Chapter Summaries

At Shrek Academy, Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong discovered that they could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, while Tian Meng sensed divine powers emerging from both of them. The fusion concealed Huo Yuhao’s Rakshasa God Power from the two observers, as Wang Dong’s blue-gold divine power suppressed its evil aura.

• Wang Dong entered her dormitory, met Huo Yuhao, and felt an inexplicable attraction to him.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao that she sensed they had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and they went outside to test it.
• Yan Shaozhe and Mu En watched as Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong entered the woods and joined hands.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong embraced as their Soul Powers reacted and a sphere of light enveloped them.
• Tian Meng recognized their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and sensed Huo Yuhao’s Rakshasa God Power and Wang Dong’s blue-gold divine power.

After Shrek Academy targeted Su Ming and tried to take Huo Yuhao from him, Du Busi confronted the academy and fought Mu En. Mu En's failing health deteriorated as the battle began, while Tang Ya, Bei Bei, Huo Yuhao, and Wang Dong watched below.

• Du Busi arrived with two Level 96 Super Douluo and warned Su Ming that borrowing too much power could destroy him.
• Du Busi flew over Shrek Academy and demanded that Xuan Zi appear, accusing the academy of bullying his disciple and trying to take a Body Sect disciple.
• Mu En rose to defend Shrek Academy despite his failing health and clashed with Du Busi, who unleashed his Gold-tier Second Awakening and poisonous power.
• Mu En used King's Descent, but Su Ming saw that Mu En's health was nearly depleted and continuously falling.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei regretted their roles in the conflict, while Huo Yuhao woke and watched the battle with Wang Dong.

As Du Busi and Mu En faced off above Shrek Academy, Su Ming approached the Body Martial Soul twins Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo and recruited them for the Body Sect. Lan Susu agreed after securing Su Ming’s promise to cover their debts, then revealed that Heaven Dou City’s lord had arranged their recommendation to Shrek Academy.

• The Body Sect elders and Shrek’s Sea God Pavilion elders confronted one another in the sky while Su Ming considered the Body Sect’s plans and the coming conflict over Spiritual Metal.
• Su Ming spotted Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, recognized their Body Martial Souls, and asked whether they had joined Shrek Academy.
• Lan Susu denied that they had joined Shrek and asked what would happen if they refused to join the Body Sect.
• Su Ming told the sisters they would join regardless, but welcomed their conditions; Lan Susu asked the Body Sect to repay one million Gold Soul Coins for each sister.
• Lan Susu explained that Heaven Dou City’s lord had offered them recommendation letters on the condition that they join Shrek Academy, despite their ordinary backgrounds.

Su Ming watched Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo join Shrek as Mu En confronted Du Busi over Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya. The Golden Ancient Tree urged Mu En to protect Huo Yuhao and warned him not to provoke Du Busi’s impending breakthrough, while Su Ming revealed that the Spiritual Alloy he forged for Du Busi contained the Body Sect’s accumulated Faith.

• Su Ming questioned Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo about their hair Martial Souls, and Lan Luoluo accidentally revealed that the twins had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Mu En and Du Busi halted their battle, but Du Busi demanded that Shrek hand over Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya.
• The Golden Ancient Tree awakened and urged Mu En to protect Huo Yuhao, then warned him not to provoke Du Busi because he was close to breaking through.
• Tang San searched Shrek City through the Golden Ancient Tree, grew furious that he could not find his target, and discovered Faith tied to the Body Sect within Du Busi.
• Su Ming suspected that the Spiritual Alloy he had forged for Du Busi, made with the Body Sect’s accumulated Faith, could help trigger Du Busi’s breakthrough.

Du Busi negotiated with Mu En over Huo Yuhao and Shrek’s responsibility for Su Ming’s hunting, securing a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and a promise of future support. After the Body Sect left Shrek City, Su Ming joined Du Busi and introduced Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, sisters with Body Martial Souls.

