchanged Thousand Refined metals for contribution points and secured a single dorm room.
• Jiang Xia studied Cai Yue'er's Two-Word Battle Armor blueprints and planned to use Shrek’s gifted Soul Masters and the Golden Ancient Tree for his research.
• Jiang Xia decided to prepare his own battle armor and chose Thousand Refinements-level spirit alloy for his One-Word Battle Armor.

Jiang Xia reflected on how Fusion Forging could advance the forging system and began practicing it in Broken Dream. As he refined jade silver, the other members of Class Zero continued getting used to Shrek Academy.

• Jiang Xia concluded that Fusion Forging was essential for developing Soul Forging and Heavenly Forging, and set a goal of understanding rare-metal combinations more deeply.
• Jiang Xia used his ability to reproduce metals in Broken Dream to study their characteristics and accumulate forging experience.
• Jiang Xia practiced fusing heavy silver and magic silver into jade silver, adjusting his simulated methods to match what he could reproduce in reality.
• Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan chose single dorm rooms at Shrek Academy while the Sea God Pavilion Meeting was underway.

Yun Ming explained why Shrek should accept the Spirit Pagoda’s proposed exchange program despite Cai Yue'er’s concerns that it could draw Outer Court disciples away. He ordered reforms to Inner Court admissions and proposed forming a new generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters from this year’s intake.

• Yun Ming told Cai Yue'er that her actions had cost her Battle Armor and required her to readjust her cultivation and combat skills.
• Yun Ming said the Spirit Pagoda had proposed a stable exchange program and argued that Shrek needed to preserve relations with its factions, including those led by Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu.
• Cai Yue'er resisted the program because she feared Jiang Xia and Gu Yue would attract Shrek’s Outer Court disciples and even claim students expelled from the Academy.
• Yun Ming directed Shrek to end guaranteed Inner Court placements, assess all candidates equally, and send Xinglan and her companion to the Outer Court for training.
• Yun Ming proposed assembling a new generation of the Shrek Seven Monsters from the year’s talented intake, and Cai Yue'er resolved to push Tang Wulin and the others to reveal their potential.

Jiang Xia reflected on Shrek Academy’s far-reaching network and the lack of support it had received after its destruction, while the academy began selecting a first-year class monitor. As the students entered a virtual competition, Wu Zhangkong warned the observers that Jiang Xia’s spiritual power and abilities made him a formidable opponent.

• Jiang Xia considered how Shrek Academy graduates and exchange programs connected the academy with the Spirit Pagoda and other organizations, but noted that no one had questioned the Federation after Shrek was destroyed.
• Wu Zhangkong explained the class monitor competition to the first-year students and watched Jiang Xia and Gu Yue, who showed little interest in running.
• The students entered pods and began the virtual class monitor selection, and Wu Zhangkong told Jiang Xia not to use power he could not control in reality.
• In the observation room, Wu Zhangkong told Cai Yue'er and Shen Yi that Jiang Xia’s spiritual power might approach the Spirit Abyss Realm and that his spiritual attacks could defeat any student present.

Cai Yue'er and Wu Zhangkong discussed candidates for the Shrek Seven Monsters, while Tang Wulin became first-year class president after Jiang Xia declined the position. Wu Zhangkong announced an elite training group and asked Jiang Xia to help create an illusory space for its training.

• Cai Yue'er told Wu Zhangkong that the first year would receive five Shrek Seven Monsters spots, with Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi included.
• Wu Siduo and the other young geniuses joined forces against Tang Wulin's group, but Jiang Xia's spiritual assault quickly ended Wu Siduo's chance to fight.
• Wu Zhangkong named Tang Wulin class president, appointed Wu Siduo vice president, and assigned secondary-profession representatives.
• Wu Zhangkong gave the students a yearlong mecha-building assignment and announced that the first year would select an elite group for focused training.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Jiang Xia to help create an illusory space for the elite group's training, a proposal Jiang Xia had wanted as part of his exchange project.

Jiang Xia agreed to create the Dream Realm, an illusory training space that would use his Broken Dream abilities to simulate environments and support Class Zero's elite group. Wu Zhangkong then set the elite group an ambitious goal: every member should become a One-Word Battle Armor Master during their second year.

