Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming defeated a succession of upperclassmen in the Battle Arena, drawing attention with his precise Soul Power control and overwhelming strength. After twenty-nine consecutive victories, he faced Huang Xuan, a Soul Ancestor, and charged at his fully fortified shield with a punch that made Huang Xuan fear he could not block it.

• Jiang Ming easily defeated a Great Strength Bear Soul Master, prompting Chen Wu to head for the arena to challenge him.
• Jiang Ming tore through a Plant System Soul Master's Azure Cloud Vine and made her surrender.
• Jiang Ming kept winning against Assault-, Control-, Agility-, and defensive-type opponents, growing more excited as his battle intent awakened.
• Dai Yueheng and Chen Zifeng counted Jiang Ming's victories at twenty-nine, and Huang Xuan entered as his first Soul Ancestor opponent.
• Jiang Ming confronted Huang Xuan over the Soul Ray that had hit him, then launched a powerful punch at Huang Xuan's fully activated Battle Shield.

Jiang Ming defeated Huang Xuan with a powerful unarmed strike, then asked to face multiple opponents at once. As ten Rank 3 Soul Masters from the Soul Tool Department entered the arena, Jiang Ming drew his Soul Tool Gatling and prepared to attack.

• Jiang Ming struck Huang Xuan with a punch whose power reached the level of a Soul King, and the referee intervened to prevent further harm.
• The referee declared Jiang Ming the winner, and Jiang Ming said his combat techniques had proved effective against opponents near his own level.
• Jiang Ming asked the referee to bring up several opponents at once and chose to fight ten Rank 3 Soul Masters from the Soul Tool Department.
• The referee started the match, and Jiang Ming drew his Soul Tool Gatling and told the ten Soul Masters to prepare for the storm.

Jiang Ming overwhelmed ten Rank 3 Soul Masters with two Gatling Soul Rays, forcing the referee to remove them from the arena one by one. He won the match after suppressing all ten opponents with overwhelming firepower.

• The ten Soul Masters defended against Jiang Ming’s six-barrel Gatling Soul Ray and split up to draw his fire while others attacked from the side.
• Jiang Ming blocked their attacks with his Blue Necklace, drew a second Gatling from his Storage Soul Tool, and fired twelve Soul Rays at once.
• The Soul Masters tried to evade and exhaust Jiang Ming, but he charged at the frontmost opponent and shattered his Defensive Soul Tool with a barrage.
• The referee intervened to protect the targeted Soul Master, then removed him from the arena after declaring him defeated.
• Jiang Ming switched targets and defeated the remaining Soul Masters in turn as the referee escorted each one off the stage.
• Jiang Ming won the ten-against-one match, and Zhou Yi smiled as she watched from the stands.

Jiang Ming defeated dozens of Outer Court students, then chose to face the remaining seventeen Soul Ancestors and Rank 4 Soul Engineers together after recovering. He began the group battle as the audience doubted he could survive it, while Xuan Zi watched confidently.

• Jiang Ming defeated the remaining Rank 3 Soul Masters from the Soul Tool Department, drawing cheers from first-year students and concern from upperclassmen.
• Xuan Zi arrived beside Zhou Yi, admired Jiang Ming's strength, and said Jiang Ming's Soul Power was likely nearly spent.
• Jiang Ming learned that ten Martial Soul Department Soul Ancestors and seven Soul Tool Department students remained, then chose to fight them all at once after resting.
• The referee teacher summoned another teacher for support, and Jiang Ming spent an hour recovering his Soul Power and stamina.
• Jiang Ming told the referee to begin, and the referee brought all seventeen senior students onto the Battle Arena.
• The audience, including Zhou Yi, feared Jiang Ming would be overwhelmed, but Xuan Zi assured Zhou Yi that he would prevent anyone from getting hurt.

Jiang Ming fought the Martial Soul Department’s seniors and defeated Yan Hun and Chen Wu with Soul Tools and soul skills. The other students and Xuan Zi watched in shock as Jiang Ming revealed an unfamiliar ability.

• Jiang Ming accepted the match against more than a dozen Soul Ancestors, and Yan Hun stepped forward to test him alone.
• Jiang Ming fired his Gatling Soul Rays and quickly knocked Yan Hun out, surprising him by using Soul Tools.
• Chen Wu challenged Jiang Ming as the Martial Soul Department’s strongest Outer Court student, and Jiang Ming urged him to bring more opponents.
• Chen Wu attacked with his Gilded Blade, but Jiang Ming used his shield and Heart Tremor before unleashing a powerful pressure that disrupted Chen Wu’s attack.
• Jiang Ming punched Chen Wu unconscious, and the students and Xuan Zi watched in shock.

