Chapter Summaries

Su Ming impressed the Sun Moon Empire training camp by reaching Soul Power Level 37 at eleven through cultivation, prompting Director Gao to arrange a team battle to assess him. Meanwhile, Su Can told Jing Hongchen that he had successfully created a Rank 9 Soul Tool, the Skyfire Cover, and shared its test results.

• Su Ming introduced himself as a Level 37 Soul Master and Fourth-level Soul Engineer, surprising Ma Rulong and the others with his age and cultivation.
• Su Ming explained that he had not used cultivation medicine, though he had eaten Whale Rubber and absorbed high-age Soul Rings to increase his Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized Su Ming’s cultivation as a record-breaking achievement and became eager to test his strength.
• Director Gao arranged a six-versus-seven team battle, with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen on one side and Su Ming among the opposing team.
• Su Can told Jing Hongchen he had successfully designed a Rank 9 Soul Tool called the Skyfire Cover, which could attack with a fire dragon and create a defensive barrier.
• Su Can reported that the Skyfire Cover’s attack reached Level 92 and its defense reached Level 94 on Mingde Hall’s rating scale.

Su Can demonstrated his Rank 9 Skyfire Cover to Jing Hongchen and earned recognition as a Rank 9 Soul Engineer, though official registration remained pending. At the training grounds, Su Ming’s unusual Soul Tool combat style stunned the team during a match against Xiao Hongchen’s side.

• Jing Hongchen praised the Skyfire Cover’s attack, defense, and smooth combat flow after Su Can tested it in a demonstration.
• Su Can recalled the Skyfire Cover and explained that Spiritual Alloy and the Soul Tools fused into his body had helped him create it.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen chose their teammates, and both sides prepared for a training match with Su Ming and Ma Rulong as key fighters.
• Su Ming told Ma Rulong that his strength was around Rank 5 Soul Engineer level and that he fought by combining Soul Tools.
• When Director Gao started the battle, Su Ming revealed yellow, purple, and black Soul Rings, shocking everyone.
• Xiao Hongchen fired his eighty-one Soul Cannons at Su Ming, who summoned linked Light Cluster Soul Tools containing armor-like components.

Su Ming used a Star Tree Giant formed with seven armor pieces to defeat Xiao Hongchen with one blow, then unleashed his Third Soul Skill, the Domain of Chaos, which destroyed the team's elemental Soul Cannons. Director Gao agreed to seek reimbursement and let the team rebuild and upgrade their equipment.

• Su Ming assembled seven armor pieces around the Star Tree Spirit to form the upper body of a giant, then used it to withstand Xiao Hongchen's barrage and seize him.
• Su Ming flung Xiao Hongchen out of the arena with one blow, then recalled the armor and abandoned the inefficient fighting style.
• Su Ming activated his Third Soul Skill, Domain of Chaos, and caused the team's elemental Soul Cannons to malfunction and explode.
• Su Ming asked Director Gao whether the damaged equipment could be reimbursed, and Director Gao agreed to speak with the dean and give the team time to rebuild and upgrade their Soul Tools.

Su Ming’s attack destroyed the Sun Moon Royal Team’s Soul Tools, but Director Gao promised to seek reimbursement and postponed training so they could repair their equipment. Meanwhile, Su Can reached Rank 9 as Mu En’s condition worsened at Shrek Academy, where Xuan Zi finally returned alone.

• Director Gao suggested the team upgrade their Soul Tools and said he was confident the academy would reimburse their losses; he postponed special training for three months.
• Fireworks announced a Rank 9 Soul Engineer breakthrough, and Su Ming realized his grandfather, Su Can, had advanced and went to meet him.
• Xiao Hongchen welcomed the training delay because it gave him time to resume his research and said he could form Soul Cannons himself.
• At Sea God Pavilion, Mu En told Yan Shaozhe that he was nearing death but believed the academy was safe and Xuan Zi could still break through to Level 99.
• Xuan Zi returned to Sea God Pavilion alone, and Mu En grew alarmed when he noticed no one else with him.