• Du Busi and Mu En clashed over whether the Body Sect could take Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, and Tang Ya, then agreed Huo Yuhao could join the Body Sect after graduating from Shrek Academy.
• Du Busi threatened to hunt Shrek’s Supervisory Team unless Shrek answered for the two Soul Emperors who had hunted Su Ming.
• Mu En offered Du Busi a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and promised Shrek Academy would unconditionally support the Body Sect once, provided it did not endanger the Soul Master World.
• Du Busi accepted the wooden box containing the soul bone and left Shrek City with Lei Zhen and the other elders, warning that he would return yearly to check on Huo Yuhao.
• Su Ming left the city with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, then reunited with Du Busi and explained that he had brought the sisters, who had Body Martial Souls, back with him.

Du Busi welcomed Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo into the Body Sect after learning of their rare talents, then discovered that the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone Mu En had given him was made from evil energy. Electrolux drove away Tang San’s covert divine sense as he began explaining the bone’s origin.

• Du Busi happily accepted Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo into the Body Sect after learning they had Body Martial Souls, exceptional cultivation, a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and telepathy.
• Lan Susu told Du Busi how the Lord of Heaven Dou City had treated them, and Du Busi promised to handle the matter of compensation.
• Du Busi opened Mu En’s wooden box and found that the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was saturated with Resentment and Baleful Qi, prompting Lei Zhen to destroy the blood qi around it.
• Mu En revealed that the soul bone had been created through an evil secret technique by a soul master seeking the cultivation speed of Evil Soul Masters.
• Electrolux sensed Tang San using Mu En to locate Su Ming, drove away Tang San’s divine sense, and began explaining the soul bone’s origin.

Su Ming and Electrolux examined a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and concluded that it had been created through a secret method that fused the soul bones and soul rings of nine species. Su Ming asked to test and possibly absorb it, but Du Busi refused, suspecting it came from a powerful Evil Soul Master and warning that its Soul Power amplification could be dangerous.

• Electrolux analyzed the soul bone and told Su Ming it had been formed by fusing nine kinds of soul bones with the soul rings of hundreds of beasts from each species.
• Su Ming recognized that the soul bone was likely a Top-grade Secret Method Soul Bone, while Electrolux noted its concentrated Resentment and Evil Qi.
• Su Ming asked Electrolux whether he could absorb the soul bone after its evil energy was purified, and Electrolux agreed he could help.
• Du Busi refused to let Su Ming try the soul bone and recalled that it might have belonged to an Evil Soul Master who had reached Rank 95 before Mu En killed him.
• Su Ming suggested suppressing the soul bone's evil energy and absorbing it alongside a Light Attribute soul bone, but Du Busi warned that its Soul Power amplification could cause trouble.

Su Ming learned that Du Busi would study the Hundred Thousand Year Secret Method Soul Bone and save it for when Su Ming condensed his Second Soul Core. Du Busi sent Su Ming back to prepare for study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, while Mu En revealed Shrek’s looming loss of its protector and learned that a Soul Engineer had sold Spiritual Metal.

• Du Busi agreed to research removing the soul bone’s Baleful Qi and advised Su Ming to wait until he was ready to condense his Second Soul Core before fusing with it.
• Du Busi sent Lei Zhen and Eight Arms back to Gengxin City, then ordered Su Ming to return to Snow Demon Mountain and prepare to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and enter Mingde Hall.
• Du Busi left for Heaven Dou City to settle compensation for Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, while Su Ming wondered whether the city lord would receive the two million Gold Soul Coins.
• Mu En told the Sea God Pavilion Elders that he would die within a year and that his power would be merged into the Golden Ancient Tree, Shrek’s final safeguard.
• Lin HuiQun reported that nine pieces of Spiritual Metal had been auctioned in Star Luo City and that a Soul Engineer had consigned them, prompting Mu En to grow concerned.

Mu En pushed Shrek to support the Soul Tool System after examining Spiritual Metal, while Su Ming returned to the Body Sect and prepared to go home and enroll in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. He planned to use the move to Mingdu to evade Tang San’s surveillance, but Electrolux warned that blocking divine sense would require more Faith than Su Ming possessed.