Jiang Ming faced the remaining Martial Soul Department and Soul Tool Department challengers after defeating Chen Wu, then fought all fifteen at once. He eliminated them with his enhanced strength, defensive skills, and Soul Tools, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Xuan Zi recognized Jiang Ming's attack as Mu En's signature technique, Ruler of the World, which had severely weakened Chen Wu.
• The remaining Martial Soul Department challengers and Soul Tool Department fighters decided to attack Jiang Ming together, and Xuan Zi watched as Referee Teacher prepared to intervene.
• Jiang Ming charged with all three soul rings activated, boosting his strength to near Soul Emperor level and forcing his opponents to switch to hit-and-run tactics.
• Jiang Ming used Golden Light to stun his opponents and knocked two Soul Masters out before their combined ranged attacks struck his defenses.
• Jiang Ming blocked most of the barrage with Golden Shield and a Rank 4 Soul Shield, then took out a Flying Soul Tool and bombarded the field with Soul Tools.
• Xuan Zi carried away the defeated fighters, and Jiang Ming eliminated the last four opponents as the spectators fell silent.

Jiang Ming celebrated defeating the Outer Court’s upper-year students as Xuan Zi and Zhou Yi discussed the effects of his victory and the conflict between the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department. The chapter left Jiang Ming content with his steady cultivation and unhurried approach to growth.

• Jiang Ming rested after defeating the Outer Court’s upper-year students, while teachers treated the injured students, including Huang Xuan and Chen Wu.
• Xuan Zi praised Jiang Ming’s unprecedented victory and told him he had become a legend of the Outer Court.
• Zhou Yi worried that Jiang Ming’s victory had crushed the students’ confidence, but Xuan Zi said the experience would test their resolve.
• Jiang Ming asked about the conflict between the Martial Soul Department and the Soul Tool Department, and Zhou Yi explained that a teacher’s remark had sparked unrest that the academy was addressing.
• Xuan Zi warned Jiang Ming not to neglect martial soul cultivation, and Jiang Ming replied that he was content to temper himself rather than rush his Soul Power growth.

After his day off in the Battle Arena, Jiang Ming returned to the Soul Tool Department and successfully made a Rank 5 Soul Ray, becoming a thirteen-year-old Rank Five Soul Tool Master. Fan Yu praised his achievement but told him to rest at home before taking on more difficult research.

• Jiang Ming realized he had spent his only day off in the Battle Arena, then went to the Canteen for a meal and slept through the night.
• Xuan Zi praised Jiang Ming as a future powerhouse, while Zhou Yi showed her pride in him.
• Teacher Zhou told Class One that Jiang Ming was far, far ahead of the other first-year students.
• Jiang Ming completed a Core Magic Array and assembled it into a Rank 5 Soul Ray, astonishing Fan Yu and the other Soul Masters.
• Jiang Ming tested the Soul Ray on Black Profound Iron and noted that its shot consumed a tenth of his Soul Power.
• Jiang Ming offered to work on fitting Milk Bottles to Soul Rays, but Fan Yu said the Soul Tool Production Line came first and urged him to go home and rest.

Jiang Ming attended class before vacation, where Zhou Yi announced a demanding Upgrade Assessment that would require the class’s top students to prepare during the break. After saying goodbye to his friends and colleagues at Shrek Academy, Jiang Ming set off for home in the Far North, unaware that a difficult battle was about to begin in Clear Water City.

• Jiang Ming reunited with Dai Yueheng, Chen Zifeng, Xixi, and Ling Luochen, and joked that he had been working on something that could change Douluo Continent.
• Dai Yueheng warned Chen Zifeng that Shrek Academy vacations were not meant for resting.
• Zhou Yi announced an Upgrade Assessment with a special assessment for three to seven students, prompting the class’s top students to plan extra training.
• Jiang Ming said goodbye to Zhou Yi, Mu En, and the Soul Engineers at the Top Secret Laboratory before leaving Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming ran toward his home in the Far North, while a difficult battle was about to begin in Clear Water City.

Jiang Ming returned to Clear Water City after a year away and discovered that a massive Beast Tide was attacking it. As he reached the city wall, he saw more than a thousand soul beasts surging toward the city, apparently fleeing something worse behind them.

• Nie Heng worried that reports of rioting soul beasts in the Far North could lead to a Beast Tide reaching Clear Water City.
• A human Soul Master’s dark aura corrupted the Snow Demon Wolf King, which grew stronger, went berserk, and attacked its pack.
• The fleeing Snow Demon Wolves stirred up other soul beasts, setting off a Beast Tide that spread toward Clear Water City.
• Jiang Ming arrived near Clear Water City after running from Shrek Academy and learned from a departing Soul Master that a Beast Tide was attacking.
• Jiang Ming flew onto the city wall and saw over a thousand soul beasts charging toward Clear Water City, with even more behind them.