Xuan Zi returned to Shrek after a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast killed eight of the twelve Inner Court students in Zhang Lexuan's group, leaving Mu En devastated. Zhang Lexuan survived and gained a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, and Mu En ordered Xuan Zi confined for ten years before calling the Pavilion Elders together to discuss his thoughts.

• Mu En saw Xuan Zi return alone and feared the worst for Zhang Lexuan and the Inner Court students.
• Xuan Zi confessed that his negligence had separated him from Zhang Lexuan's group, which a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast attacked; eight students died, Zhang Lexuan survived and killed the beast, and three others were left unable to cultivate or fight.
• Mu En collapsed after hearing about the students' condition, then learned Zhang Lexuan's Origin was intact and the Golden Ancient Tree's life force could help her recover within half a year.
• Mu En learned the academy had arranged support for the survivors and granted each an unconditional Inner Court place to give to a relative or friend.
• Mu En ordered Xuan Zi confined at the academy for ten years, with only coarse tea and plain food, until he subdued his Martial Soul's instincts.
• Mu En stopped Yan Shaozhe from sending everyone away and said he had thoughts to discuss with the Pavilion Elders.

Mu En rearranged Shrek Academy’s leadership to strengthen the Soul Tool System and pursue Spiritual Metal research before falling asleep from exhaustion. At Mingde Hall, Su Can revealed his Rank 9 Soul Engineer breakthrough and prepared for Su Ming to travel to the Douluo Three Kingdoms and support the Body Sect’s plans.

• Mu En appointed Yan Shaozhe to manage the Inner Court and Shrek Supervisory Team, moved Xian Lin'er to lead the Martial Soul System, and assigned Cai Mei'er to lead the Soul Tool System until Qian Duoduo qualified to take over.
• Mu En ordered Hui Qun to investigate Spiritual Metal’s source and directed the academy’s leaders to recruit talent and develop a new combat system using Spiritual Metal soul tools.
• Mu En fell asleep after making his arrangements, and Elder Zhuang said his life force had stabilized but he had lost at least another month of life.
• Su Can told Su Ming and Su Yun that he had become a Rank 9 Soul Engineer, though he still saw little chance of reaching the Titled Douluo rank himself.
• Su Can planned to seek smuggling authorization from Jing Hongchen so Su Ming could travel to the Douluo Three Kingdoms and coordinate with the Body Sect.
• Su Ming estimated that the earliest another blacksmith could master Thousand Forgings with Spirit was during the Soul Fighting Tournament, so Su Can said they would still rely on Su Ming to forge Spiritual Metal.

Su Ming arranged plans with Su Can and Su Yun for the Blacksmith Association and a Body Sect branch while preparing to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult. He asked Electrolux for help dealing with Evil Soul Masters, then decided to approach Nana as a way to contact the cult.

• Su Can explained that the Blacksmith Association should grow slowly because Su Ming was secretly supplying its Spiritual Metal, and he urged Su Ming to stay composed if his identity was exposed during the Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Su Ming asked Su Can to establish a Body Sect branch, while Su Yun reported that the Su Family had narrowed its search for abandoned Body Martial Soul masters to five people.
• Su Ming returned to the academy and explained his need to gather faith related to Evil Soul Masters to Electrolux, who promised to assist him if trouble arose.
• Su Ming decided he could learn from Ji Juechen's conceptual sword Martial Soul and planned to approach Nana, whose ghost Martial Soul could help him make contact with the Holy Spirit Cult.

Su Ming approached Nana, a fourteen-year-old Soul Ancestor and member of the Holy Spirit Cult, and told her that her Ghost Spirit might be a Body Martial Soul. He brought her to his dormitory to explain the Body Sect, leaving Nana cautiously considering whether it could offer her a way to save her parents.

