Chapter Summaries

Zhuo Shi misinterpreted Qing Linyun and Na'er playing horseback riding and brought Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li to intervene. The misunderstanding began to clear when Na'er explained that Qing Linyun had only ridden on her back because she owed him debts.

• Zhuo Shi overheard Qing Linyun and Na'er playing and mistook their conversation for evidence that his disciple had harmed her.
• Zhuo Shi went to fetch Holy Spirit Douluo Ya Li, while Qing Linyun continued riding on Na'er's back until a sudden attack sent him crashing into a wall.
• Qing Linyun activated his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul and revealed his seven Soul Rings as Ya Li confronted him.
• Ya Li asked Na'er whether Qing Linyun had bullied her, and Zhuo Shi accused Qing Linyun of refusing to admit his wrongdoing.
• Na'er told Ya Li and Zhuo Shi that Qing Linyun had not bullied her and had only ridden her as his mount because she owed him debts.

Zhuo Shi and Ya Li confronted Qing Linyun over what they thought he had done to Na'er, but Na'er said she had given him money willingly. Ya Li urged Qing Linyun to stop earning money through tricks and offered him a paid task, while his thoughts revealed that he was saving for the Daily Shop System’s costly goods.

• Zhuo Shi questioned Na'er about whether Qing Linyun had bullied her, and Ya Li examined her while Qing Linyun complained about being struck into the wall.
• Ya Li healed Qing Linyun and asked what he had tried to get from Na'er, while Zhuo Shi listed his history of swindling people around Shrek Academy.
• Na'er said she had given Qing Linyun money of her own free will, leaving Zhuo Shi and Ya Li to realize the incident was a misunderstanding.
• Ya Li explained that Qing Linyun and Na'er were like her and Yun Ming's children, then warned him that his tricks would undermine people's respect for him.
• Qing Linyun reflected that he needed money for the Daily Shop System, which had previously offered him expensive goods such as the God of Space, and Ya Li offered him one hundred million federal coins for a task.

Ya Li assigned Qing Linyun a hundred-million mission to bring Wu Changkong back to Shrek Academy, and he accepted despite Zhuo Shi’s concern about the dangers outside. Qing Linyun then prepared to leave for Eastsea City, where his secretary Ye Lingling confirmed the Twelve Knights were waiting.

• Ya Li told Qing Linyun to find Wu Changkong and persuade him to return to Shrek Academy, and Qing Linyun promised to complete the mission.
• Zhuo Shi worried that Qing Linyun had too many secrets and was being watched by people outside Shrek, but Ya Li trusted his abilities.
• Na'er worried that Qing Linyun was hurt, and Ya Li reassured her by revealing that he had recently defeated a level 92 Evil Soul Master wearing Three-Word Battle Armor in ten minutes.
• In a Heaven-Supporting Pillar in Shrek City, Qing Linyun told Ye Lingling he was going to Eastsea City and promised her a 10 Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Ye Lingling told Qing Linyun that the Twelve Knights had arrived and were waiting in the conference room.

Qing Linyun reflected on how he had built his wealth and influence by selling Soul Spirits and developing Artificial Soul Spirits. He revealed the Devil Card, a divine artifact that compelled contracted people to serve him, and explained that Ye Lingling was its first contractor.

• Qing Linyun recalled using his system's Daily Shop to acquire Soul Spirits and sell them to Soul Masters for enormous profits.
• At twelve, Qing Linyun bought an ultimate Artificial Soul Spirit formula, which secured his fortune and helped him build connections across the continent.
• Qing Linyun spent over ten billion Federation Coins on his six-attribute Two-Word Battle Armor and obtained two Soul Spirits suited to him.
• Qing Linyun summoned the Devil Card, whose contract forced its target to offer him everything and prevented betrayal or disobedience.
• Qing Linyun explained that he needed a trusted armed force to protect himself from threats such as the Spirit Pagoda, and that Ye Lingling was the first person to contract with the card.

Qing Linyun had rescued and strengthened Ye Lingling, then summoned the Twelve Knights to a company meeting. The knights gathered and argued until Qing Linyun arrived.

• Ye Lingling recalled how Qing Linyun had saved her life and used his resources to replace her Martial Soul and raise her to Titled Douluo and Three-Word Battle Armor Master before age twenty-five.
• Qing Linyun said he would make arrangements before leaving for Eastsea City.
• Ye Lingling told the assembled knights to prepare their work reports as they awaited Qing Linyun.
• Ye Lingling and Leng Yulai traded insults, while Na Nali teased them about their rivalry over Qing Linyun.
• Qing Linyun entered the conference room, and the knights stood and greeted him.

