Chapter Summaries

Su Yu decided to absorb the fifteen-thousand-year Mutated Sword Grass's Soul Ring, believing Red Dust Shelter could shield him from its initial Soul Shock long enough for Old Yi to awaken. Jing Hongchen agreed to help him hunt it, then tested the grass and saw it shatter his suppression attack with a single sword strike.

• Xiao Hongchen explained that Red Dust Shelter could protect Su Yu for only nine seconds, far less than the Mutated Sword Grass's Soul Shock and Mental Impact.
• Su Yu judged that nine seconds would be enough for Old Yi to awaken if the Soul Shock struck his Sea of Consciousness.
• Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen were astonished by Su Yu's powerful Mental Power, and Su Yu cited his physical strengthening resources and training.
• Jing Hongchen stopped trying to dissuade Su Yu and agreed to help him hunt the Mutated Sword Grass.
• Jing Hongchen used his Martial Soul Avatar and sixteen fixed soul tool launchers to suppress the Mutated Sword Grass, but it cut through the attack with One Sword Breaks the Sky.

Su Yu absorbed the powerful soul ring of the Sword Grass, using Red Dust Shelter to protect his Sea of Consciousness while waiting for Electrolux to awaken and destroy the beast’s remnant soul. Electrolux consumed the remnant soul and began examining the soul beast and Martial Soul cultivation system.

• The exhausted True One-Second Sword Grass failed to withstand Su Yu’s Blue Silver Critical Spear, and Su Yu killed it and obtained its ink-black soul ring.
• Su Yu restored himself, began absorbing the ring, and endured its destructive sword qi with the help of his vitality and Star Power.
• Su Yu activated Red Dust Shelter and extended his Mental Power toward the Gray Pearl, while Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen watched without interrupting him.
• When the Sword Grass’s remnant soul struck Su Yu’s Sea of Consciousness, Electrolux emerged from the Gray Pearl and erased it with his Divine Sense.
• Electrolux absorbed the remnant soul, agreed to leave some power for Su Yu to temper his Mental Power, and then noticed the Sword Grass’s corpse outside.

Su Yu absorbed a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring while Electrolux refined the Sword Grass's failed Soul Bone into a sword that merged with the ring. Afterward, Su Yu reached level forty-one, and Jing Hongchen noticed that his Blue Silver Grass's life force had become more restrained.

• Electrolux could not complete the Sword Grass's Soul Bone, so he refined the energy in its corpse into a sword-shaped light that entered Su Yu during absorption.
• Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen watched Su Yu absorb the soul ring for three days, while Jing Hongchen sensed that Su Yu's Mental Power was growing more condensed.
• Su Yu finished absorbing the ring and discovered that the Sword Grass had merged into his Fourth Soul Ring as a sword.
• Su Yu summoned the sword and, after Jing Hongchen suggested testing his soul power, measured at level forty-one.

After absorbing his fourth soul ring, Su Yu’s Blue Silver Grass gained an ultimate Life Attribute, but its weak essence needed years to adapt, leaving him at Level Forty-One. Jing Hongchen arranged extensive resources to support his cultivation, while Su Yu planned to improve his methods with Old Yi’s guidance and Mental Power training.

• Xiao Hongchen was surprised that Su Yu had only reached Level Forty-One after absorbing a fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, while Jing Hongchen celebrated the evolution of Su Yu’s Martial Soul.
• Su Yu explained that his Blue Silver Grass had gained an ultimate Life Attribute but needed time to develop into a true Ultimate Martial Soul.
• Su Yu described his Fourth Soul Skill, Grass Sword Art, and its ability to empower Blue Silver Grass or channel a powerful slash through the Godslayer Sword.
• Jing Hongchen warned Su Yu that Ultimate Attribute cultivation was slow and arranged medicinal meals, pills, and medicinal baths through Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Su Yu took a cultivation pill and considered refining his Soul Power method with Old Yi’s advice and Mental Power training.

Su Yu discovered that his Ultimate Life Attribute made his soul power reserves enormous but slowed his cultivation, so he refined his Rune Method and completed a Sword Rune. He then challenged Qian Buduo’s loyalty to Shrek Academy, leaving him questioning the academy’s principles and actions.

• Su Yu assessed his slow cultivation and considered using runes to cultivate both Mental Power and soul power.
• Old Yi offered to teach Su Yu meditation and promised to modify magic structures that could help perfect the Rune Method.
• Su Yu cultivated for three more hours and completed the Sword Rune.
• Qian Buduo returned with food, learned Su Yu had gained an Ultimate Attribute, and tried to recruit him to Shrek Academy.
• Su Yu confronted Qian Buduo about Shrek’s opposition to the Sun Moon Empire and questioned whether the academy lived by its stated principles.
• Qian Buduo fell silent as Su Yu’s questions made him doubt what Shrek Academy stood for.