• Wu Zhangkong explained that Shrek Academy would support Jiang Xia in creating an illusory space, provided he incorporated Broken Dream's support functions into its design.
• Jiang Xia agreed to simulate conditions that could make elemental control easier or harder, restrict movement, or alter the abundance of an element, and named the space the Dream Realm.
• Jiang Xia estimated that the Dream Realm would take one month to complete, and Wu Zhangkong said that would align with the class selection process.
• Wu Zhangkong assigned Wu Siduo and Tang Wulin to select the elite group's members and announced that the academy expected them to complete their battle armor in their second year.
• Wu Siduo and the other students were shaken by the requirement to become One-Word Battle Armor Masters within six years.

Wu Zhangkong established the elite group to prepare promising students to become Battle Armor Masters by the end of their second year, and Jiang Xia planned to use the Dream Realm to help and recruit some of them. After selection, Tang Wulin became a target of online abuse over his low cultivation and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, while Wu Zhangkong remained confident in his potential.

• Wu Zhangkong explained that elite group members would receive resources and guidance, then invited students who could reach Soul King cultivation or rank-five secondary professions within six years to join.
• Jiang Xia decided to use the Dream Realm to help the elite group and find Shrek students he could recruit, and he discussed the plan with Han Tianyi.
• After a month of selection, the roster included Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, the other Young Geniuses Ranking students, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan, while Jiang Xia and Gu Yue stayed out as exchange students.
• Third-year students questioned Tang Wulin's place on the roster and attacked him online because he was a Soul Grandmaster with a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
• Wu Zhangkong reassured Tang Wulin and privately trusted his rank-five blacksmith skills, though he knew reaching rank fifty within six years would be difficult.

Jiang Xia built individualized Dream Realm environments to test the elite group's abilities, using his Broken Dream Martial Soul to simulate their powers and training conditions. He finished preparations for the five members of the Young Geniuses Ranking, while Tang Wulin and the others still awaited simpler simulations for Shrek Academy's records.

• Wu Zhangkong explained that the elite group would undergo comprehensive tests in the Dream Realm, with Jiang Xia constructing the environments through his Broken Dream Martial Soul.
• Jiang Xia prepared an environment for Wu Siduo to replenish Soul Power and face a simulated Dark Gold Bear clone modeled after Yang Nianxia.
• Jiang Xia created a spatial-element training environment for Luo Guixing and improved Yang Nianxia's Dark Gold Bear training with enhanced control and a clone.
• Jiang Xia arranged for Xu Yucheng to experience stronger Soul Skills and a tougher physique before testing his recovery against an overpowering Dark Gold Bear clone.
• Jiang Xia prepared an evenly matched opponent for Zheng Yiran to test her Jade Phosphorus Snake venom, then finished the five Young Geniuses Ranking members' environments.

Jiang Xia tested Class Zero by having them fight simulated copies of themselves in the Dream Realm, then gave Tang Wulin a harder opponent empowered by the Golden Dragon King Bloodline. He began considering how to study that bloodline through a Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit and expanded the simulations before the next test.

• Jiang Xia set up tailored Dream Realm environments and clones so Class Zero could test their abilities while he used Spirit Detection to study them.
• Wu Siduo discovered that the environment rapidly replenished her Soul Power, letting her use her Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill without worrying about depletion.
• Tang Wulin complained that his training was too easy, so Jiang Xia replaced his opponent with a clone bearing the Bone Dragon King Martial Soul and the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Tang Wulin struggled against the clone's matching Blood Essence Soul Ring Soul Skill, then realized its simulated Golden Dragon King Bloodline was limited to the second seal.
• Jiang Xia considered using the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to study the Golden Dragon King Bloodline and potentially induce the Soul Spirit to evolve.
• After the tests, Jiang Xia replaced the sparring clones' Dark Gold Bear Martial Souls with copies of Wu Siduo and the others' abilities, intending to see how Shrek Academy would react.

Jiang Xia used the Dream Realm to copy the students’ abilities and gained the power of Tang Wulin’s second Golden Dragon King seal. Old Tang explained that if Jiang Xia made the copied bloodline real, Tang Wulin’s stronger bloodline would permanently suppress it.

• Jiang Xia made the students fight increasingly capable replicas of themselves, replenishing their Soul Power until they were mentally exhausted.
• Jiang Xia mastered an imitation of Tang Wulin’s Blood Essence Soul Ring, while Wu Zhangkong decided the Dream Realm’s ability should be reported but saw no reason to oppose it.
• Tang Wulin told Old Tang that Jiang Xia had replicated his Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Old Tang explained that Jiang Xia could only copy bloodline power Tang Wulin had revealed, and that making the imitation real would leave Jiang Xia with an inferior bloodline beneath Tang Wulin’s.
• Tang Wulin understood Old Tang’s explanation and imagined using his bloodline’s suppressive effect against Jiang Xia.
• Shrek looked forward to expanding the Dream Realm’s use, while Jiang Xia returned to his dormitory.

