Chapter Summaries

Ye Qingchen began studying Soul Tools under Xuan Ziwen at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and met Ju Zi in the laboratory. When Ju Zi’s three fellow students challenged his right to be there, Ye Qingchen revealed his power and beat Wang Shaojie, warning the others not to provoke him.

• Lin Jiayi explained the Shrek students’ study arrangements and the rules for visiting Mingde Hall and leaving the academy.
• Ye Qingchen deliberately chose Xuan Ziwen as his teacher, impressed him with his ideas about civilian Soul Tools, and met Ju Zi in the laboratory.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Ye Qingchen free access to the laboratory, where Ye Qingchen began modifying the Azure Wave Realm and experimenting with simplifying Milk Bottle Core Arrays.
• After three days of instruction, Ju Zi arrived at the laboratory with three other students, and the petite girl challenged Ye Qingchen’s right to use it.
• Ye Qingchen revealed six red Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, subdued the four students with his power, and beat Wang Shaojie before warning the others to leave him alone.

After defeating Ju Zi and her classmates in the laboratory, Ye Qingchen was assigned to test new Soul Tools with Ju Zi and Ke Ke in the Jingyang Mountain Range. The trio flew north and stopped for a meal on the way, with the journey still underway.

• Ye Qingchen subdued Ju Zi and three other Soul Tool Masters, and Xuan Ziwen intervened before the conflict could escalate.
• Xuan Ziwen told Ye Qingchen that Wang Shaojie was an imperial noble, then arranged for Ye Qingchen, Ju Zi, and Ke Ke to test new Soul Tools outside the academy for half a month.
• Ju Zi led Ke Ke and Ye Qingchen toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, while Ye Qingchen flew on a Soul Tool shaped like a longsword.
• Ju Zi explained that the mountain range lay more than a thousand li away and covered a vast, mineral-rich area.
• Ju Zi prepared a barbecue meal during a rest stop, and Ye Qingchen and Ke Ke ate before the group resumed its journey.

Ye Qingchen joined Ju Zi and Ke Ke in testing the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool in the Jingyang Mountain Range, where he displayed his extraordinary control and power. After returning, they learned that He Caitou and Teacher Fan Yu had entered Mingde Hall to study and cultivate.

• Ju Zi led Ye Qingchen and Ke Ke to the Jingyang Mountain Range to test the All-Terrain Detection Soul Tool.
• Ye Qingchen quickly mastered the soul tool's controls, impressing Ju Zi and Ke Ke with his skill.
• Ye Qingchen emerged from the soul tool and teleported an attacking Silver Wolf away with his power.
• After several days of travel, Ju Zi told Ye Qingchen that she hoped they would not meet on a battlefield, and he said he would take neither side in a war.
• After the group returned, Ye Qingchen learned that He Caitou and Teacher Fan Yu had entered Mingde Hall to study and cultivate.

Ye Qingchen let the Royal Enforcement Squad arrest and torture him, prompting Jing Hongchen to intervene and apologize for the academy’s failure to protect him. After Ye Qingchen was granted direct access to Mingde Hall, he learned that Ju Zi had withdrawn from the academy.

• Wang Shaojie accused Ye Qingchen of assaulting a royal family member, and the Royal Enforcement Squad arrested him outside the academy.
• Xu Mocheng’s men took Ye Qingchen to their offices and tortured him, but Ye Qingchen faked his injuries as Jing Hongchen arrived with Lin Jiayi.
• Crown Prince Xu Tianran ordered Shadow Douluo Xue Chen to kill the officers who had tortured Ye Qingchen, and Jing Hongchen then took Ye Qingchen back to the academy.
• Fan Yu objected to the academy’s treatment of Ye Qingchen, and Jing Hongchen ordered Wang Shaojie expelled.
• Jing Hongchen apologized to Ye Qingchen and waived his assessment, promising that Xuan Ziwen would take him to study at Mingde Hall after he recovered.
• Ke Ke told Ye Qingchen the next day that Ju Zi had withdrawn from the academy.

