Chapter Summaries

After escaping the Star Dou Great Forest, Xu Jie and Qian Ran rested on the Lima Plains while Xu Jie told Qian Ran stories about Douluo’s past. At the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Huo Yuhao asked about sword users and learned that Ji Juechen was a sword fanatic.

• Xu Jie suppressed his cultivation to level thirty, led Qian Ran away from the forest, and stopped on the Lima Plains to rest.
• Qian Ran asked why Xu Jie had taken the sword, and Xu Jie explained its connection to angels before telling him stories through the night.
• Huo Yuhao went to the Third Laboratory, greeted Juzi, Keke, Wang Shaojie, and Zimu, and asked whether anyone at the academy practiced swordsmanship.
• Zimu told Huo Yuhao that Ji Juechen was a sword fanatic who spent his time with his sword and sometimes talked to it.

Huo Yuhao learned about Ji Juechen, the Sword Fanatic, and decided to seek him out later while focusing on soul guidance devices for now. He replicated Juzi’s engraving style with her carving knife, impressing her and stirring sorrowful thoughts she kept to herself.

• Zimu told Huo Yuhao that Ji Juechen had reached rank ten by age eight, hunted a hundred-year soul beast alone, and became the chief of the Control Soul Guidance Department.
• Huo Yuhao asked where Ji Juechen trained and planned to approach him later, though he intended to recruit him rather than learn his swordsmanship.
• Juzi lent Huo Yuhao her carving knife, prompting Keke to complain that Juzi was showing favoritism.
• Huo Yuhao used Juzi’s knife to replicate her engraving style and finish the core array while Juzi watched in amazement.
• Juzi hid her sorrowful thoughts and praised Huo Yuhao as amazing.

Huo Yuhao went to the experimental district to find Ji Juechen and drew the Sword Fanatic into an impromptu sword practice. The chapter ended with Ji Juechen engrossed in Huo Yuhao’s stiff swordplay and copying his movements.

• Huo Yuhao entered the experimental district and sensed that Mingde Hall could erase part of his Spiritual Detection, so he avoided probing it further.
• Huo Yuhao found Ji Juechen watching a leaf beside Jing Ziyan and briefly startled Ji Juechen with his Spiritual Detection.
• Huo Yuhao entered the clearing, and Ji Juechen recognized his presence and prepared to challenge him to a sword duel.
• Huo Yuhao drew an ordinary metal longsword and began performing the Wudang Swordplay and the Thirteen Swords of Shenmen.
• Ji Juechen became absorbed in Huo Yuhao’s sword movements and began imitating them.

Huo Yuhao’s sword demonstration sparked Ji Juechen’s interest in learning a new sword path, and Huo Yuhao directed him to Xu Jie in Shrek City. Huo Yuhao then studied Core Arrays with Ju Zi until Xuan Ziwen offered the students a half-month Soul Tool testing assignment.

• Ji Juechen entered a swordsmanship enlightenment while practicing Huo Yuhao’s technique and asked whether it had a continuation.
• Huo Yuhao told Ji Juechen that he knew only the demonstrated moves, then gave him Xu Jie’s location at the Lonely Cloud Merchant Association in Shrek City.
• Huo Yuhao left Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan and went to the Third Laboratory to learn new Core Arrays from Ju Zi.
• Keke, Zimu, and Wang Shaojie entered the laboratory while Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao studied, and Keke noticed Ju Zi’s intent expression.
• Xuan Ziwen arrived and offered the students a half-month assignment to test an improved Soul Tool.

Xuan Ziwen assigned Ju Zi, Keke, and Huo Yuhao to an upcoming test, and Ju Zi took them shopping for supplies in Bright City. The chapter left Huo Yuhao blushing as Keke teased him at the market.

• Xuan Ziwen assigned Ju Zi, Keke, and Huo Yuhao to the next test while Wang Shaojie and Zimu stayed behind.
• Ju Zi and Keke pulled Huo Yuhao from the laboratory and led him to a market in Bright City to buy ingredients.
• Keke told Huo Yuhao that the market was Ju Zi's favorite place and hinted that he would understand why later.
• Huo Yuhao sensed someone watching them, but Ju Zi dismissed his concern after they found nothing suspicious.
• Ju Zi turned Huo Yuhao's head toward a vegetable stall, and Keke teased him when he blushed.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke bought provisions before returning to the academy, while a palace agent reported Huo Yuhao's closeness with Ju Zi to the White-robed Youth. The White-robed Youth ordered the agent to keep investigating Huo Yuhao and considered bringing Ju Zi back.

