Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xia went to Heaven Dou City after Wu Zhangkong found a lead on the Evil Soul Masters who killed his parents. The evidence pointed to a Soul Douluo Evil Soul Master named Nightmare, but his whereabouts remained unknown.

• Wu Zhangkong called Jiang Xia to Heaven Dou City and told him the investigation into his parents' deaths had uncovered a lead.
• Jiang Xia told Han Tianyi he was leaving, then contacted Mu Ye for protection while traveling to Heaven Dou City.
• Mu Ye met Jiang Xia along the way and brought him to the Tang Sect branch, where Wu Zhangkong explained his investigation.
• Wu Zhangkong said a Soul Douluo Evil Soul Master with a Martial Soul he had named Nightmare had attacked a Soul Guidance Train and had been identified in testimony from the people who seized Jiang Xia's family assets.
• Wu Zhangkong described Nightmare's spiritual habitat as resembling Jiang Xia's father's Broken Dream Martial Soul, suggesting Nightmare had devoured it, but said the Evil Soul Master had concealed his traces.

Jiang Xia learned that the Nightmare Evil Soul Master had escaped, but Wu Zhangkong gave him a trace of the man’s presence to remember. Wu Zhangkong persuaded Jiang Xia to accompany the assessment group to Mingdu as backup, partly by offering him a chance to learn about the Federation’s Star Dou Battle Network.

• Wu Zhangkong told Jiang Xia he had failed to catch the Nightmare Evil Soul Master and gave him a block of ice containing the evil presence he had collected.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Jiang Xia that the Nightmare Evil Soul Master might target Tang Wulin and the others after they foiled an attack.
• Wu Zhangkong asked Jiang Xia to accompany the assessment group as a safety net while he put pressure on Wulin and the others.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was developing the Federation-wide Star Dou Battle Network, tempting Jiang Xia with the technology.
• Jiang Xia agreed to travel with the group without taking part in the assessment and called Xu Xiaoyan to invite her along.
• Wu Zhangkong suggested calling Gu Yue too, but Jiang Xia asked what reason they had to bring her.

Jiang Xia brought Xu Xiaoyan to Heaven Dou City for an opportunity that could help her Starwheel Chain evolve into a stable Star Staff. The chapter ended with Xu Xiaoyan asking whether the long-promised evolution was finally possible.

• Jiang Xia considered Xu Xiaoyan’s potential and how her Starwheel Chain could make her valuable to the Spirit Pagoda despite her ordinary progress.
• Jiang Xia reflected on how Han Tianyi’s illusion arts had laid the foundation for his own Broken Dream abilities and path of turning the illusory into reality.
• Wu Zhangkong expected Jiang Xia to serve as a fallback for the assessment and had meant to ask him to bring Gu Yue, but Jiang Xia misunderstood his request.
• Jiang Xia decided to bring Xu Xiaoyan to the opportunity and she rushed from Shrek City to Heaven Dou City.
• Wu Zhangkong reestablished contact with Tang Wulin and the others, and Xu Xiaoyan asked Jiang Xia if her Martial Soul could evolve into a stable Star Staff.

Jiang Xia brought Xu Xiaoyan to Tianding Starry Sky Soul Master Academy and arranged for her to use its Stargazing Platform to evolve her Martial Soul. As the starlight transformed the Starwheel Ice Staff, Jiang Xia studied the stellar power surrounding them.

• Jiang Xia reassured Xu Xiaoyan that the Star Gold spirit alloy he prepared would help her Martial Soul evolve and explained how he planned to refine her Star Staff afterward.
• Jiang Xia and Xu Xiaoyan reached Tianding City three days later, where Tang Wulin and the others came to challenge the academy while Jiang Xia arranged a Stargazing Platform visit.
• Jiang Xia offered the academy director three pieces of spirit-forged spirit alloy, and the director agreed to activate the Stargazing Platform for Xu Xiaoyan.
• Xu Xiaoyan sensed the concentrated starlight and summoned her Martial Soul as the platform’s arrays drew down stellar power and began transforming the Starwheel Ice Staff.
• Jiang Xia examined the platform’s ninth-rank Core Arrays, found them too complex to understand, and turned to studying the stellar manifestations around Xu Xiaoyan.

Xu Xiaoyan’s Martial Soul evolved into a Star Staff, and Jiang Xia urged her to develop both its star and ice attributes. After the group reached Mingdu, Wu Zhangkong publicly challenged the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy on Shrek Academy’s behalf.

• Xu Xiaoyan’s Martial Soul evolved into a Star Staff that let her use Starwheel Chain without relying on external star power.
• Jiang Xia warned Xu Xiaoyan not to abandon her ice attribute and explained how she could develop the star and ice attributes together.
• Xu Xiaoyan fused with spirit alloy intended for a future battle armor weapon and gradually accepted Jiang Xia’s advice to develop toward the Power Attack System.
• The group traveled through three more cities and reached Mingdu.
• Wu Zhangkong used a loudspeaker to challenge the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s strongest students under twenty.