• Su Ming waited for Nana near the teaching district and stopped her, identifying her Ghost Spirit as possibly a variant Body Martial Soul.
• Nana followed Su Ming to his dormitory after he claimed that people with Body Martial Souls were family in the Body Sect.
• Su Ming explained that he was overseeing the Body Sect’s expansion in the Sun Moon Realm.
• Nana questioned whether Su Ming was trustworthy and whether she could expose his identity without consequences.
• Su Ming affirmed that the Body Sect would not blame her for exposing him, and he reflected on the sect’s welcoming principle.

Su Ming told Nana that he wanted her to take him to the Holy Spirit Cult so he could study Evil Soul Masters, and he proved his claims with his soul rings and necromancy. Nana accepted his sincerity but warned him that the cult was more dangerous than he imagined.

• Nana confronted Su Ming about his motives, and he admitted he wanted to study Evil Soul Masters at the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Ming and Electrolux discussed studying the Evil Soul Masters’ rapid cultivation and adapting their methods into a better cultivation system.
• Su Ming revealed his yellow, purple, and black soul rings, convincing Nana that he was a powerful Body Sect member.
• Su Ming used Necromancy with Electrolux to draw away resentment and purify the Vengeful Spirits, earning Nana’s trust.
• Nana learned Su Ming’s name and warned him that a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold was extremely dangerous.

Nana agreed to cooperate with Su Ming and asked him to help rescue her parents, while Su Ming and Electrolux uncovered how the Holy Spirit Cult used Vengeful Spirits and their faith. Nana then took Su Ming to meet an Evil Soul Master in Mingdu, where they prepared to capture him.

• Nana agreed to cooperate with Su Ming and asked him to help rescue her parents, but proposed that they first capture an Evil Soul Master she knew.
• Su Ming decided they would need another faction, likely Mingde Hall, to take the blame if they destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult hideout.
• Electrolux concluded that the Holy Spirit Cult had created Vengeful Spirits to produce pure faith that could strengthen Evil Soul Masters, and connected Huo Yuhao's divine power to the Rakshasa God.
• Su Ming reasoned that Tang San had intended Huo Yuhao to carry Rakshasa God's power as part of his plans for the God of Emotion.
• Nana brought Su Ming to a concealed room in an underground casino in Mingdu, activated a barrier, and admitted a cloaked Evil Soul Master.
• The Evil Soul Master revealed his corpse-like appearance and mocked Nana for bringing a younger boy to confront him.

Su Ming let Electrolux take control of his body to fight the newly promoted Six-Ring Skeleton Evil Soul Master. Electrolux overwhelmed him with Purifying Fire and used Su Ming’s Domain of Chaos to trap him, leaving Nana and Su Ming stunned by the power of the technique.

• The Skeleton Evil Soul Master revealed that he had advanced to six Soul Rings, shocking Nana and forcing her to warn Su Ming to run.
• Su Ming summoned Electrolux to take control of his body rather than fight the Soul Emperor himself.
• Electrolux struck the Skeleton Evil Soul Master with Purifying Fire, which devoured his black flames and spread across his body.
• Electrolux activated Su Ming’s Domain of Chaos and distorted space, making the burning Skeleton Evil Soul Master spin in place instead of reaching him.
• Nana and Su Ming watched in astonishment as Electrolux demonstrated a use of the domain that Su Ming had never discovered.

After Electrolux killed the Skeleton Evil Soul Master, Su Ming examined the preserved martial soul and learned that its flaw had been repaired when it merged with its owner’s soul. Su Ming began to understand how Evil Martial Souls formed and wondered whether Body Martial Souls worked in the opposite way.

• Electrolux left Su Ming’s body after burning the Skeleton Evil Soul Master to ashes, and Su Ming checked on Nana.
• Su Ming found a tiny skeleton wrapped in Purifying Fire in his Sea of Consciousness and learned Electrolux had preserved it from the Evil Soul Master’s martial soul.
• Electrolux explained that the Evil Soul Master’s death and the Domain of Chaos had allowed him to strip the martial soul from the soul before burning the soul away.
• Su Ming learned the martial soul’s flaw had been repaired when it merged with its owner’s soul, then reasoned that Evil Martial Souls formed a barrier with the soul during their development.
• Su Ming considered whether Body Martial Souls also had a flaw, then realized they were likely the exact opposite of Evil Martial Souls.

