Chapter Summaries

Gu Yue spent the evening shopping with Yu Longyue, then learned that Di Tian’s past actions had driven a powerful Thunder Dragon to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. She ordered her subordinates to stop investigating and, realizing the dragon was with Yu Longyue, accepted that it suited him.

• Gu Yue teased Yu Longyue about women approaching him, and he said he had turned them all down.
• Gu Yue returned home and found Di Tian and his subordinates waiting with news about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Di Tian revealed that he had driven a Thunder Dragon away more than five thousand years earlier, and it had since joined the human clan.
• Gu Yue rebuked Di Tian for costing their people a potential Dragon King ally and ordered him to stop investigating the Thunder Dragon.
• After Di Tian and the others left, Gu Yue realized the Thunder Dragon was with Yu Longyue and smiled.

Huo Yuhao and Class Zero arrived for Shrek Academy’s entrance examination and met Yu Longyue and Gu Yue, whose abilities and effortless confidence drew attention. After the candidates faced the pressure of a Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King mural, the teachers gave Yu Longyue full marks and Tang San three points at most.

• Huo Yuhao led Class Zero to Shrek Academy’s entrance examination, where the students spotted Yu Longyue and Gu Yue near the entrance.
• Yu Longyue and Gu Yue discussed their Battle Armor plans with Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin, and Yu Longyue revealed that he had studied several professional crafts to high levels but preferred to pay others to do the work.
• The examinees entered a hall where a mural of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King pressed them with its dragon’s might, while Yu Longyue and Gu Yue remained unaffected.
• Shrek’s teachers privately identified Yu Longyue as the pavilion master’s mentioned son and awarded him full marks, Gu Yue eight points, and Huo Haodong ten points.
• The teachers gave Tang San three points at most, judging his performance too poor.

Yu Longyue and Gu Yue passed the second and third assessments despite the examiners’ attempts to make his challenges harder, while Tang San watched their strength with growing respect. They entered the fourth assessment, where Yu Longyue spotted an older woman and feared she might be the Silver Moon Douluo known for making tests difficult.

• Gu Yue asked Yu Longyue whether he had used his Spiritual Power to hinder Tang San, and Yu Longyue claimed it was an accidental side effect of reaching the Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Yu Longyue and Gu Yue faced a simulated Radiant Sacred Dragon, which Yu Longyue’s Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon Soul Spirit defeated for them.
• The elders awarded Yu Longyue and Gu Yue ten points each, and Huo Yuhao remarked that Yu Longyue’s family had gone too far trying to hold him back.
• Yu Longyue carried Gu Yue through six guillotine gates in six seconds, earning both of them ten points and surprising Tang San.
• At the start of the special-talents assessment, Yu Longyue saw an older woman and worried that she was the Silver Moon Douluo.

Gu Yue impressed the Shrek assessors with her elemental control and Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power, but refused Silver Moon Douluo’s offer to become her disciple and condemned her for judging Yu Longyue. Silver Moon Douluo retaliated by giving Gu Yue zero points and disqualifying Yu Longyue before his test.

• Yu Longyue asked Gu Yue to take the special-talent test first so he could postpone his own turn and think about his abilities.
• Gu Yue initially demonstrated one element, but after Silver Moon Douluo challenged her performance, she displayed three elements and revealed Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power.
• Silver Moon Douluo offered to take Gu Yue as her disciple, but Gu Yue refused and defended Yu Longyue against the elder’s criticisms.
• Gu Yue criticized Silver Moon Douluo for judging Yu Longyue and for favoring gifted students, then said she already had a better teacher.
• Silver Moon Douluo dismissed Gu Yue’s good deeds as a way to improve her family’s reputation and gave both Gu Yue and Yu Longyue zero points.

Yu Longyue and Gu Yue received repeated zero scores from Silver Moon Douluo after rejecting Shrek, and the other candidates rallied behind them. When the elders gave Yu Longyue a failing evaluation and told Gu Yue to leave, Yu Longyue challenged Silver Moon Douluo to seek justice for his friend.