Ye Qingchen inspected Experiment No. 1 during the Body Sect’s attack on Mingde Hall, then escaped suspicion during an academy inspection. Jing Hongchen recruited him to lead a three-day sparring event against the academy’s soul tool masters, and many students registered to challenge him.

• Ye Qingchen entered Mingde Hall and was assigned experiment table 1143 by Xuan Ziwen.
• The Body Sect attacked Mingde Hall, and Ye Qingchen searched for and recorded Experiment No. 1, a giant metal construct containing thousands of Core Arrays, before taking valuable items and leaving.
• During an academy inspection, Lin Jiayi found the Red Dust Shelter among Ye Qingchen’s belongings, and Jing Hongchen explained that he had given it to Mu En.
• Jing Hongchen invited Ye Qingchen to lead a sparring event against the academy’s soul tool masters, and Ye Qingchen agreed in exchange for rare metals for each victory.
• The academy announced a three-day event with rewards for anyone who defeated Ye Qingchen, and many students registered to compete.

Ye Qingchen faced the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s Soul Tool Masters in a public sparring exchange and overwhelmed every opponent. By midday, he had won twenty consecutive matches, leaving Jing Hongchen and the academy’s students stunned.

• The Shrek Academy students entered with provocative banners, and Ye Qingchen defeated Xia Xuanchen in seconds by catching his attack and destroying his Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen silenced the angry spectators and ordered the exchange to continue; Ye Qingchen evaded Wan Yijun’s attacks, pulled him from the air, and threw him out of the arena.
• Nana used her blade, ghostly abilities, and Soul Skills against Ye Qingchen, but he countered her techniques until she surrendered.
• Ye Qingchen won twenty matches in a row before the midday break and joked that the rare metals were coming quickly, though he was taking them from a formidable opponent.

Ye Qingchen returned Nana’s soul and learned that the Holy Spirit Cult had tormented her family, then promised to deal with the cult. At the exchange matches, he defeated Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen before ending the contest.

• Nana confronted Ye Qingchen about controlling her body, and he returned the part of her soul he had intercepted.
• Nana told Ye Qingchen about her suffering and begged him to rescue her parents’ souls; he promised to handle the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Ye Qingchen used Instant Teleportation and Dragon God Claw to break Jing Ziyan’s invincible barrier and defeat her.
• Ji Juechen challenged Ye Qingchen to a weapon-only duel, and their spear-and-sword collision left Ji Juechen defeated and injured.
• Ye Qingchen told Lin Jiayi and Xuan Ziwen to end the exchange match, saying the remaining opponents were not formidable enough.

Ye Qingchen and Nana infiltrated and destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult branch, freeing the imprisoned souls and earning an enhancement. Months later, Ye Qingchen tried to recruit Xuan Ziwen to his sect by showing him advanced Soul Tool designs, leaving Xuan Ziwen to consider the offer.

• Nana entered a hidden Holy Spirit Cult branch while Ye Qingchen remained concealed in a separate space.
• Second Holy Spirit exposed Nana and attacked, so Ye Qingchen and Nana fought the Holy Spirits and their summoned skeletons.
• Ye Qingchen used Heaven's Condemnation Power and Holy Light Descends to defeat the cultists and free the Resentful Spirits and imprisoned souls.
• Ye Qingchen instructed the survivors to destroy the branch, and Cold Sect later confirmed that Nana and the others had arrived safely.
• During vacation, Ye Qingchen showed Xuan Ziwen advanced Soul Tool designs and invited him to join his sect.
• Xuan Ziwen asked for time to decide, and Ye Qingchen gave him a letter with a place to go if he accepted.

Ye Qingchen completed the exchange program with Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and returned to Shrek, where he began planning a forging-based solution to the Battle Armor problem. He left the chapter watching the Sea God's Fate event begin, with Zhang Lexuan and Bei Bei appearing before the assembled students.