Qing Linyun told his company that he was leaving for Eastsea City and put Ye Lingling in charge while he was gone. As he headed for the station, he considered the threats surrounding Na'er and the Silver Dragon King, then realized he had forgotten to buy a ticket.

• Qing Linyun stopped Na Nali's teasing and Leng Yulai's argument, then announced that he would leave for Eastsea City in a few days.
• Qing Linyun told Ye Lingling to oversee the company and warned Na Nali and Leng Yulai to cooperate with her while he was away.
• Qing Linyun promised Ye Lingling a right leg bone and left Shrek City as the others saw him off.
• On the way to Eastsea City, Qing Linyun considered Na'er's connection to Gu Yuena and the powerful figures he could not yet confront.
• At the station, Qing Linyun discovered he had not booked a soul-guidance vehicle ticket and went to the ticket office to buy one.

Qing Linyun arrived in Eastsea City and found Gu Yue stuck outside Eastsea Academy after missing registration. He claimed she was his cousin and ushered her past the gatekeeper, leaving Gu Yue furious and unwillingly inside the academy.

• Qing Linyun got off the train and exchanged messages with Na'er, Ya Li, and his company’s little girl before heading to Eastsea Academy.
• Qing Linyun spotted Gu Yue by the registration desk and recognized her as the Silver Dragon King who shared Na'er's memories.
• Gu Yue recognized Qing Linyun and blamed him for Na'er refusing her fusion mission, while vowing to prove human emotions were unreliable.
• Qing Linyun teased Gu Yue about missing registration, and she denied it despite having been stopped at the gate.
• Qing Linyun introduced Gu Yue as his younger cousin to the gatekeeper and walked into Eastsea Academy with his arm around her shoulders.

Qing Linyun and Gu Yue entered Eastsea Academy after he claimed they were together, and Gu Yue struggled to hide her Silver Dragon King instincts around him. Qing Linyun spotted Wu Changkong on the field, but a gate guard called for them to be caught.

• Gu Yue pulled away from Qing Linyun after he put an arm around her, then privately wondered why being held had felt good.
• Qing Linyun defended his excuse for getting them past the gate, while Gu Yue stayed wary and explained that she had missed registration.
• Gu Yue instinctively recognized Qing Linyun's strength, then awkwardly tried to cover up how she knew.
• Qing Linyun said he had come to find someone and spotted Wu Changkong teaching students on the field.
• A gate guard identified Qing Linyun and Gu Yue as intruders and called for someone to catch them.

Qing Linyun fled the Eastsea Academy security guards with Gu Yue and reached Wu Changkong, where he revealed himself as Wu Changkong's junior brother. After demonstrating his strength and claiming Zhuo Shi sent him, Qing Linyun asked Wu Changkong to handle the security guards.

• Gu Yue watched Qing Linyun face the approaching security guards, but he grabbed her wrist and dragged her toward the field to escape.
• Wu Changkong and the students, including Xie Xie and Tang Wulin, saw Qing Linyun and Gu Yue rush onto the field with the guards after them.
• Wu Changkong sent ice sword Qi at Qing Linyun, who crushed it with a casual gesture and pulled Gu Yue behind him.
• Qing Linyun stopped before Wu Changkong, called him senior brother, and said Zhuo Shi had sent him as his junior brother.
• Wu Changkong recognized Zhuo Shi's name and listened as Qing Linyun praised him and said their master missed him.
• Qing Linyun pointed out the pursuing security guards and asked Wu Changkong to deal with the problem.

Qing Linyun claimed Wu Changkong as his senior brother and accompanied Gu Yue as she sought admission to Eastsea Academy. After Gu Yue demonstrated her six-element Martial Soul and Wu Changkong accepted her paperwork, he said he would verify Qing Linyun’s identity before speaking with him privately.

• Wu Changkong stopped the security officers from pursuing Qing Linyun and Gu Yue, telling them Qing Linyun was his junior brother.
• Gu Yue sensed the Golden Dragon King in Tang Wulin, then denied knowing Qing Linyun as he called her his niece.
• Gu Yue presented her recommendation letter and revealed her one-ring, six-element Martial Soul, which Wu Changkong judged promising.
• Qing Linyun bought a 150,000-year Light Unicorn Soul Spirit from the Daily Shop for 97 million Federation Coins.
• Wu Changkong dismissed the students from the field and told Gu Yue and Qing Linyun he would take them to complete enrollment procedures.
• Wu Changkong said he would contact his junior sister to confirm Qing Linyun’s identity and then speak with him privately.