• Gu Yue apologized to Yu Longyue for causing trouble, and he reassured her that Silver Moon Douluo was at fault.
• Silver Moon Douluo gave Gu Yue and Yu Longyue zero points in the fifth assessment, prompting Xie Xie, Xu Xiaoyan, Tang Wulin, and Huo Yuhao to defend Yu Longyue.
• Yu Longyue urged the others to stay at Shrek and cultivate until they were strong enough to demand fairness, while Tang San resented Yu Longyue for helping others with Soul Spirits.
• Silver Moon Douluo gave the pair zero points again in the sixth trial and later rated Yu Longyue's comprehensive score at sixty and Gu Yue's at fifty-nine, recommending that Gu Yue leave.
• Yu Longyue asked Silver Moon Douluo whether she would reconsider, then said he would report the incident to his father and grandfather and formally challenged her.

Yu Longyue challenged Silver Moon Douluo and unleashed his powerful lightning abilities, forcing her to use her Battle Armor after he transformed into a giant lightning dragon. As Silver Moon Douluo prepared to retaliate, the pavilion master intervened and stopped her.

• Silver Moon Douluo dismissed Yu Longyue as a mere Soul King and struck him with her oppressive might, but he resisted and counterattacked with lightning skills.
• Yu Longyue formed a lightning spear that forced Silver Moon Douluo to release her Martial Soul and reveal her nine Soul Rings.
• Yu Longyue activated his Thunder Dragon King Domain, transformed into a giant lightning dragon, and slammed Silver Moon Douluo into a crater.
• Silver Moon Douluo emerged in Three-Word Battle Armor and raised her hand to attack Yu Longyue, but the young pavilion master appeared and pushed her hand down.
• Silver Moon Douluo realized she had gone too far and dismissed her Battle Armor.

Yu Longyue defeated Silver Moon Douluo during the Shrek Academy assessment, then helped resolve the conflict with the pavilion master’s intervention. The students were admitted, while Gu Yue privately struggled with discovering the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline in someone she had come to like.

• The white-robed pavilion master recognized the power of Yu Longyue’s lightning and warned Silver Moon Douluo that she had underestimated him.
• Yu Longyue apologized to Silver Moon Douluo, and the pavilion master ordered her to apologize to him and Gu Yue for abusing her authority.
• Silver Moon Douluo apologized to Yu Longyue, while Elder Cai admitted her selfish motives and apologized to Gu Yue.
• Elder Cai welcomed all the examinees to Shrek Academy and warned them that students who failed to meet the standards would be expelled.
• Gu Yue thanked Yu Longyue for standing up for her, then wondered how the Golden Dragon King’s bloodline had appeared in a human she had come to like.

Yu Longyue went to Sea God Island with the Pavilion Master for tests of his physical abilities, while Cai Yue'er apologized to Yu Qitian and credited Yu Longyue with helping her overcome her emotional deadlock. On the island, Yu Longyue reunited with Na'er, and the Pavilion Master and Ya Li discussed troubling information about the Spirit Pagoda's ties to the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Cai Yue'er followed the Pavilion Master and Yu Longyue toward Sea God Island, but Yu Qitian stopped her and accused her of mistreating a student.
• Cai Yue'er apologized to Yu Qitian, explaining that Yu Longyue and the girl had helped her let go of her past and find hope of reaching Limit Douluo.
• Yu Qitian decided not to bully Cai Yue'er and hurried off to see his son, while Cai Yue'er followed him.
• The Pavilion Master brought Yu Longyue to Sea God Island for a comprehensive test and asked him to call him Uncle Yun.
• Ya Li arrived with Na'er, who recognized Yu Longyue as her long-lost big brother and rushed into his arms.
• Ya Li told the Pavilion Master that the Spirit Pagoda appeared to be cooperating with the Holy Spirit Cult, though they had no concrete evidence.

Yu Longyue reunited with Na'er and underwent a physical examination before Shrek Academy's senior figures. His tests revealed extraordinary spiritual power, strength, and defense, leaving the onlookers convinced he was a humanoid Ferocious Beast.