Su Yu challenged Qian Buduo’s faith in Shrek and arranged for Xiao Hongchen to capture him, hoping to use him to reach Qian Duoduo. Afterward, Su Yu practiced Old Yi’s Sensing Method, and his meditation caused his Sea of Consciousness to churn as two Runes stabilized it.

• Su Yu argued that Shrek’s teaching methods and conduct were flawed, persuading Qian Buduo to reconsider the academy’s role and its relationship with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xiao Hongchen stormed into the dormitory and took Qian Buduo away after Su Yu described him as a good comrade.
• Su Yu planned to use Qian Buduo’s connection to Qian Duoduo as a way to make contact with him.
• Su Yu finished his medicinal meal, refined its Soul Power, and began practicing Old Yi’s Sensing Method.
• Su Yu’s meditation transformed his mental space, while two Runes released violet halos that stabilized his Sea of Consciousness.

Su Yu used his evolved Ultimate Life Attribute to help Meng Hongchen refine Ice and Fire Energy, purge poison, and break through to Level Fifty. After her breakthrough, Su Yu gained better control over life force and received a thousand-year Soul Bone for research.

• Su Yu studied Third-Level Soul Tool Core Arrays and incorporated useful energy-circulation patterns into his Rune Method.
• Meng Hongchen took Ice and Fire Energy pills while Su Yu supported her with Star Spirit Power and Purple Moon Purification.
• Su Yu's Ultimate Life Attribute greatly reduced Meng Hongchen's accumulated poison and suppressed the new poison from the pills.
• Meng Hongchen refined the pills' medicinal power and broke through her bottleneck after three days of cultivation.
• Su Yu helped Meng Hongchen endure the poisonous backlash, then said the experience had improved his control over life force.
• Su Yu received a thousand-year Soul Bone as a reward and considered giving it to Old Yi for research.

Su Yu completed a more efficient cultivation technique and continued refining its circulation routes and Sea of Consciousness runes, deciding to develop a defensive rune. After Meng Hongchen stabilized her Soul Power, Xiao Hongchen asked Su Yu to help her absorb a soul ring, and Su Yu set out with Jing Hongchen.

• Su Yu completed a new cultivation technique that increased his Soul Power more efficiently, while recognizing that its circulation routes still needed simplification.
• Su Yu decided to add a defensive rune to protect his Mental Power and Sea of Consciousness before the Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Xiao Hongchen told Su Yu that Jing Hongchen wanted him to help Meng Hongchen absorb her soul ring after she stabilized her Soul Power.
• Su Yu agreed to leave the next day, and Jing Hongchen told him that Meng Hongchen was ready to set out.
• Su Yu asked Jing Hongchen when his teacher would return.

Su Yu, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen traveled to the Far North Land to find a ten-thousand-year Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad for Meng while Jing Hongchen helped Su Yu develop his Rune Method. The group entered the region and began searching as Jing Hongchen learned that Su Yu's runes could aid Mental Power cultivation.

• Su Yu worried that Kong Deming might not return in time to protect him during the Soul Fighting Tournament, and Jing Hongchen offered to guide him through soul tool research on their journey.
• Jing Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen that Su Yu and Meng Hongchen already had places on the tournament team and that they might travel directly to Star Luo City if the expedition ran late.
• Su Yu, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen traveled for five days by Flying Soul Tools, then continued on foot for three more days into the Outer Area of the Far North Land.
• Jing Hongchen identified several regions where ten-thousand-year Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads had appeared and warned Su Yu and Meng to stay close and remain ready to fight.
• While answering Su Yu's questions about rune construction, Jing Hongchen realized Su Yu was using Soul Tool Core Arrays to assist Mental Power cultivation and praised the potential of his Rune Method.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether others could learn Su Yu's Rune Method, and Su Yu said it was not yet suitable for widespread distribution.

Su Yu, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen traveled through the Far North while Su Yu and Jing Hongchen discussed the Rune Method and Meng began learning Void Engraving. Their search brought them face to face with the Titan Snow Demon King, and Jing Hongchen formed a metal fortress as both sides prepared for a confrontation.

