Chapter Summaries

After two months of cultivation, Jiang Ming grew frustrated with his slow progress and took a walk with Zhang Lexuan, where he proposed turning Sea God Lake into a lively habitat for Soul Beasts. They arrived at the Outer Court's Freshman Assessment, where Jiang Ming reunited with Zhou Yi and saw Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao preparing to battle.

• Zhou Yi heard Huo Yuhao and the others recount their experiences and ordered them to run a hundred laps.
• Jiang Ming spent two months cultivating, gained one Soul Power rank, and complained to Zhang Lexuan about his slow progress.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan walked beside Sea God Lake, where Jiang Ming proposed adding plants and raising aquatic Soul Beasts.
• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan visited the Freshman Assessment, and Jiang Ming greeted Zhou Yi.
• Zhou Yi congratulated Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan on their relationship, then bonded with Zhang Lexuan while Jiang Ming worried about their newfound friendship.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao prepared to compete as a three-person team in an assessment battle.

Huo Yuhao's team advanced through the Freshman Assessment to face Dai Huabin's team in the finals. Jiang Ming bet Du Weilun that Huo Yuhao's team would win, staking a Spirit Bone against ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao defeated their first opponents in under thirty seconds with a coordinated chain of attacks.
• Zhou Yi revealed that Huo Yuhao was her class monitor and that she had introduced him to Fan Yu as a potential Soul Tool disciple.
• Huo Yuhao's team advanced through the assessment, overcoming stronger teams with unexpected tactics to reach the finals against Dai Huabin's team.
• Jiang Ming offered Du Weilun a bet that Huo Yuhao's team would win, wagering a Spirit Bone against ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, but Du Weilun refused.

Jiang Ming teased Du Weilun with a wager, then flustered Zhang Lexuan by planning their future children and embracing her. As the Freshman Assessment final began, Huo Yuhao’s team faced Dai Huabin’s team, which endured Xiaoxiao’s opening attack and charged forward.

• Jiang Ming tried to persuade Du Weilun to wager Gold Soul Coins against his Spirit Bone, but Du Weilun refused.
• Jiang Ming told Zhang Lexuan he was planning for their future family, and she blushed and nodded as he embraced her.
• Zhou Yi and Mu Jin made another wager over the Freshman Assessment final, with Mu Jin backing Dai Huabin’s team and Zhou Yi trusting Huo Yuhao’s hidden trump card.
• The referee started the final, and Huo Yuhao vowed to defeat Dai Huabin’s team with his companions.
• Xiaoxiao used the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, but Dai Huabin’s team endured its stun and charged toward Huo Yuhao.

Huo Yuhao’s team tried to prevent Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu from using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill by having Huo Yuhao hold Dai Huabin back while Wang Dong targeted Zhu Lu. The clash left Cui Yajie and Xiaoxiao eliminated, while the fight between the remaining Soul Masters continued.

• Huo Yuhao’s team planned to restrain Dai Huabin and have Wang Dong eliminate Zhu Lu before they could use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huo Yuhao struck Zhu Lu with Spiritual Shock, and Wang Dong used Butterfly God’s Light and Wing Guillotine to attack her.
• Dai Huabin drove Wang Dong back with White Tiger Fierce Light Wave and attacked Huo Yuhao, who evaded with Xiaoxiao’s help.
• Xiaoxiao stunned Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie with the Three Lives Soul Suppressing Cauldron, giving Wang Dong a chance to dive at Zhu Lu.
• Cui Yajie charmed Wang Dong briefly, but Wang Dong eliminated Cui Yajie before Zhu Lu knocked the exhausted Xiaoxiao out of the arena.

As Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu gained the upper hand, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong revealed that they also possessed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The two fusion attacks were about to collide when Jiang Ming and Du Weilun intervened.

• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu struggled to hit Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong as Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade them.
• Zhu Lu urged Dai Huabin to end the fight, and they unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Hell White Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong began their own Martial Soul Fusion while Huo Yuhao hit Zhu Lu with another Spiritual Shock, destabilizing the Hell White Tiger.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong launched Withering Amid Brilliance, Golden Road toward the Hell White Tiger.
• Jiang Ming and Du Weilun rushed to intervene, and Jiang Ming reached the space between the two fusion attacks first.

Jiang Ming declared Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s team the winners after their Golden Road overcame Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger. He explained that Zhu Lu’s condition and Dai Huabin’s failure to protect his partner had weakened their fusion skill, then congratulated the winners and gave them milk tea while reminding Huo Yuhao to repay his Hell Week fee.