• Mu En ordered Qian Duoduo to study Spiritual Metal and granted the Soul Tool System five unconditional student admissions, with at least three guaranteed slots in future classes.
• Yan Shaozhe examined the Spiritual Silver, recognized its potential, and proposed testing it with a Level 8 Soul Tool; Mu En tasked Lin Huiqun with finding the metal’s source and Forging techniques.
• Su Ming returned to the Body Sect, saw its disciples training in Forging, and told Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo to settle in and choose sect elders as masters if they wished.
• Su Yun told Su Ming that he had waited three months to take him home and that his mother had enrolled him in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Su Ming decided to return home and head toward Mingdu to avoid Tang San’s surveillance, then learned from Electrolux that blocking divine sense with an array required Faith, which Su Ming lacked.

Su Ming agreed to let Electrolux use faith to hinder Tang San’s surveillance, while Electrolux began studying how to draw on the Body Sect’s and Mingde Hall’s accumulated faith. In Heaven Dou City, Du Busi attacked City Lord Shi Yang and learned that five Body Martial Soul possessors had been sent to Shrek Academy for a project led by Elder Xuan.

• Su Ming realized he did not need to constantly guard against Tang San because Electrolux could detect and block his probes, then agreed to Electrolux’s plan to interfere with divine sense using faith.
• Su Ming suggested that Electrolux draw on the Body Sect’s or Mingde Hall’s accumulated faith, and Electrolux agreed to research how to use it.
• Du Busi arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion in Heaven Dou City and severely injured Shi Yang before demanding to know how many Body Martial Soul possessors he had sent to Shrek Academy.
• Shi Yang told Du Busi that five Body Martial Soul possessors, including Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, had been sent to Shrek for its research and training project.
• Shi Yang identified Elder Xuan as the project’s leader and explained that he had sent the five after the Tang Sect was destroyed and he was caught in the aftermath.

Su Ming and Du Busi dealt with Shrek’s recruitment of Body Martial Soul geniuses and planned to press the Three Great Empires over their cooperation with Shrek. Du Busi received Su Ming’s collected life force to heal his hidden injuries, while Su Ming asked Electrolux how to fuse with the Spirit Blade.

• Shi Yang told Du Busi that he had lost track of three Body Martial Soul geniuses and guessed that Shrek had sent them to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi spared Shi Yang but ordered him to find ten Soul Masters with Body Martial Souls within three years.
• Du Busi told Su Ming that Shrek had taken eight qualifying Body Martial Soul geniuses and planned to inform the elders and meet with the Three Great Empires.
• Su Ming gave Du Busi a metal box containing life force collected while forging, and Du Busi realized it could heal his hidden injuries.
• Su Ming asked Electrolux whether the life force could help Du Busi break through and how to fuse with the Spirit Blade.

Su Ming learned that Electrolux could use the Spirit Blade’s Life Gold to help him develop more Dantians after he formed Dual Soul Cores. Back home, Su Ming prepared to hunt for a Silver Moon Wolf King’s Soul Ring in the Jingyang Mountain Range, while wondering how the future would change.

• Electrolux told Su Ming that Life Gold could enhance aspects tied to his life’s origin and might open additional Dantians, but he needed to restore his strength first.
• Su Ming returned to the Su Family and learned that Su Can had joined Mingde Hall to pursue advancement as a Rank 9 Soul Engineer.
• Su Yun said the family would soon take Su Ming to the Jingyang Mountain Range to resolve his long-delayed Third Soul Ring.
• Su Ming explained that he wanted a Silver Moon Wolf King’s Soul Ring for its Six Elements control and likely passive Soul Power Amplification effect.
• After spending two days at home, Su Ming entered meditation and wondered what changes would occur in the future.

Su Ming examined how paradoxes had split the past and future into illusory histories, and resolved to avoid reckless changes. Dou Yi Su Ming found that borrowing power extended his illusory future by about one year, leaving him determined to prepare carefully before connecting with Dou Er.

