Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue repeatedly kept Tang San from absorbing Soul Beast Spiritual Energy while pretending to help him hunt. After Tang San thanked them for defeating a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Yu Longyue struck him with Thunder Dragon Claw and expelled him from the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Huo Yuhao killed the Soul Beast Tang San had defeated and absorbed its Spiritual Energy, while Yu Longyue treated the theft as a convenient accident.
• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao sent Tang San to fight an Ice Fire Demon Tiger, then ensured its Spiritual Energy went to Huo Yuhao instead.
• Yu Longyue told Tang San they had found a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and promised he could absorb its Spiritual Energy.
• Huo Yuhao weakened the wolf and Yu Longyue quickly incapacitated it, then invited Tang San to deliver the final blow.
• As Tang San approached the wolf, Yu Longyue attacked him with Thunder Dragon Claw and expelled him from the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue secretly attacked Tang San in the Spirit Ascension Platform, then staged a story about a powerful Soul Beast injuring him. After Tang San watched their fabricated footage, he believed their friendship was genuine and accepted them as friends.

• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao discussed how they had concealed Tang San's death and how Huo Yuhao had interfered with his Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao absorbed a Soul Beast to strengthen his Second Soul Ring while Yu Longyue helped him gather spiritual power.
• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao pretended to be wounded, claiming they had fought a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast that had attacked Tang San.
• Tang San awoke in the Spirit Pagoda and asked the staff how he had been injured.
• Tang San watched the surveillance footage of Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao lamenting that they had failed to avenge him, and accepted them as friends.

Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao fought two dire wolves in the Spirit Ascension Platform, and Yu Longyue’s overwhelming strength drove the nearby wolf pack away. As Huo Yuhao absorbed Spiritual Qi, a Tyrant Dragon entered Yu Longyue’s body and clashed with his Martial Soul and bloodline, leaving him unconscious; he awoke in a cold pod surrounded by Spirit Pagoda staff.

• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao encountered two dire wolves, which Huo Yuhao identified as siblings of a wolf they had killed earlier.
• Yu Longyue attacked both wolves with his dragon claws, while Huo Yuhao weakened and confused them with his Soul Skills.
• Yu Longyue unleashed Thunderous Might, defeated the wolf king, and drove the rest of the pack away with his draconic majesty.
• Huo Yuhao finished off the wolves and began absorbing Spiritual Qi while Yu Longyue kept watch.
• A giant Tyrant Dragon approached, then entered Yu Longyue’s body as the Thunder Dragon protested and fought it over territory within Yu Longyue’s Soul Rings.
• Yu Longyue lost consciousness and later awoke in a cold pod surrounded by Spirit Pagoda staff.

Yu Longyue woke after the Tyrant Dragon Soul Spirit vanished from the Spirit Ascension Platform and negotiated with the Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon over his soul-ring slots. Leng Yaozhu questioned him about the loss and the Spirit Pagoda’s cooperation with his clan, while Qiangu Zhangting arrived looking for a fight and received a sharp retort.

• Yu Longyue learned that the Tyrant Dragon had acknowledged him and persuaded the Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon to give it the Sixth Soul Ring slot.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Yu Longyue about absorbing the Tyrant Dragon, and he insisted that its disappearance had been an accident.
• Leng Yaozhu discussed the Spirit Pagoda’s profitable cooperation with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and praised Yu Longyue’s platform software.
• Qiangu Zhangting arrived, recognized Yu Longyue, and challenged him to demonstrate the strength of his god-level Martial Soul.
• Yu Longyue told Qiangu Zhangting to wash his hands instead of trying to grab something filthy.

Yu Longyue clashed verbally with Qiangu Zhangting at the Spirit Pagoda before Leng Yaozhu sent Qiangu away and continued negotiating cooperation with Yu Longyue. Later, Qiangu tried to make peace with a handshake, but Yu Longyue crushed his hand in a contest of strength and left him humiliated.