• Ju Zi explained that Sun Moon Empire Storage Soul Guidance Devices preserved food, then pulled Huo Yuhao and Keke back toward the academy to cultivate.
• After the trio left, the middle-aged man who had watched them traveled to the imperial palace in Bright City using a dark gold token.
• The man reported that someone had grown close to Ju Zi, and the White-robed Youth ordered him to transfer that person away.
• The man revealed that the person was a Shrek Academy exchange student who had spoken with Ji Juechen near Mingde Hall.
• The White-robed Youth ordered the man to continue investigating Huo Yuhao and privately decided that Ju Zi had been away long enough and should return.

Huo Yuhao met Ju Zi and Keke before dawn to leave for the Jingyang Mountain Range, showing them a flying auxiliary system powered by his modified Soul Power Batteries. The chapter ended as he activated the device and rose into the air, accepting Keke’s bet over whether it worked.

• Huo Yuhao practiced the Taiyi Eye-Brightening Skill and reflected on his progress in the Return to Truth Realm before leaving his dormitory.
• Huo Yuhao met Ju Zi and the sleepy Keke at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy gates, and Ju Zi told them they were heading to the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Huo Yuhao put on his homemade flying auxiliary system and explained that its Soul Power Batteries would help him keep up despite his Rank 39 Soul Power.
• Keke laughed at Huo Yuhao’s oversized metal gloves and boots, then bet fifty jin of Soul Guidance Metal that his device would not work.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Keke’s bet, unfolded his wings, and flew into the air.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke flew toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, resting to recover their Soul Power along the way. Meanwhile, the White-robed Youth learned that Ji Juechen was heading toward Shrek Academy and ordered his men to leave him alone for now.

• Keke and Huo Yuhao raced in the wrong direction, and Ju Zi caught up before guiding them onto the correct route.
• Huo Yuhao switched to the Class 4 Flying Soul Guidance Device Ju Zi had given him because his own device consumed Soul Power too quickly.
• After the three rested and recovered, Ju Zi offered to teach Huo Yuhao about Flying Soul Guidance Devices, and Keke joined them as they set off again.
• A subordinate told the White-robed Youth that Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan were heading toward Shrek Academy.
• The White-robed Youth ordered his subordinate to leave Ji Juechen alone until he left the Sun Moon Empire and summoned Xu Mochen.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke tested an All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device in the Jingyang Mountain Range, where a Golden Wolf pack pursued them. Elsewhere, Xiao Xiao urged Xu Jie to return to Shrek Academy, but he refused and said he was waiting for Ji Juechen.

• Ju Zi taught Huo Yuhao how to operate the All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device as the group traveled into the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Xiao Xiao confronted Xu Jie at the Lonely Cloud Merchant Association and urged him to return to Shrek Academy for help with his martial soul.
• Xu Jie refused, told Xiao Xiao he expected to become famous within three years, and privately resolved to wait for Ji Juechen in Shrek City.
• Golden Wolves chased the Soul Tool because they were attracted to its Soul Guidance Metal, despite Ju Zi and Keke's isolation measures.
• Huo Yuhao and Keke spotted a Silver Moon Wolf King among the pursuing pack, and Keke wondered why wolves from the main range had entered a tributary range.

Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke fought their way through a Golden Wolf pack in the All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device and reached a mountaintop, where a Silver Wolf attacked them. The chapter ended as Keke drove the device down the mountainside and Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao sealed themselves inside.

• A hundred-year Golden Wolf struck the All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device, and Huo Yuhao took over piloting as the pack surrounded them.
• Ju Zi and Keke attacked the charging Golden Wolves with explosive Soul Tools while Huo Yuhao steered toward higher ground.
• Three Ten-Thousand-Year Golden Wolf leaders charged them, but Huo Yuhao used Group Weakness and Ju Zi wounded the leading wolf with her cannon.
• A Silver Wolf appeared and fired multicolored beams at the device as the group reached the mountaintop.
• Keke drove the device down the mountainside while Ju Zi and Huo Yuhao shut the crystal window and covered the metal sphere with a protective gelatinous substance.

After waking from a two-day coma, Huo Yuhao learned that Ju Zi and Keke had risked their lives to keep him safe while the Golden Wolf pack trapped them in a cave. With Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress guiding him, he revealed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s power and stepped out to face the wolves, intending to claim the Silver Moon Wolf King as his fourth soul ring.

