Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shengyu awoke in the Great Fiend Forest with one consciousness controlling two bodies, which he named Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong. After a Soul Beast seemingly killed them, mysterious Martial Souls and thousand-year Soul Rings appeared, and Kong Deming decided to take the siblings back to Bright Capital.

• Jiang Shengyu discovered that his vision and voice were split between two bodies and decided to present them as siblings named Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong.
• An Azure Vein Unicorn impaled both bodies and left them for dead before fleeing from approaching visitors.
• Kong Deming and Xuan Ziwen found the siblings and concluded their shattered hearts could not be saved.
• Silver-white energy formed a Crescent Moon and a Crystal Lotus, which settled onto the siblings as their respective Martial Souls while purple Soul Rings appeared around them.
• The siblings' wounds healed completely, and Kong Deming postponed his experiment and ordered Xuan Ziwen to bring them to Bright Capital.

After waking in Mingde Hall, Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong faced Kong Deming, who tested their martial souls and discovered their extraordinary abilities. Impressed, he offered to take them as disciples, and Jiang Shengyu accepted while Jiang Qingtong knelt beside him.

• Xuan Ziwen brought Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong before Kong Deming, and Jiang Shengyu claimed he had lost his memories.
• Kong Deming asked the siblings to release their martial souls and demonstrate their soul skills.
• Jiang Shengyu revealed his first soul skill, Void Swallowing Flame, whose intense heat astonished Kong Deming and Xuan Ziwen.
• Jiang Qingtong explained that Imprint let her copy another person's martial soul and soul skills, though she could imprint only once before overwriting it.
• Kong Deming offered to become the siblings' teacher and promised to help them reach Titled Douluo and obtain at least seven Rank Nine Soul Tools each.
• Jiang Shengyu accepted Kong Deming as his teacher, and Jiang Qingtong knelt beside him.

Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong joined Kong Deming as disciples and toured Mingde Hall with Xuan Ziwen. Jiang Shengyu proposed creating a continent-wide organization to awaken martial souls and support soul masters, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to report the idea to the emperor.

• Kong Deming introduced Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong to their senior brother, Xuan Ziwen, then sent him to show them around Mingde Hall.
• Xuan Ziwen explained Mingde Hall's leadership and said Kong Deming wanted powerful soul masters to support their soul engineering.
• Jiang Shengyu proposed recruiting talent from the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms, and Xuan Ziwen questioned how they could attract people from established soul master families.
• Jiang Shengyu suggested reviving Spirit Hall's practice of awakening martial souls for ordinary people and creating an organization that operated beyond the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Shengyu argued that the Sun Moon Empire could use its superior soul tools to subsidize soul masters and outlast the three kingdoms financially.
• Xuan Ziwen suspected Jiang Shengyu had not lost his memory and questioned whether he was really six, but he agreed to report the proposal to the emperor.

Jiang Qingtong traveled toward Shrek Academy with Old Hong, but they diverted to investigate a powerful Spiritual Power that had appeared near the Star Dou Great Forest. There, Jiang Qingtong recognized the unconscious Huo Yuhao and used her Mirror Flower martial soul to Imprint his martial soul and current soul skill.

• Jiang Qingtong insisted on continuing to Shrek Academy despite Old Hong's offer to take her back to Mingde Hall.
• Jiang Qingtong and Old Hong discussed Soul Hall's rapid growth and Old Hong's plan to join it after returning.
• A sudden change in the sky and a powerful Spiritual Power drew Jiang Qingtong and Old Hong toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• They found Huo Yuhao unconscious beside a dead Ten-Year Wind Baboon and a white soul ring, and Jiang Qingtong recognized him.
• Jiang Qingtong released Mirror Flower and Imprinted Huo Yuhao's martial soul and current soul skill despite Old Hong's warning.

Jiang Qingtong Imprinted Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes and demonstrated its Mental Detection Sharing skill to Old Hong. After Huo Yuhao woke, she claimed they were cousins and invented a family connection, leaving him cautiously inclined to believe her.