• Yu Longyue challenged Qiangu Zhangting’s arrogance, and Leng Yaozhu ordered Qiangu to leave so she could discuss business with Yu Longyue.
• Yu Longyue and Leng Yaozhu agreed to cooperate on the Spirit Ascension Platform, Soul Spirits, and efforts to attract civilian Soul Masters.
• Yu Longyue told Huo Yuhao that he and Leng Yaozhu had reached an agreement, then noticed Qiangu Zhangting following them.
• Qiangu Zhangting apologized and offered Yu Longyue his hand, but Yu Longyue overpowered him in a secret strength contest.
• Qiangu Zhangting activated Martial Soul Possession and his Two-Word Battle Armor before Yu Longyue released his hand and left with Huo Yuhao.

After Yu Longyue defeated Qiangu Zhangting, Qiangu Dongfeng assessed the young heir’s strength and his potential to drive a wedge between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Shrek. He told Qiangu Zhangting not to provoke Yu Longyue again and to build a good relationship with him.

• Qiangu Zhangting resolved to surpass Yu Longyue after his defeat, while Leng Yaozhu teased Gu Yue about her feelings for him.
• Leng Yaozhu questioned Qiangu Dongfeng about cooperating with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and he explained that he hoped to exploit its neutrality and growing distance from Shrek.
• Qiangu Dongfeng showed Leng Yaozhu a file about Yu Longyue and described him as a powerful future clan leader who controlled a vast intelligence network.
• Leng Yaozhu told Qiangu Dongfeng that Qiangu Zhangting had clashed with Yu Longyue in public, then left as Zhangting arrived.
• Qiangu Zhangting described Yu Longyue’s overwhelming strength, and Qiangu Dongfeng warned him not to provoke Yu Longyue and urged him to build a good relationship with him.

Qiangu Dongfeng considered winning over Yu Longyue and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by supporting them, while Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao discussed their next move with the Spirit Pagoda. Huo Yuhao offered to build a prototype Spirit Ascension Platform and revealed that the project was tied to bringing Electrolux back to life.

• Qiangu Dongfeng told Qiangu Zhangting that Yu Longyue’s actions might make the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan an ally rather than an enemy.
• After seeing footage of Yu Longyue with Gu Yue, Qiangu Dongfeng decided he might support Yu Longyue to win the clan’s favor.
• Qiangu Zhangting left after Qiangu Dongfeng praised his cultivation and told him to keep working hard.
• Yu Longyue told Huo Yuhao that letting events unfold naturally and building a strong foundation could create opportunities.
• Huo Yuhao proposed making a prototype Spirit Ascension Platform in exchange for resources, and Yu Longyue agreed to support the plan.
• When Yu Longyue asked why the project mattered so much, Huo Yuhao said he wanted to bring Electrolux back to life.

Huo Yuhao gained Yu Longyue’s support and a place to experiment with transforming Electrolux’s Undead Plane. Meanwhile, Yu Longyue returned late to Yun Ming’s lesson and was about to face a practical demonstration of the consequences.

• Yu Longyue offered to fund Huo Yuhao’s work, and Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted to adapt the Spirit Ascension Platform for a minor plane.
• Yu Longyue brought Huo Yuhao to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s former Thunderbolt Sacred Dragon shrine and granted him three months to experiment there.
• Huo Yuhao released the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and began preparing to work at the shrine.
• Yun Ming arrived at Yu Longyue’s residence for a lesson, but Yu Longyue was absent, so Na'er teased him about being late.
• Yu Longyue returned and explained that he had gone for a massage, and Yun Ming announced a practical combat lesson to teach him a lesson.

Yun Ming tested Yu Longyue in practical combat, but Yu Longyue used the blow to escape and hid in Gu Yue’s dormitory room. Gu Yue considered harming him because of his Golden Dragon King bloodline but ultimately held back, while Yu Longyue pretended to sleep and then fell asleep for real.