• Ye Qingchen struck a deal with Jing Hongchen to buy rare metals from Mingde Hall at above-market prices.
• At the farewell ceremony, Xu Tianran arrived, and the Shrek and Sun Moon students exchanged places in Maple Leaf City before Yan Shaozhe welcomed the returning students home.
• On entering Shrek City, Ye Qingchen caught a girl's scarf and recognized the veiled woman, then reunited with his friends at the academy.
• Ye Qingchen decided to pursue forging as a way to overcome the Battle Armor problem and adjusted the Cold Sect's Forging Hall facilities.
• At the Sea God's Fate event, eighteen veiled girls appeared on the lake, followed by Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan.

Shrek’s Sea God's Fate matchmaking event began with the male students competing to claim positions and remove the female students’ bamboo hats. After the first stage, thirty-six participants remained, with the number of hats removed determining the order for the next stage.

• Bei Bei explained the event’s rules and started the competition as forty pillars of light rose from Sea God Lake.
• Xu Sanshi used his spatial ability to take another student’s position, while Huo Yuhao and He Caitou claimed places in the first row.
• Ye Qingchen removed Ling Luochen and Han Ruoruo’s bamboo hats with a casual wave.
• Xu Sanshi reached Jiang Nannan on his shield, endured her kick, and snatched her bamboo hat before returning to his position.
• He Caitou startled the crowd with a Level 7 Soul Cannon, then used a feint and beams of light to remove several bamboo hats.
• Huo Yuhao removed the hats of Ma Xiaotao, Wu Feng, and Ning Tian, and the first stage ended with thirty-six participants remaining.

The Sea God Fairies eliminated male students in the Love at First Sight round, then watched the remaining boys introduce themselves and make final choices in Love at Second Sight. Ye Qingchen impressed the gathering with his abilities, He Caitou confessed to Xiao Xiao, and Xu Sanshi left the event after Jiang Nannan rejected him.

• Huo Yuhao received fifteen lights, He Caitou received two from Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao, Ye Qingchen received lights from nearly every girl, and Xu Sanshi lost Jiang Nannan’s light, while Xie Huanyue was eliminated.
• Zhang Lexuan announced the Love at Second Sight rules, and the remaining students drew lots to determine the order of their introductions.
• Ye Qingchen introduced himself as a rank seventy Soul Saint and seventh-rank soul engineer, demonstrated his elemental and combat abilities, and withstood He Caitou’s seventh-rank Soul Tool shell.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself as a rank fifty-nine control-type Battle Soul King, and He Caitou confessed his feelings to Xiao Xiao and chose her.
• Jiang Nannan coldly rejected Xu Sanshi, who fell into Sea God Lake and left the matchmaking event.

During the Sea God's Fate matchmaking event, Ye Qingchen was chosen by four women before choosing the disguised Wang Dong'er. When several challengers tried to steal the bride, Ye Qingchen revealed his Limit Douluo strength, reunited with Wang Dong'er, and left with her.

• A silent female student chose Ye Qingchen, and he invited her onto his ice floe.
• Xiao Xiao chose He Caitou, Ning Tian chose Ye Qingchen, Wu Ming chose Chu Qingtian, and Han Ruoruo accepted Wang Yan's confession.
• Ling Luochen, Ma Xiaotao, Ning Tian, and Girl Number Two all sought Ye Qingchen, who chose Girl Number Two; Ling Luochen and Ning Tian issued challenges.
• Dai Huabin also challenged for Girl Number Two, and Ye Qingchen broke his first seal, revealing Limit Douluo-level power.
• Ye Qingchen recognized Girl Number Two as Wang Dong'er, took her hand, and left the event with her.

After confessing his recovered memories to Wang Dong'er, Ye Qingchen joined the Sea God Pavilion Meeting and revealed that his apparent soul rings came from bloodline powers rather than soul beasts. He offered the academy his bloodline research methods, and the Venerable Elders unanimously named him the next-generation heir to the Sea God Pavilion Master position.