• Jiang Qingtong Imprinted Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Eyes Martial Soul and soul skill, then showed Old Hong the skill’s detailed detection range.
• Huo Yuhao woke and, warned by Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, questioned Jiang Qingtong and Old Hong about who they were and whether she had Imprinted his Martial Soul.
• Jiang Qingtong grabbed Huo Yuhao’s hand, pretended to cry, and claimed she was his cousin.
• Jiang Qingtong said her mother had been sworn sisters with Huo Yun and that she had come to find Huo Yuhao, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned him not to trust her.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Jiang Qingtong’s story, and she claimed her family had suffered a disaster that left only her and her brother alive.
• Huo Yuhao apologized after Old Hong revealed Jiang Qingtong’s parents had died, and he found himself willing to believe she was family despite his doubts.

Jiang Qingtong persuaded Huo Yuhao to travel to the Sun Moon Empire and join the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. After Bei Bei and Tang Ya arrived, Tang Ya revealed the Tang Sect’s ruin and her growing doubts that Shrek Academy would help restore it.

• Jiang Qingtong showed Huo Yuhao her Mirror Flower martial soul and explained that her soul skill could imprint another person’s martial soul.
• Jiang Qingtong urged Huo Yuhao to attend the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where her brother Jiang Shengyu could help him, and Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya arrived, and Huo Yuhao introduced them to Jiang Qingtong and Old Hong.
• Tang Ya told Jiang Qingtong that the Iron Blood Sect had taken the Tang Sect’s base and that only she and Bei Bei remained.
• Old Hong criticized Shrek Academy for not helping the Tang Sect, while Tang Ya concealed her despair about relying on the academy.
• Jiang Qingtong offered to help Tang Ya and the Tang Sect if she could.

Jiang Qingtong offered to support Tang Ya in rebuilding the Tang Sect in the Sun Moon Empire, while Tang Ya wrestled with the possibility of leaving Shrek’s protection. Jiang Qingtong headed for Shrek City, and Tang Ya was left wondering whether her parents would approve of taking the sect to the Sun Moon Empire.

• Jiang Qingtong told Tang Ya she could reestablish the Tang Sect in the Sun Moon Empire with support, but Tang Ya declined while leaving the possibility open.
• Bei Bei escorted Tang Ya back to the Tang Sect’s small courtyard and defended Shrek Academy’s decision not to help the sect.
• Jiang Qingtong revealed she planned to go to Shrek Academy, while Huo Yuhao and Old Hong set off for the Sun Moon Empire.
• After Bei Bei returned to the academy, Tang Ya struck the wall and wondered whether her parents would approve of moving the Tang Sect to the Sun Moon Empire.

Jiang Qingtong arrived at Shrek Academy seeking enrollment, but her lack of an admission notice led Xuan Zi to bring her before Sea God Pavilion’s elders. She explained that Jing Hongchen and Mingde Hall’s senior consecrators had given her seven Rank Nine Soul Tools for protection, and said she wanted to study martial souls at Shrek Academy rather than pursue Soul Engineer cultivation.

• Jiang Qingtong met Bei Bei at Shrek Academy and asked him where to register despite having no admission notice.
• Teacher Qiu refused to enroll Jiang Qingtong without prior confirmation, but Xuan Zi noticed her Rank Nine Soul Tools and took her to Sea God Pavilion.
• Xuan Zi convened an informal Sea God Pavilion meeting, where Xian Lin'er asked Jiang Qingtong about her Soul Tools and elders.
• Jiang Qingtong identified Jing Hongchen and Mingde Hall’s senior consecrators as her elders, then denied Song Lao’s suspicion that she was a spy.
• Jiang Qingtong said she came to Shrek Academy because she was unsuited to Soul Engineer cultivation and wanted to study martial souls.

Jiang Qingtong demonstrated her Mirror Flower martial soul and its powerful Mental Detection Sharing ability to Shrek Academy’s elders. Mu En decided to accept her and have Cai Meier and Shao Zhe teach her, and Cai Meier brought her to the Martial Soul Department’s dormitories.