• Yun Ming challenged Yu Longyue to last one minute, and Yu Longyue attacked with a lightning spear before Yun Ming knocked him far into the sky.
• Yu Longyue used the force of Yun Ming’s strike to flee, and Yun Ming searched Shrek Academy but could not find him.
• Yun Ming left without investigating the girls’ dormitory and told Cai Yue'er to increase its inspections and security.
• Yu Longyue climbed through Gu Yue’s window and asked to stay the night, claiming Yun Ming’s practical combat lesson had left him exhausted and injured.
• Gu Yue let Yu Longyue sleep on her bed, then struggled with the temptation to strike him because he carried the Golden Dragon King bloodline.
• Gu Yue chose not to hurt Yu Longyue and returned to cultivate, while Yu Longyue secretly checked that she had spared him before falling asleep.

Yu Longyue woke up in bed with Gu Yue and discovered that his Soul Power had risen to level fifty-five after they slept together. He proposed they keep sleeping together to improve their cultivation, then organized Tang Wulin and Huo Yuhao to forge Gu Yue’s One-Word Battle Armor first.

• Yu Longyue woke with Gu Yue curled up in his arms and found that his Soul Power had increased to level fifty-five.
• Gu Yue remembered falling asleep in Yu Longyue’s arms after Silver Moon Douluo checked the dorms, and accused him of using a trick.
• Yu Longyue suggested that he and Gu Yue sleep together for the rest of their lives to improve their cultivation, and Gu Yue reacted with exasperation.
• After class, Gu Yue touched Yu Longyue’s cheek and gave him her Battle Armor design, which he took before walking away with Huo Yuhao.
• Yu Longyue asked Tang Wulin to forge Spirit Alloy for Gu Yue’s Battle Armor and set the order for making Battle Armor for Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, and Huo Yuhao.

Yu Longyue visited Huo Yuhao to inspect the results of his three months of work on the Undead Plane. Huo Yuhao had created Artificial Soul Spirits and a preliminary Spirit Ascension Platform-like world, but Yu Longyue advised him to present a safer, limited achievement to Leng Yaozhu when they met.

• Gu Yue began designing Yu Longyue's Three-Word Battle Armor and promised to give him a special present.
• Over three months, Yu Longyue's cultivation rose to level fifty-seven while Tang San struggled to repay his contribution-point debt and remained at level thirty-eight.
• Yu Longyue received Huo Yuhao's message about his breakthrough and went home to inspect his work.
• Huo Yuhao showed Yu Longyue his Artificial Soul Spirits, a small world that could help Soul Spirits ascend, and naturally contracted Soul Spirits that included undead varieties.
• Yu Longyue warned that revealing Huo Yuhao's full achievements could make Leng Yaozhu view him as a threat, and advised him to focus on improving the Spirit Pagoda's Artificial Soul Spirits.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to prepare a limited demonstration, and Yu Longyue planned to take him to meet Leng Yaozhu in a few days.

Huo Yuhao showed Yu Longyue the undead plane he had created, where his awakened Soul Spirits reunited with him and Yu Longyue's dragons grew stronger. Yu Longyue then recruited Huo Yuhao to pose as an Evil Soul Master and lure the remaining Evil Soul Masters into the open.

• Yu Longyue entered Huo Yuhao's newly modified plane and saw its undead creatures and bone dragons.
• Huo Yuhao reunited with the awakened Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress, and explained that he hoped to revive Electrolux.
• Yu Longyue released his three dragon Soul Spirits, which had grown stronger in the plane, and Huo Yuhao assessed their potential for further ascension.
• Yu Longyue asked Huo Yuhao to summon the undead into their world and explained that the Evil Soul Master threat remained unresolved.
• Yu Longyue proposed that Huo Yuhao impersonate an Evil Soul Master and stage attacks on the Spirit Pagoda in Shrek City to draw out the real perpetrators.

Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao planned a nighttime operation at the Spirit Pagoda to disrupt the Evil Soul Masters' scheme and prevent Shrek City from being destroyed. After arranging for Xie Xie to impersonate Yu Longyue as an alibi, they waited until eight o’clock, when they expected to encounter Qiangu Zhangting.

