Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming led Shrek Academy’s students to Maple Leaf City for the exchange with Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, where he antagonized Jing Hongchen and revealed overwhelming strength. After the students were handed over, he angrily called Ming Jiang a traitor and hauled the incoming students toward Shrek at tremendous speed.

• Jiang Ming took charge of the Shrek group traveling to Maple Leaf City and encouraged He Caitou and Huo Yuhao to endure the grueling Extreme Soldier Plan.
• At Maple Leaf Square, Jiang Ming mocked Jing Hongchen about the Soul Tools Mu En had taken from him, and their auras clashed before the city garrison intervened.
• Jiang Ming and Jing Hongchen exchanged students, with Jing Hongchen provoking Jiang Ming by mentioning Ming Jiang and Jiang Ming warning that he would personally cleanse the family if his brother left the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Ming flew away after the exchange, displaying strength beyond an ordinary Soul Douluo and leaving Jing Hongchen wary of his future power.
• When Elder Ma’s group could not keep up, Jiang Ming used Golden Pull and his Wind Thunder Wings to tow the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy students toward Shrek at Titled Douluo speed.

Jiang Ming returned to Shrek, reunited briefly with Zhang Lexuan, then raced to Radiant City in his Ming Jiang identity and reunited with Jing Hongchen. After explaining his year-long disappearance as a result of being trapped at West Mountain, he revealed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, leaving Jing Hongchen stunned.

• Jiang Ming brought the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy students to Shrek at high speed, while Elder Ma instructed them to learn Shrek’s Soul Master methods and investigate its Soul Tool Department.
• Jiang Ming returned to Shrek, embraced Zhang Lexuan, promised to marry her before the next tournament, and then left for the Sun Moon Empire at full speed.
• Jing Hongchen encountered a disheveled Ming Jiang near West Mountain and brought him and the Shrek exchange students to Radiant City and Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Ming Jiang cleaned up, changed into his Bright Virtue Hall uniform, and told Jing Hongchen that a strange fog at West Mountain had trapped him and swept him into a dangerous place.
• Ming Jiang released his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum Martial Soul and revealed a seventh, blood-red Soul Ring, shocking Jing Hongchen with its Hundred-Thousand-Year aura.

Ming Jiang showed Jing Hongchen a simulated Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and warned him that the West Mountain trials were deadly. After returning to his room, Ming Jiang reunited with Meng Bing, who had evolved into a dragon and could now simulate the ring.

• Jing Hongchen learned that Ming Jiang had a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and assumed it was a reward from the West Mountain trials.
• Ming Jiang warned Jing Hongchen that the trials had killed everyone else who entered with him and had nearly killed him several times.
• A black-robed Holy Spirit Cult member confirmed the trials were dangerous and warned Jing Hongchen that the Cult would not show mercy if Shrek Academy's people encountered them.
• Jing Hongchen reflected that Ming Jiang's new ring could help him reach Rank 10 as a Soul Master.
• Ming Jiang used Spiritual Power to check his room, then praised Meng Bing for simulating the ring with her skill.
• Ming Jiang saw Meng Bing's evolved dragon form, and she shrank into a girl wearing an ice-and-snow gown.

After Meng Bing completed her evolution, Ming Jiang set a goal to reach Level Ninety before the next tournament and resumed cultivation. The next day, Jing Hongchen took Ming Jiang and Fan Yu to Bright Virtue Hall’s testing laboratory to measure Ming Jiang’s physical attributes.

• Rongrong praised Meng Bing’s small human form, and Little Light teased Little Ice about whether he could still defeat his contracted beast.
• Ming Jiang assessed his Level Eighty-Six cultivation and resolved to break through to Level Ninety within three years despite the difficult bottleneck.
• At the Bright Virtue Hall Canteen, Jing Hongchen invited Ming Jiang to test his physical attributes, and Ming Jiang agreed in front of Fan Yu.
• Jing Hongchen brought Ming Jiang and Fan Yu to Bright Virtue Hall’s testing laboratory and praised the potential of He Caitou and Huo Yuhao.
• Ming Jiang stepped onto the body-testing instrument as a Soul Engineer activated it and a blue-white scanning light began descending.