Wu Changkong apologized to Long Hengxu and secured Gu Yue’s admission to Eastsea Academy. Gu Yue received her documents and left, while Qing Linyun stayed with Wu Changkong and followed him to his dormitory.

• Wu Changkong apologized to Long Hengxu, then asked him to process Gu Yue’s admission recommendation.
• Long Hengxu reluctantly completed Gu Yue’s admission procedures, and Wu Changkong gave the documents to her and told her to report the next day.
• Gu Yue questioned Qing Linyun about staying at Eastsea Academy, and he said he would likely remain because Wu Changkong was not leaving.
• Gu Yue left after glaring at Qing Linyun and privately imagined calling Di Tian to sink him and Wu Changkong in the East Sea.
• Wu Changkong brought Qing Linyun to his dormitory, where Qing noticed a portrait of Wu Changkong and Long Bing.
• Wu Changkong offered Qing Linyun a drink, and after Qing asked for cola, Wu Changkong took two bottles from the refrigerator.

Qing Linyun visited Wu Changkong at Eastsea Academy and tried to persuade him to return to Shrek, but Wu Changkong chose to stay with his students. Qing Linyun then revealed his strength and convinced Wu Changkong to let him stay as a teaching assistant.

• Wu Changkong called Shen Yi, who warned him that Qing Linyun was a formidable troublemaker but not a bad person.
• Qing Linyun told Wu Changkong that Zhuo Shi and Ya Li missed him and wanted him to return to Shrek.
• Wu Changkong said he could not leave his students at Eastsea Academy.
• Qing Linyun asked to stay as Wu Changkong's teaching assistant and revealed that he was a fifteen-year-old Seven-Ring Soul Sage with four black and three red Soul Rings.
• Wu Changkong agreed to let Qing Linyun stay as his teaching assistant.

Qing Linyun reflected on how Shrek Academy’s influence had helped him build his Soul Spirit business, then settled into his new room at Eastsea Academy as Wu Changkong’s teaching assistant. After learning that Wu Changkong’s old injuries were still obstructing his cultivation, Qing Linyun arranged for Ye Lingling to send healing medicine to Eastsea City.

• Qing Linyun considered how Shrek Academy’s prestige and his connection to Yun Ming had helped him gain investors and avoid suppression from rival factions.
• Wu Changkong gave Qing Linyun a teacher’s identity badge, showed him his dorm room, and invited him to dinner.
• Qing Linyun inspected his new apartment and called Ye Lingling to ask whether the healing potion was ready.
• Ye Lingling mistakenly thought Qing Linyun was injured, but Qing Linyun clarified that Wu Changkong needed the medicine and asked her to send a batch to Eastsea City.
• Qing Linyun scanned Wu Changkong and found that Evil Qi from an Evil Soul Master had blocked his meridians and Soul Power nodes, hindering his cultivation.

Leng Yulai and Na Nali wiped out a Holy Spirit Cult base, and a mysterious figure decided to test Qing Linyun. Meanwhile, Qing Linyun asked Wu Changkong whether he would return with him, but Wu Changkong said he would stay to finish teaching the students.

• Leng Yulai burned through the Evil Soul Masters at the abandoned warehouse district while Na Nali teased her.
• Two rank-ninety-five Holy Spirit Cult elders appeared, and Leng Yulai revealed nine hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings before erasing them and part of the district with her Ninth Soul Skill.
• Na Nali joked that the boss would punish Leng Yulai for destroying the base, and the two left while bantering.
• Uniformed officials arrived and found a vast crater, while a shadowy figure noted that the Holy Spirit Cult had lost two pillars and said he would test Qing Linyun.
• Qing Linyun asked Wu Changkong if he would return with him, and Wu Changkong said he would stay to finish teaching the students.

Gu Yue considered killing Qing Linyun because she suspected he knew about Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline, but Na’er stopped her by threatening to refuse their eventual fusion. Meanwhile, the Ghost Emperor sent the Dark Hummingbird to Eastsea City to investigate and kill Qing Linyun after the Underworld Emperor refused to go there.

• Gu Yue suspected Qing Linyun knew something about Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline and considered summoning Di Tian to kill him.
• Na’er confronted Gu Yue in their minds and threatened to self-destruct rather than fuse with her if she harmed Qing Linyun.
• Gu Yue promised not to kill Qing Linyun for now, though she planned to keep watching him, while Na’er vowed to protect him.
• The Ghost Emperor told Ha Luosa about Na Nali and Leng Yulai’s sudden rise in power and proposed capturing their fifteen-year-old backer, Qing Linyun.
• Ha Luosa refused to travel to Eastsea City, leaving the Ghost Emperor to suspect the place—and Qing Linyun—posed a hidden danger.
• The Ghost Emperor sent the Dark Hummingbird to Eastsea City to kill Qing Linyun and discover what he possessed.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie discovered that Qing Linyun, the young man they had met the day before, was joining Class Five as a teaching assistant from Shrek Academy. Tang Wulin felt an unexplained affinity with Qing Linyun, while Gu Yue watched the newcomer with disdain.

