Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming fled deeper into the Far North after escaping Ice Empress, but ran into the Titan Snow Demon King and a group of Ice Jade Scorpions. The Ice Silkworm mimicked Ice Empress to help him escape, while Ice Empress pursued an unfamiliar beast aura.

• Jiang Ming told Little Wind to avoid Clear Water City and fly toward Ice Snow City, but the Titan Snow Demon King appeared and attacked them.
• Jiang Ming sent Little Prison to distract the Titan Snow Demon King while he escaped with Little Wind.
• Jiang Ming encountered Ice Jade Scorpions, and the Ice Silkworm mimicked Ice Empress to confuse them and help him get away.
• Ice Empress recovered from the Golden Tornado and hurried toward the unfamiliar beast aura, while Little Prison escaped the Titan Snow Demon King and followed Jiang Ming.
• Little Prison met the mimicking Ice Silkworm, which explained its disguise as they fled together.

After Ice Empress traced the Far North’s strange disturbances to Jiang Ming, she ordered the Soul Beasts to drive humans out, triggering a regional upheaval that killed many Soul Masters. Jiang Ming escaped the battle but collapsed far from the Far North, where an approaching team from Ice Snow City was about to find him.

• Ice Empress learned that Jiang Ming was behind the strange events and ordered the Ice Jade Scorpions to drive humans from the Far North for three months.
• The Ice Jade Scorpions rallied the Far North’s clans, which shifted territories and caused more than a hundred human Soul Masters to die.
• Wang Yuan escaped a Soul Beast upheaval with An Lengye and Bai Chen, then warned Clear Water City’s lord, Nie Heng.
• Zhang Lexuan reassured Aunt Lan that Jiang Ming could survive Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, while Nie Heng strengthened the city’s defenses.
• Jiang Ming told Little Wind to put him down after they reached warmer territory, then passed out before Little Prison and Ice Silkworm returned.
• A Soul Master team from Ice Snow City approached the unconscious Jiang Ming.

Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Teacher Ma searched the Far North for a Crimson Ice Toad so Meng Hongchen could obtain her fifth soul ring, then found the badly injured Jiang Ming. After Meng Hongchen secretly gave him a medicinal pill, Jiang Ming woke as the snowfield shook and the others fled.

• Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Teacher Ma searched the Far North boundary for a rare Crimson Ice Toad.
• Xiao Hongchen found a snow-covered person beside an iceberg, and Teacher Ma discovered that the barely breathing stranger was still alive.
• Teacher Ma led Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen away to continue their search, but Meng Hongchen secretly gave Jiang Ming a medicinal pill.
• The snowfield trembled, the three returned characters fled, and Jiang Ming slowly opened his eyes.

Jiang Ming rescued Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Teacher Ma from the Far North Beast Tide with the help of the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast, then carried them toward Ice Snow City despite his severe injuries. After the group woke, he learned their names and insulted Xiao Hongchen’s bald patches, leaving him furious.

• Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Teacher Ma fled the Beast Tide, but the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast’s lightning destroyed Teacher Ma’s Flying Soul Tool and knocked the siblings unconscious.
• Jiang Ming recalled the Wind-Thunder Prison Beast, hid its aura, and carried the three Sun Moon Empire travelers toward Ice Snow City while struggling with his injuries.
• Meng Hongchen woke first and made a fire, then Xiao Hongchen and Teacher Ma regained consciousness and learned Jiang Ming had brought them out of danger.
• Jiang Ming introduced himself as Ming Jiang, and Meng Hongchen gave him the names of her companions.
• Jiang Ming asked whether something was wrong with Xiao Hongchen’s head and called him “Baldy,” provoking Xiao Hongchen’s anger.

Jiang Ming traveled with Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Teacher Ma to Radiant City, where the city’s advanced Soul Tool infrastructure shocked him and made him fear war was approaching. He began recovering in a hotel while Jing Hongchen heard how the siblings had survived the Far North.

