Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao registered at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy under the alias Edison and joined the Consultant Class after proving he had never used secret medicine. Gu Weiqing escorted him to the dormitory, warning him against wasting his potential with secret medicines.

• Huo Yuhao told Ma Yuanyuan that his alias was Edison, claimed to be a third-rank Soul Engineer from North Ice City, and gave his prepared background.
• Huo Yuhao revealed himself as a Soul Emperor with six soul rings, surprising Ma Yuanyuan and Gu Weiqing.
• Gu Weiqing tested Huo Yuhao's blood, and the instrument showed that he had not taken secret medicine.
• Gu Weiqing admitted Huo Yuhao to the Consultant Class and personally escorted him through registration and physical testing.
• Gu Weiqing took Huo Yuhao to the Consultant Class dormitory and urged him to avoid secret medicines, explaining how they had ruined his own potential.

At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s opening ceremony, Xu Jie attended in disguise while Jing Hongchen tried to arrange a marriage between him and Meng Hongchen. Xu Jie rejected the match out of respect for Meng Hongchen’s choice, then told her he was intimidated by her strength as an eighth-rank Soul Engineer.

• Jing Hongchen urged Meng Hongchen to marry Xu Shenkai, but she refused and went with him to the academy’s opening ceremony.
• Xu Jie arrived at the ceremony disguised as the emperor, and Huo Yuhao recognized him from the consultant class.
• After the ceremony, Gu Weiqing told Huo Yuhao that Jing Hongchen hoped Meng Hongchen would become the emperor’s Empress.
• At the teachers’ gathering, Jing Hongchen raised the question of a suitable match with Xu Jie and introduced Meng Hongchen as his candidate.
• Xu Jie told Jing Hongchen he would not force Meng Hongchen into marriage, then explained to her that he had rejected the match because she was an eighth-rank Soul Engineer he could not defeat.

Dugu Lu completed the Rakshasa God's first two divine trials while Xu Jie urged him to find Xiao Xiao, eager to escape pressure from the Sun Moon Empire to choose an empress. Xu Jie asked Xiao Xiao to become his empress, and she agreed, leaving the group to discuss how to arrange it.

• Dugu Lu emerged after completing two divine trials, while Xu Jie complained about the imperial harem selection and asked him to find Xiao Xiao.
• Dugu Lu went to Ju Zi's office, where Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao were helping with government affairs.
• Xu Jie asked Huo Yuhao where Ji Juechen was and challenged Dugu Lu to test his newfound strength against him.
• Xu Jie told Xiao Xiao that his main body needed an empress and asked her to take the position.
• Xiao Xiao agreed, and Xu Jie proposed disguising a young woman from a Holy Spirit Cult-controlled family to help arrange it.

Xu Jie arranged for Xiao Xiao to disguise herself with a soul bone and leave with him to meet Long Xiaoyao. The visit ended with Xu Jie introducing Xiao Xiao as his future wife and Long Xiaoyao inviting her to call him Master.

• Xu Jie gave Xiao Xiao a Ten Thousand Year Spirit-type right arm bone that let her disguise her appearance, aura, and martial soul, then handled her official paperwork with Dugu Lu while she fused it.
• Huo Yuhao learned that Mingdu was holding a large beauty pageant, and Ju Zi explained that Xu Tianran's promotion of monogamy gave Xu Jie a reason to choose only one Empress.
• Xiao Xiao emerged with a convincing disguise, and Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao entered the Undead Demigod Plane through a Gate of the Undead.
• Long Xiaoyao used Xu Jie's Positioning Stone to open a Gate of the Undead at his hideout, and Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao stepped out before him and Ye Xishui.
• Xu Jie introduced Xiao Xiao to Long Xiaoyao as his future wife, and Long Xiaoyao told her to call him Master.

Xu Jie arranged for Xiao Xiao to impersonate Ding Ding and enter the palace selection in Bright City, while Huo Yuhao passed his Level Four Soul Engineer examination at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao offering his ranked carving knife, Dark Azure Dragon, to Gu Weiqing, who refused to accept it.

