Chapter Summaries

Su Yu met his new roommate, Qian Buduo, and began his first term at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy while preparing to transfer into the Soul Tool Department. During the first class, teacher Yang Chengyu noticed Su Yu cultivating but let him continue and asked him to come to his office afterward.

• Su Yu met Qian Buduo, who talked about the academy and called Su Yu Leader Su after sensing his Soul Power.
• Su Yu took Qian Buduo to the cafeteria and then guided him through the library, where Su Yu studied Level One Soul Tool models.
• On the first day of classes, Qian Buduo persuaded Su Yu to attend their Martial Soul Department lecture instead of skipping it.
• Yang Chengyu moved students from the back rows to the front, then noticed Su Yu cultivating during the lecture and chose not to interrupt him.
• Yang Chengyu called Su Yu to his office after class.

Yang Chengyu explained the advantages of becoming a Core Disciple and invited Su Yu to demonstrate his Soul Tool crafting ability. Su Yu began making a Level One Soul Tool Grenade, and his rapid progress impressed Yang Chengyu as he reached the crucial Core Array step.

• Yang Chengyu told Su Yu that Core Disciples received Rare Metal quotas, access to advanced Soul Tool knowledge, and better prospects at Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Su Yu decided to pursue Core Disciple status and agreed to try making a Soul Tool for Yang Chengyu.
• Su Yu chose to make a Soul Tool Grenade and reviewed the tools and crafting principles before beginning.
• Su Yu forged Sinking Silver and engraved the grenade shell, quickly reaching Proficient Level in Forging Technique and Engraving Technique.
• Yang Chengyu recognized Su Yu's exceptional talent as Su Yu began work on the grenade's Core Array.

Su Yu completed his first Soul Tool Grenade, demonstrating First-Level Soul Engineer skill and impressing Yang Chengyu. He decided to pursue a Core Disciple position through Jing Hongchen’s faction, while Yang Chengyu went to report his achievement to the dean; Su Yu returned to the dormitory and resumed cultivating his Mental Power.

• Su Yu steadily inscribed the Soul Tool Grenade’s formation, and Yang Chengyu recognized that he had reached First-Level Soul Engineer level after only a month of self-study.
• Yang Chengyu explained Su Yu’s technical flaws and said he needed Second-Level Soul Engineer certification to compete for a Core Disciple position, offering to help secure the best treatment if Su Yu reached that level.
• Su Yu realized Yang Chengyu belonged to Jing Hongchen’s faction and decided to become a Core Disciple and join it rather than risk the Royal Power Struggle.
• Yang Chengyu assembled Su Yu’s components into a complete Soul Tool Grenade and went to report to the dean at Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Su Yu returned to the dormitory, recovered his Soul Power, and tried to improve his Mental Power, but Electrolux’s Gray Pearl did not respond.

Su Yu developed the Soul Condensation Method and the Purple Qi Attraction Method, using dawn’s Purple Qi to refine his Mental Power and complete its first rune line. As his Soul Tool skills advanced, Yang Chengyu reported that Su Yu might become a Second-Level Soul Engineer before the entrance assessment, and Su Yu was set to take his certification exam three days before it.

• Su Yu combined his research into Mental Power cultivation to develop the Soul Condensation Method.
• At dawn, Su Yu drew Purple Qi into his Sea of Consciousness, refined his Mental Power, and formed the first line of the method.
• Su Yu summarized the process and developed the Purple Qi Attraction Method, then proposed a hypothesis to improve its efficiency.
• With Yang Chengyu's guidance, Su Yu rapidly improved his Soul Tool crafting skills.
• Yang Chengyu told Jing Hongchen that Su Yu could become a Second-Level Soul Engineer before the assessment, and Jing Hongchen ordered him to keep Su Yu from falling into the Crown Prince's hands.
• Three days before the new students' entrance assessment, Su Yu prepared to undergo Second-Level Soul Engineer certification.

Su Yu earned Second-Level Soul Engineer certification at Illustrious Virtue Hall after crafting a high-grade Soul Tool Dagger in three hours, breaking the Sun Moon Empire record. Xu Tianran explained why he would not recruit Su Yu, while Xiao Hongchen decided to challenge the new record holder.

• Su Yu demonstrated Mastery-level forging and carving before crafting a high-grade Soul Tool Dagger in three hours.
• Jing Hongchen praised Su Yu, awarded him his Second-Level Soul Engineer badge, and urged him to aim for Ninth-Level certification.
• Xu Tianran rejected his maid's suggestion to recruit Su Yu, explaining to Xu Kun that he could not risk opposing Jing Hongchen and that Kong Deming would reclaim Su Yu for the imperial family.
• After Su Yu's record-breaking achievement spread through Ming Capital, Xiao Hongchen told Meng that he would challenge Su Yu.

