Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming received a Spirit Bone as a reward but wanted to sell it because he could not use it, leaving Ling Luochen puzzled by his fixation on money. After the new students were assigned to classes, Zhou Yi made Jiang Ming class monitor despite his refusal.

• Jiang Ming asked Du Weilun to exchange his Spirit Bone for money or a higher-quality Spirit Bone, but Du Weilun refused and left.
• Jiang Ming asked Ling Luochen whether her family would buy the Spirit Bone and whether Core Disciples avoided auction fees; Ling Luochen questioned why he needed money so badly.
• The academy sorted the new students into classes based on their Martial Souls and assigned Zhou Yi to lead Class 1, First Year, with an assistant head teacher.
• Jiang Ming refused Zhou Yi's offer to make him class monitor because he lacked time, but Zhou Yi appointed him anyway so he could set an example for the class.

Jiang Ming considered his plans for cultivation and Soul Engineer training before meeting Xuan Zi, who offered to take him as a disciple. Jiang Ming declined for now, then asked whether Xuan Zi could defeat Dorm Manager Grandpa, leaving the question unanswered.

• After classes, Jiang Ming reflected on his finances, Soul Tools, and plans to improve his cultivation and raise his Book of Spirits Martial Soul’s fourth soul ring.
• Xuan Zi suddenly appeared beside Jiang Ming, examined his soul power, and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Jiang Ming politely refused, explaining that he did not plan to take a master before getting to know Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi claimed he could defeat Dean Yan Shaozhe with one hand, and Jiang Ming pretended to believe him.
• Jiang Ming asked Xuan Zi whether he could beat Dorm Manager Grandpa.

Jiang Ming inferred that Dorm Manager Grandpa was stronger than Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, then returned to cultivate after dinner. The Light Sprite in his first soul ring communicated with him for the first time, revealing that it needed light energy to break through the ten-thousand-year bottleneck, and Jiang Ming promised to look for some.

• Xuan Zi dodged Jiang Ming's questions about Dorm Manager Grandpa by flying away toward Sea God Island, leading Jiang Ming to conclude that Dorm Manager Grandpa was the strongest of the three.
• Jiang Ming ate a huge dinner at the cafeteria and returned to the dormitory to cultivate alongside Dai Yueheng.
• Jiang Ming noticed that his soul rings were growing in age, with his first soul ring nearing the ten-thousand-year limit.
• The Light Sprite showed anxiety and told Jiang Ming that it needed light energy to evolve.
• Jiang Ming understood that the Light Sprite needed light energy to break through its soul ring bottleneck and said he would ask around for some.

Jiang Ming sought Mu En’s help finding powerful light energy for his Light Sprite, and the Sprite’s cultivation transformed his Soul Rings and raised his Soul Power. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming gaining his first ten-thousand-year Soul Ring as Mu En remarked on his second Martial Soul.

• Jiang Ming asked Dorm Manager Grandpa for his name and learned that he was called Mu En.
• Jiang Ming asked Mu En where to find powerful light energy and offered his entire fortune of 110,000 Gold Soul Coins for it.
• Mu En released pure, powerful light energy around Jiang Ming, causing Jiang Ming’s Book of Spirits Martial Soul to appear and reveal his four Soul Rings.
• The Light Sprite emerged from the Book of Spirits and cultivated using the light energy gathered in Jiang Ming’s dantian.
• Jiang Ming’s Soul Rings became one black and three purple, and his Soul Power rose to rank forty-three.
• Mu En observed that Jiang Ming’s second Martial Soul was interesting.

After Mu En witnessed the Book of Spirits Martial Soul’s unusual change, Jiang Ming asked him to become his teacher so he could grow stronger. He then rushed to Zhou Yi’s class late, and when she questioned him afterward, he said his Martial Soul had briefly had a problem.

• Mu En assured Jiang Ming that he would keep the secret of the Book of Spirits Martial Soul and its changed soul rings.
• Jiang Ming asked Mu En to become his teacher because he wanted to become stronger, and Mu En accepted him as a disciple.
• Jiang Ming realized it was nine o’clock and hurried to Zhou Yi’s class, arriving late and slipping in at the back.
• After class, Zhou Yi summoned Jiang Ming to her office and reprimanded him for being late.
• Jiang Ming apologized and said his Martial Soul had briefly had a problem, prompting Zhou Yi to worry about his condition.

After confirming Jiang Ming’s Martial Soul was fine, Zhou Yi punished him for being late by ordering him to run three hundred laps around Shrek Plaza. Jiang Ming’s classmates mistook his punishment for a training method and joined in, leaving Zhou Yi stunned by the long line of runners.

