Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qingtong watched the freshmen treat her as a target to measure themselves against while Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong faced increasingly difficult assessment opponents. Wang Dong began fighting a two-thousand-year Azure Winged Demon Phoenix, leaving her hidden trump card unrevealed.

• Freshmen repeatedly glanced at Jiang Qingtong after their assessments, prompting her to wonder whether she had become a check-in spot.
• Xiao Xiao chose a nine-hundred-and-ninety-year Blue-Eyed Red-Striped Tiger and used her Twin Martial Souls to pin it down, earning Du Weilun's praise.
• Wang Dong told Jiang Qingtong and Xiao Xiao she would shock them, then chose to fight a two-thousand-year Azure Winged Demon Phoenix.
• Wang Dong flew up to battle the Azure Winged Demon Phoenix, while Zhou Yi worried about her choice and Jiang Qingtong reassured Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong had a trump card.

Wang Dong revealed her second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, and defeated the Azure Winged Demon Phoenix, confirming she was a Twin Martial Soul wielder from the Clear Sky Sect. Jiang Qingtong then chose to fight two five-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and the chapter ended as she revealed three blood-red Soul Rings marked with faint gold.

• Wang Dong switched to the Clear Sky Hammer and crushed the Azure Winged Demon Phoenix's wings with a descending strike.
• Wang Dong confirmed to Du Weilun that she had Twin Martial Souls and belonged to the Clear Sky Sect, astonishing the freshmen.
• Wang Dong rejoined Jiang Qingtong and Xiao Xiao, while Jiang Qingtong joked that she had a strong-person radar.
• Jiang Qingtong requested two five-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and Du Weilun agreed after Yan Shaozhe told him to let her choose.
• Jiang Qingtong faced a Hidden Spirit Snake and a Golden Blood Tyrant Bear, then revealed three blood-red Soul Rings with four faint golden markings each.

Jiang Qingtong used her Simulation Soul Skill and Jiang Shengyu’s connection to Snow Empress’s Hundred Thousand Year Embryo to overwhelm two soul beasts during her assessment. After earning full marks, she was stopped by Ma Xiaotao, who asked about the commotion.

• Jiang Shengyu touched Snow Empress’s Hundred Thousand Year Embryo, sending its Ferocious Beast aura through their soul bond to Jiang Qingtong.
• Jiang Qingtong’s simulated Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings and overlapping Ferocious Beast auras subdued the Golden Blood Tyrant Bear and Hidden Spirit Snake, and she told Du Weilun that her assessment was over.
• Jiang Qingtong explained that Simulation was a Spirit Eyes soul skill, while Yan Shaozhe and Gong Changlong reacted with amazement and Gong Changlong offered to help her in the future.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Jiang Qingtong full marks and invited her to the Inner Court, then she rejoined Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.
• Ma Xiaotao stopped Jiang Qingtong before she could leave and asked whether she had caused the commotion.

Jiang Qingtong fainted as an unbearable chill spread through her, and Ma Xiaotao rushed her to the Inner Court for help. In the Sun Moon Empire, Jiang Shengyu faced the Snow Empress's awakening embryo and pulled Huo Yuhao into the freezing room, where Sky Dream Ice Silkworm advised them to flee.

• Ma Xiaotao reminded Jiang Qingtong that she had promised to treat her to a meal, then invited Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao along.
• Jiang Qingtong's right hand turned icy cold, and she fainted; Ma Xiaotao carried her toward the Inner Court to find a teacher.
• Jiang Shengyu struggled to resist the Snow Empress's embryo as it unleashed fierce cold, while his Rank Nine Soul Tools began to falter.
• Huo Yuhao arrived, and Jiang Shengyu dragged him inside; Huo Yuhao released his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul to withstand the cold.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm recognized the Snow Empress's aura, but admitted he could not contain her power and told Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao to run.

The Snow Empress awakened from her embryo and attacked Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao, but the Ice Empress intervened and explained their circumstances. After testing Jiang Shengyu and seeing his Soul Ring appear without hunting a Soul Beast, the Snow Empress questioned why he had kept her embryo.