Jiang Xia secured the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit as an anchor for safely studying the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, while continuing to develop his Battle Armor. The chapter left him planning to place the difficult illusory-to-real framework in his Battle Armor as a permanent vessel.

• Jiang Xia decided to use the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit as an anchor to protect himself from the Golden Dragon King Bloodline's influence.
• Jiang Xia obtained the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit from the Spirit Pagoda with Han Tianyi's help and subdued it through Broken Dream and the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Han Tianyi sealed the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit to prevent its power from affecting Jiang Xia.
• Cai Yue'er learned that Jiang Xia was harvesting talented students' Martial Souls and Soul Skills, but accepted Yun Ming's warning not to oppose him.
• Jiang Xia studied Fusion Forging and advanced his Battle Armor Core Array design, deciding to make the armor hold the framework for turning the illusory into the real.

Jiang Xia learned that Shrek would require him to challenge higher-grade students before expanding the Dream Realm, and he accepted a match against the second years. As the match was set for a month later, he began preparing by planning to complete One-Word Battle Armor in the Dream Realm.

• Jiang Xia reasoned that Thousand-Refined spirit alloys could form One-Word Battle Armor that fused with its Soul Master and could later be upgraded.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Tang Wulin to strengthen his Blue Silver Grass, while Old Tang assured Tang Wulin it could evolve into the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Wu Zhangkong required the elite group to build proficient mechas or make Battle Armor components and challenge Jiang Xia and Gu Yue before the end of their first year.
• Wu Zhangkong told Jiang Xia that Dream Realm expansion would require him to defeat outstanding students in each grade, and Jiang Xia agreed to challenge the second years.
• Wu Zhangkong scheduled Jiang Xia's match against the second-year representatives for a month later, and Jiang Xia intensified his cultivation and planned to complete his Battle Armor in the Dream Realm.

Within Broken Dream, Jiang Xia tested a Hell White Tiger made by imitating and fusing two Martial Souls, then created a stronger version using his Soul Spirits. After defeating it in training, he told the spirits they would need to maintain their imitated form themselves and learn from his abilities.

• Jiang Xia created a Hell White Tiger from separately imitated Hell Civet and White Tiger Martial Souls and found it could rival a Soul King without flaws from Wu Siduo's fusion.
• Jiang Xia summoned the Ice Fire Silkworm and Mutated Evil Eye, which fused into a three-eyed Hell White Tiger with ice-and-fire powers.
• Jiang Xia fought the fused Soul Spirits using his Golden Dragon Body, elemental control, healing, and Starwheel Chains, then tore the Hell White Tiger apart.
• The Ice Fire Silkworm and Mutated Evil Eye protested that Jiang Xia had overwhelmed them with his many abilities.
• Jiang Xia told the Soul Spirits they would soon have to maintain their imitated form themselves and urged them to study his powers during their fights.

After the exchange competition, Jiang Xia entered the Dream Realm and challenged seven second-year students, defeating the first five with a powerful fusion of his Soul Spirits. Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui then faced the same overwhelming creature, while Wu Zhangkong realized Jiang Xia’s abilities had advanced far beyond his former level.

• The second years won the exchange competition, though the first years challenged them in forging and combat, and Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui learned about the upcoming Dream Realm match.
• Jiang Xia entered the Dream Realm and challenged five second-year students at once before facing Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui.
• Jiang Xia fused the Ice Fire Silkworm and Mutated Evil Eye into a mutated Hell White Tiger, whose draconic might and Golden Dragon Claw overwhelmed the five students.
• Jiang Xia invited Yue Zhengyu and Yuanen Yehui to fight the Hell White Tiger, and the two second years were defeated without revealing Jiang Xia’s limits.
• Wu Zhangkong concluded that Jiang Xia’s Soul Spirits had undergone extensive spirit ascension and were approaching the ten-thousand-year threshold.

Jiang Xia defeated the second-year team in the Dream Realm using Soul Spirits that combined the abilities he had imitated, then began testing whether they could fuse Holy Angel and Fallen Angel powers. Cai Yue'er reported his growing abilities to Yun Ming, who ordered the Dream Realm to keep expanding and left Jiang Xia’s third-year challenge on schedule.