Su Yu completed the Purple Qi Soul Condensation Method’s rune and began developing the Purple Qi Soul Gathering Method. After students learned he had become a Second-Level Soul Engineer, Xiao Hongchen challenged him to a fight, leaving Su Yu surrounded by onlookers.

• Su Yu finished developing the Soul Gathering Method and combined it with Purple Qi to form the Purple Qi Soul Gathering Method.
• Su Yu completed his Condensation Rune, which doubled its effectiveness and let his Mental Power grow rapidly.
• Su Yu used Purple Qi stored in the Condensation Rune to begin tracing a new Gathering Rune, but exhausted the available Purple Qi before it could recover.
• Qian Buduo learned that Su Yu had passed the Second-Level Soul Engineer certification and was stunned by how quickly he had advanced.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Su Yu and challenged him to a fight while Meng Hongchen and a crowd of students watched.

Su Yu refused Xiao Hongchen’s challenge, then became Kong Deming’s disciple and discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s prospects for unifying the continent. The chapter ended with Kong Deming privately worrying about an external force he feared as the Heaven’s Scourge.

• Su Yu rejected Xiao Hongchen’s challenge because of their age and training differences, then went to the cafeteria with Qian Buduo.
• Two days later, Su Yu’s transfer application was approved without an examination, and he received the benefits of a top-ranking Core Disciple.
• Jing Hongchen introduced Su Yu to Kong Deming, who accepted him as a disciple and gave him a token granting access to the Royal Offering Hall for Soul Tool instruction.
• Kong Deming questioned Su Yu about his Star Luo Empire origins and his connection to Ten Thousand Household Building, but said he did not doubt him.
• Su Yu argued that the Sun Moon Empire could unify the continent if its academy defeated Shrek in some respect, while Kong Deming worried about the Heaven’s Scourge.

Kong Deming gave Su Yu a collection of Level One and Level Two Soul Tool blueprints to master, along with the rare Spirit Engraving Sculptor. Over three months, Su Yu completed the assignment, improved his cultivation methods, and reached level thirty-five, leaving him eager to learn what reward Kong Deming would give him.

• Kong Deming gave Su Yu blueprints for Level One and Level Two Soul Tools and ordered him to master them within three months.
• Su Yu set up his Private Workshop, examined the Spirit Engraving Sculptor, and used it to record Core Array patterns and produce Soul Tools.
• Su Yu followed a demanding routine of Soul Tool production and cultivation while Xiao Hongchen trained harder and Meng Hongchen found chances to chat with him.
• Su Yu broke through to level thirty-five and found a circulation method that improved his Body Tempering Method.
• Su Yu refined his cultivation methods and completed Kong Deming's assignment, then looked forward to his promised reward.

Su Yu completed Kong Deming’s Soul Tool test and learned that reaching level thirty-five had earned him a chance to receive two powerful treasures. Kong Deming named him the successor to the Extreme Battle Soul Engineer Plan, then set one final test: defeat Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen.

• Su Yu told Kong Deming that he had completed the Soul Tool task and reached level thirty-five.
• Kong Deming showed Su Yu a Nine Petal Snow Lotus and a Divine Light Cover as rewards he could earn by passing a Martial Soul test.
• Kong Deming explained his plan to combine Martial Soul cultivation and Soul Engineer training at the highest level, and chose Su Yu as its candidate.
• Su Yu promised to pursue both paths, and Kong Deming challenged him to defeat Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen.

Kong Deming required Su Yu to defeat Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, and Su Yu chose to face both siblings at once. The match began with Xiao Hongchen launching a barrage of shells across Su Yu’s Blue Silver Domain.

• Kong Deming announced that Su Yu’s trial was to defeat Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Su Yu assessed his strengths and decided to reveal more of his abilities by challenging both siblings together.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the challenge, while Meng Hongchen joined the fight and Jing Hongchen presided over the match.
• Xiao Hongchen armed himself with metal and Soul Tools, and Meng Hongchen released her Martial Soul.
• Su Yu spread Blue Silver Grass across the arena to form his Blue Silver Domain, and Xiao Hongchen fired a barrage of shells at him.

Su Yu used his Blue Silver Domain to withstand Xiao Hongchen’s bombardment, then exploited Xiao’s poor mobility to counterattack. Meng Hongchen joined the fight and revealed her Soul Tool Armor, leaving Su Yu facing both siblings.