• Jiang Ming withstood both Martial Soul Fusion Skills and announced Huo Yuhao’s team as the Freshman Assessment winners.
• Mu Jin protested the result, but Zhou Yi pointed out that Zhu Lu’s condition had weakened the Hell White Tiger and reminded Mu Jin about their wager.
• Dai Huabin challenged the verdict, and Jiang Ming explained that his lack of coordination with Zhu Lu had cost them the match.
• Jiang Ming soothed Zhu Lu’s damaged mental energy and advised her and Dai Huabin to learn from their loss.
• Jiang Ming congratulated Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and their teammate, then rewarded them with milk tea containing Water of Life.
• Jiang Ming reminded Huo Yuhao to repay the one hundred Gold Soul Coins for Hell Week, and Wang Dong chased him after splashing milk tea.

After Huo Yuhao’s team won the Freshman Assessment, Jiang Ming learned that Zhou Yi’s wager with Mu Jin had earned them a Secret Method Soul Bone. He then visited the Soul Tool Department, where Fan Yu and the other Soul Engineers presented him with the newly completed Peak Rank 8 Close-Combat Soul Tool, the Sky-Piercing Spear.

• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiaoxiao celebrated their unexpected Freshman Assessment victory, which Jiang Ming attributed partly to their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhou Yi explained that her wager with Mu Jin had earned a Secret Method Soul Bone, and she told Jiang Ming that his Close-Combat Soul Tool was nearly complete.
• Jiang Ming hurried with Sister Lexuan to the Soul Tool Department’s Top Secret Laboratory Number Three, where Soul Engineers showed him the Sky-Piercing Spear.
• Qian Duoduo explained that the Sky-Piercing Spear used Rank 9 materials but had been crafted as a Peak Rank 8 Soul Tool.
• Jiang Ming grasped the Sky-Piercing Spear and subdued its violent struggle with his blood and vitality, while the assembled Soul Engineers watched approvingly.

Jiang Ming thanked the Soul Engineers who had forged his Peak Rank 8 Sky-Piercing Spear, and the department’s elders expressed their hopes for its future. After rewarding them with restorative drinks and treatment, he tested the spear at Sea God Lake, where its first attack pierced the clouds.

• Jiang Ming bowed to the twelve Soul Masters who had spent ten months forging his Close-Combat Soul Tool, and they encouraged him to carry the Soul Tool Department forward.
• Qian Duoduo reassured the elders that he and Fan Yu might reach Rank 9 first, while the group discussed the department’s generations and Jiang Ming’s exceptional promise.
• Jiang Ming gave the Soul Engineers milk tea and Water of Life, then used the Power of Heaven-Piercing to clear their meridians and restore their vigor.
• Jiang Ming went to Sea God Lake and resonated with the Sky-Piercing Spear before leaping into the sky.
• Jiang Ming shouted “Cloud-Piercing” and sent a golden attack through the clouds thousands of meters above, creating a powerful soul-power fluctuation across Shrek Academy.

Jiang Ming completed a Rank 7 Invincible Shield and received letters from Clear Water City, prompting him and Zhang Lexuan to plan a visit home. The chapter left them preparing to return and see Old Nie and Aunt Lan.

• Jiang Ming spent three months crafting Rank 7 Soul Tools and urged Shrek's Seven Devils to prepare for future crises.
• Jiang Ming completed a Rank 7 Invincible Shield to replace Zhang Lexuan's destroyed Silver Moon Guard.
• Yan Shaozhe gave Jiang Ming letters from Clear Water City, one for him and one for Zhang Lexuan.
• Jiang Ming read that Old Nie and Aunt Lan had written about Clear Water City's development and asked him to visit.
• Zhang Lexuan said she would return with Jiang Ming to visit Uncle Nie and Aunt Lan.

Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan took leave from the academy and headed back to Clear Water City, where Old Nie had transformed the city’s defenses and its approach to small Beast Tides. The chapter ended with the city celebrating its new prosperity at a lively bonfire party.

• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan requested several months of leave and set off for Clear Water City so Jiang Ming could spend time with Old Nie and Aunt Lan.
• Old Nie directed Clear Water City’s guards to repel a small Beast Tide with Soul Tools and capture suitable Soul Beasts for children seeking Soul Rings.
• A Soul King stopped a Snow Bear from attacking the city wall, while Clear Water City’s strengthened defenses drove the remaining beasts away or captured them.
• The children absorbed their new Soul Rings under Old Nie’s protection, and he arranged for the captured Soul Beasts to be served at a citywide barbecue.
• Clear Water City’s residents and visitors gathered around a bonfire to dance, drink hot milk tea, and eat roasted meat.

Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan returned to Clear Water City and saw how much it had changed during his absence. Aunt Lan welcomed Zhang Lexuan warmly while brushing past Jiang Ming, and dinner left him suspecting that his place in the family had slipped again.

• Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan reached Clear Water City and found its walls, roads, and shops transformed since he had left.
• Jiang Ming bought grilled skewers and fruit milk tea for Zhang Lexuan as they strolled through the city.
• Jiang Ming greeted Aunt Lan at the City Lord's Mansion, but she embraced Zhang Lexuan and sent him to find Old Nie.
• At dinner, Aunt Lan and Old Nie filled Zhang Lexuan's bowl while leaving Jiang Ming's empty.

Jiang Ming returned home and learned that his family wanted him and Zhang Lexuan to marry, leaving him to reconsider his future goals. He added making Sister Lexuan happy and seeking godhood to his plans, while major changes unfolded within the Book of Spirits.

• Aunt Lan and Old Nie teased Jiang Ming at dinner before Aunt Lan welcomed his plan to stay for three or four months.
• Aunt Lan proposed arranging a wedding for Jiang Ming and Zhang Lexuan, and Old Nie challenged Jiang Ming when he hesitated.
• Zhang Lexuan eased the tension by suggesting they take their time, then spent the night talking with Aunt Lan while Jiang Ming lay awake.
• Jiang Ming reviewed his goals, added making Sister Lexuan happy, and wrote that he would seek eternity by becoming a god.
• Tremendous changes occurred within the Book of Spirits as Jiang Ming contemplated his future.

Jiang Ming entered the Book of Spirits to witness its Spirits construct the Book of Spirits' Martial Soul Avatar. As the elements formed land, weather, a sun, and a moon, Little Spirit began spreading a green halo across the world.

• Jiang Ming sensed changes within the Book of Spirits and waited three hours until Little Light invited him inside to watch the Martial Soul Avatar take shape.
• Jiang Ming entered a chaotic space in the Book of Spirits, where Little Light prepared the Spirits to begin their construction.
• Little Yellow, Little Lotus, Little Wind, and Little Ice combined their powers to create an expanding land and settle its wind and temperature.
• Little Light and the black pillar of light formed a sun and a crescent moon, bringing balanced light to the world.
• Little Spirit vanished from its pillar and spread a green halo across the land.

Jiang Ming witnessed the seven Spirits use their Martial Soul Avatar to create a living world and named it Our World. The Spirits revealed its powerful abilities and limitations, leaving Jiang Ming stunned by its potential.

• The seven Spirits created a world of light, darkness, natural elements, and plant life after Jiang Ming reached Seven Rings.
• Little Light explained that the Spirits’ abilities had combined to form a world, and Jiang Ming named the Martial Soul Avatar Our World.
• Little Light and Little Dark said Jiang Ming could bring others into the world, though its unstable rules made it dangerous for Soul Masters below Soul King.
• Little Ice and Little Lotus explained that the Spirits could strip attribute powers from enemies brought into the world, but not from opponents as powerful as Jiang Ming’s teacher or Di Tian.
• Little Yellow said the Spirits could control matter, help create Soul Tools, and produce materials by consuming Jiang Ming’s Soul Power.
• Little Yellow added that with enough Heaven and Earth Yuan Power and a seed, the Spirits could grow batches of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, leaving Jiang Ming stunned.

After awakening the Book of Spirits’ Martial Soul Avatar, Jiang Ming learned that he carried an entire world and spent the night exploring its powers. He later began populating Our World with creatures from the Far North, then set out to visit the Ice Jade Scorpion that had once defeated him.

• Jiang Ming discovered that Our World consumed his Soul Power, exhausted himself experimenting with it, and slept through the morning while Old Nie, Aunt Lan, and Zhang Lexuan went about their day.
• Jiang Ming and Old Nie drank too much at a bonfire gathering, and Zhang Lexuan heard Jiang Ming drunkenly say that he wanted to marry her before he woke with a handprint on his cheek.
• Jiang Ming traveled to the Far North to collect Soul Beasts and wild animals, and Little Spirit healed the first creature he brought into Our World, a wounded Snowfield Rabbit.
• Jiang Ming gathered thousands of creatures from dozens of species, filling Our World’s glacier with life, then agreed to visit the Ice Jade Scorpion that had beaten him before.

