Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia told Gu Yue that he had devoured part of the Spirit Ascension Platform to improve his dream control, then shared his Broken Dream ability with her as she studied virtual-space technology. The next morning, he revealed that he had reached rank four in three secondary professions, and he denied Wu Zhangkong’s suggestion that his Martial Soul could help his classmates learn.

• Jiang Xia showed Gu Yue an internal report about damage to the Eastsea Spirit Pagoda’s Spirit Ascension Platform and admitted he had swallowed part of its virtual space to cultivate Broken Dream.
• Gu Yue explained the basics of virtual-space creation and asked to use Jiang Xia’s Silkworm Dream as an external brain; Jiang Xia agreed as long as she did not overtax his Broken Dream.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Class Zero about their secondary-profession progress, and Jiang Xia reported that he was a rank-four blacksmith, mecha designer, and mecha manufacturer.
• Gu Yue realized that Jiang Xia’s Broken Dream had helped him advance in all three professions, while Wu Zhangkong asked whether it could help the other students.
• Jiang Xia firmly denied that his Martial Soul could help his classmates cultivate their secondary professions.

Jiang Xia rejected Wu Zhangkong’s idea that he help classmates with their secondary professions, while continuing to benefit from Gu Yue’s work inside Broken Dream. Near the semester’s end, Jiang Xia prepared to use the Spirit Ascension Platform’s riot period to raise his Soul Spirit’s cultivation and potentially break through to rank 40.

• Gu Yue continued researching virtual space technology and developing Elemental Control techniques through Broken Dream, giving Jiang Xia substantial cultivation benefits in return.
• Wu Zhangkong learned that Gu Yue was a rank-three mecha designer, Tang Wulin a rank-four blacksmith, Xie Xie a rank-one mecha manufacturer, and Xu Xiaoyan a rank-one mecha designer.
• As the second semester neared its end, Jiang Xia considered breaking through from rank 39 by increasing his Soul Spirit’s cultivation through spiritual power.
• Jiang Xia planned to hunt extensively during the Spirit Ascension Platform’s riot period, aiming to add 3,000 years of cultivation to each of his three Soul Rings.
• Jiang Xia, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan entered their spirit ascension pods, and Xu Xiaoyan looked forward to participating without her brother.

Jiang Xia and Gu Yue built a vast soul circuit array inside Broken Dream, letting Jiang Xia stack four dream layers and greatly expand his control in the Spirit Ascension Platform. After leading their team through a seven-day rampage, Jiang Xia left the platform with Gu Yue exhausted from serving as a vessel, and she warned him not to dump all the pressure on her again.

• Jiang Xia and Gu Yue completed a massive soul circuit array that created a fourth virtual layer inside Broken Dream.
• Jiang Xia briefly froze space across the Spirit Ascension Platform, drained his spiritual power and Soul Power, and realized he could teleport within the four-layer domain.
• After recovering, Jiang Xia used the four stacked layers to detect soul beasts within a two-kilometer radius and mark high-level targets for his team.
• Jiang Xia, Gu Yue, and their three companions hunted through the richest areas and swept aside rival teams during the Spirit Ascension Platform’s seven-day riot period.
• The Spirit Pagoda dismissed the complaints against Jiang Xia’s group, while Pagoda Master Chen Xin was pleased that Jiang Xia and Gu Yue had gained resources.
• After leaving the spirit ascension pods, Gu Yue reproached Jiang Xia for placing the burden of the four-layer technique on her and warned that she might not help next time.

Jiang Xia planned to master the illusory-space technique so he could temporarily boost his physical capacity and fuse with a fourth Soul Ring. After Class Zero finished its Spirit Ascension Platform assessment, Wu Zhangkong announced that the class had to earn results in the Skysea Alliance Tournament to justify its costly training.

• Jiang Xia calculated that both his Soul Spirits had reached 6,000 years and planned to use a layered dream formation to withstand a fourth Soul Ring's pressure.
• Gu Yue revealed that she had two thousand-year Soul Rings, while Wu Zhangkong gave Jiang Xia, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie their final assessment grades.
• Xu Xiaoyan completed the Hall of Heroes assessment, learned that she had passed, and told Wu Zhangkong she had joined the Spirit Pagoda the month before last.
• Wu Zhangkong told Class Zero that the academy required them to participate in the Skysea Alliance Tournament and produce results to maintain their special instruction.
• Tang Wulin asked whether his forging competition would conflict with the three-person team event, and Wu Zhangkong said the schedules were separate.

Jiang Xia brought Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue into the Spirit Ascension Platform to study the Starwheel Ice Staff’s absolute effectiveness. After Xu Xiaoyan demonstrated its binding chains, Jiang Xia analyzed and began replicating them, forming a chain nearly as quickly as she could use her Soul Skill.

• Jiang Xia declined Mu Chen’s suggestion that he enter the competition and left the Eastsea Blacksmith's Association.
• Jiang Xia met Xu Xiaoyan and Gu Yue at the Spirit Pagoda and invited them to practice in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Jiang Xia explained that his research into the Golden Dragon King bloodline had stalled, though other simulated bloodlines had helped his cultivation.
• Jiang Xia used Broken Dream with Gu Yue’s help to create a four-layer dreamscape and simulate nighttime for Xu Xiaoyan.
• Xu Xiaoyan used the Starwheel Ice Staff’s chains to bind a tree while Jiang Xia studied their structure and practiced reproducing them.