• Ye Qingchen told Wang Dong'er that the Ice Empress and Snow Empress had raised him, and Wang Dong'er accepted his explanation and said she had decided to stay with him.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Ye Qingchen to the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, where Xuan Zi welcomed him as Shrek Academy's youngest member and first Limit Douluo.
• Ye Qingchen revealed that his soul rings were fake and explained how soul-beast bloodlines could grant martial soul abilities without killing the beasts.
• Xuan Zi designated the bloodline research a red-level academy secret and ordered Yan Shaozhe to cooperate with Ye Qingchen on cautious trials.
• Ye Qingchen supported Zhang Lexuan's proposal to seek reconciliation with the Star Dou Great Forest and offered to contribute his bloodline awakening and extraction methods.
• Xuan Zi appointed Ye Qingchen the next-generation heir to the Sea God Pavilion Master position, and the Venerable Elders approved the decision unanimously.

Ye Qingchen helped Ye Qingqiu enroll after discovering her rare Golden Dragon martial soul, then joined an expedition to the Star Dou Great Forest with Wang Dong'er and a team of inner courtyard students. The group reached the forest and prepared to enter, with Ye Qingchen watching Ye Qingqiu closely.

• Wang Dong'er brought Ye Qingchen food, and they visited the registration office, where Ye Qingqiu revealed her face and Ye Qingchen approved her enrollment as his friend.
• Ye Qingchen explained Ye Qingqiu's Golden Dragon martial soul, then recorded a method for extracting and fusing bloodlines and submitted it to Xuan Zi for safekeeping.
• Wang Dong'er urged Ye Qingchen to watch Ye Qingqiu and accompany the upcoming soul beast hunt, and Cai Meier referred their request to Elder Xuan.
• Sea God Pavilion approved their participation, and Ye Qingchen became overall commander alongside Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo.
• The team introduced themselves, received Zhang Lexuan's formation assignments, and traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Zhang Lexuan ordered the group to rest and eat before entering the forest in half an hour.

Ye Qingchen tested his bloodline-extraction method on Mo Xuan while the group traveled deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. After Blood Red Baboons attacked their campsite, Ye Qingqiu began absorbing the fifty-thousand-year Baboon King's soul ring through her Golden Dragon martial soul.

• Ye Qingchen grilled fish for the group before Zhang Lexuan led them into the mixed region of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Qingchen extracted an Azure Sea Spirit Ape bloodline and transferred it to Mo Xuan, who absorbed it and completed his sixth soul ring.
• Zhang Lexuan halted the group for the night, and Ye Qingchen questioned Ye Qingqiu about leaving the Star Dou Great Forest before a horde of Blood Red Baboons approached.
• Zhang Lexuan organized the group to fight as the Baboon King empowered the horde with Group Berserk.
• Ye Qingqiu defeated a ten-thousand-year Blood Red Baboon, while Ye Qingchen teleported the other attackers away and froze the Baboon King.
• Ye Qingqiu shattered the Baboon King's ice prison and let her Golden Dragon devour its fifty-thousand-year soul ring.

Ye Qingchen protected the Shrek Academy group from three Holy Spirit Cult elders, then traveled with Wang Dong'er to the Clear Sky Sect to learn forging. There, he faced scrutiny from Wang Dong'er's fathers, who recognized the extraordinary sealed power and familiar aura within him.

• Ye Qingqiu completed absorbing her fifty-thousand-year soul ring, and the group continued through the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Qingchen revealed his nine blood-red soul rings and killed three Holy Spirit Cult elders with Space Strangulation.
• The group encountered an Earthshaking Roar, helped Li Yongyue absorb its bloodline, and left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ye Qingchen told Wang Dong'er he wanted to visit the Clear Sky Sect to learn forging, and they traveled there together.
• Er Ming tested Ye Qingchen with aura and spiritual pressure, but Ye Qingchen withstood him and entered Haotian Fortress with Wang Dong'er.
• Wang Dong'er confronted her fathers about their test, and they discussed Ye Qingchen's Limit Douluo cultivation, sealed power, and familiar aura.

Ye Qingchen earned Niu Tian and Titan’s support for his plan to overturn the God Realm, learned the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, and began forging extraordinary metal at Shrek Academy. As he prepared to face future dangers, Wang Dong'er promised to stand with him and kissed him.