Jiang Ming entered the Far North’s inner region to collect Soul Beasts and encountered a Qianling Academy team hunting a Snowfield Giant Bear. After rescuing An Lengye, he left with the bear’s corpse, while the team mistook him for a Rank Eight Soul Douluo.

• Jiang Ming and the Spirits agreed to settle their old grudge against the Ice Jade Scorpion as he traveled toward the Far North’s inner region.
• Jiang Ming collected numerous fleeing Soul Beasts, then investigated a battle behind a glacier and found Wang Yuan, An Lengye, and Bai Chen fighting a Snowfield Giant Bear.
• The wounded Snowfield Giant Bear suddenly burst with power and charged An Lengye, but Jiang Ming stopped its jaws and slapped it away after it sprayed saliva on him.
• Jiang Ming urged An Lengye to finish off the bear and absorb its Soul Ring, then stored the corpse and continued toward the inner region.
• Wang Yuan concluded that Jiang Ming was at least a Rank Eight Soul Douluo, while An Lengye doubted his explanation that Jiang Ming only looked young because of his Martial Soul.

Jiang Ming captured the Ice Jade Scorpion that had defeated him years earlier and fled the Far North’s inner region. The Ice Empress caught up with him, confronting him with a bone-deep cold as he tried to escape.

• Little Yellow asked why Jiang Ming had used a fake name, and Jiang Ming told him not to reveal personal information to strangers.
• Jiang Ming followed Little Ice to the jade-green ice cave where the Ice Jade Scorpion was hiding.
• Little Ice froze the Ice Jade Scorpion and carried it into Our World while Jiang Ming hurried away from the Far North’s inner region.
• Jiang Ming told Little Light, Little Dark, and Little Ice to beat the captured Scorpion while he continued relocating Soul Beasts.
• The Ice Empress appeared behind Jiang Ming and demanded to know how he could capture one of her kin and leave.

Jiang Ming confronted Ice Empress and learned that her Extreme Ice could overwhelm even Titled Douluo. Unable to escape, he fused with three Spirits and charged at her as she unleashed her domain.

• Ice Empress caught up with Jiang Ming and challenged him to prove his courage.
• Jiang Ming stacked his enhancement skills and fused with Little Ice, Little Lotus, and Little Spirit to withstand Ice Empress's Extreme Ice.
• Little Ice and Little Prison warned Jiang Ming that they could not defeat Ice Empress, while Rongrong regretted leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Jiang Ming refused to give up and charged at Ice Empress with the Sky-Piercing Spear and Wind Thunder Wings.
• Ice Empress praised Jiang Ming's courage and activated her Eternal Frost Domain.

Jiang Ming battled the Ice Empress across the Far North, using his domains and fusing with multiple Spirits to withstand her overwhelming power. With his body close to collapse and one strike left, he called on Little Light and Little Dark to unleash their strongest attacks.

• The Ice Empress froze Jiang Ming with her Eternal Frost Domain, but he broke free using his Extreme Fire, bloodline power, and defensive skills.
• Jiang Ming summoned Golden Armored Warriors and combined them with golden lightning to send Three Thousand Thunder Generals against the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress countered with Ice Emperor's Protection and Ice Emperor's Wrath as Jiang Ming released Little Lotus and fused with Little Yellow, Little Light, and Little Dark.
• Jiang Ming's body neared collapse under the strain of five Spirit fusions, leaving him with strength for only one strike.
• Jiang Ming called on Little Light and Little Dark to unleash Brilliant Sun: Divine Path of Heaven and Evolving Moon: Netherworld Banishment.

Jiang Ming unleashed a final spear attack against Ice Empress, breaking through her Ice Emperor’s Protection before she stopped the strike with her pincers. He used a Golden Tornado and Wind Domain to blast her away, then escaped with Little Wind as his power ran out and his body began to collapse.

• Jiang Ming’s Light and Darkness power clashed with Ice Empress’s Extreme Cold Power, and he began to freeze as his strength faltered.
• Little Prison, Rongrong, and the Spirits urged Jiang Ming not to give up, and a golden light from his Sea of Consciousness revived his resolve.
• Jiang Ming fused his weapons into a spear and unleashed his final strike, breaking Ice Emperor’s Protection and piercing Ice Empress’s brow.
• Ice Empress stopped the spear with Ice Emperor’s Pincers, so Jiang Ming switched to Little Wind and used Golden Tornado and Wind Domain to blast her away.
• Jiang Ming had Little Wind carry him from the battlefield as his Soul Power ran out and his body began to collapse.