• Wu Zhangkong recognized that Jiang Xia had begun combining imitated abilities and judged that he could challenge the third-years, while Shen Yi was astonished by the prospect.
• Jiang Xia’s two Soul Spirits defeated Yuanen Yehui, Yue Zhengyu, and the other second-years in the Dream Realm, after which Wu Zhangkong explained the Dream Realm and guided them through its training scenarios.
• Jiang Xia returned to his dormitory and had the Ice Fire Silkworm and Mutated Evil Eye try imitating Holy Angel and Fallen Angel powers for a possible fusion.
• Cai Yue'er reported Jiang Xia’s imitation and combination abilities to Yun Ming, who said to keep expanding the Dream Realm and prepare students for the Federation’s future Star Dou Battle Network.
• Jiang Xia found that fusing Holy Angel and Fallen Angel was difficult and looked at the resulting mishmash of light and dark.

Jiang Xia refined his imitations of the Angel and Titan Giant Ape Martial Souls while Wu Zhangkong continued investigating Long Bing’s past and the third-years prepared for Jiang Xia’s challenge. A month passed, bringing the challenge match against the third-years to its appointed day.

• Jiang Xia combined holy and fallen angel powers into a sword attack, then tested the Titan Giant Ape’s strength and gravity-altering abilities.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Zhuo Shi about leads in the investigation of Long Bing, but neither had uncovered new information.
• Li Qiankun and Mo Jue learned that Jiang Xia would challenge the third-years and resolved to complete their Battle Armor or reach rank 50 within a month.
• Jiang Xia continued designing his Battle Armor and strengthening himself as the two Soul Spirits absorbed external power.
• A month passed, and the appointed time for Jiang Xia’s challenge against the third-years arrived.

Yun Ming and Ya Li worried that Jiang Xia could dominate his generation, then recognized Na'er as a potential rival because her Silver Dragon Spear was a divine-artifact-grade Martial Soul. In the outer court, Jiang Xia faced five third-year students whose Battle Armor and Soul Skills made them formidable opponents.

• Yun Ming wondered whether anyone in the current generation could surpass Jiang Xia, and Ya Li understood that Shrek lacked someone who could contend with him.
• Yun Ming reconsidered Na'er's potential after recalling that her Silver Dragon Spear was a divine-artifact-grade Martial Soul and that she was already a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
• Ya Li told Na'er about Jiang Xia's Broken Dream Martial Soul and Imitation ability, while Yun Ming doubted Jiang Xia could safely reproduce a divine artifact.
• Na'er considered that Jiang Xia might eventually imitate the Silver Dragon Spear as his abilities grew.
• In the Dream Realm, Li Qiankun, Mo Jue, and the other third-year students prepared to face Jiang Xia, wary that he could imitate their Soul Skills.
• Jiang Xia faced five high-level Soul Ancestors whose partially completed Battle Armor gave them strength comparable to Soul Kings.

Jiang Xia defeated the third-year Soul Ancestors using his Soul Spirits, studied their Martial Souls, and organized his imitations into a Heavenly Book. He then faced Mo Jue in person and revealed that he had his own Battle Armor, while Wu Zhangkong considered whether Tang Wulin could catch up to him.

• Jiang Xia defeated three third-year seniors in quick succession with the Ice Fire Silkworm and Mutated Evil Eye.
• Jiang Xia spent half an hour examining the Heavenly Book Martial Soul and later organized his imitated abilities into a book in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Xia challenged and defeated the remaining third-year Soul Ancestors, including a level-49 senior, while Mo Jue waited for her turn.
• Jiang Xia recalled his fatigued Soul Spirits and agreed to fight Mo Jue himself.
• Jiang Xia and Mo Jue put on Battle Armor, surprising the observers when they realized Jiang Xia had made his own.
• Wu Zhangkong reasoned that Jiang Xia's Golden Dragon King imitation had limits and hoped Tang Wulin could surpass him by strengthening his bloodline.

Jiang Xia manifested a spirit-alloy One-Word Battle Armor in the Dream Realm, astonishing Mo Jue, Wu Zhangkong, and Cai Yue'er. He faced Mo Jue while the chapter explained how greedily taking extra Soul Rings early could force a Soul Master into increasingly difficult choices.

• Jiang Xia's Battle Armor appeared directly on his body, leading Mo Jue to realize it was made from spirit alloy.
• Wu Zhangkong and Cai Yue'er saw Jiang Xia wearing a full set, but Wu Zhangkong noted that its pieces did not resonate as a complete set.
• Wu Zhangkong concluded that Jiang Xia was simulating Battle Armor in the Dream Realm before making it real.
• Jiang Xia told Mo Jue he was ready, and Mo Jue summoned five purple Soul Rings.
• The chapter explained that Mo Jue's early choice to gain an extra Soul Ring from a thousand-year soul spirit had pushed her toward needing stronger soul spirits later, while Jiang Xia had chosen a more balanced approach.