• Jiang Ming reassured Zhou Yi that a Titled Douluo had examined his Martial Soul and found no problem.
• Zhou Yi ordered Jiang Ming to run three hundred laps around Shrek Plaza for being late to class.
• Jiang Ming told Chen Zifeng that running was part of his cultivation, and Chen Zifeng and Xixi followed him.
• Other freshmen copied Jiang Ming, believing his running had made him strong enough to win the Freshman Assessment.
• Zhou Yi reached Shrek Plaza and found Jiang Ming leading a long line of students running laps.

After completing three hundred laps, Jiang Ming ate a huge lunch and installed paid dining tables in the Canteen. Back in his dormitory, he discovered that his Light Sprite had grown into a humanoid Light Spirit after its Soul Ring reached ten thousand years.

• Jiang Ming finished three hundred laps, then hurried to the Canteen and ate twice his usual amount of food.
• Jiang Ming had dozens of dining tables and chairs delivered to the Canteen, charging students one Copper Coin per use.
• The Canteen filled with students using the new tables, while the Logistics Department director decided not to remove them because of Jiang Ming's status.
• Jiang Ming returned to the dormitory and released his Book of Spirits Martial Soul, revealing its black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• The Light Spirit appeared as a half-person-tall humanoid figure and confirmed to Jiang Ming that it was his former Light Sprite.
• Jiang Ming asked the Light Spirit how it had grown so big.

After Little Light gained combat abilities, Jiang Ming realized how powerful the Book of Spirits could become and decided to advance his plans for revenge. He presented Fan Yu with an ambitious proposal to industrialize soul-tool production, and Fan Yu recognized that it would require a large research team.

• Jiang Ming named the spirits Little Light, Little Dark, Little Ice, and Little Spirit, then learned Little Light could fight with the strength of a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
• Jiang Ming imagined the Book of Spirits eventually commanding nine hundred-thousand-year soul beasts, but calmed himself and focused on his goals.
• Jiang Ming opened his revenge booklet and recalled that Zhao Ming had killed his parents, Jiang He and Chen Rou, during the war against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Ming went to the Soul Tool Department after class to meet Fan Yu and discuss an important idea.
• Jiang Ming proposed a production line that would use tools to produce soul tools, especially Soul Cannonballs, and asked for help from the department's Soul Masters.
• Fan Yu realized the project would need a large team, including more than five Rank Seven Soul Masters as well as Rank Six and Rank Five Soul Masters.

Jiang Ming tried to persuade Fan Yu to help create a Soul Tool Production Line, arguing that mass production was necessary to overcome the Sun Moon Empire’s overwhelming advantage in soul tools. He left Fan Yu with the reason behind his determination: he wanted Clear Water City to stop living in fear of Ice Snow City’s firepower.

• Fan Yu warned Jiang Ming that using soul tools to manufacture soul tools would be technically difficult and unlikely to succeed, but Jiang Ming insisted he wanted to try.
• Jiang Ming told Fan Yu that he was driven by war and described the Sun Moon Empire’s superiority in soul tools.
• Jiang Ming explained that Ice Snow City had long suppressed Clear Water City with Soul Rays and Soul Cannonballs, leaving Clear Water City’s soldiers afraid of insufficient firepower.
• Jiang Ming said he wanted Clear Water City to have enough Soul Rays and Soul Cannonballs to surpass Ice Snow City and make its soldiers experience the same fear.
• Jiang Ming described how three months of work had produced fewer than a hundred Soul Cannonballs, and argued that a production line was the only way for the Heaven Dou Empire to overcome its shortage of Soul Engineers.

Jiang Ming asked Fan Yu to help develop a soul cannonball production line, and Fan Yu agreed to present the idea as a Soul Tool Department project backed by Shrek Academy. That night, Jiang Ming cultivated with Little Light in his Sea of Consciousness while academy leaders argued over the plan on Sea God Island.

• Jiang Ming told Fan Yu his ideas for a soul cannonball production line, and Fan Yu agreed to help after warning him that the project required far more money and expertise than Jiang Ming could provide alone.
• Jiang Ming proposed involving the entire Soul Tool Department and Shrek Academy, and Fan Yu went to seek approval from the Dean of the Soul Tool Department.
• Jiang Ming thanked Fan Yu, left the Soul Tool Department, and followed his packed schedule of classes and cultivation.
• Jiang Ming released his Book of Spirits Martial Soul and cultivated with Little Light in his Sea of Consciousness, where Little Light strengthened his spiritual power.
• Yan Shaozhe objected to the Soul Tool Department's plan at a meeting on Sea God Island, and Xian Lin'er challenged his right to oppose it before the elder at the head of the table tapped for attention.