• Su Yu rebuilt his Blue Silver Walls with his Purple Moon Purification Soul Skill and endured Xiao Hongchen’s first bombardment.
• Su Yu used the Blue Silver Grass to move through his domain and attack Xiao Hongchen from the flank with Blue Silver Crit Guns.
• Xiao Hongchen unleashed an all-around barrage to block Su Yu’s attack, but Su Yu quickly bound him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Meng Hongchen entered the battle and used her Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad’s power to wither the Blue Silver Grass.
• Meng Hongchen formed an ice-blue Soul Tool Armor around herself as Su Yu studied it.

Su Yu battled Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, using his Blue Silver Grass abilities to withstand their poison, armor, and Soul Tool attacks. As the twins began to turn the fight around, Su Yu revealed a Jet Accelerator and prepared to fight as a Soul Engineer.

• Meng Hongchen used her Soul Tool Armor and ice-and-fire poison attacks while Xiao Hongchen bombarded Su Yu with cannons.
• Su Yu used his soul skills and Blue Silver Grass to resist the poison, evade attacks, and restrain Meng Hongchen.
• Su Yu struck Meng Hongchen with a Blue Silver Critical Spear, then used Exploding Mark to rush Xiao Hongchen and launch him into the air.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen unleashed their Fourth Soul Skills, breaking Su Yu’s restraints and putting him in danger.
• Su Yu declared that he was a Soul Engineer too and revealed a Jet Accelerator beneath his feet.

Su Yu used his Soul Tools and Blue Silver Grass to wear Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen down until they unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. As their Three-Legged Scarlet Gold Toad trapped him with attacks, Su Yu built layered defenses and began engraving a Core Array in the air, leaving Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen wondering what he intended to do.

• Su Yu used jet devices, Soul Power Amplifiers, and regenerative Blue Silver Grass to evade Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen while conserving his strength.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen embraced and transformed into the Three-Legged Scarlet Gold Toad through their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Yu dodged the toad's attacks until scarlet-gold energy shells surrounded him, then triggered his final Life Mark and Third Soul Skill, Exploding Mark.
• Su Yu equipped Soul Power Guiding Devices and formed dense, layered Blue Silver Grass defenses reinforced with soul power.
• Su Yu engraved a Core Array in the air, astonishing Kong Deming and leaving him and Jing Hongchen uncertain of Su Yu's plan.

Su Yu used a Void Engraving Array and his self-designed defensive Soul Tool to survive Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, then defeated the siblings. He explained that he had combined mechanical construction principles with Soul Tool technology, inspiring Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen to consider new applications.

• Su Yu instantly engraved a Void Engraving Array and merged it with his Blue Silver Grass to blunt the siblings’ attack.
• Su Yu activated his rare-metal defensive Soul Tool to withstand the remaining force of Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• After Red Dust Affection ended, Su Yu blasted the exhausted siblings off the arena and won the match.
• Su Yu removed the Blue Silver Grass from the siblings and helped stabilize Meng Hongchen after her martial soul backlash.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen that he had used mechanical construction principles inspired by the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons to design his Soul Tool.

Kong Deming rewarded Su Yu with a Divine Light Cover and a Nine Petal Snow Lotus, which evolved Su Yu’s Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and raised his Soul Power to level thirty-eight. The chapter leaves Jing Hongchen studying Core Arrays as he pursues a new direction for Soul Tool Armor.

• Kong Deming became interested in the Tang Sect’s hidden weapon techniques after Su Yu pointed out their similarities to his Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen took Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen away to recover and investigate how Soul Tool Arrays could advance Soul Tool Armor.
• Kong Deming gave Su Yu a Divine Light Cover that could withstand three full-force attacks from a Titled Douluo and a Nine Petal Snow Lotus to evolve his Martial Soul.
• Su Yu refined the Nine Petal Snow Lotus over three days, transforming his Blue Silver Grass and raising his Soul Power from level thirty-five to level thirty-eight.
• Su Yu gained an innate Blue Silver Domain that enhanced nearby Blue Silver Grass and boosted his recovery, output, Soul Skills, and speed; his physique also became capable of bearing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Jing Hongchen returned to his office and studied Core Arrays, exploring how linked arrays might enhance Martial Souls and guide Soul Tool Armor development.

Jing Hongchen began researching how formation arrays could improve Soul Tool Armor, while Su Yu reached Level Forty and prepared to choose his Fourth Soul Ring. The chapter ended with the God of Destruction confronting Tang San over his interference in the Lower Realm.