• Meng Hongchen peppered Jiang Ming with questions and shared his grilled beef, while Xiao Hongchen grew jealous and argued with him.
• Jiang Ming mailed a letter home from Ice Snow City, then traveled with the three Sun Moon Empire companions to Radiant City by Flying Soul Tool.
• Jiang Ming marveled at Radiant City’s vast high-rises and sensed Soul Power in its buildings, suspecting the entire city functioned as one enormous Soul Tool.
• Meng Hongchen arranged a luxurious hotel for Jiang Ming, then went with Xiao Hongchen and Teacher Ma to Bright Virtue Hall while Jiang Ming retreated to Our World to recover.
• Teacher Ma reported the Far North attack to Jing Hongchen, who dismissed his request for punishment after learning Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had returned safely.

Meng Hongchen helped Jiang Ming gain admission to Bright Virtue Hall, where Jing Hongchen recognized his talent despite his severe injuries and accepted him. Over the next three months, Jiang Ming audited classes and absorbed advanced Soul Tool knowledge, leaving him ready to attempt Rank 8 Soul Tools.

• Meng Hongchen brought Jiang Ming an admission notice, and he agreed to let Bright Virtue Hall test him after Xiao Hongchen urged him to accept.
• Jiang Ming crafted a Rank Four Soul Ray, revealed his injured six-ring Soul Emperor Martial Soul, and told Jing Hongchen he was a Rank Six Soul Engineer from the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Jing Hongchen accepted Jiang Ming into Bright Virtue Hall, while Xiao Hongchen questioned whether he could be trusted and Jing Hongchen ordered an investigation into his background.
• Jiang Ming entered Bright Virtue Hall and spent three months auditing classes, gaining enough knowledge to consider attempting a Rank 8 Soul Tool.

Shrek Academy’s team prepared for the tournament while Gongyang Mo struggled to break through to Soul Sage. During his vacation, Huo Yuhao traveled into the Far North with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and reached the deepest inner region, near its Core Area.

• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng led the team’s sparring, and Dai Yueheng revealed he had reached Level Seventy-One while Gongyang Mo remained stuck at Level Sixty-Nine.
• Xuan Zi tried to reassure Gongyang Mo, but Gongyang Mo returned to seclusion, determined to meet Jiang Ming’s goal before the tournament.
• Xuan Zi left to select the Reserve Team as the Outer Court freshmen began their vacation, worried about the advancement exams awaiting them afterward.
• Huo Yuhao slipped away from Shrek Academy and traveled north to Clear Water City, where he gathered supplies before entering the Far North.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealed Huo Yuhao from a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and the two continued onward, wary of the recent Soul Beast riot.
• Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reached the deepest inner region of the Far North, near the Core Area, while avoiding repeated encounters with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Huo Yuhao endured the Far North’s Core Area while Tian Meng used his spiritual power to challenge Ice Empress. Ice Empress, troubled by her approaching Four Hundred Thousand Year Tribulation and angry at Tian Meng’s provocation, came to confront him.

• Huo Yuhao struggled through the Core Area’s harsh weather until Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guided him in building an igloo and warming himself with a piece of its shed shell.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sent nine light spheres from Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness to form a human-shaped figure, and Huo Yuhao’s white Soul Ring began turning gold.
• Tian Meng’s Million-Year Soul Ring aura frightened the Soul Beasts across the icy plains, and Tian Meng called out Ice Empress to face him.
• Ice Empress reflected on her approaching Four Hundred Thousand Year Tribulation, her failed search for Snow Empress, and her recent injury from Jiang Ming.
• Ice Empress recognized Tian Meng’s aura, grew furious at his challenge, and hurried toward him.
• Tian Meng waited for Ice Empress, who arrived in emerald-green radiance and angrily asked whether he thought she was easy to bully.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm trapped Ice Empress and persuaded her to join his God Creation Plan with Huo Yuhao. Ice Empress agreed on the condition that Tian Meng help her find a human, whose image left Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao stunned.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm restrained Ice Empress with his molted shell and sealed her in a spiritual cage.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained his God Creation Plan, and Ice Empress abandoned her plan to Self-Destruct and agreed to join.
• Ice Empress demanded that Tian Meng stop talking nonsense and help her find a human.
• Ice Empress displayed the human's image, and Tian Meng and Huo Yuhao looked stunned as she asked whether they knew him.