Jiang Xia used four overlapping layers of dreams to turn Mo Jue’s Soul Skills against her, forcing her to concede. Afterward, he explained that his mastery of space let him redirect attacks, and Li Qiankun recognized a resemblance to his Heaven and Earth Ball.

• Mo Jue unleashed her first three Soul Skills at Jiang Xia, but the attacks were redirected and began affecting her instead.
• Cai Yue'er and Wu Zhangkong watched Jiang Xia’s Battle Armor, while the narration explained that it sustained a fourth overlapping illusory space that could affect the Dream Realm’s rules.
• Mo Jue countered her redirected Weakness Curse and Dark Demonic Flame, then found that Darkness Erosion was also accumulating on her.
• Jiang Xia’s preserved fear and pain curses appeared, and Mo Jue conceded after realizing she could not win.
• Mo Jue asked how Jiang Xia had redirected her Soul Skills, and he described moving the space they traveled through.
• Li Qiankun noticed that Jiang Xia’s explanation resembled his Heaven and Earth Ball’s reversal ability and seemed to surpass it.

Jiang Xia defeated Li Qiankun after an hour-long battle and mastered the spatial uses of his Heaven and Earth Balls. He announced plans to expand the Dream Realm to the third years and eventually hold ranked matches, surprising Wu Zhangkong.

• Li Qiankun hesitated because Jiang Xia's abilities countered his Heaven and Earth Ball, but he eventually took the field.
• After an hour of fighting, Jiang Xia defeated the exhausted Li Qiankun, using his stronger spiritual power and layered dreams to overcome him.
• Jiang Xia studied the Heaven and Earth Balls and learned to use them to anchor spatial nodes and control space.
• Jiang Xia told the third-year students that they and their year group would gain access to the Dream Realm for combat practice.
• Wu Zhangkong appeared and questioned when ranked matches had been decided, and Jiang Xia explained that they were part of a future plan to be proposed after the Dream Realm spread through the outer court.

Jiang Xia agreed to challenge Shrek Academy’s fourth years after assuring Wu Zhangkong that his Dream Realm abilities could be reproduced on the Spirit Ascension Platform. Gu Yue and Han Tianyi warned him that his rapid progress might attract Qiangu Dongfeng’s attention, while Jiang Xia explained that his strength and battle armor were still advancing in dreams.

• Jiang Xia told Wu Zhangkong he still intended to challenge the fourth years and guaranteed that his Dream Realm abilities could be reproduced on the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Jiang Xia that the fourth years included seven fully equipped One-Word Battle Armor Masters with Soul Power Levels of 55 or higher, but Jiang Xia remained determined.
• Gu Yue told Jiang Xia that his victory over the third years could reach Qiangu Dongfeng and lead to an early recall to the Spirit Pagoda, where he might be suppressed.
• Han Tianyi questioned Jiang Xia about his rapid challenge schedule and asked whether he could defeat the fourth years; Jiang Xia said he was confident.
• Jiang Xia told Han Tianyi that his recent gains came from a leap in dream-based cultivation, where he could make and adjust battle armor more easily than in reality.

Jiang Xia explained his ability to use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill to bear complete Battle Armor, but Han Tianyi told him to stop challenging his seniors and planned to expand the Dream Realm instead. Gu Yue asked Jiang Xia to make her Battle Armor in exchange for a favor, then invited him to help Na'er challenge the Soul Spirit Tower, where Na'er was aiming for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit.

• Jiang Xia told Han Tianyi he could use a Self Martial Soul Fusion Skill to bear complete Battle Armor, but Han Tianyi decided to negotiate with Shrek about expanding the Dream Realm rather than let him keep challenging seniors.
• Gu Yue asked Jiang Xia to make her Battle Armor, and he agreed in exchange for a favor.
• Gu Yue reminded Jiang Xia of Na'er and explained that Na'er had invited her to find reliable teammates for a Soul Spirit Tower challenge.
• Jiang Xia questioned what he would gain from joining Na'er, arguing that her divine-artifact-grade Martial Soul would not benefit him.
• Gu Yue explained that Na'er was aiming for at least a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit and that she needed Jiang Xia's help because her own strength would be limited under the Spirit Pagoda's surveillance.