At the Sea God Pavilion Conference, Mu En backed Jiang Ming’s Soul Tool Department plan and granted it Shrek Academy’s resources for three years. The department had to show convincing results at a new conference before its authority and support would be reconsidered.

• Xian Lin'er presented Jiang Ming’s plan and argued that the Soul Tool Department could overcome its technical bottlenecks, while Yan Shaozhe and Cai Meier challenged its risks and demand for resources.
• Mu En agreed to support the plan but set a three-year deadline for the Soul Tool Department to demonstrate its feasibility.
• Mu En urged Yan Shaozhe to look beyond martial souls, citing Soul Tools’ potential and the Tang Sect’s decline, and praised Jiang Ming’s predictions about the future.
• Mu En ordered Shrek Academy’s resources tilted toward the Soul Tool Department for three years, and Xian Lin'er promised to deliver results.

Jiang Ming struggled to work out how to turn his soul tool production line idea into reality while attending Zhou Yi’s lesson on Soul Beasts. Fan Yu interrupted class and took Jiang Ming away, leaving his classmates and Zhou Yi wondering what was happening.

• Jiang Ming arrived early and studied soul tools, thinking through the many difficulties involved in creating a production line.
• Ling Luochen questioned Jiang Ming’s claim that he wanted to change the world, but he insisted that people often doubted great reforms before they took effect.
• Zhou Yi taught the class about Soul Beasts, and Jiang Ming noted useful species and habitats for his Golden Heart Martial Soul.
• Fan Yu entered the classroom, said he was taking Jiang Ming away, and led him out without explaining further.

Fan Yu brought Jiang Ming to the Soul Tool Department after its dean approved Jiang Ming’s Soul Tool Production Line idea and made it the department’s top project, with results expected within three years. Jiang Ming arrived at the laboratory to find the Advanced Soul Masters eager for his input, while Vice Dean Qian Duoduo tried to recruit him.

• Fan Yu told Jiang Ming that the Soul Tool Department had approved his production-line idea after a lengthy discussion and that the academy expected results within three years.
• Jiang Ming objected that the deadline was far too tight, but Fan Yu said the department needed him to help produce results.
• Fan Yu took Jiang Ming to the laboratory, where several Advanced Soul Masters immediately questioned him about production-line designs and materials.
• Fan Yu introduced Jiang Ming to Vice Dean Qian Duoduo, who asked him to join the Soul Tool Department and offered to argue with Yan Shaozhe over his recruitment.

Jiang Ming declined Qian Duoduo’s offer to transfer to the Soul Tool Department, but his feedback on a production-line blueprint led Qian to enlist him in a three-year research plan. The next day, Zhou Yi told the class that Jiang Ming would be away, unaware that he had sparked the plan himself.

• Jiang Ming turned down Qian Duoduo’s offer to join the Soul Tool Department, and Fan Yu redirected their discussion to business.
• Jiang Ming examined the production-line area blueprint and identified several design problems.
• Qian Duoduo explained the blueprint’s other flaws and said the academy had given them three years to solve the problems; Jiang Ming agreed to join the research effort.
• Qian Duoduo said he would negotiate with the Martial Soul Department and arrange for Zhou Yi to tutor Jiang Ming separately while he worked in the laboratory.
• Zhou Yi announced that Jiang Ming would be absent from class and appointed Dai Yueheng and Ling Luochen as temporary class leaders.
• Zhou Yi recalled Fan Yu’s explanation that Jiang Ming had joined a Sea God Pavilion-approved Soul Tool Department plan, not knowing Jiang Ming had set it in motion.

Shrek Academy directed resources toward Jiang Ming’s Soul Tool Production Line plan, while Yan Shaozhe struggled with his mixed feelings about the investment. Jiang Ming spent a grueling month in the top-secret laboratory reviewing designs with senior Soul Engineers and then went to begin Mu En’s tutoring.

• Shrek Academy prioritized resources for the Soul Tool Department’s plan, prompting Martial Soul Department teachers to question Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe told the teachers that resources would favor the Soul Tool Department for three years, while privately resenting Jiang Ming for pursuing Soul Tools instead of cultivating as a Soul Master.
• Jiang Ming spent a month in the top-secret laboratory debating production-line designs with senior Soul Engineers and barely left the facility.
• Elder Zhang approved Jiang Ming’s view of a Rank Seven Soul Tool design and took the blueprints to Qian Duoduo for review.
• Mu En called Jiang Ming to begin one-on-one tutoring, and Jiang Ming went outside.