Ming Jiang’s tests at Bright Virtue Hall revealed physical abilities far beyond his Soul Power level, astonishing Jing Hongchen, Fan Yu, and the Soul Engineers. As Ming Jiang began a strength test and revealed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Fan Yu accused Jing Hongchen of helping him hunt the Soul Beast.

• A Soul Engineer recorded Ming Jiang’s physical strength and toughness at Levels Eighty-Seven and Eighty-Six, far above his Level Seventy-Six Soul Power.
• Ming Jiang told the startled Soul Engineers that dying two or three times might make them like him, while Jing Hongchen praised his talent and Fan Yu compared him unfavorably with Jiang Ming.
• Ming Jiang declared that he would close the gap with his elder brother and eventually surpass him.
• Ming Jiang began the strength test and revealed his seven Soul Rings, including a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Fan Yu accused Jing Hongchen of helping a traitor hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and Jing Hongchen let him keep believing it.

Ming Jiang stunned Bright Virtue Hall with his strength and completed a Rank 8 Soul Tool Core Magic Array under Jing Hongchen’s instruction. Jing Hongchen declared him the youngest Rank 8 Soul Master in history.

• Ming Jiang used his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and a Soul Skill to strike the strength tester with Level Ninety power, astonishing Jing Hongchen and the other Soul Masters.
• Ming Jiang completed the reaction-speed test with a merely good result, and Fan Yu left Bright Virtue Hall after the tests.
• Jing Hongchen warned Ming Jiang that Shrek’s Jiang Ming had threatened to target him if he left the Sun Moon Empire, while Ming Jiang vowed to catch up to his elder brother.
• Jing Hongchen spent a month teaching Ming Jiang Rank 8 Soul Master knowledge, which Ming Jiang mastered with remarkable speed.
• Ming Jiang successfully crafted a difficult Rank 8 Soul Tool Core Magic Array on his first attempt, and Jing Hongchen certified him as the youngest Rank 8 Soul Master in history.

Ming Jiang earned Rank 8 Soul Engineer status and worked with Xuan Ziwen to resolve problems in their Soul Tool Battle Armor project. Meanwhile, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began their exchange at Shrek Academy and started the Martial Soul Department's Inner Court Assessment.

• Jing Hongchen recognized Ming Jiang's unprecedented talent, promised to teach him weekly, and informed Bright Virtue Hall's Rank 8 Soul Masters of his achievement.
• Xuan Ziwen brought Ming Jiang to the laboratory, where they solved a difficult issue with their Rank 8 battle armor; Xuan Ziwen also mentioned his student Huo Yuhao, whom Ming Jiang told him to treat normally.
• Elder Ma complained to Yan Shaozhe about Jiang Ming, and Yan Shaozhe used the complaint as cover to declare Jiang Ming confined for several months despite his absence.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen chose the Martial Soul Department's Inner Court Assessment rather than the Soul Tool Department's, and Du Weilun brought them to examiner Zhang Lexuan.

Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen passed Shrek Academy’s Inner Court Assessment after Zhang Lexuan forced them to rely on their Soul Tools, and their exchange at Shrek helped strengthen their foundations. Meanwhile, Golden Body Douluo and Du Busi devised a plan to win Jiang Ming’s goodwill by repairing ties with Shrek and offering him the Body Sect’s stolen Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

• Zhang Lexuan tested Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen at her Soul Emperor level, and they survived ten minutes by using their Soul Tools.
• Zhang Lexuan neutralized Meng Hongchen’s poison with a bead of Aromatic Silk Beauty essence and accepted the siblings into Shrek’s Inner Court.
• The Xiao Hongchen siblings fought Inner Court Disciples and improved their unstable Soul Power and cultivation techniques.
• Meng Hongchen grew closer to Zhang Lexuan as she heard the fabricated story of Ming Jiang’s tragic past.
• Golden Body Douluo proposed improving relations with Shrek and gradually earning Jiang Ming’s goodwill through gifts and Body Sect techniques.
• Du Busi proposed giving Jiang Ming the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo that Bright Virtue Hall had stolen from the Body Sect.

Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen tested their newly completed Rank 8 Golden Battle Armor, then joined Jing Hongchen at the Ming Capital Grand Auction House. Inside, Ming Jiang was disturbed by the degrading way attendants opened the private-room door, and Jing Hongchen explained that the display catered to nobles who valued demonstrations of status.

• Jing Hongchen examined a Platform of Deification and left to work on powerful Soul Tools in Bright Virtue Hall.
• Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen completed and tested a Rank 8 Golden Battle Armor, finding it stable but inefficient in Soul Power use and weak in improving reaction speed.
• Jing Hongchen invited Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen to a top-tier auction, and the three met at the Ming Capital Grand Auction House.
• Jing Hongchen rebuffed Count Karl's taunts and led Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen into a private room.
• Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen watched two women kneel to open the Rank 7 Soul Tool door, and Jing Hongchen explained that such displays served the nobles' desire to show superiority.

Ming Jiang, Xuan Ziwen, and Jing Hongchen attended a luxury auction where Soul Tools sold for enormous sums, and Jing Hongchen hinted that the grand finale would be a Rank 9 Soul Tool. The chapter ended as bidding began on a Rank 8 Flying Soul Tool that Jing Hongchen recommended to Ming Jiang.

• Jing Hongchen brought Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen to the auction and warned them that auctioneer Jiu'er was protected by the person behind the grand auction house.
• Jiu'er presented a Rank 7 Soul Cannon Platform set, which Ming Jiang and Xuan Ziwen inspected and critiqued before it sold for 3.6 million Gold Soul Coins.
• A Rank 8 Fixed Soul Cannon with three compatible cannonballs sold for 9.8 million Gold Soul Coins, prompting Xuan Ziwen to ask whether the finale would be a Rank 9 Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen revealed that the next item was a Rank 8 Flying Soul Tool made by one of his Rank 9 Soul Master friends and asked Ming Jiang what he thought of it.
• Jiu'er announced the Dark Gold Divine Shadow's starting bid of two million Gold Soul Coins.

Ming Jiang bought the Rank 8 Flying Soul Tool Dark Gold Divine Shadow and the Azure Steel Wind God Dagger at auction, borrowing money from Jing Hongchen for the latter. The auction then revealed a Rank 9 Soul Tool, the Shadow Soul Extinguishing Blade, whose unleashed soul force began to sweep through the hall.

• Ming Jiang bid three million Gold Soul Coins for the Dark Gold Divine Shadow and inspected its Core Magic Array after it was delivered to his room.
• Ming Jiang asked Jing Hongchen to lend him money for the Azure Steel Wind God Dagger, and Jing Hongchen approved a limit of seven to eight million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ming Jiang won the Wind God Dagger for 6.8 million Gold Soul Coins and arranged to borrow 3.8 million from Jing Hongchen.
• Meng Bing warned Ming Jiang that more than ten Titled Douluo-level presences were inside the auction house as the third-to-last item was prepared.
• Auctioneer Jiu'er introduced the Rank 9 Soul Tool Shadow Soul Extinguishing Blade, and an old man opened its box behind a protective barrier, releasing an aggressive soul force across the hall.

Ming Jiang and the other auction guests examined the Rank 9 Shadow Soul Extinguishing Blade, while Ming Jiang’s companions identified an evil presence within it. The bidding began, and Count Karl made an offer despite his original plans.

• Jiu'er demonstrated the Shadow Soul Extinguishing Blade’s powerful Spiritual Shock and introduced its Rank 9 features.
• A nobleman decided against bidding after his butler warned that the weapon bore the aura of dangerous forces controlling Radiant City’s underworld.
• Ming Jiang questioned whether illusion crystals could explain the blade’s Spiritual Shock, and Little Light and Little Dark said an Evil Soul Master had enhanced it.
• Jiu'er opened the bidding at fifteen million Gold Soul Coins, and Count Karl bid sixteen million despite his companion questioning their plans.