• Yu Longyue reunited with Na'er, who had become a Soul Ancestor and was studying as Yun's personal disciple.
• Yun brought Yu Longyue to Sea God Island's testing room, where Long Yeyue and other elders watched.
• Yu Longyue's tests showed Soul King cultivation with compressed Soul Power equivalent to a Soul Saint, and Spiritual Power near the Spirit Domain Realm threshold.
• Yu Longyue shattered the strength-testing device with a blow exceeding 5.7 million kilograms after activating his Martial Soul and Soul Skills.
• The examiners found Yu Longyue's defenses comparable to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and the onlookers understood why Cai Yue'er had been overwhelmed.

Yun Ming explained that Yu Longyue’s immense physical strength would destroy anything weaker than Three-Word Battle Armor, while Long Yeyue welcomed him as her great-nephew and gave him nourishing black steamed buns. Yu Longyue returned to the outer court, where Na'er teased him about the girl he had challenged Elder Cai for, unaware that he meant Gu Yue.

• Yun Ming told Yu Longyue that One-Word and Two-Word Battle Armor could not withstand his power and advised him to work toward Three-Word Battle Armor.
• Yu Qitian praised Yu Longyue, then introduced him to his great-aunt Long Yeyue, who welcomed him and teased him about avoiding Shrek Academy.
• Long Yeyue gave Yu Longyue a basket of black steamed buns she had saved for him because his blood and Qi were exceptionally vigorous.
• Yu Qitian and Yun Ming each made an excuse to leave, while Na'er laughed at how much the elders doted on Yu Longyue.
• Na'er explained that Yu Longyue would attend outer-court classes so he would not be separated from the girl he had challenged Elder Cai for, then asked to meet her.
• Yu Longyue agreed to let Na'er meet the girl sometime, privately recognizing that she did not know he meant Gu Yue.

Yu Longyue joined his first-grade class at Shrek and was welcomed as a hero, then learned that Tang San had lost the class monitor selection to Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin. Before class ended, Yu Longyue offered his classmates loans and contribution-point exchanges through his company, while Gu Yue revealed she had guessed he was the company’s boss.

• Yu Longyue arrived late to class and found that his classmates admired him for standing up to Cai Yue'er during the entrance assessment.
• Yu Longyue took the seat beside Gu Yue, who told him that girls had asked her for his picture and admitted she had angrily refused them.
• Tang Wulin defeated Tang San in the committee selection match, while Huo Yuhao became class monitor and Wu Siduo and Tang Wulin became deputy monitors.
• Tang San wondered whether Huo Haodong was related to Huo Yuhao, but concluded that Huo Yuhao’s survival was impossible and that the resemblance was likely coincidence.
• Yu Longyue offered classmates contribution points in exchange for Federation Coins and interest-free loans, prompting nearly everyone to scan his company’s code.
• Gu Yue told Yu Longyue she had inferred he was the company’s boss because his family’s business worked with the Spirit Pagoda.

Tang San sought a contribution-point loan from Yu Longyue, whose kindness left Tang San unable to complain about missing a benefit introduced after he had reached rank ten. After seeing Gu Yue safely to the Spirit Pagoda, Yu Longyue arranged a loan contract designed to make Tang San pay ten times the amount in compensation.

• Tang San went to the cafeteria to ask Yu Longyue about borrowing contribution points and learned he could apply in person at the company’s Shrek City branch.
• Tang San asked why he had never received a free first Soul Spirit, and Yu Longyue explained that the benefit had only begun a year earlier, three years after Tang San reached rank ten.
• Tang San thanked Yu Longyue and left to complete the loan paperwork, while Yu Longyue finished eating with Gu Yue.
• Yu Longyue walked Gu Yue to the Spirit Pagoda, briefly took her hand where a camera could see, and told her to ask for help if anything happened.
• After Gu Yue entered the Spirit Pagoda, Yu Longyue called Uncle Song and requested a compliant loan contract that could require Tang San to pay ten times the borrowed amount in compensation.