• Yu Longyue persuaded Huo Yuhao to use controlled undead at the Spirit Pagoda, and Huo Yuhao praised Yu Longyue's ability to lead and plan.
• Yu Longyue explained that protecting Shrek Academy mattered to him because he would become its pavilion master, and he planned to reform the academy.
• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao decided to act at the Spirit Pagoda that night, three days before the final exams.
• Yu Longyue asked Xie Xie to impersonate him at an entertainment venue, using Huo Yuhao's evolved Simulation Soul Skill and Yu Longyue's Soul Power to make the disguise convincing.
• The real Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao watched Xie Xie enter the venue, then planned to move against the Spirit Pagoda at eight because Qiangu Zhangting might be there.

Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue infiltrated the Spirit Pagoda and staged an undead attack to reach its Soul Spirit area. They escaped after overpowering Qiangu Zhangting, and their leader revealed himself as Tang San.

• Huo Yuhao and Yu Longyue abandoned their attempt to sneak beneath the Spirit Pagoda and entered disguised as a young master and his bodyguard.
• Huo Yuhao opened a portal that sent undead creatures into the Spirit Pagoda, triggering alarms and throwing the building into chaos.
• Yu Longyue knocked out surveillance staff and destroyed their equipment while Huo Yuhao erased the recordings, then they headed for the Soul Spirit area.
• Qiangu Zhangting fought through the undead and rushed to the Soul Spirit area, where he found two black-robed figures stealing high-level Soul Spirits.
• One black-robed figure defeated Qiangu Zhangting with two punches while the other directed the undead to cover their escape.
• The leading figure identified himself to Qiangu Zhangting as Tang San and said he would wait for him to come kill him.

Qiangu Dongfeng learned that the Spirit Pagoda had suffered heavy losses in an attack by powerful Evil Soul Masters and ordered a search for the attackers. He accused the Ghost Emperor and the Holy Spirit Cult, but the Ghost Emperor claimed the cult had stayed in the Far North.

• Qiangu Zhangting cursed the attackers before collapsing, and Spirit Pagoda staff rescued him.
• Qiangu Dongfeng arrived after the undead were eliminated and learned that the attack had destroyed Soul Spirit containers, stolen valuable Soul Spirits, ruined surveillance equipment, and injured Zhangting.
• Qiangu Dongfeng ordered a comprehensive search, raised security to the highest alert, and called a meeting of senior experts.
• A Titled Douluo reported that two exceptional Evil Soul Masters had led the attack, one with Spirit Domain Realm Spiritual Power and the other with overwhelming strength.
• Qiangu Dongfeng called the Ghost Emperor, accused the Holy Spirit Cult of attacking the Spirit Pagoda and nearly killing Zhangting, and the Ghost Emperor denied that his people had left the Far North.

Qiangu Dongfeng and the Ghost Emperor argued over an attack on Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, then agreed the Holy Spirit Cult was likely being framed. While the Ghost Emperor prepared a strike against Yu Longyue in Eastsea City, Qiangu Dongfeng remained unable to identify the mastermind behind the attack.

• Qiangu Dongfeng accused the Ghost Emperor of sending two Evil Soul Masters to attack Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, but the Ghost Emperor denied responsibility and argued that the attack was meant to sabotage their cooperation.
• The Ghost Emperor said the Holy Spirit Cult’s Spirit Domain Realm officer had never left his sight and that the cult had no strength-type fighter like the attacker Qiangu Dongfeng described.
• Qiangu Dongfeng told the Ghost Emperor he would investigate for several days before deciding whether to continue their cooperation.
• The Ghost Emperor learned that his forces were ready to take control of a network company in Eastsea City and ordered them to steal its data and technology and kill Yu Longyue.
• Qiangu Dongfeng suspected Yu Longyue might be involved, checked his surveillance footage, and saw him relaxing before deleting the recording without finding an answer.