At the auction, Ming Jiang watched Jing Hongchen outbid rivals for a huge lot of rare metals, then learned the identity of the mysterious metal saved for the finale. The chapter ended as Jing Hongchen named it Magic Pattern Divine Gold.

• A buyer won the Shadow Soul Extinguishing Blade for twenty million Gold Soul Coins, while Ming Jiang asked Little Light, Little Dark, and Meng Bing to watch the auction guests.
• Auctioneer Jiu'er revealed ten kinds of rare metals, one hundred tons of each, and Jing Hongchen directed Ming Jiang to bid twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Count Karl raised the price, but Jing Hongchen kept bidding until Bright Virtue Hall secured the thousand tons for thirty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Jiu'er presented a half-human-sized block of rare metal as the final auction item, and Jing Hongchen identified it as Magic Pattern Divine Gold.

Ming Jiang, Jing Hongchen, and Xuan Ziwen discussed the value of Magic Pattern Divine Gold, and Jing Hongchen bought it for Bright Virtue Hall for fifty million Gold Soul Coins. After the auction, Ming Jiang left Radiant City to test his Dark Gold Divine Shadow, then stopped in a secluded forest and called out to someone following him.

• Jing Hongchen explained that Magic Pattern Divine Gold was too valuable to use for a Rank 9 Soul Tool and could be saved for a future Rank 10 Soul Master.
• Ming Jiang asked whether Jing Hongchen would bid, and Jing Hongchen decided to acquire the metal for Bright Virtue Hall.
• Jing Hongchen bid fifty million Gold Soul Coins and won the Magic Pattern Divine Gold at the auction.
• Jing Hongchen returned to Bright Virtue Hall with Xuan Ziwen, while Ming Jiang went out of Radiant City to test his Dark Gold Divine Shadow.
• Ming Jiang stopped in a secluded forest and told the person following him to come out.

Ming Jiang confronted Count Karl and Divine Wind Douluo after they followed him into the forest, then brought them to Our World to fight. He pierced Divine Wind Douluo’s Rank 8 Defensive Soul Tool and sent Count Karl flying, leaving the battle underway.

• Count Karl revealed that he had followed Ming Jiang to vent his anger and provoke Jing Hongchen.
• Count Karl introduced his companion, Divine Wind Douluo, a Titled Douluo and Rank 9 Soul Master.
• Ming Jiang transported himself, Count Karl, and Divine Wind Douluo to Our World.
• Divine Wind Douluo activated a Defensive Soul Tool to protect himself and Count Karl.
• Ming Jiang pierced the Defensive Soul Tool with the Sky Piercer Spear and sent Count Karl flying.

Ming Jiang dealt with Count Karl and the Divine Wind Douluo, then returned to Bright Virtue Hall, where he completed a Rank 8 battle armor with Xuan Ziwen. When the Empire's enforcement squad came to question him about Count Karl's disappearance, Ming Jiang calmly denied knowing anything and claimed he had been testing his newly purchased flying Soul Tool.

• Ming Jiang left Count Karl and the Divine Wind Douluo in the forest with the elves, then tested the Dark Gold Divine Shadow by flying around Radiant City.
• Xuan Ziwen inspected the nearly completed Rank 8 Humanoid Soul Tool Battle Armor and discussed the difficulty of reaching Rank 9 with Ming Jiang.
• A middle-aged Soul Engineer warned Ming Jiang that the Empire's enforcement squad had arrived to look for him.
• Jing Hongchen told the enforcement squad captain that Ming Jiang had been conducting research at Bright Virtue Hall and could not be involved in Count Karl's disappearance.
• Ming Jiang appeared in the Central Soul Tool Hall and denied knowing that Count Karl had sought him, saying he had been testing the Dark Gold Divine Shadow after the auction.