• Jing Hongchen drew inspiration from Su Yu’s techniques and began researching formation arrays to reduce the incompatibility between Soul Tools and their users.
• Xiao Hongchen intensified his Soul Tool studies, while Meng Hongchen earned fourth-level Soul Engineer certification and both siblings advanced in soul power.
• Six months after his battle with the Hongchen siblings, Su Yu broke through to Level Forty at age thirteen.
• Su Yu told Jing Hongchen about his breakthrough and considered carefully choosing a soul beast in the Sun Moon Empire for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Kong Deming’s search for the Tang Sect inheritance had led to conflict with the Body Sect and Shrek.
• The God of Destruction accused Tang San of overstepping his bounds by interfering in the Lower Realm, and Tang San defended himself by saying his inheritance had been stolen.

Tang San was warned by the God of Destruction not to interfere in the Lower Realm or pursue Tang Ya as a successor. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen prepared to hunt soul beasts for Su Yu and Xiao Hongchen, and Su Yu named Sword Grass as his target for a Fourth Soul Ring.

• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San over his interference in the Lower Realm and his interest in the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor, then warned him to stop acting without authorization.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Su Yu had reached Level Forty and reviewed the siblings’ cultivation progress and their need for Ten Thousand Year soul rings.
• Jing Hongchen decided to take Su Yu and Xiao Hongchen hunting first, with plans to bring Meng Hongchen to the Far North Land later.
• After preparing for three days, Jing Hongchen flew with Su Yu and Xiao Hongchen to the Sunny River Mountain Range in a Flying Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen asked Su Yu what kind of Fourth Soul Ring he wanted, and Su Yu identified Sword Grass as his target.

Su Yu chose ten-thousand-year Sword Grass as the ideal Fourth Soul Ring for developing his Blue Silver Grass, and Jing Hongchen led him and Xiao Hongchen into a wind-swept valley rich in Metal Attribute Primordial Energy. There, they found Xiao’s target, an Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast, while Jing Hongchen tested a new Soul Tool designed to protect Soul Masters during Soul Ring absorption.

• Su Yu explained that Sword Grass could help concentrate his Blue Silver Grass’s powerful Life Attribute and agreed to follow Jing Hongchen to a suitable valley.
• Jing Hongchen led Su Yu and Xiao Hongchen through the Gale Winds using a Soul Tool barrier, and they found a battle deep inside the vast valley.
• Xiao Hongchen recognized a roughly ten-thousand-year Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast as a suitable Soul Ring target.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen a prototype Class 7 Soul Tool that could merge with Mental Power and potentially protect him during Soul Ring absorption.
• Jing Hongchen identified the Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast’s opponent as a Silver Moon Tiger and noted that its Soul Ring could grant Xiao a metalization Soul Skill.

Jing Hongchen trapped two Ten Thousand Year soul beasts and helped Xiao Hongchen absorb the Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast’s soul ring, gaining the Gold’s Fortress Soul Skill. With Xiao Hongchen’s new power secured, the group continued deeper into the valley to find Su Yu a Ten Thousand Year Sword Grass.

• Xiao Hongchen chose the Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast over the Silver Moon Tiger for its metal affinity and defensive potential.
• Jing Hongchen waited for the beasts to weaken each other, then used Soul Guidance Cannons and Heavy Armor Locks to injure the Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast and restrain both creatures.
• Xiao Hongchen killed the Amethyst Gold Dragon Beast with a Soul Guidance Cannon and began absorbing its soul ring while Jing Hongchen kept the Silver Moon Tiger restrained.
• After absorbing the soul ring, Xiao Hongchen gained Gold’s Fortress, which formed a metallic shell and greatly increased his metal affinity.
• Jing Hongchen released the Silver Moon Tiger, and the three continued searching for Su Yu’s Ten Thousand Year Sword Grass.

After a month of searching, Su Yu, Xiao Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen found a fifteen-thousand-year Mutated Sword Grass that could provide Su Yu’s fourth soul ring. Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen warned Su Yu that absorbing it would be extremely dangerous, but Su Yu insisted on trying and asked about the simplified Red Dust Protection.

• Xiao Hongchen obtained a suitable soul ring, but the trio spent the following month searching unsuccessfully for a suitable beast for Su Yu.
• Jing Hongchen sensed a dangerous soul power fluctuation, and the three followed it to a sword grass surrounded by powerful sword qi.
• Jing Hongchen identified the sword grass as fifteen thousand years old, while Su Yu judged that his preparations might let him withstand a soul ring up to twenty thousand years old.
• Su Yu noticed that the sword grass had never split into multiple leaves, and Jing Hongchen recognized it as a mutated variety with far greater absorption difficulty.
• Jing Hongchen urged Su Yu to choose another soul beast, but Su Yu insisted on trying and asked how effective the simplified Red Dust Protection was.