• Tang Wulin reflected on his strange sense of familiarity with Qing Linyun, which came from the Million-Year Golden Dragon Torso Bone resonating with Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Gu Yue entered Class Five, exchanged a brief look with Tang Wulin, and sat apart from the other students.
• Wu Changkong introduced Qing Linyun as a new teacher, stunning Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue.
• Qing Linyun told the class he was from Shrek Academy and would assist Wu Changkong as their teaching assistant.
• Gu Yue repeatedly met Qing Linyun's gaze and looked at him with disdain.

Wu Changkong summoned Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie to his office, while Qing Linyun accidentally struck Gu Yue and offered her a jade pendant to apologize. Gu Yue accepted it and felt it ease her old injuries, leaving her curious about Qing Linyun as he privately considered his plan successful.

• Wu Changkong ordered the class to run twenty laps, then called Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie to his office.
• Qing Linyun accidentally rapped Gu Yue on the head after mistaking her expression for Na'er's, and Gu Yue angrily confronted him.
• Qing Linyun calmed Gu Yue with teasing remarks and offered her a jade pendant as an apology.
• Gu Yue felt an inexplicable longing for the pendant, accepted it, and sensed its warmth easing her old injuries from the divine war.
• Wu Changkong told the group to enter his office, while Gu Yue held the pendant and Qing Linyun silently thought that she had taken the bait.

Gu Yue wrestled with her growing concern for Qing Linyun while unknowingly accepting a tracker disguised as a healing jade pendant. Wu Changkong announced a three-on-three Class Promotion Tournament and ordered the students to attend special training, while Qing Linyun prepared to demonstrate his strength.

• Gu Yue accepted Qing Linyun's jade pendant and wondered why she was beginning to care about him, while Qing Linyun revealed that the pendant could track her.
• Wu Changkong told Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie that Class Five would compete in a Class Promotion Tournament to try to move up the rankings.
• Gu Yue hesitated to compete, but Tang Wulin and Xie Xie acknowledged that she was stronger than they were.
• Qing Linyun asked about the tournament format, and Wu Changkong explained that it was three versus three and all three students could participate.
• Wu Changkong ordered the students to report for special training every evening, then knocked Xie Xie and Tang Wulin on the head when they protested.
• Qing Linyun offered to train the students, and after Xie Xie and Tang Wulin asked whether he was stronger than Wu Changkong, he agreed to demonstrate his abilities.

Qing Linyun revealed his Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul and extraordinary Soul Rings to Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Wu Changkong, then encouraged the youngsters to train for the class promotion tournament. As he left, he considered how to handle Gu Yue and Tang Wulin before sensing a hidden stranger, who emerged and called his name.

• Qing Linyun released his Martial Soul, displaying four Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and three Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, stunning Xie Xie and Tang Wulin.
• Qing Linyun told Tang Wulin that he had endured many hardships, and Gu Yue's impression of him improved.
• Wu Changkong urged the youngsters to cultivate diligently and focus on winning the class promotion tournament, then sent them out of the office.
• Qing Linyun decided to let Gu Yue deal with Tang Wulin while preventing her from falling in love with him.
• Qing Linyun sensed a hidden threat, prepared for battle, and challenged the cloaked figure, who emerged and asked if he was Qing Linyun.

Qing Linyun agreed to fight Black Hummingbird, a Level 98 Super Douluo who had come to kill him, away from Eastsea Academy. As they flew toward the East Sea, Qing Linyun secretly produced a crimson card bearing a flickering devil’s eye.

• Black Hummingbird introduced himself as one of the Holy Spirit Cult’s Four Heavenly Kings and revealed his strength as a Level 98 Super Douluo and Three-Word Battle Armor Master.
• Qing Linyun recalled Black Hummingbird’s history with Wu Changkong and regretted that his Death Arena skill was still on cooldown.
• Black Hummingbird gave Qing Linyun one minute to speak his last words, but Qing Linyun urged him to choose a remote fighting place to avoid harming people and attracting Shrek.
• Black Hummingbird agreed to fight Qing Linyun over the East Sea, and the two flew away from the academy.
• Qing Linyun secretly produced a deep crimson card marked with a flickering devil’s eye as they headed to the sea.