• The Silver Moon Wolf King’s attack damaged the detection device, and Huo Yuhao fainted after using Soul Shock against it.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm repaired Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea over two days while controlling his body to help Ju Zi and Keke escape the wolves.
• Huo Yuhao woke in a cave where Ju Zi and Keke were trapped with him, learned of their ordeal, and discovered his cultivation had reached rank forty.
• After recovering and eating, Huo Yuhao knocked Ju Zi unconscious and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to protect her and Keke.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion’s form, incapacitated most of the Golden Wolves, removed the defensive Soul Tool, and walked out of the cave.

Huo Yuhao killed the Silver Moon Wolf King, absorbed its soul ring, and returned to the cave after battling the wolves despite his severe injuries. Ju Zi and Keke brought him back to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, while the White-robed Youth learned of his condition and issued orders concerning Ji Juechen and Xu Mochen.

• Huo Yuhao killed the dying Silver Moon Wolf King and absorbed its black soul ring with help from Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.
• Huo Yuhao stored the wolf corpses, returned to the cave, and collapsed when Sky Dream Ice Silkworm withdrew its protection.
• Ju Zi and Keke found Huo Yuhao unconscious, realized he had saved them, and carried him out of the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Ju Zi and Keke returned with Huo Yuhao to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and took him to the infirmary.
• The White-robed Youth heard that Ju Zi had returned and Huo Yuhao was unconscious, then learned Ji Juechen had entered Heaven Dou Empire territory.
• The White-robed Youth told an attendant to inform Mirror Hall Master and ordered Xu Mochen to guard the imperial palace entrance and admit no one.

While Huo Yuhao lay unconscious, Ju Zi resolved to pursue revenge without involving him, but Jing Hongchen took him away for questioning over Ji Juechen’s departure. Ju Zi then discovered that the Crown Prince had moved against the imperial palace, and her confrontation at the gates ended with Xu Mochen attacking her and a mysterious figure intervening.

• Ju Zi noticed Huo Yuhao’s Martial Soul Mark and privately explained that she planned to take revenge only on Duke White Tiger and the nobles responsible for the war.
• Jing Hongchen showed Ju Zi footage of Huo Yuhao speaking with Ji Juechen, then ordered his disciples to carry Huo Yuhao away for investigation.
• Ju Zi went to the imperial palace, where Xu Mochen blocked her under the Crown Prince’s orders and a maid gave her the Crown Princess’s Token.
• Ju Zi realized the Crown Prince was clearing obstacles amid the emperor’s declining health and slapped Xu Mochen when he questioned her token.
• Xu Mochen drew his saber and attacked Ju Zi, but a shadow appeared and sent him flying with one strike.

Ju Zi entered the imperial palace as Xu Tianran began his transformation and promised her the power to take revenge, while the Body Sect launched a surprise attack on Mingde Hall. Huo Yuhao remained unconscious as Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi, and the Body Sect’s assault left more than a hundred Soul Engineers dead or wounded.

• Ju Zi followed Xue Chen into the palace, where Xu Tianran announced that his transformation had begun and pledged to give her the power to take revenge.
• Du Busi ordered Lang Ya to move the Body Sect’s surprise attack on Bright City forward, then led a hundred members toward the city.
• Jing Hongchen brought the unconscious Huo Yuhao to a metal room in Mingde Hall, where physicians found unusually powerful, chilling Soul Power in his test results.
• The Body Sect’s explosions struck Mingde Hall, and Du Busi released dark green liquid at the Soul Engineers while Jing Hongchen pursued him into the air.
• Lang Ya and the other Body Sect members stormed Mingde Hall and slaughtered its Soul Engineers despite the defenders’ arrival.

After waking in Mingde Hall, Huo Yuhao was discovered by the Body Sect, whose members recognized his eye martial soul and forcibly brought him along. In a hidden laboratory, they found a strange mass of white airflow that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized as familiar, while another voice cried out, “Snow Empress!”

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm woke Huo Yuhao early and informed him of the urgent situation in Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection and attacked Lang Ya with Spiritual Confusion, but Lang Ya recognized his eye martial soul as a rare body martial soul.
• Gu Hua introduced himself and persuaded Huo Yuhao to return to the Body Sect, while Huo Yuhao agreed rather than resist the stronger group.
• Yu Tao struck Huo Yuhao unconscious, and the Body Sect carried him into a hidden laboratory containing a huge metal construct and a gemstone stand.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed a familiar aura from white airflow above the stand, and a voice suddenly shouted, “Snow Empress!”

The Body Sect secured the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo and looted Mingde Hall while Huo Yuhao kept the Snow Empress’s identity hidden. As the Sect members began retreating, Du Busi stopped Jing Hongchen and blocked their pursuers with poison.