• Present Su Ming saw that his future history had become illusory and warned himself that too many paradoxes could destabilize his future self.
• Present Su Ming concluded that he should avoid exploring altered histories and focus on using future resources to grow stronger.
• Dou Yi Su Ming found that his illusory history now contained five hundred years of future.
• Dou Yi Su Ming shattered an illusory Thousand-Year Soul Ring and borrowed all the Soul Power of Dou Er Su Ming and Dou San Su Ming, extending his history by about one year.
• In Gengxin City, Dou Yi Su Ming decided to pursue further extension but not connect with Dou Er rashly.

Su Ming reflected on Borrowed Power’s slow progress and the forging advances made by his other selves and disciples. Miles abandoned his plan to seize the Blacksmith Association and sought cooperation from Pope’s Palace, while Su Ming arrived at Zhu Jiuyang’s forging room considering the association’s next reforms.

• Su Ming calculated that his use of Borrowed Power had been too infrequent to explain the illusory future’s extension and considered that other factors were involved.
• Dou Yi Su Ming replicated Spiritual Forging thirty-six times through technique alone, with Little Gold helping him, while Dou Er Su Ming and Dou San Su Ming also continued advancing their forging skills.
• Miles recognized that Zhu Jiuyang controlled the new Spiritual Forging technique and decided he lacked the influence to take over the Blacksmith Association.
• Miles arranged for Pope’s Palace to discuss cooperation and limited his own claim to discovering the technique and contributing manpower.
• Su Ming reviewed the Association’s progress, including Zhu Jiuyang and Duan Jin becoming Forging Masters and more than ten blacksmiths obtaining Soul Spirits, then headed to Zhu Jiuyang’s forging room.

Su Ming helped Zhu Jiuyang advance toward Spiritual Forging while explaining why he needed another person to master the technique for protection. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong examined Spiritual Metal and considered how Spirit Hall should approach Zhu Jiuyang about cooperation.

• Su Ming waited outside Zhu Jiuyang's Forge Room, then analyzed Zhu Jiuyang's failed Spiritual Forging attempt and gave him a way to correct his mistake.
• Su Ming told Zhu Jiuyang that his mastery of Spiritual Forging would help protect him by preventing anyone from monopolizing the technique, and Zhu Jiuyang urged him to remain under his protection.
• Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang spent three days taking turns attempting Spiritual Forging, and Zhu Jiuyang rapidly learned from their failures.
• Bibi Dong examined the Spiritual Metal sent by Miles, and Yue Guan judged that it could eventually transform the Soul Master World.
• Bibi Dong discussed Spirit Hall's possible cooperation with Zhu Jiuyang, and Yue Guan offered to approach him on her behalf.

Bibi Dong approved Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s plan to negotiate with the Blacksmith Association and preserve the balance between the empires. In Gengxin City, Tang Hao felt killing intent toward Xiao Ming’s Forge Shop, while Zhu Jiuyang attempted Spirit Forging and produced a brilliant pillar of Spirituality.

• Yue Guan explained that Spirit Hall needed to build ties with both empires to prevent Star Luo from gaining an advantage, and Bibi Dong approved negotiations with Zhu Jiuyang.
• Tang Hao arrived in Gengxin City, felt inexplicable killing intent toward Xiao Ming’s Forge Shop, and left to investigate the city and search for Spiritual Metal.
• Su Ming urged Zhu Jiuyang to use Blood Sacrifice, and Zhu Jiuyang’s Rare Metal produced three chi of Spirituality light.
• Zhu Jiuyang fused his Fire Spirit martial soul with the metal as he forged, exhausting himself while awakening a spark of life within it.
• Su Ming called out to Zhu Jiuyang when the metal’s Spirituality began to fade, and Zhu Jiuyang struck the metal with sacred flames, sending a dazzling pillar of light into the sky.

Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang identified Soul Forging as a realm beyond Spirit Forging and concluded that mastering Fusion Forging was essential to reaching it. As the Blacksmith Association attracted scrutiny, Su Ming called in Sword Douluo Chen Xin’s promised intervention, while Ning Yuan prepared to end the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s recruitment privileges.

