Recaps

Xiang Bei organized Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department to build Virtual World satellites, then traded a Silent Sleeve Arrow for technology to create the Azure Luan Communicator, which combined communication with spatial teleportation. The communicator’s first test succeeded, while observers across the continent recognized the strategic and economic power behind Xiang Bei’s growing plans.

• Xiang Bei announced plans for a Virtual World city and assigned Shrek teachers and students to an assembly line producing Soul Tool Satellites.
• Xiang Bei gave Xiao Yu two drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow, then entered the Sky Screen to trade with a powerful woman.
• Xiang Bei exchanged a Silent Sleeve Arrow for communicators with energy storage and spatial teleportation, along with instructions for manufacturing them.
• Xiao Yu arranged materials for mass production, and Xiang Bei tested the communicator by sending a pebble through its spatial portal.
• Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong recognized the communicator’s potential to spread commands and expand control, while Yu Xiaogang boasted about the Virtual World in the chat.

Xiang Bei introduced the Azure Luan Communicators and prepared to expand the Virtual World from Shrek Academy, while Xue Qinghe warned that the technology could give its creator control over the continent. After Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen received communicators and showed their affection for Xiang Bei, he brought devices to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting to discuss the rollout.

• Xue Qinghe warned that communicators and the Virtual World could expose nations’ information, isolate them, and force them to trade resources and knowledge for virtual coins.
• Di Tian feared technology would leave Soul Beasts further behind, but Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena said she would act ten thousand years in the future.
• Xiang Bei completed a hundred Azure Luan Communicators and learned that Xian Lin'er’s team had built thirty satellites for Shrek Academy’s coverage.
• Xiang Bei gave communicators to Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen, who added his ID and kissed him before taking devices to distribute.
• Jiang Nannan delivered communicators to Shrek students, and Xu Sanshi grew jealous when he learned she had not brought his personally.
• Xiang Bei brought several Azure Luan Communicators to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting, where he became the first Sun Moon Empire student to attend shortly after arriving.

Xiang Bei proposed a partnership with Shrek Academy to expand the Virtual World and introduce the Azure Luan Communicator, and the academy approved it unanimously. Meanwhile, Golden Crocodile and Qian Daoliu watched the future on the Sky Screen and wondered why Spirit Hall had vanished, before Qian Daoliu expressed confidence in Xiao Xue.

• Xiang Bei introduced Xiao Yu and the Azure Luan Communicator, then outlined how Shrek could help expand the Virtual World.
• Xian Lin'er and Xuan Zi argued that cooperation would benefit Shrek, and the academy's nine voting members unanimously approved the partnership.
• Mu En assigned the cooperation details to Xiang Bei and Xian Lin'er, while Xiang Bei considered the influence and resources the Virtual World could bring him.
• Golden Crocodile counted the powerful figures in future Shrek, and Qian Daoliu dismissed them as unimpressive compared with Spirit Hall.
• Golden Crocodile asked why Spirit Hall had disappeared ten thousand years later, and Qian Daoliu said Xiao Xue would preserve it if she became the Angel God.

Xiang Bei oversaw the construction of rocket launch bases and satellite launches, then used a new Soul Tool and Millennium Whale Rubber to treat Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen’s sore legs. The chapter ended with Tian Meng asking Xiao Yu to teach him the technique so he could win Bingbing’s affection, and Xiao Yu pointing out that her armored body made it impractical.

• Xian Lin'er and the academy’s Soul Engineers built ten rocket launch bases in less than a week, and nearly a hundred satellites were placed in orbit.
• Xiang Bei designed a fascia knife Soul Tool and used it with Millennium Whale Rubber to relieve Meng Hongchen’s leg fatigue.
• Xiang Bei treated Jiang Nannan’s legs with the same method, and she gradually relaxed as the medicinal power eased her soreness.
• Tian Meng envied the treatment and begged Xiao Yu to teach him the technique for Bingbing, but Xiao Yu explained that her armor made it unworkable.

Xiang Bei left Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen to work while he entered the Virtual World to raise his Soul Ring ages and review its expansion. There, Xiao Yu updated him on the new currency system and Huo Yuhao’s activities at Mingde Hall.

• Xu Sanshi heard Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen inside Xiang Bei’s room, broke down outside, and awakened a green-shelled Xuanwu Martial Soul, but he still could not break through Xiang Bei’s Level 9 Soul Tool barrier.
• Xiang Bei sent Jiang Nannan and Meng Hongchen back to work, and Jiang Nannan arranged for Xu Sanshi to be taken to the infirmary.
• Shrek Academy’s students and teachers continued building factories, recovering rocket wreckage, producing Azure Luan Communicators, and establishing Virtual World nodes across the empires.
• Xiang Bei entered the expanded Virtual World and asked Xiao Yu to raise his Soul Ring ages to his body’s limit while reviewing the fees and Virtual Currency exchange rate.
• Xiao Yu told Xiang Bei that Huo Yuhao had stolen rare metals and a prototype Humanoid Soul Tool from Mingde Hall during Du Busi’s invasion, and Xiang Bei arranged for Huo Yuhao to receive two Azure Luan Communicators.
• Xiao Yu set the exchange rate at one Silver Soul Coin per Virtual Currency and estimated that resource exchanges could initially earn more than ten million Gold Soul Coins.