Su Ming reconsidered how Body Martial Souls and Second Awakening worked, then returned to the academy with Nana after defeating the skeleton. Electrolux began modifying the Skeleton Martial Soul into an independent external Martial Soul and revealed that Su Ming’s physique made it unusually easy for him to gain faith.

• Su Ming reasoned that Body Martial Souls were immature souls attached to the body and that Second Awakening allowed soul and body to overlap.
• Su Ming and Nana left the scene and discussed killing another contact and eventually rescuing Nana’s parents, but Nana warned that the stronghold was too dangerous.
• Su Ming returned to the academy with Nana, then asked Electrolux to modify the Skeleton Martial Soul into an external Martial Soul that might accept Soul Rings.
• Electrolux said the Skeleton Martial Soul’s flaws had been repaired and that he would need about a month to modify it.
• Su Ming discovered a faint thread of faith from Nana, and Electrolux observed that Su Ming gained faith unusually easily because of his physique.

Su Ming realized he could gain Ranks through faith across the Time River, but discovered the Evil Soul Masters’ faith was tied to the Rakshasa God. Bibi Dong noticed someone with a Rakshasa Rank and began transferring some of the divine faith to them.

• Su Ming explained how future timeline deductions granted him a Rank that let him absorb faith across his different selves.
• Su Ming sensed Evil Soul Master faith in Mingdu, and Electrolux warned that its aura resembled the Rakshasa God’s divine power.
• Su Ming realized he had already absorbed some Rakshasa faith in the Dou Yi era and worried that the Rakshasa God had noticed.
• Bibi Dong felt the pressure of her Rakshasa inheritance ease and divided off some of its faith for the unknown Rank-holder to absorb.

Su Ming cautiously absorbed a tiny amount of faith and realized Bibi Dong was dividing it among competitors, while he and Electrolux worked out how Rakshasa Faith could accelerate cultivation without turning him into an Evil Soul Master. He left seclusion intending to experiment on Zhu Jiuyang, but Zhu Jiuyang introduced Poison Douluo, who had come to discuss cooperation.

• Su Ming tested the faith around Gengxin City and concluded that Bibi Dong was splitting it because his Rank made him a legitimate competitor for the Rakshasa God’s faith.
• Su Ming decided to absorb faith only drop by drop so Bibi Dong would not detect his location, and he began studying its uses.
• With Electrolux’s help, Su Ming learned that Rakshasa Faith could obscure a Martial Soul and loosen the soul’s restrictions, allowing soul power to grow faster without using Evil Soul Masters’ methods.
• Su Ming considered obscuring Zhu Jiuyang’s soul and searching for a safe way to stimulate his cultivation, but he had not found one after two days of thought.
• When Su Ming emerged from seclusion, Zhu Jiuyang introduced Poison Douluo, who had come to discuss cooperation with him.

Su Ming met Dugu Bo, who sought Spiritual Alloys to strengthen Dugu Yan’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul and manage her toxins. After learning the Blacksmith Association had developed only two alloys and possessed very little Nether Iron, Su Ming showed Dugu Bo a piece of his own high-grade forged Nether Iron, leaving him astonished by its Spirituality.

• Dugu Bo visited Su Ming and asked about the limits of his forging technique and the Spiritual Alloys the Blacksmith Association had developed.
• Zhu Jiuyang explained that the Association had created Jade Silver and Sunken Gold, but Dugu Bo was disappointed because neither suited his needs.
• Dugu Bo said he wanted an alloy that could enhance the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, and Su Ming suggested Nether Iron.
• Zhu Jiuyang revealed that the Association had fewer than ten pieces of Nether Iron, so Su Ming produced his own Thousand Forgings First Grade piece.
• Dugu Bo held Su Ming’s Nether Iron and was stunned by its dense Spirituality.

Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang discussed Thousand Forgings Nether Iron with Dugu Bo, who agreed to join the Blacksmith Association as an honorary elder to help it search for rare metal veins. After learning about Spiritual Forging, Dugu Bo offered to let them test it at a spiritual land, and Su Ming agreed to go with him.

• Dugu Bo examined Su Ming's Thousand Forgings Nether Iron and asked for more, but Zhu Jiuyang said the association needed to study it too.
• Dugu Bo offered to become an honorary elder so the Blacksmith Association could search more freely for rare metal veins, and Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang accepted.
• Su Ming showed Dugu Bo two additional Spiritual Alloys and explained the theory of Spiritual Forging and Spirit Forged Metal.
• Dugu Bo offered a spiritual land that might aid their forging, and Su Ming realized he meant the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Dugu Bo released a strand of Ice and Fire Power for Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang to examine, and both confirmed it could be used in Forging.
• Su Ming agreed to visit the spiritual land and attempt Spiritual Forging, and Dugu Bo promised to protect him.

After Dugu Bo joined the Blacksmith Association, Su Ming accompanied him to meet Prince Xue Xing and began discussing the safety and placement of the association’s members in Heaven Dou and Star Luo. Su Ming explained that separating the branches by empire could cause the association to split from within.

• Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang announced that Dugu Bo had become an honorary elder, settling unrest among the Blacksmith Association’s factions.
• Dugu Bo agreed to visit Prince Xue Xing, and Su Ming asked to accompany him so he could discuss matters with the prince.
• Xue Xing welcomed Dugu Bo but reacted angrily to Su Ming, remembering how the association had rejected his requests to redistribute its resources and how Su Ming had once thrown him out.
• Su Ming opened negotiations by raising the danger to Heaven Dou members in Star Luo territory and noting that Star Luo had also requested reassignment.
• Xue Xing warned that unsafe conditions would keep members from learning Forging and harm the association, and Su Ming agreed before explaining that empire-based branches could be influenced and split apart.

Su Ming persuaded Prince Xue Xing to stop opposing Xue Qinghe’s campaign and proposed building a Heavenly Forging City on the border to unite the Blacksmith Association. A month later, Su Ming followed Dugu Bo through the poisonous miasma into a radiant valley, preparing to pursue Spiritual Forging.

• Su Ming asked Xue Xing to stop obstructing Xue Qinghe’s military campaign and proposed establishing Heavenly Forging City as the Blacksmith Association’s headquarters.
• Xue Xing accepted Su Ming’s proposal and agreed not to stop Xue Qinghe from sending troops against the Balak Kingdom.
• Su Ming returned to the association with Dugu Bo and used the Faith Power of Evil Soul Masters to help Zhu Jiuyang’s Soul Power grow faster.
• Su Ming asked Dugu Bo for a cultivation prescription and said the valley’s treasured land could help him succeed at Spiritual Forging.
• One month later, Su Ming entered a radiant valley in Sunset Forest with Dugu Bo, who warned him that its life essence carried Ice and Fire Power that would burden his body.

Su Ming entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes valley with Dugu Bo and discovered that he could use the Ice and Fire Power to strengthen himself while adapting to its harsh core. He had Little Gold begin forging there as he cultivated, leaving Dugu Bo astonished by the Soul Spirit’s skill.

• Su Ming absorbed life essence and Ice and Fire Power, using his Body Martial Soul to withstand the erosion and grow stronger.
• Dugu Bo led Su Ming to the valley’s core, where Su Ming endured the stronger Ice and Fire Power and recognized the environment’s potential for forging.
• Su Ming said he would adapt within half a month and have Little Gold test the forging conditions in the meantime.
• Little Gold cleared a spot, helped set up the forging table, and began practicing with Sinking Silver after Su Ming warned him not to perform Spiritual Forging.
• Dugu Bo identified Little Gold as a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and watched in surprise as he adjusted the furnace to the valley’s fire-element energy.