Ice Empress revealed that Jiang Ming had injured her and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help her find him, but Sky Dream began fusing her Spiritual Origin with Huo Yuhao. Meanwhile, Jiang Ming recovered halfway in Radiant City and advanced to studying Rank 8 Soul Tools at Bright Virtue Hall.

• Ice Empress told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Jiang Ming had injured her and escaped, and she wanted Huo Yuhao to help her settle the score.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Huo Yuhao were shocked to learn Jiang Ming might be dead, but Ice Empress admitted she was unsure and believed he could still be alive.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began merging Ice Empress's Spiritual Origin with Huo Yuhao to make her his Wisdom Soul Ring.
• In Radiant City, Jiang Ming recovered halfway from his injuries and could already wield Soul Emperor strength.
• Jiang Ming studied Rank 7 Soul Tools at Bright Virtue Hall, quickly advanced to working with Rank 8 Soul Tools, and impressed Jing Hongchen.

Jing Hongchen, unable to uncover Ming Jiang’s identity, appointed him vice-leader of Bright Virtue Hall’s tournament team so others might recognize him. Back at Shrek Academy, Mu En approved Jiang Ming’s request for Zhang Lexuan to lead Shrek’s team, then ruled that Huo Yuhao could train in both Martial Souls and Soul Engineering and consider the Extreme Soldier Plan.

• A black-robed investigator told Jing Hongchen that he had found no record of Ming Jiang in the Heaven Dou Empire, prompting Jing Hongchen to plan a way to test his identity.
• Jing Hongchen invited Ming Jiang to join the All-Continent Soul Master Elite Tournament team as vice-captain and asked him to protect Xiao Meng, while Ming Jiang objected to competing for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ming Jiang wrote to Zhang Lexuan, asking her to lead Shrek Academy’s team and have its members conceal his identity; Mu En agreed and arranged for Xuan Zi to accompany them.
• Mu En convened the Sea God Pavilion Conference, where Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo argued over whether Huo Yuhao should belong to the Martial Soul or Soul Tool Department.
• Mu En decided Huo Yuhao should cultivate both paths and could try the Extreme Soldier Plan if suitable.

After being appointed vice-captain of Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s tournament team, Jiang Ming faced doubts about his strength. He revealed that he had advanced to Rank Seven as a Soul Engineer and left to organize what he had learned before the team traveled to Star Luo City.

• Jiang Ming met the academy’s tournament lineup, and Xiao Hongchen objected to him becoming vice-captain while Meng Hongchen welcomed him.
• Jiang Ming told Teacher Ma that he would not interfere with the team, but Mika challenged him to prove he was stronger than him.
• Jiang Ming revealed that he was a Rank Seven Soul Engineer, shocking the team and prompting Xiao Hongchen to question his claim.
• Teacher Ma confirmed that Jiang Ming had observed the making of a Rank 8 Soul Tool, and Jiang Ming proved his rank by showing a Rank Seven Fixed Soul Cannonball.
• Mika accepted Jiang Ming’s strength, and Jiang Ming left to organize what he had learned before the team’s trip to Star Luo City.

Shrek Academy introduced its Reserve Team and Main Team ahead of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament. The Reserve Team was stunned by the Main Team’s lineup of three Soul Saints and four Soul Emperors.