• Jiang Qingtong revealed her unrecorded Mirror Flower martial soul and used Mental Detection Sharing on Cai Meier and the other elders.
• Cai Meier praised Jiang Qingtong’s ability as a battlefield weapon and declared that the Martial Soul Department wanted her.
• Song Lao warned that Jiang Qingtong’s ties to Mingde Hall and her powerful Rank Nine Soul Tools made accepting her dangerous.
• Mu En overruled the objections and decided that Cai Meier and Shao Zhe would personally teach Jiang Qingtong.
• Cai Meier took Jiang Qingtong to the Martial Soul Department, arranged her dormitory room, and said Shao Zhe would meet her after returning from the Star Luo Empire.

Jiang Qingtong settled into Shrek Academy and met her wary roommate, Jiang Nannan, while Jiang Shengyu reunited with his cousin Huo Yuhao at Mingde Hall. Huo Yuhao described his shock at the Sun Moon Empire’s modern roads and cities, then shared his anger toward the White Tiger Duke and the Duke’s Mansion.

• Cai Meier arranged for Jiang Qingtong to stay in Jiang Nannan’s dormitory after the freshman rooms filled, and Jiang Qingtong accepted.
• Jiang Nannan returned to find Jiang Qingtong in the room, and the two introduced themselves while Jiang Nannan kept her distance.
• Jiang Shengyu left work with Xuan Ziwen after learning that Old Hong had brought Huo Yuhao to Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao marveled at the Sun Moon Empire’s highways, vehicles, and unwalled Bright Capital, which Old Hong credited to Jiang Shengyu’s ideas.
• Jiang Shengyu welcomed Huo Yuhao as family, and Old Hong and Xuan Ziwen left them to talk privately.
• Jiang Shengyu sympathized with Huo Yuhao’s hardships, and Huo Yuhao condemned the White Tiger Duke and said he refused to acknowledge him as his father.

Jiang Shengyu told Huo Yuhao about his research into raising soul ring ages and developing a way for soul masters to cultivate without hunting soul beasts. Huo Yuhao agreed to join Soul Hall, then learned about its services and grew excited about its mission.

• Jiang Shengyu offered to help Huo Yuhao raise his soul ring ages and revealed that his own second soul ring had recently advanced from a thousand-year to a ten-thousand-year ring.
• Jiang Shengyu explained his theory that soul ring ages could increase through energy and soul power, though he could not yet reproduce the method in others.
• Jiang Shengyu argued that relying on soul beasts threatened both the soul master profession and human civilization, and said he wanted to change how soul masters cultivated.
• Jiang Shengyu revealed that his and his sister's soul rings had formed naturally when their Soul Power Levels broke through, and asked Huo Yuhao to help research the process.
• Huo Yuhao agreed to join Soul Hall, and Jiang Shengyu explained its work and support for soul masters, leaving Huo Yuhao impressed and excited.

Huo Yuhao settled into Mingde Hall, entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and impressed Xuan Ziwen enough to become his disciple. He received powerful Soul Tools from Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming, while Jiang Shengyu helped him adjust to life in Soul Hall.

• Jiang Shengyu explained Soul Hall's use of codenames and welcomed Huo Yuhao to a luxurious residence.
• Huo Yuhao settled into Mingde Hall and enrolled directly in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where his Soul Tool talent caught Xuan Ziwen's attention.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Jiang Shengyu to help him approach Huo Yuhao about becoming his personal disciple, and Huo Yuhao accepted.
• Jiang Shengyu told Huo Yuhao to call him Martial Uncle in public, but Huo Yuhao's reply sounded too strange to him.
• Jing Hongchen gave Huo Yuhao several Rank Eight Soul Tools, and Kong Deming gave him two defensive Rank Nine Soul Tools.

Jing Hongchen prepared to lead a team to the Far North for low-temperature testing of a Soul-guided Satellite, while Jiang Shengyu and Xiao Hongchen challenged each other to a spar. The chapter left them facing off in the academy arena as a crowd gathered to watch.