A Beast Tide of over a thousand Soul Beasts attacked Clear Water City, and Jiang Ming used Level 4 Fixed Soul Cannons to help protect the city and rescue Nie Heng. The artillery fire scattered the charging beasts while Nie Heng fought the strongest enemies.

• Jiang Ming learned that Nie Heng was fighting several powerful thousand-year Soul Beasts, including a Snow Demon Wolf nearing ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Zhang Hu went to reinforce Nie Heng, but Jiang Ming stopped him and brought out twenty crates containing one hundred Level 4 Fixed Soul Cannonballs.
• Jiang Ming fired a cannon at a Snow Leopard Soul Beast, giving Nie Heng an opening to unleash his Martial Soul Avatar and tear a beast apart.
• Zhang Hu gathered five Soul Masters who could use Level 4 Soul Cannons, and Jiang Ming directed them to target the Soul Beasts behind Nie Heng and keep them from reaching the city wall.
• Jiang Ming and the five Soul Masters unleashed sustained artillery fire, blasting the charging Soul Beasts and forcing them to scatter.

Jiang Ming left the city wall to help Nie Heng fight a nearly ten-thousand-year Snow Demon Wolf, using his Soul Skills and Soul Tool to help Nie Heng tear it apart. The Beast Tide then stopped as a powerful evil aura rushed toward Clear Water City from the Far North.

• Jiang Ming flew into the battlefield with his Rank 5 Soul Ray while Zhang Hu covered him with cannon fire.
• Jiang Ming wounded the Snow Demon Wolf, then used his defenses and skills to seize it and hurl it toward Nie Heng.
• Nie Heng caught the Snow Demon Wolf and tore it in half, and he praised Jiang Ming’s progress before warning that a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast might appear.
• The Beast Tide halted, and a powerful evil aura rushed out of the Far North behind the Soul Beasts.

A corrupted Snow Demon Wolf King led a Beast Tide toward the city, forcing Nie Heng and Jiang Ming to defend the walls. The Wolf King reached Jiang Ming, who stunned it with the Radiant Holy Dragon and Ruler of the World and aimed his Soul Ray at its open mouth.

• Nie Heng sensed a powerful Soul Beast approaching and took Jiang Ming back to the city wall as the Beast Tide advanced.
• Jiang Ming and Nie Heng recognized the bloodied, black-eyed Snow Demon Wolf King as a likely victim of an Evil Soul Master’s corruption.
• Jiang Ming gave Nie Heng a more efficient Milk Bottle and fired his Soul Ray at the charging Wolf King, but it dodged.
• Nie Heng charged the Wolf King, which split into three illusions and then raced up the city wall toward Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming summoned the Radiant Holy Dragon and used Ruler of the World to stun the Wolf King, then aimed his Soul Ray at its open mouth.

Jiang Ming and Little Light fought to hold off the fifty-thousand-year Snow Demon Wolf King while Nie Heng hurried to join them. The wolf bypassed Little Light and leaped toward Jiang Ming, prompting Little Light to use Dragon God's Swift Light to intercept it.

• Jiang Ming's Rank 5 Soul Ray mangled the Snow Demon Wolf King's jaws, and Nie Heng struck it back across the ground.
• The Snow Demon Wolf King turned black, recovered its strength, and charged toward Jiang Ming on the city wall.
• Jiang Ming jumped from the wall and used his Flying Soul Tool to draw the wolf away from the city.
• Little Light told Jiang Ming it could fight the wolf to a draw through its Light Power and bloodline advantage, and said the wolf's Darkness Power could help Little Dark evolve.
• Jiang Ming sent Little Light to hold off the wolf while he fired Rank 4 Soul Rays from the air and recovered Soul Power with a Milk Bottle.
• The Snow Demon Wolf King turned pitch-black, leaped toward Jiang Ming, and Little Light used Dragon God's Swift Light to intercept it.

Jiang Ming, Little Light, and Nie Heng defeated the fifty-thousand-year Snow Demon Wolf King, but Jiang Ming was gravely wounded in the fight. After the wolf king died, Jiang Ming insisted that he wanted to absorb its soul ring, leaving Nie Heng shocked and angry.

• Little Light used Divine Light Descends to stop the Snow Demon Wolf King from pouncing on Jiang Ming, then fought it until Nie Heng arrived.
• Jiang Ming lured the Snow Demon Wolf King toward Nie Heng, but the wolf king accelerated and bit into Jiang Ming's shoulder.
• Jiang Ming used a Level 4 Fixed Soul Cannonball and Soul Shield to propel himself and the wolf king toward Nie Heng, who pried the wolf king's jaws open.
• Little Light pierced the Snow Demon Wolf King's mouth with a beam of light and killed it, leaving behind a black soul ring.
• Jiang Ming told Nie Heng that he wanted to absorb the fifty-thousand-year soul ring, and Nie Heng angrily called him crazy.