• Xuan Zi asked the Reserve Team to introduce themselves, and Bei Bei, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Jiang Nannan, Xiao Xiao, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong stated their ranks and roles.
• The Main Team members questioned why Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, and Wang Dong had been selected instead of stronger students such as Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng revealed that they had reached Soul Saint levels, while Chen Zifeng, Xixi, Ling Luochen, and Yao Haoxuan introduced themselves as Soul Emperors.
• Gongyang Mo revealed that he was a level seventy-one Support Type Battle Soul Saint, leaving the Reserve Team overwhelmed by the Main Team’s strength.
• Xuan Zi said Shrek’s lineup of three Soul Saints and four Soul Emperors was unprecedented in ten thousand years, and Ice Empress and Tian Meng agreed that humanity was exceptionally blessed.

Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng led teams in two battles, with Ma Xiaotao’s team winning the first and Dai Yueheng’s team winning after Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong switched places with Xiao Xiao and He Caitou. Xuan Zi ended the matches and told everyone to gather at the academy entrance the next day.

• Xuan Zi split the students into teams led by Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, and they selected their teammates.
• Ma Xiaotao opened the first battle with her Extreme Fire and Phoenix Meteor Shower, while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Share to help Chen Zifeng and Xixi attack Gongyang Mo.
• Ling Luochen trapped Chen Zifeng and Xixi, and Dai Yueheng’s White Tiger Meteor Shower eliminated several Reserve Team members; Huo Yuhao used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to take Ling Luochen down with him.
• Dai Yueheng eliminated Chen Zifeng and Xixi while Ma Xiaotao took out Gongyang Mo, leaving Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng as the last fighters and giving Ma Xiaotao’s team the win.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong switched places with Xiao Xiao and He Caitou, and Dai Yueheng’s team won the rematch after Gongyang Mo boosted Ling Luochen and she controlled the opposing Soul Emperors.
• Xuan Zi stopped the fighting and told everyone to gather at the academy entrance the next day.

Jiang Ming infiltrated a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold in Radiant City to confront Zhao Ming, the man who had killed his parents. He lured Zhao Ming into Our World, where they could fight without attracting attention.

• Teacher Ma led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team to Star Luo City without Jiang Ming, who had told Meng Hongchen he would meet them before the tournament.
• Jiang Ming used the Ice Silkworm's simulation skill to infiltrate a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold after discovering that Zhao Ming frequented it.
• Jiang Ming decided to draw Zhao Ming into Our World because fighting him openly in Radiant City would cause trouble.
• Zhao Ming left his laboratory to visit Bright Virtue Hall for Rank 9 Soul Tool materials.
• Jiang Ming froze Zhao Ming with Extreme Ice, interrupted his attempt to release his Martial Soul with Spiritual Power, and pulled him into Our World.

Jiang Ming trapped Nether Thunder Douluo in Our World, where Little Prison stripped away his control over lightning and the Spirits overwhelmed him with attacks. After surviving with Rank 9 Soul Tools, Nether Thunder Douluo used the Floating Strange Thunder Bead to distract Little Prison and rushed toward Jiang Ming.

• Jiang Ming dragged Nether Thunder Douluo into Our World, then left Radiant City and hid in a sealed mountain cave.
• Jiang Ming confronted Nether Thunder Douluo, revealed his two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, and used stacked abilities to raise his aura to Titled Douluo level.
• Little Prison prohibited lightning energy in Our World, cutting Nether Thunder Douluo off from his Martial Soul and its Soul Skills.
• Jiang Ming summoned the Spirits, who attacked Nether Thunder Douluo together and destroyed his Rank 9 Soul Tool Shield.
• Little Prison entered her two-hundred-thousand-year Wind-Thunder Prison Beast form and seized the Floating Strange Thunder Bead after Jiang Ming told her to preserve it.
• Nether Thunder Douluo used the bead to delay Little Prison, then rushed toward Jiang Ming in a bid to capture him and escape.

Jiang Ming disarmed Nether Thunder Douluo, crippled him, and revealed that he had come to avenge Jiang He and Chen Rou, whom Nether Thunder Douluo had killed twenty years earlier. Nether Thunder Douluo attempted to self-destruct, but Jiang Ming escaped hundreds of meters away with the Nether Thunder Sword.