Ming Jiang evaded suspicion over Count Karl’s disappearance, then spent more than half a year researching Soul Tools at Bright Virtue Hall. As Radiant City searched in vain for Count Karl and his Titled Douluo companion, Ming Jiang secretly revealed that Little Void had been robbing noble treasuries to fund his work, leaving him with a stockpile of powerful Soul Tools.

• Ming Jiang told the enforcement squad he had not encountered Count Karl, and Jing Hongchen persuaded the squad to leave without taking him in.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Ming Jiang privately, then invited him to demonstrate his Soul Tool progress.
• Over the next half year, the imperial enforcement squad, Count Karl’s family, and the royal family searched for Count Karl and the missing Titled Douluo but found neither.
• A Bright Virtue Hall soul engineer told Ming Jiang that a mysterious thief had repeatedly emptied noble treasuries in Radiant City without being caught.
• Ming Jiang privately told Little Void to lie low, then recalled that he had sent Little Void to rob treasuries—especially those belonging to the Holy Spirit Cult—to obtain rare metals and Gold Soul Coins.
• Ming Jiang’s two Rank 9 Soul Masters had produced a large stock of Soul Tools, including three Rank 9 Fixed Soul Cannonballs for him.

Xuan Ziwen and Ming Jiang finished optimizing their Rank 8 Humanoid Soul Tool, while Ming Jiang continued planning defensive arrays for Clear Water City and Shrek Academy. Jing Hongchen then assigned Ming Jiang to lead Bright Virtue Hall students on a Soul Beast hunt, and the students questioned whether someone their age could protect them.

• Xuan Ziwen and Ming Jiang agreed the Humanoid Soul Tool could not be improved further without Rank 9 capabilities, and Xuan Ziwen left to teach his students.
• Ming Jiang studied defensive-array plans for Clear Water City and Shrek Academy, noting that the array’s center required Rank 9 or ideally Rank 10 Soul Tools.
• Ming Jiang spent the night cultivating in his Small World after working through the day.
• Jing Hongchen stopped Ming Jiang and ordered him to lead Rank Five and Rank Six Soul Masters on a Soul Beast hunt for Soul Rings.
• Bright Virtue Hall students wondered whether the supposedly young Ming Jiang could keep them safe while they hunted Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.
• Ming Jiang found the students chatting and asked what they were discussing.

Ming Jiang introduced himself as the leader of a five-student soul-ring expedition and took the group toward the Jingyang Mountain Range. The students doubted his youth until he revealed his Rank 8 Dark Gold Divine Shadow Flying Soul Tool and launched them into the sky at terrifying speed.

• Ming Jiang met Xiao Xiao, Wang Lei, Zhang Long, Zhang Hu, and Jing Ying, then announced that he would lead their trip to the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• The five students hesitated to follow Ming Jiang because he looked younger than they were, but Wang Lei led them after him.
• Ming Jiang gave the students passenger ropes and told them to protect themselves with Soul Power before taking off.
• Wang Lei recognized Ming Jiang's Flying Soul Tool as the Rank 8 Dark Gold Divine Shadow, and Ming Jiang accelerated it to full power.

Ming Jiang brought five students to the Jingyang Mountain Range aboard his Rank 8 Flying Soul Tool, then let them rest and eat before their hunt. Over dinner, he revealed that he was a Rank 8 Soul Engineer and only twenty-three, leaving the students stunned by how much he had achieved at a younger age than them.

• Ming Jiang flew the five students to the Jingyang Mountain Range in two hours, and Xiao Xiao vomited after the journey.
• Ming Jiang landed with the students and set up a meal, postponing the hunt until the following morning.
• Ming Jiang served the students century-old Soul Beast meat and told them to meditate and cultivate after eating.
• Xiao Xiao asked Ming Jiang his rank, and he said he was a Rank 8 Soul Engineer.
• Xiao Xiao asked Ming Jiang his age, and he said he was twenty-three, stunning the five students.