• Gu Hua recognized the embryo, and the Ice Empress tried to break free and save the Snow Empress before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm restrained her and persuaded her to wait.
• Gu Hua stored the embryo, and the Body Sect looted the laboratory before carrying the unconscious Huo Yuhao back to Mingde Hall’s main hall.
• Gu Hua ordered A Yin to notify the Sect Master, and a short, fat Body Sect member sent the retreat signal with a powerful sound wave.
• The Body Sect members began escaping into the sky as Gu Hua carried several of them away in a massive blood-red cloth.
• Jing Hongchen attacked Du Busi with red beams, but Du Busi endured them, grabbed Jing Hongchen, and crashed to the ground with him.
• Du Busi recovered first and formed a dark green poison barrier to block Mingde Hall’s pursuit.

Huo Yuhao was questioned by Gu Hua and the Body Sect decided to bring him back for testing after suspecting his Martial Soul involved both his brain and eyes. After recovering memories of his time with Ju Zi, Huo Yuhao agreed to leave Shrek Academy and began writing letters before departing for the Body Sect.

• Gu Hua exposed Huo Yuhao's feigned unconsciousness, questioned him, and confirmed that he was a Shrek exchange student and a Star Luo Empire citizen.
• Gu Hua told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection had passed through a sealed metal room, leading them to suspect his Martial Soul combined his brain and eyes.
• Huo Yuhao received memories of Ju Zi treating his wounds and blushed when Sky Dream Ice Silkworm showed him a close-up of his Martial Soul Mark.
• Huo Yuhao declined the Body Sect's offer to bring his older brother over and agreed to write letters to his brother and Shrek Academy.
• Huo Yuhao remembered Ju Zi's wish for revenge, reflected on his feelings about his family, and started writing his letters.

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan reached Shrek City and found Xu Jie, but Ji Juechen’s challenge was interrupted by Dugu Yun, who revealed his connection to the Dugu Family. The confrontation ended with Ji Juechen safe and Dugu Yun urging Xu Jie to call him Brother Dugu.

• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan arrived at the Lonely Cloud Merchant Association looking for Xu Jie so Ji Juechen could challenge him to a sword duel.
• Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen met Xu Jie and Qian Ran, and Ji Juechen recognized Xu Jie as Huo Yuhao’s older brother before attacking.
• Dugu Yun caught Ji Juechen’s sword and poisoned him, then used his Titled Douluo pressure to force Jing Ziyan out of her martial soul state.
• Xu Jie told Dugu Yun that Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan were his friends, so Dugu Yun released Ji Juechen and the poison receded.
• Xu Jie explained that Dugu Yun had learned of his improvements to the Dugu Family’s Poison Scripture and had once considered abducting him, until Dugu Lu warned him against defying their grandfather.

Dugu Yun agreed to leave Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan alone and asked Xu Jie to cure the Dugu Family’s martial soul defect within five years. Xu Jie then demonstrated a sword technique to Ji Juechen, who struggled to decide whether it counted as swordsmanship.

• Dugu Yun dismissed the dispute with Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, then warned Xu Jie to keep Ji Juechen away from Dugu Lu.
• Xu Jie told Dugu Yun he could resolve the Dugu Family’s martial soul defect in at most five years.
• Xu Jie caught Qian Ran neglecting his test questions and invited Ji Juechen to spar in the backyard.
• Xu Jie offered to wager a Storage Soul Guidance Device against teaching Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen a profound sword technique.
• Xu Jie demonstrated the Tai Chi Sword, leaving Ji Juechen fascinated and confused about whether it was swordsmanship.

Xu Jie demonstrated Tai Chi Sword to Ji Juechen, exposed the flaws in Ji Juechen’s straightforward swordsmanship, and accepted him as a disciple. The chapter ended with Ji Juechen learning basic sword techniques from seven-year-old Qian Ran while Xu Jie took Jing Ziyan’s Storage Soul Guidance Device and left her pondering his words about Ji Juechen.

• Xu Jie explained Tai Chi Sword and sparred with Ji Juechen, first without Soul Power and then by dodging Ji Juechen’s sword strike.
• Xu Jie identified Ji Juechen’s swordsmanship as too straightforward and showed him how to add variation.
• Xu Jie accepted Ji Juechen as his disciple and told him to learn basic sword techniques from Qian Ran, his seven-year-old senior brother.
• Qian Ran practiced with a wooden sword while Ji Juechen followed, noticing that Huo Yuhao’s copied techniques had flaws in their use of force.
• Xu Jie collected a Storage Soul Guidance Device from Jing Ziyan and told her Ji Juechen’s devotion to swords meant that reaching his heart required risking injury.