• Jiang Ming and the Spirits stripped away the Nether Thunder aura on Nether Thunder Douluo's Heavenly Net, then used their attacks to destroy his Rank 9 Invincible Shield.
• A hidden attack forced Nether Thunder Douluo to spend a Rank 8 Invincible Shield and cost him his right hand, while Jiang Ming took the Nether Thunder Sword.
• Jiang Ming reminded Nether Thunder Douluo of Jiang He and Chen Rou and the killings in Clear Water City twenty years earlier.
• Jiang Ming stabbed Nether Thunder Douluo through the heart with the Nether Thunder Sword after Nether Thunder Douluo remembered the couple.
• Nether Thunder Douluo grabbed Jiang Ming and tried to self-destruct, but Jiang Ming vanished and reappeared hundreds of meters away with the sword.

Jiang Ming defeated Nether Thunder Douluo, then erased some of his memories and bound him with a Spiritual Imprint to make him a controlled Rank 9 Soul Master. After reaching Star Luo City to find Shrek Academy’s team, Jiang Ming saw that someone had injured them and demanded to know who was responsible.

• Jiang Ming taunted Nether Thunder Douluo until he suppressed his attempted Self-Destruction, then took the Storage Soul Tools from his powerless body.
• Jiang Ming told Little Spirit to restore Nether Thunder Douluo’s vitality and ordered the others to help him perform surgery on the Douluo’s mind.
• Jiang Ming and the Spirits erased some of Nether Thunder Douluo’s memories while preserving his Rank 9 Soul Master abilities, then placed a Spiritual Imprint in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Three days later, Jiang Ming left Our World and flew to the outskirts of Star Luo City.
• Jiang Ming concealed himself with the Ice Silkworm’s Simulate Soul Skill and found Shrek Academy’s team at their hotel.
• Jiang Ming saw the injured members of Shrek Academy and demanded to know who had hurt them.

Jiang Ming reprimanded Shrek Academy’s Main Team after learning that their carelessness against a five-ring Evil Soul Master had left Yao Haoxuan gravely injured, then joined the tournament roster as his replacement. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy meeting, he encountered Zhang Lexuan, who challenged him over joining Shrek’s rival team, and he coldly told her to stay out of his business.

• Jiang Ming learned that a five-ring Evil Soul Master’s Corpse Explosion Technique had injured Shrek Academy’s Main Team and left Yao Haoxuan unconscious and seriously wounded.
• Jiang Ming sent the Reserve Team to prepare for the tournament’s first match and barred the Main Team from competing until they learned from their carelessness.
• Jiang Ming told Wang Yan to list him in Yao Haoxuan’s vacant Main Team slot, then went to meet the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy team as Ming Jiang.
• Teacher Ma explained the tournament rules and identified Shrek Academy as Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s strongest rival, while Xiao Hongchen vowed to defeat them.
• Zhang Lexuan confronted Ming Jiang for joining Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and he replied that where he went was none of her business.

Shrek Academy’s Jiang Ming confronted his twin brother Ming Jiang, who had joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, and the two argued over Ming Jiang’s choice to leave Shrek’s shadow. After the teams separated, Jiang Ming revealed himself to be Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in disguise, leaving Shrek’s members stunned when he transformed into his enormous silkworm form.

• Ming Jiang called Zhang Lexuan his big sister-in-law, prompting both academy teams to suspect a connection between him and Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming arrived with Shrek Academy, and the twins argued as Ming Jiang refused to return and insisted he could become strong at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Jiang Ming left with Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek team while Ming Jiang returned to his own team, and Teacher Ma realized Jiang Ming’s identity should be reported to Bright Virtue Hall.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Jiang Ming’s disguise but kept quiet, while Jiang Ming clung to Zhang Lexuan and startled the Shrek team with his behavior.
• Zhang Lexuan warned Jiang Ming to stop using his human appearance to act that way, and he transformed into a huge Ice Silkworm that the team mistook for a threat.