• Xu Jie and Long Xiaoyao arranged for Xiao Xiao to copy Ding Ding’s appearance and take her place in the palace selection.
• Xiao Xiao spent several days learning Ding Ding’s life and habits while Ding Ding was sent to the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Xiao Xiao set out for Bright City under Ding Ding’s identity to take part in the palace selection.
• Huo Yuhao passed the Level Four Soul Engineer examination after carving a golden-red Soul Guidance Metal block into a patterned cube.
• Meng Hongchen and Gu Weiqing recognized Huo Yuhao’s Dark Azure Dragon as the fifty-ninth-ranked carving knife.
• Huo Yuhao offered Dark Azure Dragon to Gu Weiqing, but Gu Weiqing rebuked him for giving away such a valuable tool.

Huo Yuhao failed to persuade Gu Weiqing to take him as a disciple, while Xu Jie used the Sun Moon Emperor’s empress selection to raise money and began planning an economic campaign to make the Star Luo Empire dependent on Sun Moon technology. The chapter ended with Xu Jie heading to the Hall of Reverence to push for civilian uses of light-energy Soul Guidance technology.

• Gu Weiqing refused Huo Yuhao’s offer of a ranked carving knife and rejected his request to become his disciple, while Meng Hongchen explained that Gu wanted to introduce him to Jing Hongchen.
• Huo Yuhao let Meng Hongchen examine the Dark Azure Dragon carving knife.
• Huo Yuhao accompanied Ma Yuanyuan to the plaza where women gathered for the Sun Moon Emperor’s empress selection, then helped Xiao Xiao perfect her disguise as Ding Ding.
• Xu Jie watched the empress-selection crowds and devised plans to fill the treasury, develop civilian Soul Guidance Devices, and make the Star Luo Empire reliant on Sun Moon technology.
• Xu Jie ordered the Ministry of Finance ministers to wait for him and went to the Hall of Reverence to discuss applying light-energy Soul Guidance technology to civilian devices.

Xu Jie proposed using patents, Soul Tool exports, and processing factories to wage an economic war against the Star Luo Empire, and Kong Deming agreed to study the plan. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaotao left the experimental base with Huo Yuhao, and Xu Jie arranged help for Zhang Peng’s group, including a possible cure for Wang Xin’s martial soul.

• Xu Jie explained his plan for opening regulated Soul Guidance trade and collecting patent fees, and Kong Deming took his notes to consider for three days.
• Ma Xiaotao emerged from the Gate of the Undead and flew southwest with Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Clone.
• Xu Jie asked Zhang Peng to remain at the base and sent Ji Juechen to examine Blood Sword Douluo’s martial soul; Ji Juechen took him outside to test their swords.
• Wang Xin revealed her Flesh-Devouring Demonic Tree martial soul, and Xu Jie proposed that Xiao Yun'er purify it.
• Du Busi agreed to let Wang Xin receive help if she protected Xiao Yun'er for twenty years, and Wang Xin accepted.

Ma Xiaotao returned to Shrek City with Huo Yuhao, declared her intention to atone by hunting Evil Soul Masters, and left after Huo Yuhao confronted Shrek Academy and attacked its destiny. Xu Jie then worked with Kong Deming and the Soul Engineers to shape an economic strategy, while peace talks at Fallen Leaf produced a preliminary agreement for a truce and Soul Tool trade.

• Ma Xiaotao told Xuan Zi that Canghui had saved her and that she would spend twenty years avoiding continental affairs except to kill Evil Soul Masters.
• Beibei asked about Ma Xiaotao's recovery and Tang Ya's suffering, but Ma Xiaotao told him Tang Ya needed to atone; Huo Yuhao warned that he could remove Tang Ya's ritual if Beibei objected.
• Huo Yuhao confronted Xuan Zi over the Golden Ancient Tree, invoked the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Di Tian's presence, and declared that Shrek Academy's destiny should shatter before he and Ma Xiaotao departed.
• Xu Jie and Kong Deming gathered Soul Engineers and finance ministers to develop an economic warfare plan, including Soul Tool exports and civilian devices.
• At Fallen Leaf, the Sun Moon, Star Luo, and Dou Ling Empires agreed on a ceasefire framework and a Soul Tool trade plan, while Shrek Academy's attempt to demand mass-production technology was rejected for lacking standing.