• The Snow Empress struck at Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao, and the Ice Empress’s barrier blocked her attack.
• The Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained what had happened to them and Huo Yuhao, while the Snow Empress revealed she had become an embryo to survive her next Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Shengyu explained that Jing Hongchen had found the embryo in the Far North and given it to him, but the Snow Empress accused him of coveting her Soul Ring.
• The Snow Empress tested Jiang Shengyu with her Soul Power, raising his strength from Rank Thirty-One to Rank Forty-One and causing a black Soul Ring to appear.
• The Ice Empress learned Jiang Shengyu was Jiang Qingtong’s sibling, and the Snow Empress asked why he had kept her embryo despite not wanting her Soul Bone.

Jiang Shengyu explained his research into a way for soul masters to cultivate without hunting Soul Beasts, and Snow Empress agreed to let him study her embryo. After the icy damage in Heavenly Sound Douluo’s home was cleaned up, Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao were left to wipe away the water stains before she returned.

• Jiang Shengyu told Snow Empress that he was researching a way for soul masters to gain Soul Rings without hunting Soul Beasts so humans and Soul Beasts could coexist.
• Snow Empress asked why Jiang Shengyu pursued the research, and he said protecting Soul Beasts was necessary to protect humanity.
• Snow Empress offered her embryo as a research subject, and Jiang Shengyu promised to complete the research and safeguard it.
• Ice Empress cleared the ice and snow from the room, then returned to Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea of Consciousness with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm following her.
• Jiang Shengyu and Huo Yuhao wiped up the remaining water stains, and Heavenly Sound Douluo returned home and questioned them about the mess.

Heavenly Sound Douluo examined Huo Yuhao while the Sea God Pavilion elders investigated Jiang Qingtong’s unexplained fainting and icy aura. Mu En suspected she possessed a hidden third martial soul and proposed keeping her at Shrek Academy; Jiang Qingtong awoke and concealed what she knew.

• Heavenly Sound Douluo warned Jiang Shengyu to stop overexerting himself, then insisted on examining Huo Yuhao.
• Zhuang Lao found no abnormalities in Jiang Qingtong, despite her cold body and the icy chill that appeared during her assessment.
• Mu En suggested that Jiang Qingtong’s icy aura came from a hidden third martial soul awakened by the assessment.
• Mu En argued that Shrek Academy should keep Jiang Qingtong and said he had a plan to make her one of them.
• Jiang Qingtong awoke, denied feeling unwell, and pretended not to know why she had fainted.

Mu En discovered Jiang Qingtong’s Third Martial Soul was the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, with the Ultimate Ice attribute, and offered extraordinary rewards to persuade her to stay at Shrek Academy. Jiang Qingtong refused, reaffirming her loyalty to the Sun Moon Empire, while Mu En told the Venerable Elders to treat her well in hopes she would eventually choose the Academy.

• Mu En explained that Jiang Qingtong had awakened a Third Martial Soul, and she released the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion to confirm it.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Venerable Elders sensed Jiang Qingtong’s Ultimate Ice aura, and Ma Xiaotao found it soothed her Evil Fire.
• Mu En asked Jiang Qingtong to remain at Shrek Academy and promised to cultivate her into a Limit Douluo, provide Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones, and make her the future master of the Sea God Pavilion.
• Jiang Qingtong refused Mu En’s offer, saying she could not betray the Sun Moon Empire, and Zhuang Lao escorted her and Ma Xiaotao out.
• Xuan Zi warned that Jiang Qingtong’s continued growth could threaten the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms, but Mu En argued that her refusal showed loyalty and instructed the elders to treat her as family.
• Zhuang Lao left Jiang Qingtong near the dormitory district and told her to seek him if anything happened.

Jiang Shengyu discovered that his fourth Soul Skill was Hand of Providence and revealed his unusual array of elemental abilities to Snow Empress. Snow Empress remained astonished by his ice and Ultimate Fire powers, while the reasons behind Jiang Shengyu and Jiang Qingtong’s transmigration were left for later.