• Jing Hongchen told Kong Deming that he and three Titled Douluo would travel to the Far North to test the Soul-guided Satellite, and Kong Deming warned him to be cautious.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suspected the trip was a pretext to hunt Ice Empress, but Huo Yuhao explained that the team was going to conduct an experiment.
• Jiang Shengyu joked about the research workload, and Kong Deming dismissed the gathering while asking Jing Hongchen to stay behind.
• Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao encountered Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen challenged Jiang Shengyu to fight.
• At the academy combat arena, Xuan Ziwen noted the gap between their Soul Power ranks, while Meng Hongchen said Xiao Hongchen had never gained an advantage in their private fights.

Jiang Shengyu and Xiao Hongchen fought in the arena, where Jiang Shengyu's flames countered Xiao Hongchen's metal attacks. The fight ended with Jiang Shengyu improvising a giant two-colored Fire Lotus that threatened both of them.

• Xiao Hongchen and Jiang Shengyu released their Martial Souls, revealing Jiang Shengyu's Ten Thousand Year second Soul Ring to the audience.
• Xiao Hongchen used Gold's Boiling and attacked with metal spikes, but Jiang Shengyu's flames vaporized them.
• Xiao Hongchen charged with metal gauntlets and concentrated his Soul Power into a powerful fist, forcing Jiang Shengyu to retreat across the arena.
• Jiang Shengyu slammed his two flames together and formed a huge Black and White Flame Fire Lotus above the arena.
• Jiang Shengyu told Xiao Hongchen that the Fire Lotus could not be recalled and would treat everyone the same, prompting Xiao Hongchen to curse at him.

Jiang Shengyu’s unstable Buddha’s Angry Fire Lotus exploded during his fight with Xiao Hongchen, but Jing Hongchen stopped the blast and praised Jiang Shengyu’s power. The group later went for food together, while at Shrek Academy Jiang Qingtong met Tang Ya.

• Xiao Hongchen admitted he had not brought his Rank Nine Red Dust Protection, so Jiang Shengyu told him to flee as the fire lotus began to destabilize.
• Xiao Hongchen escaped the platform before the fire lotus erupted, and Jing Hongchen appeared to contain the explosion with his hand.
• Jing Hongchen ordered students who had skipped class to write five-thousand-word self-critiques, then praised Jiang Shengyu and warned Xiao Hongchen not to underestimate Shrek Academy.
• Meng Hongchen checked on Jiang Shengyu, and the group went to the food street, where she suggested a picnic so she could eat Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish.
• At Shrek Academy, Jiang Qingtong met Sect Master Tang Ya and asked why she had requested the meeting.

Tang Ya agreed to rebuild the Tang Sect in the Sun Moon Empire, and Jiang Qingtong gave her a Rank Nine Soul Tool to help her leave after saying goodbye to Bei Bei. Jiang Qingtong admitted to Zhuang Lao that she was currying favor for the Sun Moon Empire, then challenged him about monitoring her.

• Tang Ya asked Jiang Qingtong how much support the Sun Moon Empire could offer the Tang Sect, and Jiang Qingtong promised it would provide more than Shrek Academy.
• Tang Ya decided to rebuild the Tang Sect in the Sun Moon Empire despite expecting Bei Bei to oppose her, and planned to leave after saying goodbye to him.
• Jiang Qingtong gave Tang Ya Past Moon, a Rank Nine Soul Tool that could teleport its wearer to set coordinates.
• Zhuang Lao noticed Jiang Qingtong no longer had the Soul Tool, and she told him she had given it to Tang Ya because she felt sorry for her.
• Jiang Qingtong admitted she was currying favor for the Sun Moon Empire and asked Zhuang Lao why he was monitoring her movements.

Jiang Qingtong reflected Ma Xiaotao’s attack with her Rank Nine defensive Soul Tool, then Imprinted Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul. The Sea God Pavilion elders arrived, and Song Lao ordered Qingtong to keep the incident secret as Cai Meier took the unconscious Ma Xiaotao away.