• Jing Hongchen decided Meng Hongchen and Xiao would take Soul Awakening Pills after the tournament and begin cultivating the Rune Method.
• Meng Hongchen practiced the Void Engraving Method during breaks as the group searched for soul beasts in the Far North.
• Jing Hongchen discovered the Titan Snow Demon King and a group of Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads nearby, and the Titan Snow Demon King demanded that the humans die.
• Jing Hongchen threatened to destroy the Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads with his Soul Guidance Cannons if the Titan Snow Demon King attacked, making the king hesitate.
• Jing Hongchen gathered metal energy and formed a fortress around his Toad True Body.

Jing Hongchen prepared his Gold's Fortress against the Titan Snow Demon King, but Tian Meng's call to the Ice Empress drew the beast away. After the group withdrew, Su Yu revealed that he had marked a suitable Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad for Meng Hongchen's hunt.

• Jing Hongchen formed a Metal Fortress with Soul Guidance Cannons as the Titan Snow Demon King threatened the Hongchen family.
• Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm approached the Far North Land's Core Area, where Tian Meng called out the Ice Empress and Electrolux asked Su Yu to help Huo Yuhao resist hatred.
• Tian Meng's mental power caught the Titan Snow Demon King's attention, and the beast ordered the humans to withdraw as it headed toward the Core Area.
• Jing Hongchen led Su Yu and the others away while Su Yu asked Electrolux to mark a ten-thousand-year Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad.
• After the Titan Snow Demon King's aura faded, Su Yu told Jing Hongchen that he had already marked a suitable Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad.

Su Yu, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen escaped the Titan Snow Demon King's rampage after Meng gained a powerful Soul Skill from a Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad. Meanwhile, Huo Yuhao completed the Ice Empress's sacrifice, and the chapter ended with him approaching someone Tian Meng recognized.

• Su Yu explained to Jing Hongchen how his Blue Silver Grass could grow through the frozen ground, then led the group to find the scattered Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toads.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm persuaded the Ice Empress to join the God Creation Plan, and Huo Yuhao endured her sacrifice without accepting Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's help.
• The Titan Snow Demon King lost track of Tian Meng and the Ice Empress, then rampaged through the Far North Land for a month.
• Jing Hongchen, Su Yu, and Meng Hongchen left the Far North Land, and Meng reported that her Vermillion-Eyed Ice Toad Soul Ring granted her the single-target Soul Skill Ice Fire Poison Dragon Drill.
• Huo Yuhao complained that the Titan Snow Demon King had stepped on him repeatedly, and Tian Meng warned him about a powerful figure ahead whom he recognized.

Su Yu met Huo Yuhao in the Far North and tried to persuade him to leave Shrek for the Body Sect, warning him about Shrek's unreliable Taotie Douluo. After learning that Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye possessed the Spirit Attribute, Jing Hongchen decided to bring him back by force if necessary.

• Huo Yuhao encountered Su Yu, Jing Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen in the Far North after gaining the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion as his Second Martial Soul.
• Su Yu asked why Huo Yuhao was alone and urged him to leave Shrek for the Body Sect, but Huo Yuhao refused because he had become a core disciple of the Soul Tool Department.
• Su Yu and Jing Hongchen warned Huo Yuhao about Shrek and its Taotie Douluo, while Tian Meng and Ice Empress discussed the Douluo's unreliability in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Huo Yuhao returned toward Shrek while Su Yu and the others headed back to the Sun Moon Empire, intending to persuade him again after he saw Shrek from another perspective.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eye had the Spirit Attribute and declared that they would bring him back even by force.

Su Yu abandoned his schemes and directly brought Huo Yuhao back from the Far North, arguing that Shrek would not help him achieve revenge and had left him with hidden injuries. After returning to Ming Capital, Huo Yuhao learned that his eight months of Soul Tool study had made less progress than Su Yu and Jing Hongchen expected.

• After reflecting on his plans with Jing Hongchen and Old Yi, Su Yu decided to act directly and bring Huo Yuhao back.
• Su Yu seized Huo Yuhao shortly after he left the Far North and urged him to leave Shrek, while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress supported his argument about Shrek's cultivation practices.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that Huo Yuhao had accumulated hidden injuries from overtraining, and the Ice Empress recalled finding his body badly damaged when she reconstructed it.
• Five days later, Su Yu, Huo Yuhao, Jing Hongchen, and the Ice Empress returned to Ming Capital, where Huo Yuhao was struck by the city's prosperity.
• Huo Yuhao told Su Yu and Jing Hongchen that he had made a Level Two Soul Tool core after eight months of study, prompting them to question why he had progressed so slowly.

Huo Yuhao joined the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and quickly advanced his Soul Tool studies, while Su Yu asked Kong Deming to oversee the upcoming Soul Fighting Tournament. Kong Deming agreed that Shrek would be difficult to beat, but Su Yu remained confident as the tournament approached.