Xu Jie prepared for the Sun Moon Empire emperor’s wedding while Xu Tianzhen privately revealed a power connected to Ultimate Fire and wondered how Xu Jie had gained it. At the wedding, Huo Yuhao watched in disguise as Edison, while friends and allies gathered remotely to watch the ceremony.

• Xu Tianzhen dismissed the maids and spoke with Xu Jie before his wedding, asking about the Dou Ling Empire’s reply concerning Xu Jie.
• After Xu Jie left, Xu Tianzhen summoned a golden-red Ultimate Fire flame, clenched it out, and headed to the palace plaza.
• Xu Jie greeted Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and the Soul Engineers, while Huo Yuhao attended in disguise as the seventh-rank Soul Engineer Edison.
• Xu Jie’s allies at Canghui Academy watched the wedding through Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Clone, and Dugu Lu joked about joining the ceremony.
• Ju Zi held Xiao Yunhan, who called Xu Jie “Jie-Jie” and Huo Yuhao “Dada,” prompting Xu Jie to glare at Huo Yuhao.

A God of Wine Hotel waiter recalled God King Tang’s visits, his meddling in the lower realms, and the gods’ jokes at his expense. After Tang returned injured and paid for wine by hand, he vanished, leaving behind an unpaid debt and the waiter believing he had been killed.

• The waiter described how God King Tang regularly drank outside the hotel and endured the other gods’ taunts about his interference in the lower realms.
• God King Tang tried to teach the waiter about paths to death, while the Shrek Seven Devils visited and ate his spicy rabbit heads.
• The God of Wine learned that Tang had been beaten, had his legs broken, and still owed nineteen divine soul coins.
• Tang returned in ragged clothes, walking on his hands, paid four coins for wine, and left amid the gods’ laughter.
• Tang stopped appearing, and the waiter eventually concluded that transmigrators from the lower realms had probably beaten him to death.

Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao completed their wedding ceremony in Bright City, with Huo Yuhao using Spiritual Detection Sharing and Imitation to reveal their true appearances to each other and broadcast the moment. Xiao Xiao was formally crowned Empress of the Sun Moon Empire, though another ceremony awaited her at dusk.

• Xu Jie reached Ding Ding, and Huo Yuhao let him and Xiao Xiao see each other’s true appearances as they walked to the altar.
• Huo Yuhao shared the live broadcast with Xiao Xiao, embarrassing her and irritating Xu Jie before he blocked Xu Jie’s access to the connection.
• Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao offered sacrifices to Heaven and their ancestors as the crowd and soldiers congratulated their marriage.
• Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao discussed how grand their wedding was as they stepped down from the altar.
• Palace maids placed the Phoenix Crown on Xiao Xiao, and an elderly official read the proclamation conferring her as Empress.
• Xiao Xiao received the Empress’s ceremonial documents and seal, then waited in the imperial city for the dusk ceremony.

Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao completed their imperial wedding ceremony and retired to the eastern chamber, where Xu Jie’s cultivation suddenly surged. Xiao Xiao wondered whether faith had caused his rapid rise, and Xu Jie’s answer remained unknown.