Jiang Xia mastered Xu Xiaoyan's Starwheel Chain and joined Class Zero for a Skysea Alliance Tournament match after Tang Wulin offered to let him study his bloodline. As Jiang Xia, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue faced Ye Xinglan's team, Jiang Xia warned Gu Yue that a powerful remnant soul was inside Tang Wulin.

• Jiang Xia mastered Starwheel Chain, and Xu Xiaoyan looked forward to using the ability with his help.
• Jiang Xia entered only the team competition at the Skysea Alliance Tournament and watched Shrek's representative team overwhelm Skysea Academy.
• Tang Wulin met Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan, treated them to a feast, and left them to wash the dishes.
• Ye Xinglan challenged Class Zero and joined a team that was matched against them, so Tang Wulin persuaded Jiang Xia to fight by offering access to his bloodline power.
• Jiang Xia, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue took the stage for Class Zero, and Jiang Xia warned Gu Yue that a powerful remnant soul was inside Tang Wulin.

Jiang Xia defeated Ye Xinglan with a single mental attack, then led Class Zero to the Skysea Alliance Tournament championship. Back in Heaven Dou City, he began using Broken Dream with Han Tianyi to create an illusory space and test a technique for turning illusion into reality.

• Jiang Xia used Spirit Ray to overwhelm Ye Xinglan, who collapsed before Gu Yue and Tang Wulin could act.
• Jiang Xia postponed studying Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King bloodline and left the arena after Wu Zhangkong praised him.
• Jiang Xia focused on mastering models in Broken Dream while Class Zero won the 3v3 championship and ended the tournament dispute at Eastsea Academy.
• Jiang Xia returned to Heaven Dou City, where Mu Ye examined him and discussed his plans to condense Blood Essence Power with Han Tianyi's help.
• Jiang Xia connected with Han Tianyi through Broken Dream, opened an illusory space with him as its vessel, and began constructing a technique model for turning illusion into reality.

With Han Tianyi's help, Jiang Xia completed a vast model in Broken Dream and turned its illusory power real, condensing Blood Essence Power for the first time. Zhen Hua then urged him to attempt Spirit Forging, believing Jiang Xia's extraordinary talent and steady cultivation made him certain to become a Divine Craftsman.

• Jiang Xia studied the complex model in Broken Dream and recognized how forging, mecha design, and mecha manufacturing could support one another.
• Jiang Xia completed the model and used it to create a Four-Element Vortex in the real world, confirming that he could turn the illusory into the real.
• Jiang Xia simulated Blood Essence Power, causing his blood essence to surge and condensing the power within himself for the first time.
• Mu Ye said Jiang Xia's Blood Essence Power would make his training easier and planned to teach him the Body Sect's basic combat techniques.
• Jiang Xia told Zhen Hua about his First Grade Thousand Refined success rate, and Zhen Hua encouraged him to make a push for Spirit Forging.
• Zhen Hua reflected that Jiang Xia's forging, Soul Power, and spiritual talent made him certain to become a Divine Craftsman.

Jiang Xia continued his cultivation and research after mastering Spirit Forging, then traveled with Class Zero to Shrek City. While Tang Wulin absorbed his second Golden Dragon King Seal, Jiang Xia’s imitation of the Golden Dragon King’s blood essence finally gained its full enhancement, and Gu Yue sensed his breakthrough.

• Jiang Xia mastered Spirit Forging, earned fifth-rank blacksmith certification in Eastsea City, and continued researching how to create illusory spaces without relying on someone else as a bridge.
• Three years after the Skysea Alliance Tournament, Wu Zhangkong took Class Zero to Shrek City, where Tang Wulin began absorbing his second Golden Dragon King Seal.
• While Tang Wulin was in seclusion, Jiang Xia imitated the Golden Dragon King’s blood essence within Broken Dream and theorized that Tang Wulin’s second seal would connect his bloodline to the Douluo Plane.
• After three days of repeated attempts, Jiang Xia felt the Golden Dragon King’s blood essence power finally enhance his body.
• Jiang Xia ate ravenously in the hotel dining hall, and Gu Yue sensed that he had made a breakthrough.

Gu Yue observed Tang Wulin’s increasingly pure Golden Dragon King Bloodline and decided to keep investigating the consciousness within him before trying to devour it. During Shrek’s assessment, Tang Wulin revealed a golden Soul Ring and killed an Earth Demon Lizard in one blow, leading Gu Yue to realize Jiang Xia might be able to make the illusory real.

• Gu Yue recognized that Jiang Xia had imitated the Golden Dragon King’s power and suspected his breakthrough was connected to Tang Wulin.
• Gu Yue sensed that Tang Wulin held a sealed portion of the Golden Dragon King’s origin, but held back from acting because she feared the powerful consciousness within him.
• Wu Zhangkong left to resolve the group’s missed assessment, then returned that evening and led the five students to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin endured the assessment’s draconic might, then killed a three-thousand-year-old Earth Demon Lizard with a single strike using a golden Soul Ring.
• Gu Yue concluded that Jiang Xia might be turning the illusory into the real and planned to learn the method so she could attempt to fuse with the Golden Dragon King’s power before devouring Tang Wulin’s bloodline.

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.