• Jiang Qingtong returned to the dormitory after speaking with Zhuang Lao, while Jiang Shengyu criticized Shrek Academy’s self-interest and discussed Soul Bones with Snow Empress.
• Jiang Shengyu released his newly formed Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring and obtained the fourth Soul Skill, Hand of Providence.
• Snow Empress sensed the skill’s strange aura, and Jiang Shengyu said he had incurred great karma.
• Snow Empress offered to teach Jiang Shengyu her ultimate technique if he had an ice and snow attribute, and Jiang Shengyu revealed an ice-blue sword through his third Soul Ring.
• Jiang Shengyu also released Purification Lotus Demonic Fire and Void Swallowing Flame, shocking Snow Empress with his ice and Ultimate Fire abilities.

The Snow Empress taught Jiang Shengyu two of the Snow Empress' Three Absolutes while her awakened soul form remained active. After many days of practice, he mastered Ice Pinnacle Peerless and combined Great Cold Without Snow with Hand of Providence using Jiang Qingtong's Ultimate Ice.

• The Snow Empress explained that she had awakened after Jiang Shengyu absorbed her Ice and Snow Qi, and insisted on teaching him before she fell asleep again.
• Jiang Shengyu found an open clearing, where the Snow Empress taught him the essentials of Ice Pinnacle Peerless and Great Cold Without Snow and demonstrated both techniques.
• The Snow Empress said Ice Pinnacle Peerless suited Jiang Shengyu's third soul skill, while Great Cold Without Snow would be harder to learn because his fourth soul skill lacked the right attribute.
• After many days of practice, Jiang Shengyu more or less mastered Ice Pinnacle Peerless and added Great Cold Without Snow to Hand of Providence with Jiang Qingtong's Ultimate Ice.
• Jiang Shengyu activated Hand of Providence in the clearing, and a massive icy-blue hand emerged from a golden ring and slammed down toward the stream.

Jiang Shengyu demonstrated the power of his combined ice techniques, then learned that he and Xiao Hongchen would lead the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s reserve team in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Soul Dueling Tournament. The team gathered at Soul Hall for a brief meeting, where Na Na nervously introduced herself.

• Jiang Shengyu froze a thousand-meter stretch of stream with the Hand of Providence and Great Cold Without Snow, and Snow Empress praised his progress before returning to her embryo.
• Jiang Shengyu tried to avoid Xiao Hongchen, but Xiao caught him and explained that they would be captain and vice-captain of the tournament reserve team.
• Xiao Hongchen named Meng Hongchen, Yuhao, Tang Ya, and Na Na as the other reserve team members, and Jiang Shengyu agreed to hold a mobilization meeting at Soul Hall.
• Xiao Hongchen gathered the team, claimed his role as captain, and Jiang Shengyu asked Na Na to introduce herself.
• Na Na stepped forward nervously, intimidated by the status and connections of the others present.

Jiang Shengyu and Xiao Hongchen arranged for the Soul Hall to investigate Na Na’s suspicious family circumstances. At Shrek Academy, Jiang Qingtong rejected the idea of romance with Bei Bei and gave Jiang Nannan expensive supplements and money to help a poor village.

• Na Na became visibly nervous when Meng Hongchen asked whether things were going well at home, prompting Xiao Hongchen and Jiang Shengyu to suspect her family situation was troubling.
• Xiao Hongchen told Jiang Shengyu that Na Na was registered as an orphan and asked him to have the Soul Hall investigate her parents’ suspicious deaths.
• Jiang Qingtong realized Mu En might be trying to match her with Bei Bei, but insisted she would never be interested in anyone but Jiang Shengyu.
• Jiang Qingtong gave Jiang Nannan Bei Bei’s expensive supplements and additional Gold Soul Coins to support a Hundred-Household Village.
• Jiang Nannan praised Jiang Qingtong’s kindness and said she was unlike the nobles she had known.

Jiang Nannan opened up to Jiang Qingtong about her painful past and found hope in the possibility of visiting the Sun Moon Empire. Shrek Academy then began its Reserve Team selection melee, leaving Jiang Nannan sensing a thread of Spiritual Power as Jiang Qingtong waved to her.