• Xiao Xiao arrived at the palace in the Empress’s ceremonial carriage, and Xu Jie welcomed her into the wedding banquet.
• Xu Jie and Xiao Xiao performed the nuptial wine ceremony before the officials and Soul Engineers.
• After the banquet, Xu Jie dismissed the attendants and sat awkwardly with Xiao Xiao in the eastern chamber.
• Huo Yuhao used Invisible Spiritual Fluctuation to conceal the couple from the listeners outside their room.
• Xu Jie’s cultivation rose from level thirty-seven to level ninety-seven, and Xiao Xiao asked whether faith had caused the increase.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao discovered how faith had raised their cultivation to Rank 97 and discussed their paths to godhood. After Xu Jie spent the night talking with Xiao Xiao, palace staff and officials misread the sounds from their room, leaving Xu Jie to discover why everyone was urging him to exercise restraint.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao sensed the power of faith and discussed how it had increased their cultivation to Rank 97 and could help them become gods.
• Xu Jie joined Xiao Xiao beneath the covers, explained what had happened, and talked with her until they fell asleep.
• An old eunuch recorded seven on a nightly report after listening outside their room and decided to alert the chief reverend.
• In the morning, Xiao Xiao accidentally kicked Xu Jie in the face while sleeping, then blushed when he teased her about her foot.
• Xu Jie read memorials urging him to exercise restraint, and Kong Deming repeated the warning over breakfast.
• Xu Jie ordered the previous night's record and saw the red-inked seven, realizing why the palace staff and officials had misunderstood what happened.

Xu Jie continued guiding Qian Ran’s medical practice while pursuing the Angel’s divine trial, and Huo Yuhao’s group worked to purify Wang Xin’s martial soul. Meanwhile, Canghui Academy’s policies transformed the Dou Ling Empire and brought it into conflict with Shrek Academy.

• Xu Jie and Qian Ran treated a feverish boy, and Qian Ran sent him home with medicine while continuing to build the Angel’s reputation.
• Xiao Yun'er reunited with Du Busi in the Undead Demigod Plane and helped begin purifying Wang Xin’s Flesh-Eating Ancient Tree martial soul.
• Ju Zi and Canghui Academy expanded their influence across the Dou Ling Empire through internal cultivation and village programs, while redistributing wealth taken from criminal aristocrats and merchants.
• Aristocrats fleeing the Dou Ling Empire appealed to Shrek Academy, which condemned Canghui Academy until recordings exposing the aristocrats’ crimes spread across the continent.

Canghui Academy used Xu Jie's industrial technology and education programs to reshape trade and improve life in the Star Luo Empire, while Ju Zi and Wang Dongdong dealt with the resulting challenges. The chapter left them working to expand literacy classes and prepare the public for Basic Internal Cultivation without repeating past abuses.

• Canghui Academy used industrial technology to sell inexpensive daily necessities in the Star Luo Empire, while the Sun Moon Empire supplied Soul Tools and both disrupted the Star Luo middle class.
• Ju Zi left Xiao Yunhan with Luoxin and entered her office with Wang Dongdong, who reported a severe shortage of literacy teachers.
• Ju Zi approved Wang Dongdong's proposal to use outstanding literacy students as substitute teachers and warned him to screen them carefully.
• Ju Zi and Wang Dongdong recalled how some early students had used newly acquired Soul Power to retaliate against others, prompting the academy to add ideological education and public legal education.
• Wang Dongdong promised to oversee the substitute teachers as the academy continued preparing for the early stages of establishing a nation.

A year after the Holy Spirit Cult’s destruction, Ma Xiaotao hunted down a former comrade near the Mingdou Mountain Range as Xu Tianzhen connected Angel Hall’s members’ changed martial souls to Canghui Academy and Xu Jie. Back in Bright City, Xu Jie learned that the Chief Reverent had accepted Edison and Xiao Hongchen as students.

• Ma Xiaotao, now with Angel Hall, defeated a hunched figure in the sky while Xu Tianzhen and Luan Feng watched from the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion.
• Luan Feng explained that Ma Xiaotao and other Angel Hall members had once belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult and that its leaders had disappeared after the explosion at its main altar.
• Xu Tianzhen concluded that Canghui Academy and Xu Jie were behind the martial soul transformations, and she ordered the legion to begin its daily drills.
• Xu Jie returned to Bright City with Xiao Xiao and asked Little Gui for news from the past few days.
• Little Gui told Xu Jie that the Chief Reverent had recently accepted Edison and Xiao Hongchen as students after Hall Master Jing recommended Edison.