Jiang Ming began absorbing the Snow Demon Wolf King's Fifty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, diverting most of its energy to help Little Dark evolve. After enduring the wolf king's soul shock and completing the absorption, he gained a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his Golden Heart Martial Soul before collapsing from exhaustion.

• Jiang Ming explained to Nie Heng that Little Dark would absorb most of the Snow Demon Wolf King's Soul Ring energy, and Nie Heng hurried to fetch Chen Lan.
• Jiang Ming ordered Little Dark to absorb the ring while he meditated, but the Snow Demon Wolf King's soul attacked him in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Little Light and Little Ice joined Jiang Ming to resist the wolf king's soul shock as Little Dark filtered the energy and evolved.
• Nie Heng and Chen Lan arrived to find Jiang Ming still absorbing the Soul Ring, and Nie Heng stopped Chen Lan from treating him until the process ended.
• Jiang Ming gained a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his Golden Heart Martial Soul, asked Nie Heng to examine the Snow Demon Wolf King's body, and fainted as Chen Lan prepared to treat him.

After recovering from the Beast Tide, Jiang Ming learned that the Snow Demon Wolf King had carried a Spirit Bone and an Evil Soul Master's corpse, and he persuaded Nie Heng to absorb the bone. Jiang Ming then planned to sneak into the Far North to find what Little Ice needed for its Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring evolution.

• Jiang Ming woke in Clear Water City, and Chen Lan examined his wounds and ordered him to rest for two months.
• Jiang Ming visited the Military Infirmary and resolved to arm Clear Water City once the Soul Tool Production Line was complete.
• Nie Heng showed Jiang Ming a Spirit Bone from the Snow Demon Wolf King and explained that an Evil Soul Master’s corpse might have caused the Beast Tide.
• Jiang Ming insisted that Nie Heng absorb the Spirit Bone, which raised Nie Heng's Soul Power to Rank 75.
• Jiang Ming planned to sneak into the Far North to find ten-thousand-year ice-attributed Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for Little Ice's evolution.

Jiang Ming used Little Dark’s Darkness Concealment to enter the Far North’s inner region and followed Little Ice’s senses to a hidden cave beneath an iceberg. There, he found many Ice Silkworm Phantom Crystals and a powerful ice-attribute presence, while Little Ice spotted a large worm.

• Jiang Ming traveled toward the Far North’s inner region under Little Dark’s concealment, avoiding a passing Snowfield Giant Bear.
• Little Ice sensed Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, guiding Jiang Ming to an iceberg and a concealed cave entrance.
• Jiang Ming broke through the iceberg, entered the cave, and discovered a bed-like piece of Mystic Ice surrounded by Ice Silkworm Phantom Crystals.
• Jiang Ming found no trace of the ten-thousand-year ice silkworm that had produced the crystals.
• Little Ice called Jiang Ming over after spotting a large worm above the Mystic Ice.

Jiang Ming captured an ice silkworm in the Book of Spirits, helped Little Ice complete its evolution, and collected treasures in the Far North before nearly dying to a powerful Ice Jade Scorpion. After recovering in Clear Water City, he left by carriage to return to Shrek Academy as his holiday ended.

• Jiang Ming had Little Ice store the sleeping ice silkworm in the Book of Spirits and collected the cave's Ice Silkworm Phantom Crystals.
• Little Ice absorbed the remaining Ice Marrow, completed its evolution, and Jiang Ming stored the Mystic Ice.
• Jiang Ming encountered a thirty-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion during his treasure hunt and barely survived with help from Little Ice, Little Dark, and Little Light.
• Jiang Ming returned to Clear Water City after five days and fainted, then woke covered in bandages with Mo Xiaoyu watching over him.
• Chen Lan and Nie Heng told Jiang Ming his holiday was ending and arranged a carriage for his return to Shrek Academy.
• Jiang Ming set off for Shrek Academy in the carriage the next day.

Jiang Ming returned to Shrek Academy after spending the holiday recovering from severe injuries, while his friends waited to see how much stronger he had become. His wheelchair-bound arrival left them stunned as the new term began.

• Jiang Ming rode back to Shrek Academy in a carriage, playing mahjong in his Sea of Consciousness with Little Light, Little Dark, and Little Ice and losing repeatedly.
• The two coachmen watched Jiang Ming lie quietly in the carriage and wondered why the City Lord had warned them about his troublesome habits.
• Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng waited at Shrek Academy's entrance, and Dai Yueheng admitted he wanted to see how Jiang Ming's strength compared with his own.
• Chen Zifeng, Xixi, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan joined Ling Luochen and Dai Yueheng at the academy gate to wait for Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming arrived before sunset in a wheelchair, unable to raise a hand because his injuries had not healed, and greeted the six waiting students.