Wu Zhangkong challenged the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, forcing Tang Wulin’s four-person team into a televised match against older opponents while Jiang Xia stayed out of the battle. Before the fight began, Wu Zhangkong negotiated access to the academy’s Star Dou Battle Network prototype, and Jiang Xia began expanding Broken Dream in an attempt to imitate abilities in reality.

• Wu Zhangkong publicly challenged the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and the academy accepted while arranging for the confrontation to be broadcast across Mingdu.
• Tang Wulin and the other Shrek students objected to facing older opponents, but Wu Zhangkong insisted they fight; Jiang Xia declined to join their lineup.
• Wu Zhangkong negotiated with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and secured an agreement for Shrek to experience its Star Dou Battle Network prototype without inspecting its underlying code.
• The four-person match was set to begin with Long Chen leading the Sun Moon Royal Team, while Jiang Xia considered imitating the Light Sacred Dragon and a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Jiang Xia unfurled Broken Dream, layered the illusory spaces of his Soul Spirits, and linked a gemstone to Mingdu’s Spirit Ascension Platform as his domain began to expand.

Jiang Xia tested the Star Dou Battle Network and discovered how its artificial illusory spaces connected through a central server. He used Dream Overlapping to move freely through his space, leaving the watching researcher unable to explain what he had witnessed.

• Jiang Xia enveloped the arena in Broken Dream and carefully sensed every change without affecting reality.
• Tang Wulin and his companions defeated the Sun Moon Royal Team, and Jiang Xia earned early access to the Star Dou Battle Network.
• Jiang Xia entered the network’s research department and asked how its battle pods connected wirelessly, but a researcher dismissed him as too low-level to understand.
• Jiang Xia used five layers of Dream Overlapping and realized his battle pod contained an isolated illusory space of only ten cubic meters, linked to others through a central server.
• Jiang Xia stepped a hundred meters through his illusory space without Soul Power fluctuations, then told the stunned researcher that his level was too low to understand.

Jiang Xia used the Star Dou Battle Network to test his abilities and study how its virtual spaces interacted with the server, while terrifying a researcher with a display of overwhelming power. After he was forcibly logged out and discovered his account had been banned, he complained but left without getting an explanation.

• Jiang Xia used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch and Heaven and Earth Manifestation to create an immense spectacle that left the researcher convinced the network had been hacked.
• Jiang Xia seized the virtual space around the researcher, frightened him, and then let him go after demonstrating several tricks.
• Jiang Xia analyzed the interaction between the battle pod's illusory space and the Star Dou Battle Network, hoping to adapt the technology for his five layers of Dream Overlapping.
• Roughly two and a half hours later, Jiang Xia was forcibly logged out and found that his account had been banned.
• Jiang Xia questioned the researcher, received only an explanation about a system problem, and left angrily after failing to find a complaint channel.

After the Federation overturned Jiang Xia’s Star Dou Battle Network ban and promised him a battle pod, he returned to Shrek City and learned that Xu Xiaoyan was studying Power Attack System cultivation. He accepted her choice and urged her to ask Gu Yue to teach her some moves.

• Jiang Xia asked Han Tianyi to complain to the Federation about his Star Dou Battle Network ban, and Han Tianyi explained Jiang Xia’s actions as illusions.
• The Federation apologized, removed Jiang Xia from the blacklist, and promised him early access to the network through a battle pod.
• Wu Zhangkong told Jiang Xia that Cai Yue'er had noticed Xu Xiaoyan studying Power Attack System cultivation and questioned whether she should focus on Control System techniques instead.
• Jiang Xia said Xu Xiaoyan could pursue both systems because her martial soul supported it and the choice was hers.
• Jiang Xia found Xu Xiaoyan acting more assertively, tapped her on the head, and told her to ask Gu Yue to teach her some moves.

Jiang Xia helped Xu Xiaoyan train in the Dream Realm, then explored how to reach a sixth layer of Dream Overlapping. He decided to risk building his future Battle Armor around that goal, knowing the Abyss was the real threat and that relying on Tang Wulin to resolve it would leave the Divine Abyss's benefits to the Tang family.

• Xu Xiaoyan struggled to understand Gu Yue's lessons, so Jiang Xia set up a blizzard in the Dream Realm for her to practice controlling ice elements.
• Jiang Xia resumed cultivating and considered whether six layers of Dream Overlapping could freeze space without slowing or stopping him too.
• Jiang Xia discovered that his Battle Armor's illusory space could not overlap with the space opened by his mecha, and that using a real supporting vessel would also conflict.
• Jiang Xia considered fusing with the Battle Armor to test whether its illusory space could overlap like a Soul Spirit's, despite the risk of having to scrap it.
• Jiang Xia decided to take the risk because Dream Overlapping could raise his potential, and he resolved not to leave the Divine Abyss's benefits to the Tang family.