• Jiang Nannan described her distrust of the Original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms' nobles, and Jiang Qingtong encouraged her to visit the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Nannan told Jiang Qingtong about her past and felt relieved after sharing the lingering shadow she carried.
• Xuan Zi announced a free-for-all assessment in which the last seven Core Disciples standing would win, while Jiang Qingtong and Bei Bei were already guaranteed places.
• The melee began, and the students targeted the Four-Ring Soul Ancestors while leaving Jiang Qingtong, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao alone.
• Xu Sanshi offered to protect Jiang Nannan, but she rejected him and moved away before sensing Spiritual Power reaching toward her Spiritual Sea of Consciousness.

Jiang Nannan used Jiang Qingtong’s Mental Detection Sharing to dominate the assessment battle, then beat Xu Sanshi after the other students abandoned their alliance. The chapter ended with Xu Sanshi defeated at the edge of the battlefield as Jiang Qingtong, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao joined Jiang Nannan.

• Jiang Qingtong shared her Mental Detection with Jiang Nannan, allowing Jiang Nannan to see everyone’s movements across the battlefield.
• Jiang Qingtong, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao sat aside with snacks while Jiang Nannan and Bei Bei fought off attacks.
• Jiang Nannan persuaded the remaining students to break up their alliance and turn on one another, leaving her alone with Xu Sanshi.
• Jiang Nannan attacked Xu Sanshi relentlessly while Jiang Qingtong’s Mental Detection helped her anticipate his moves.
• Jiang Qingtong struck Xu Sanshi with a Soul Impact as he unleashed Xuanming Tremor, and Jiang Nannan shattered his Xuanming Shield and kicked him to the battlefield’s edge.
• Jiang Qingtong, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao finished their sunflower seeds and walked over to Jiang Nannan as Xu Sanshi collapsed.

Jiang Qingtong revealed that she had secretly assisted Jiang Nannan during the melee assessment, and Xuan Zi explained that the chosen students had been kept behind because of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Soul Master Competition. He left them with a warning about the Sun Moon Empire’s ambitions.

• Jiang Qingtong credited Jiang Nannan’s victory to her Mental Detection Sharing, while Xu Sanshi’s teacher accused Jiang Nannan of striking too hard.
• Xuan Zi confirmed Xu Sanshi was not seriously injured and ordered his teacher to take him away.
• Xuan Zi named Jiang Qingtong, Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, Jiang Nannan, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and He Caitou to stay, and dismissed the other students.
• Jiang Qingtong admitted she had helped Jiang Nannan from the start because she wanted to participate in the melee.
• Xuan Zi asked whether the students knew about the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Soul Master Competition, then warned that Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would field Soul Kings or stronger.
• Xuan Zi said the Sun Moon Empire had long sought a chance to start another war against the continent.

Xuan Zi recounted the Sun Moon Empire’s history and warned the students that it threatened peace, then explained the Shrek Seven Monsters selection process and announced that everyone could compete for a place. After dismissing the others, he kept Jiang Qingtong and Bei Bei behind for a private conversation.

• Jiang Qingtong questioned Xuan Zi’s claim that the Sun Moon Empire had started an evil war, while privately doubting the righteous account he gave of the old conflict.
• Jiang Shengyu helped Jiang Qingtong prepare an account of the war that reinforced Xuan Zi and the others’ suspicions of the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi warned the students that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would test Shrek’s younger generation in the Soul Master Competition and explained how the Shrek Seven Monsters were chosen.
• Xuan Zi told the students that they could become Shrek Seven Monsters through sustained evaluation, then ordered them not to reveal their Reserve Team status.
• Xuan Zi asked Jiang Qingtong and Bei Bei to stay behind, and Bei Bei asked what else he wanted to tell them.

Xuan Zi appointed Bei Bei and Jiang Qingtong to lead the Reserve Team, while Mu En’s plan to keep Jiang Qingtong at Shrek Academy shaped their uneasy partnership. Later, He Caitou urged Jiang Qingtong to stay and revealed that his real name was Xu He and that he belonged to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family.