• Zhu Jiuyang shared his forging breakthrough with Su Ming, who named the realm Soul Forging and urged him to focus first on Fusion Forging.
• Su Ming reasoned that fusing metals with compatible traits could produce the talents needed for Soul Forging, and Zhu Jiuyang began considering how to expand the association’s access to rare metals.
• After twelve pieces of Spiritual Metal were auctioned, Su Ming sensed that other factions were watching the Blacksmith Association and asked Chen Xin to use his promised intervention to help Zhu Jiuyang hunt Soul Beasts.
• Ning Yuan recalled Ning Fengzhi’s instructions to use Chen Xin as leverage, but recognized that the intervention fulfilled an existing deal rather than creating a favor owed.
• Ning Yuan concluded that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would lose its priority recruitment rights after Chen Xin intervened, and anticipated that Su Ming would teach Spirit Infusion techniques beyond the association.

Ning Yuan explained the risks and requirements of learning Thousand Forgings with Spirit to the Seven Treasure faction’s blacksmiths, while Ning Fengzhi assessed the sect’s growing advantage in the Blacksmith Association. The sect prepared to develop Forging talent quickly, though Ning Fengzhi believed its early knowledge of Soul Spirits could give it a decisive lead.

• Ning Yuan asked the blacksmiths how well they had communicated with their Soul Spirits, then explained that only those meeting the former Master Level standard could apply to learn Spirit Infusion and Thousand Forgings with Spirit.
• Ning Tianya argued that he should be able to learn Thousand Forgings with Spirit after mastering only Hundred Forgings, but Ning Yuan warned that practicing it prematurely could injure Soul Spirits and hinder Soul Power cultivation.
• Ning Yuan advised the blacksmiths to master Thousand Forgings with Ordinary Metal and alloys first, then explained that successful Thousand Forgings with Spirit would eventually benefit both the Soul Spirit and its Soul Master.
• Ning Fengzhi praised Ning Yuan’s handling of events in Gengxin City, while Gu Rong suggested that the sect could take over the Blacksmith Association.
• Ning Fengzhi defended the sect’s need to preserve its reputation and noted that it had secured part of the Association’s procurement, recruited talented blacksmiths, and learned early about the effects of Soul Spirits.

Ning Fengzhi explained why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would support the spread of Soul Spirits and the Blacksmith Association’s technologies. In Gengxin City, Tang Hao killed Miles while seeking information about Spiritual Forging, then waited outside the Blacksmith Association for a chance to learn who possessed the technique.

• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that Soul Spirits should become standard for sect disciples, but the sect would not interfere with Ning Yuan or try to monopolize the technology.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to leave for the Heaven Dou Royal Family so it would not fall behind the Star Luo Empire in Spiritual Metal.
• Tang Hao seized Miles in the Martial Soul Main Hall and asked when Spirit Hall’s people would reach Gengxin City and who possessed Spiritual Forging technology.
• Miles identified Zhu Jiuyang as the likeliest person with the technique, and Tang Hao killed him before leaving through a window.
• Tang Hao approached the Blacksmith Association but stopped when he sensed sword intent, then resolved to question someone from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect about Spiritual Forging.

After Miles was found dead, the Blacksmith Association debated who had killed the Platinum Bishop and what it meant for their plans to remain neutral. Chen Xin’s intelligence pointed suspicion toward the Star Luo Empire, with Star Cloud Douluo emerging as the likeliest suspect.

• Gengxin City Lord Zhao Tieshan sealed the city after Miles’s death and suspected that a rival was targeting him and the Blacksmith Association.
• Zhu Jiuyang denied killing Miles and discussed how the murder could affect the Association’s neutrality and upcoming cooperation.
• Su Ming suggested Spirit Hall might have staged the killing to gain leverage in negotiations, while Duan Jin raised the possibility of an ordinary revenge killing.
• Ning Yuan assured the Association that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was not responsible, and Chen Xin revealed that a Titled Douluo had passed through Gengxin City two days earlier.
• Chen Xin explained that the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluo could have reached Gengxin City in time and identified Star Cloud Douluo as the likeliest assassin.