Xu Jie discussed the disappearance of high-level soul beasts and continued handling affairs as Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire. Huo Yuhao visited him through Spiritual Detection Sharing, then took him to the Undead Demigod Plane to discuss private business.

• Xu Jie learned that investigations into the missing soul beasts had found no answers and that Shrek Academy's attempts to negotiate with the Star Dou Great Forest had failed.
• Xu Jie recalled that Di Tian refused to meet Shrek's representatives and was prepared to defend the forest with the fierce beasts if Shrek provoked him.
• Xu Jie reviewed state affairs after his inspection of the empire's warehouses had exposed corrupt officials and revealed the locations of supply stockpiles.
• Huo Yuhao contacted Xu Jie in the Imperial Extremity Hall, where Xu Jie split from Xu Shenkai's body and kicked Huo Yuhao before they chatted.
• Huo Yuhao asked to speak elsewhere, and he and Xu Jie vanished from the hall and traveled to the Undead Demigod Plane.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao reached Limit Douluo, but Huo Yuhao felt the world had blocked his path to godhood while Xu Jie felt no such restriction. They summoned Du Busi to compare their experiences, and he was shocked by their strength and confused by Huo Yuhao's mention of a third Soul Core.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao emerged in the Undead Demigod Plane, and their auras rose to Level 99.
• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jie that he felt the world had shackled his path beyond Limit Douluo, while Xu Jie said he had felt no restriction.
• Xu Jie suggested they ask Du Busi, so Huo Yuhao brought his master to the plane.
• Du Busi discovered that Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao were both Limit Douluo before the age of twenty-five and celebrated excitedly.
• Huo Yuhao began explaining the restriction, but Du Busi interrupted to ask what a third Soul Core was.

Du Busi explained the two methods of forming a second Soul Core, and Xu Jie gained insight and condensed a third Soul Core through Isotopic Resonance. Huo Yuhao revealed that he had formed his third Soul Core through Yin-Yang Complementarity, leaving Du Busi stunned by the brothers’ achievements.

• Du Busi explained that humans could form a second Soul Core through Isotopic Resonance or Yin-Yang Complementarity, but that no one had ever formed a third.
• Xu Jie described the methods with a mountain-and-river analogy, then entered enlightenment as his aura changed.
• Huo Yuhao told Du Busi that Xu Jie was condensing a third Soul Core, and Xu Jie successfully formed one in his Middle Dantian through Isotopic Resonance.
• Xu Jie told Du Busi that neither method was inherently superior and that their usefulness depended on the user.
• Du Busi asked Huo Yuhao to show his third Soul Core, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he had formed his through Yin-Yang Complementarity.
• Du Busi looked toward the black sun and told Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao that they were really perverted.

Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao investigated whether power of faith caused their problems with the restrictions of heaven and earth, and Xu Jie collected Qian Ran to continue the inquiry. After strengthening Qian Ran’s patients with life force, Xu Jie and Qian Ran vanished, while Wang Da explained Xu Jie’s identity and Canghui Academy’s growing influence in the Dou Ling Empire.

• Xu Jie and Huo Yuhao decided to ask Ji Juechen and Qian Ran whether they had sensed restrictions from heaven and earth.
• Xu Jie traveled through a Gate of the Undead to find Qian Ran, who was treating an old man in Wang Li Village beside Wang Da.
• Xu Jie recognized Wang Da, praised his work as the village’s resident Soul Master, and learned that his contracted soul beast was a Steel Turtle.
• Xu Jie restored the old man’s vitality and rejuvenated Wang Da and the Steel Turtle with his life force.
• Xu Jie took Qian Ran through a Gate of the Undead, and Wang Da told the old man that Xu Jie was Canghui Academy’s headmaster and the Lord Sun God.