• Xuan Zi named Bei Bei captain and Jiang Qingtong vice-captain of the Reserve Team, entrusting them with its affairs for the month before the Soul Master Competition.
• Jiang Qingtong accepted Bei Bei’s invitation to eat, steered their conversation back to Reserve Team business, and left him with the team’s responsibilities.
• He Caitou stopped Jiang Qingtong on her way back and asked her to remain at Shrek Academy.
• He Caitou said he had fled the Sun Moon Empire because its nobles persecuted him and warned that Jiang Qingtong’s talent could draw her into war.
• Jiang Qingtong suspected He Caitou’s surname connected him to the imperial family, and he admitted that he was a member of it.

Jiang Qingtong revealed to He Caitou that she was Kong Deming’s disciple, while He Caitou shared what he knew about the Sun Moon Empire’s powerful Silver Moon Douluo with Xian Lin'er. Jiang Qingtong left her decision about staying at Shrek Academy unresolved, and Xian Lin'er concluded that the academy needed to learn more about the empire.

• He Caitou asked how Jiang Qingtong had guessed his connection to the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family, and she said her teacher had told her about the family’s past.
• Jiang Qingtong told He Caitou that Jing Hongchen was her senior brother and Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming was her teacher, but she did not know why Kong Deming had gone into seclusion.
• Jiang Qingtong declined to decide whether to stay at Shrek Academy, explaining that the Sun Moon Empire was still her homeland.
• After Jiang Qingtong left, Xian Lin'er asked He Caitou about Kong Deming, and He Caitou described him as an imperial family member and the empire’s strongest Rank Nine Soul Tool Master.
• Xian Lin'er recognized that the Sun Moon Empire had a powerful figure beyond Jing Hongchen and resolved that Shrek Academy needed to investigate the empire further.

The Sea God Pavilion elders discussed the threat posed by the Sun Moon Empire and decided to use Jiang Qingtong as an opening to influence it. Jiang Qingtong encouraged Jiang Nannan to form her own view of the empire, while in Bright Capital Xu Tianran urged the emperor to launch the Soul-guided Satellite.

• Xian Lin'er reported He Caitou’s information about Kong Deming, and the elders concluded he was likely a Super Douluo.
• Song Lao proposed secretly crippling the Sun Moon Empire’s strongest fighters, but Mu En rejected the plan and told Xian Lin'er to have He Caitou spend more time with Jiang Qingtong.
• Jiang Nannan thanked Jiang Qingtong and worried she might judge her because of the Sun Moon Empire; Jiang Qingtong told her to see the empire for herself before forming an opinion.
• Jiang Qingtong considered Jiang Nannan and Xiao Xiao possible recruits for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming reported that the Soul-guided Satellite’s initial launch apparatus was ready, and Xu Tianran urged the emperor to launch it soon.

Xu Tianran secured the emperor’s support for the Soul-guided Satellite project, while Huo Yuhao, Xuan Ziwen, and Jiang Shengyu advanced plans for mobile phones and satellite communications. The first Soul-guided Satellite launched successfully, and the emperor celebrated its message proclaiming the Sun Moon Empire’s endurance.

• Xu Tianran persuaded the emperor to entrust Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen with overseeing the satellite project and to attend its launch.
• Jiang Shengyu suggested limiting the first mobile phones to basic functions, and Xuan Ziwen said those features could be developed.
• Huo Yuhao reported that the first-generation Base Station was complete, while Xuan Ziwen explained that satellite connections required at least Grade Seven Soul Tool Arrays and Grade Eight arrays for stability.
• Jing Hongchen oversaw the launch as the emperor, Xu Tianran, Kong Deming, Jiang Shengyu, and officials watched the Soul-guided Rocket rise from Bright Capital.
• The first Soul-guided Satellite reached its designated orbit and sent the message, “May the Sun Moon Empire last ten thousand generations!”
• The emperor praised the successful launch, and Kong Deming explained that twelve Rank Nine energy-gathering jet Soul Tool Arrays powered the rocket.