• Zhuang Lao reassured Jiang Qingtong about the elders’ suspicions and reminded her not to casually give away Rank Nine Soul Tools.
• Song Lao questioned Jiang Qingtong’s motives for giving Tang Ya a Rank Nine Soul Tool, while Cai Meier and Xian Lin’er defended her conduct.
• Ma Xiaotao charged at Jiang Qingtong with a flaming palm strike, but Qingtong’s Seven Leaf Mirror Lotus reflected the attack and knocked Ma Xiaotao unconscious.
• Jiang Qingtong Imprinted Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul onto a Crystal Petal, deciding she could later balance its evil fire with Huo Yuhao’s Ultimate Ice.
• The Sea God Pavilion elders arrived, and Zhuang Lao confirmed Ma Xiaotao was not seriously injured.
• Song Lao told Jiang Qingtong to keep the incident confidential, and Cai Meier carried Ma Xiaotao back to the Inner Court.

Shrek Academy's elders discussed Ma Xiaotao's condition and whether Jiang Qingtong knew about her Evil Fire Phoenix, while Yan Shaozhe reported that the Star Luo Empire planned to secretly destroy Soul Hall branches. The group debated Soul Hall's free Martial Soul Awakenings as Song Lao and Zhuang Lao brought Jiang Qingtong to meet them.

• Song Lao and Xian Lin'er returned to Ma Xiaotao's room, where Cai Meier said Xiaotao still had not awakened and wondered whether Jiang Qingtong had noticed her condition.
• Xian Lin'er defended Jiang Qingtong because she had lent the Soul Tool Department a Rank Nine Soul Tool, and Yan Shaozhe arrived and questioned whether Jiang Qingtong could be trusted.
• Yan Shaozhe told Cai Meier that the Star Luo Empire would secretly conduct the Soul Hunting Operation to destroy Soul Hall branches within its borders.
• Cai Meier compared Soul Hall to the Spirit Hall, while Yan Shaozhe rejected the comparison and Xian Lin'er argued that Soul Hall's Martial Soul Awakenings might benefit ordinary people.
• Song Lao and Zhuang Lao entered with Jiang Qingtong as the elders debated Soul Hall's motives and the cost of awakening everyone's martial souls.

Jiang Qingtong refused Yan Shaozhe’s offer to become his disciple, explaining that Jing Hongchen was already her master, and was accepted into Shrek’s Inner Court for training. After learning Jiang Nannan had encountered Xu Sanshi, Jiang Qingtong encouraged her to face him, and Jiang Nannan agreed to go find him.

• Jiang Qingtong told Yan Shaozhe that Jing Hongchen, the Master of Mingde Hall, was already her master, so she could not become Yan Shaozhe’s disciple.
• Yan Shaozhe agreed that Jiang Qingtong could move into the Inner Court and receive Martial Soul training from him and Cai Meier.
• After Jiang Qingtong returned to the dormitory, Jiang Nannan came back upset and admitted she had run into Xu Sanshi.
• Jiang Qingtong offered to confront Xu Sanshi, then advised Jiang Nannan to face her painful past rather than keep running from it.
• Jiang Nannan gathered her resolve and set off with Jiang Qingtong to find Xu Sanshi.

Jiang Nannan confronted Xu Sanshi and told him to stop pursuing her, but he blamed Jiang Qingtong and challenged her. Jiang Qingtong revealed her powerful cultivation and knocked Xu Sanshi flying with one punch, leaving him stunned and asking whether she had a Mental-type martial soul.

• Jiang Nannan told Xu Sanshi that she wanted nothing more to do with him, and he accused Jiang Qingtong of turning her against him.
• Xu Sanshi released his martial soul and threatened Jiang Qingtong, prompting Jiang Nannan to shield her junior and summon her own martial soul.
• Jiang Qingtong revealed her Mirror Flower Martial Soul and two thousand-year soul rings, shocking the gathered students and Xu Sanshi.
• Jiang Qingtong identified herself as a level twenty-nine Power-Attack Type Battle Soul Master, while Xu Sanshi introduced himself as a level thirty-seven Defense Type Battle Soul Elder.
• Jiang Qingtong struck Xu Sanshi with a spiritual assault and interference before sending him flying with one punch.
• Xu Sanshi got back up, dazed but not badly injured, and asked Jiang Qingtong if she had a Mental-type martial soul.