Yu Longyue, Huo Yuhao, and Xie Xie escaped after the Spirit Pagoda raid with an Artificial Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit, which Huo Yuhao agreed to study. Qiangu Zhangting survived his fight with the Evil Soul Masters and told Qiangu Dongfeng that one attacker claimed to be Tang San.

• Yu Longyue and Huo Yuhao slipped away from the Spirit Pagoda and met Xie Xie, who had posed as Yu Longyue during the escape.
• Xie Xie described the luxurious treatment he experienced and kept quiet about the operation as Yu Longyue instructed.
• Yu Longyue told Huo Yuhao that the Artificial Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit had been sent home, and Huo Yuhao said he could decipher its technology.
• Qiangu Zhangting woke in the hospital, and Qiangu Dongfeng scolded him for facing Titled Douluo-level Evil Soul Masters alone.
• Qiangu Zhangting said one Evil Soul Master had identified himself as Tang San, leaving Qiangu Dongfeng stunned.

Qiangu Dongfeng dismissed the name Tang San as a ploy to provoke conflict with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Yu Longyue admitted to his father that he had attacked the Spirit Pagoda. After finishing Gu Yue’s One-Word Battle Armor, Yu Longyue began his final exam, but an urgent call from his company interrupted it.

• Qiangu Zhangting told Qiangu Dongfeng that a Tang San had appeared alongside Yu Longyue, but Qiangu Dongfeng decided the name was a smokescreen and said he would investigate.
• Yu Longyue told Yu Qitian that he had attacked the Spirit Pagoda and taken valuable Soul Spirits, and Yu Qitian warned him not to get reckless.
• Yu Longyue delivered Gu Yue’s completed One-Word Battle Armor, accepted her payment, and discussed their upcoming final exams.
• Cai Yue'er assigned the first-year Class One students individual assessments, including a duel against Wu Changkong for Yu Longyue and a Soul Saint opponent for Gu Yue.
• As Yu Longyue prepared to face Wu Changkong, the head of his company’s Eastsea City headquarters called and urgently told him that something serious had happened.

Yu Longyue returned to Eastsea City after the company was attacked, its server breached, and its core technical staff went missing. After ruling out the repairmen and surveillance staff, he concluded that a high-ranking company insider was involved and ordered the department leaders to assemble.

• Yu Longyue learned that the company had been attacked, several security staff were injured, and core technical employees had disappeared, so Cai Yue'er postponed his assessment and sent Wu Changkong and Gu Yue with him.
• Yu Longyue, Wu Changkong, and Gu Yue traveled to Eastsea City, where Uncle Song and a heavily armed escort met them.
• Yu Longyue reviewed the incident reports and learned that several cameras had malfunctioned during the attack, then questioned the surveillance supervisor and the repairmen.
• The repairmen revealed that someone had cut camera wires and installed signal jammers, and Yu Longyue decided they were not the mole.
• Yu Longyue told the company president that the insider must hold a position of authority and ordered all department heads, deputy heads, and higher-ranking staff to assemble within half an hour.

Yu Longyue investigated an attack on his company and learned that Holy Spirit Cult members had abducted people while targeting the company’s technology and his life. He exposed a secretary as the company’s mole, but the secretary’s body was killed before he could reveal more, and his soul spoke through him.

• Yu Longyue met with former subordinates Guang Biao and Guang Long while eating at Boss Li’s restaurant, then summoned the company’s staff to question them about intruders.
• The head of security reported that a dozen or so masked attackers with eerie abilities, including three Soul Douluos, had infiltrated the company and escaped.
• Uncle Song said the missing people had been taken toward Aolai City and described a dangerous, chilling presence spreading across Eastsea City’s outskirts.
• Yu Longyue and Wu Changkong concluded the Holy Spirit Cult had targeted the company’s technology and data while luring Yu Longyue to Eastsea City to kill him.
• Yu Longyue identified the secretary as the mole, but the secretary’s head exploded before he could finish pleading, and his soul laughed as it acknowledged Yu Longyue’s discovery.