After five months of research, Jiang Ming and the Soul Tool Department successfully developed a soul tool that produced a stable output of soul power, overcoming the first obstacle to their production-line plan. On his day off, Jiang Ming collected five hundred Gold Soul Coins from the canteen before finding Martial Soul Department and Soul Tool Department students in a tense standoff.

• Jiang Ming, Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and the laboratory team watched as their Milk Bottle Soul Power Stable Output Soul Tool began producing a steady flow of soul power.
• Fan Yu celebrated the breakthrough, while Jiang Ming and Qian Duoduo noted that many challenges and only two and a half years remained; Qian Duoduo then gave the laboratory team a day off.
• Jiang Ming left the laboratory, roared beside Sea God Lake to release his pent-up stress, and ate a large meal at the canteen.
• Jiang Ming collected five hundred Gold Soul Coins from the canteen's manager for their cooperative table project.
• Jiang Ming found Martial Soul Department and Soul Tool Department students facing off at Shrek Plaza after arguing over resources, with the groups threatening to settle the dispute in the Soul Fighting Zone.

Jiang Ming watched a dispute over resources between the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department turn into a violent clash. As both sides prepared to attack again, Jiang Ming stepped in, revealing his soul rings and a golden shield.

• Jiang Ming observed the two departments arguing over resource allocations and recognized their long-running resentment.
• A Soul Tool Department student fired a Soul Ray at the yellow-haired Martial Soul Department leader, prompting him to rally his classmates into a charge.
• The Purple-Haired Boy raised a defensive shield, but the Martial Soul Department leader and a Great Strength Bear student broke through it.
• The yellow-haired leader deflected the Purple-Haired Boy's counterattack, and a sword-wielding student narrowly missed him with a follow-up strike.
• As the two groups prepared to clash again, Jiang Ming confronted them with three soul rings and a golden light shield.

Jiang Ming was accidentally caught in a fight between senior students and confronted Huang Xuan and Li Hua after their attacks nearly hit him. Zhou Yi arrived and learned what had happened, but Jiang Ming insisted he was the only one who had been hurt.

• A stray Soul Ray and Sword Shadow nearly hit Jiang Ming, so he charged into the fight and demanded that Huang Xuan and Li Hua explain themselves.
• Li Hua said his Soul Ray had been reflected by Huang Xuan’s Battle Shield, and Huang Xuan apologized for the accident.
• Jiang Ming used his First Soul Skill, Heart Tremor, to stop the fighters and challenged them to fight him.
• Zhou Yi arrived and stopped Jiang Ming before he could attack the two seniors.
• Li Hua explained the fight to Zhou Yi, who scolded both groups for brawling in the plaza.
• When Zhou Yi asked whether anyone else had been hurt, Jiang Ming declared that he was the only one who had been injured.

Jiang Ming challenged the upperclassmen who had attacked him to a fight, and Zhou Yi took the students to watch as the contest drew the Outer Court’s attention. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming facing the Great Strength Bear soul master as the first match began.

• Jiang Ming said Huang Xuan and Li Hua had challenged him and called for a fight against them and the others.
• Huang Xuan, Li Hua, and several Martial Soul Department and Soul Tool Department students agreed to fight Jiang Ming.
• Zhou Yi approved the matches at the Battle Arena and brought Class One to watch.
• News of a first-year student challenging the entire Outer Court spread, filling the Battle Arena stands with spectators.
• Jiang Ming took the stage opposite the Great Strength Bear soul master, and the referee started the match.

Jiang Ming fought a Great Strength Bear soul master in a Shrek arena challenge, defeating him with overwhelming strength and speed without using a soul skill. The senior admitted defeat, while Jiang Ming was disappointed that his punch had not fully contained its force.

• The Great Strength Bear soul master released his Martial Soul and all three soul skills as he charged Jiang Ming.
• Huang Xuan, Li Hua, Zhang Wu, and the other spectators noticed that Jiang Ming's speed and stable soul power seemed unusual.
• Jiang Ming turned a palm clash into a punch that shredded the senior's sleeve and left his arm trembling with pain.
• Jiang Ming displayed his true speed, evaded the senior's counterattack, and struck him again while offering him a chance to surrender.
• Jiang Ming knocked the Great Strength Bear soul master several meters away, and the senior admitted defeat.