• Niu Tian and Titan questioned Ye Qingchen about his identity and his connection to the Silver Dragon King, and Ye Qingchen admitted that his backstory was fabricated but that he had once been a creature of the Far North.
• Ye Qingchen accused Tang San of scheming against his daughter and the soul beast race, then declared his intention to overturn the God Realm; Niu Tian and Titan agreed to help him.
• Titan taught Ye Qingchen the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique, and Niu Tian and Titan gave him fragments of their divine souls before he returned to Shrek Academy.
• Ye Qingchen used a single hammer strike to forge ordinary iron into living, spirit-refined metal, then persuaded the system to provide rare materials for his future forging.
• Wang Dong'er asked Ye Qingchen what he was trying to accomplish, and he said he wanted to protect his loved ones and eliminate hidden dangers.
• Wang Dong'er promised to face whatever came with Ye Qingchen and kissed him by Sea God Lake.

Ye Qingchen led the Cold Sect’s preparations for the expanded Continental Youth Soul Master Tournament and welcomed Xuan Ziwen as head of its Soul Tool Hall. With the sect’s research and training operations growing, the story left Ye Qingchen balancing its development against mounting expenses.

• Xuan Zi proposed including sects in the tournament, and Ye Qingchen said the change would likely pass and Shrek’s team should compete as Shrek Academy students.
• Ye Qingchen approved a team led by himself and Zhang Lexuan, with Huo Yuhao and the others joined by Ye Qingqiu, Dai Huabin, and reserve members.
• Xuan Ziwen joined the Cold Sect, took charge of the Soul Tool Hall, and explained that he had left Mingde Hall to avoid politics and the Sun Moon Empire’s growing war ambitions.
• Ye Qingchen promised Xuan Ziwen freedom to pursue research and said he would remove whatever obstructed his own development.
• Jing Ziyan fought Xu Sanshi before Ji Juechen challenged Bei Bei, while Ye Qingchen took Wang Dong'er back to rest after she rejected his suggestion to sleep together.
• Xuan Ziwen improved the Soul Tool Hall and planned to combine sealed Milk Bottles with Soul Cannons, but the purchases he needed left Ye Qingchen worried about the Cold Sect’s rising costs.

Ye Qingchen took Ye Qingqiu to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where he revealed his Dragon God aura and entered the space beneath the spring. He revived the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings in God King-level bodies and prepared to move the well into his Small World.

• Ye Qingchen left Shrek Academy with Ye Qingqiu, while Wang Dong'er and the others discovered they were missing and began searching for them.
• Ye Qingchen carried Ye Qingqiu through the Bi Lin Seven Absolute Flowers and reached the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
• Ye Qingchen revealed his Dragon God aura to the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Product and went beneath the spring to find the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.
• The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings' souls entered Ye Qingchen's sea of souls and gave him energy, which the system converted into Enhancement Points.
• Ye Qingchen used the points to reach the God King realm, created bodies for the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, and sent them to cultivate in his Small World.

Ye Qingchen moved the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its plant-type soul beasts into the Azure Wave Realm, then returned to Shrek Academy, where Wang Dong'er recovered after collapsing from worry over his disappearance. At Cold Sect, preparations for the Soul Master Tournament advanced as the team strengthened with Immortal Herbs and began training with Shrek's reserve players.

• Ye Qingchen transported the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and its plant-type soul beasts to the Azure Wave Realm, then told Ye Qingqiu about his soul beast bloodline and gave her his Heart Protecting Scale.
• Wang Dong'er rushed to Ye Qingchen after he returned to Shrek Academy, fainted in his arms, and recovered under his care.
• Ye Qingchen and the others developed Cold Sect's underground Soul Tool factory with Xuan Ziwen, Shrek Academy's support, and Ye Qingchen's blueprints and forged metals.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen joined the group traveling to the competition, and Ye Qingchen distributed Immortal Herbs to the team.
• The Immortal Herbs raised the team's levels, helped Huo Yuhao break through to Soul Emperor, and gave him a hundred-thousand-year sixth soul ring that strengthened his earlier soul rings.
• Ye Qingchen's group practiced with Shrek's reserve team in preparation for the Soul Master Tournament.