Jiang Xia completed his fourth-year challenge, prompting Cai Yue'er to consider sending him away from Shrek to protect the Outer Court’s reputation. He accepted an invitation to join Shrek’s delegation to the Star Luo Continent, where he and Gu Yue hoped to visit Dragon Valley.

• Jiang Xia learned that Qiangu Zhangting had debuted early and was earning reputation by hunting Evil Soul Masters, so he decided to stay cautious around Qiangu Dongfeng.
• Jiang Xia defeated seven fourth-year One-Word Battle Armor Masters in succession, using many borrowed Martial Souls and Soul Skills.
• Cai Yue'er worried that Jiang Xia might defeat the fifth- and sixth-year students as well, and decided to send him to the Star Luo Continent with Shrek’s delegation.
• Wu Zhangkong told Jiang Xia that Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and other first-years would also join the delegation.
• Jiang Xia agreed to go, hoping to reach Dragon Valley and benefit from its dragon clouds.

Jiang Xia prepared for Shrek’s exchange trip to the Star Luo Continent while learning that Qiangu Zhangting and Mu Ye would also be there. After boarding the delegation’s ship, Jiang Xia asked Mu Ye to find him nourishing seafood during the voyage.

• Han Tianyi told Jiang Xia that Qiangu Zhangting would travel to the Star Luo Continent to deal with the Green Skull organization and warned him to avoid Qiangu Zhangting’s operations.
• Han Tianyi said Mu Ye would accompany the delegation, reassuring Jiang Xia that his senior brother could protect him.
• Jiang Xia continued cultivating, exploring the Star Dou Battle Network and Dream Realm, and forging one battle armor component each month.
• Jiang Xia reached rank 50 and waited for the trip so he could enter Dragon Valley and obtain his fifth Soul Ring.
• Pan Wen led the Federation delegations from Eastsea Grand Hotel to the harbor, where Jiang Xia boarded their ship.
• Jiang Xia approached Mu Ye and said he wanted nourishing deep-sea seafood during the voyage.

Jiang Xia rejected Mu Ye’s plan to force a risky Martial Soul Second Awakening and said he would seek a safer Body Secret Art for the Body Sect. The two prepared to enjoy their voyage to the Star Luo Continent, and Mu Ye asked what Jiang Xia’s mission was.

• Mu Ye praised Tang Wulin’s blood vitality but said the Body Sect would not recruit him because of his ties to Shrek and the Tang Sect.
• Jiang Xia realized Mu Ye had been assigned to give him a Martial Soul Second Awakening, not Tang Wulin.
• Mu Ye explained that the Body Sect’s dangerous method pushed Soul Masters to their limits and that its old Body Secret Art had been lost.
• Jiang Xia refused the risky awakening and declared he would try to develop a secret art that let Body Soul Masters awaken safely on their own.
• Mu Ye accepted Jiang Xia’s decision, promised to find good food for the voyage, and asked about his mission in the Star Luo Continent.

Jiang Xia completed a blood essence breakthrough by fusing with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw External Soul Bone during the voyage to the Star Luo Continent. After the train carrying him and Mu Ye was attacked by Green Skull Evil Soul Masters, they joined Qiangu Zhangting in preparing to fight back.

• Mu Ye explained that the trip to Dragon Valley would also let him study En Ci’s method of nurturing Battle Armor and improve his mecha.
• During the three-month voyage, Jiang Xia cultivated his blood essence using rare ingredients gathered from the deep sea.
• Jiang Xia fused with the Dark Gold Dreadclaw External Soul Bone, sharpening his blood essence and gaining the ability to fire five sharp rays from his fingertips.
• Jiang Xia and Mu Ye escaped the derailed Soul Guidance Train after Jiang Xia warned Mu Ye that danger was coming.
• Jiang Xia, Mu Ye, and Qiangu Zhangting confronted the attacking Green Skull Evil Soul Masters, and Mu Ye summoned his fused mecha and Four-Word Battle Armor as a long saber.

Jiang Xia arrived in Star Luo City, refused to compete in the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament, and negotiated with the Star Luo Imperial Family to use the Dream Realm during the event. He also offered to help Long Yue assimilate his bloodline and summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Dream Tapir.

• Gu Yue sensed that Jiang Xia had broken through the limits of his blood essence without using the gold of life she had given him, while Jiang Xia picked up her faint disdain through Broken Dream.
• Three days after the Green Skull organization's attack, Jiang Xia and the others arrived in Star Luo City, where Wu Zhangkong asked Jiang Xia to compete in the tournament.
• Jiang Xia refused, explaining that he planned to establish a Dream Realm with the Star Luo Imperial Family and that it would assist with the tournament.
• Jiang Xia, Dai Tianling, En Ci, and Mu Ye agreed that the tournament would be fought in reality, with the Dream Realm projecting outcomes and intervening when a competitor's life was in danger.
• Jiang Xia offered to help Long Yue assimilate his bloodline in the Dream Realm, and summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Dream Tapir.