Yu Longyue arranged a loan contract with a tenfold penalty for borrowers who missed repayment, then Tang San applied to borrow 10,000 contribution points. The chapter left Tang San confident he could repay the loan within a year as his application went for review.

• Yu Longyue asked Uncle Song to take him to the company branch and arranged to meet Huo Yuhao that afternoon about birthday gifts.
• On the drive, Yu Longyue considered expanding into games and reviewed his busy schedule as he began taking over the family's Shrek City business.
• Yu Longyue instructed the lawyer to revise the loan contract so borrowers who missed the repayment date owed ten times the loan amount, and the lawyer agreed to submit it for city approval.
• Tang San visited the company branch, applied to borrow 10,000 contribution points, and read the contract's repayment and tenfold-compensation terms.
• Tang San accepted the terms, and the employee told him the application would be reviewed before he signed and collected the loan.

Yu Longyue met Huo Yuhao to discuss how they could restrict Tang San and take control of the Spirit Pagoda. Huo Yuhao agreed to help Yu Longyue achieve Yin-Yang Complementary Triple Soul Cores, possibly even four Soul Cores, in exchange for Yu Longyue’s support.

• Huo Yuhao repaid Yu Longyue the remaining five million Federation Coins and heard how Yu Longyue had arranged to limit Tang San’s opportunities in Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he had reached level forty-three and that his Spiritual Power had broken through to the Spirit Domain Realm, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reacted fearfully to Yu Longyue.
• Huo Yuhao regretted leaving the Spirit Pagoda and his loved ones behind when he ascended, and warned Yu Longyue to handle matters of the heart carefully.
• Huo Yuhao asked Yu Longyue to help him become the Spirit Pagoda’s master, and Yu Longyue agreed because their interests aligned against the Spirit Pagoda and the Qiangu family.
• Yu Longyue asked Huo Yuhao to help him achieve Yin-Yang Complementary Triple Soul Cores, or perhaps even four Soul Cores, in return.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue planned to get Huo Yuhao into the Spirit Pagoda by presenting him as a company employee with expertise in Soul Spirits and the Spirit Ascension Platform. They joined forces to pursue Leng Yaozhu as a potential ally, hoping to interfere with Gu Yue's plans at the Spirit Pagoda.

• Yu Longyue asked Huo Yuhao to help him form Yin-Yang Complementary Triple Soul Cores, and Huo Yuhao agreed to try.
• Huo Yuhao said he wanted to advance Soul Spirit technology and eventually resurrect the teacher who had helped create it, while avoiding alerting the Spirit Pagoda to his knowledge.
• Yu Longyue warned Huo Yuhao against approaching Pagoda Master Qiangu Dongfeng because of his cooperation with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Huo Yuhao chose Deputy Pagoda Master Leng Yaozhu as his target.
• Yu Longyue proposed using his family's company partnership with the Spirit Pagoda to arrange for Huo Yuhao to meet Leng Yaozhu and demonstrate his expertise.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue worked out a cover story in which Huo Yuhao became an employee at Yu Longyue's company and accompanied him to the Spirit Ascension Platform and Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue shook hands and agreed to carry out their plan together.

Yu Longyue settled into Shrek Academy, where Yun Ming pushed him to cultivate and discovered how quickly his power advanced. After Yu Longyue slept through class, Wu Siduo and Huo Yuhao challenged him to spar, and he invited them both to fight him at once.

• Yu Longyue returned to his dormitory on Sea God Island and learned that Uncle Song would remain nearby while Yun Ming took charge of his training.
• Yun Ming explained Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Cores and urged Yu Longyue to cultivate, but Yu Longyue gained a rank after only a few minutes and kept falling asleep during the night lessons.
• Yu Longyue arrived exhausted at class, fell asleep at his desk, and became known for sleeping through lessons at Shrek.
• Gu Yue let Yu Longyue sleep until lunchtime, when Wu Siduo and Huo Yuhao each asked him to spar.
• Yu Longyue told Wu Siduo and Huo Yuhao to attack him together because he was in a hurry.

Yu Longyue challenged Wu Siduo and Huo Yuhao to a sparring match and overwhelmed them with his defenses and Thunderous Might. Afterward, he and Huo Yuhao privately discussed Spiritual Detection, leaving Wu Siduo puzzled by their closeness.

• Wu Siduo and Huo Yuhao accepted Yu Longyue's challenge and faced him together in a Shrek Academy sparring arena.
• Huo Yuhao shared Spiritual Detection with Wu Siduo, but her attacks and Huo Yuhao's debuffs could not harm Yu Longyue, and Spirit Shock rebounded on Huo Yuhao.
• Wu Siduo used her Hell White Tiger fusion skill, but it failed to break through Yu Longyue's defenses.
• Yu Longyue used Thunderous Might to defeat Wu Siduo and leave Huo Yuhao trembling, though Huo Yuhao dodged most of the attack with his own technique.
• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao exchanged Spiritual Detection and whispered together before leaving, prompting Wu Siduo to wonder if Yu Longyue had a taste for men.

Yu Longyue shared a precious deep-sea delicacy with Gu Yue, then showed Huo Yuhao around the Spirit Pagoda and described his successful business empire. At the Spirit Pagoda, Yu Longyue recognized the prominent young man Qiangu Zhangting.

• Gu Yue met Yu Longyue after his performance, and he ate rare deep-sea fish buns while explaining how his family had fed them to him as a child.
• Yu Longyue offered Gu Yue a bun; she accepted, took one bite, and he ate the rest, leaving her embarrassed and annoyed.
• Yu Longyue ate more buns, then brought Huo Yuhao to tour the Spirit Pagoda and explained how his company had expanded across the continent.
• Huo Yuhao joked about joining Yu Longyue after they killed Tang San, and Yu Longyue warned him not to jinx their plans.
• Yu Longyue entered the Spirit Pagoda with Huo Yuhao, spotted a young man in white surrounded by admirers, and identified him as Qiangu Zhangting.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue discussed Qiangu Zhangting and planned to exploit tensions between the Spirit Pagoda and the Holy Spirit Cult while investigating the Evil Soul Masters. Inside the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, Huo Yuhao detected an unexpected figure: Tang San.

• Huo Yuhao learned that Qiangu Zhangting was the Spirit Pagoda master's grandson, a powerful Soul Saint and Two-Word Battle Armor Master who rivaled Yu Longyue.
• Yu Longyue explained that he wanted to use Qiangu Zhangting to create a rift between the Spirit Pagoda and the Holy Spirit Cult once they uncovered the Evil Soul Masters' next move.
• Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue finished browsing the Soul Spirit area and entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Yu Longyue summoned his Martial Soul and offered to cripple weaker Soul Beasts so Huo Yuhao could finish them and restore his strength.
• Yu Longyue directed Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection east, and Huo Yuhao recognized Tang San.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue found Tang San on the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform and let him join them while they hunted Soul Beasts. After Tang San objected to killing them, he made an exception for a beast that attacked him, and Yu Longyue stopped him from striking the final blow.

• Huo Yuhao detected Tang San nearby, and Yu Longyue decided to prevent him from accomplishing his goal before agreeing with Huo Yuhao to confront him.
• Tang San explored the platform, recalling that he had bought entry with Yu Longyue’s contribution points and hoped to strengthen his Soul Spirits.
• Tang San watched Yu Longyue defeat four powerful Soul Beasts with lightning, then approached Yu Longyue and Huo Haodong and asked to travel with them.
• Yu Longyue welcomed Tang San, but Huo Haodong absorbed the defeated beasts’ Spiritual Energy before the group continued hunting.
• Tang San argued that they should avoid killing too many Soul Beasts, then subdued a tiger-type beast that ambushed him.
• Yu Longyue stopped Tang San from killing the tiger-type beast, but Tang San insisted that evil Soul Beasts that attacked them deserved to die.