• Huo Yuhao demonstrated his Mental Detection Sharing and Soul Tool crafting, impressing Jing Hongchen, who arranged his enrollment at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuhao immersed himself in Soul Tool research and cultivated with medicinal aids, though he felt guilty about continuing to practice Tang Sect techniques.
• Kong Deming returned to Ming Capital and concluded that Tang Sect Hidden Weapons were difficult to manufacture, prompting him to plan a new academy course on Soul Tool construction.
• Su Yu asked Kong Deming to oversee the Soul Fighting Tournament, warning that Taotie Douluo might retaliate if Shrek lost.
• Kong Deming cautioned Su Yu that Shrek would bring more than one Soul Emperor, but Su Yu stayed confident and planned to exploit a loophole.

Su Yu prepared for the Soul Fighting Tournament with Kong Deming’s help, while Xuan Zi’s group was ambushed by the Death Bringer in a cave. The chapter ended with the Death Bringer escaping through an underground passage with Xu Sanshi.

• Kong Deming agreed to accompany Su Yu to Star Luo City, and Su Yu gave him the Rune Method to refine.
• Su Yu upgraded his battle Soul Tools as Kong Deming improved the condense and gather runes and helped begin research on a cultivation technique.
• Huo Yuhao stayed behind to study Soul Tools, while Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Su Yu departed with the academy delegation for Star Luo City.
• In a cave, the Death Bringer’s Corpse Slaves attacked Xuan Zi and the students, leaving several students gravely wounded or dead.
• The Death Bringer seized Xu Sanshi and escaped through an underground passage as Xuan Zi set out to rescue him.

Xu Jiawei and his ministers debated Shrek Academy’s request to withdraw from the Soul Fighting Tournament, while Dai Hao warned that Shrek’s participation was crucial to the Star Luo Empire. Meanwhile, Su Yu and Kong Deming found the badly injured Xu Sanshi after capturing an Evil Soul Master, and Su Yu began treating him.

• Xu Jiawei angrily considered rejecting Shrek Academy’s withdrawal request, but his ministers and Xu Jiujiu urged him to have Shrek send replacement competitors.
• Dai Hao returned from the front lines and argued that Shrek could not withdraw, warning that a Sun Moon Empire victory could threaten the Star Luo Empire.
• The ministers agreed that Shrek had to remain in the tournament, citing economic and political consequences.
• Kong Deming told Su Yu that he had killed an Evil Soul Master who sought to contact the Holy Spirit Cult and had found an injured boy with him.
• Su Yu recognized the boy as Xu Sanshi from the Shrek emblem and used his martial soul skills to treat his corpse poison and injuries.

Su Yu healed Xu Sanshi, who revealed little about the attack that had nearly killed him, and Su Yu and Kong Deming decided to investigate his identity while watching Shrek’s tournament lineup for signs of trouble. Shrek fielded an improvised team against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, puzzling spectators who assumed the academy could win despite its weaker roster.

• Su Yu used his evolved Blue Silver Grass to dissolve Xu Sanshi’s corpse poison and stabilize his injuries, and Xu Sanshi woke up asking for Jiang Nannan.
• Xu Sanshi told Su Yu that Xuan Zi had failed to save him from an Evil Soul Master, while withholding details about the Shrek delegation’s danger.
• Kong Deming sealed Xu Sanshi’s Soul Power, and Su Yu proposed investigating his background and gauging Shrek’s roster before deciding how Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy should compete.
• The tournament opened, and Old Ma set first place as the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s goal after noticing Shrek had only seven competitors.
• Shrek’s hastily assembled team began its match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, and spectators wondered whether Shrek could win with its weaker lineup.

Su Yu's Sun Moon Royal Team prepared for its first Round Robin match against the formidable Heaven Spirit Royal Advanced Academy, and Su Yu was chosen to open the single-elimination contest. As Su Yu entered the arena, Bei Bei recognized him and revealed his unusually powerful soul-ring history.

• Shrek won its opening match against Tianling Advanced Soul Master Academy, while Xiao Hongchen proposed threatening Shrek and Su Yu dismissed the idea.
• Old Ma told Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Su Yu they could sit out the early Elimination Rounds, and the three focused on cultivation instead.
• After three days of competition, Dai Yueheng recovered enough to fight for Shrek, while Ma Xiaotao remained badly injured.
• Old Ma learned that the Sun Moon Royal Team's Round Robin group included Star Luo Imperial Academy and Heaven Spirit Royal Advanced Academy, whose team had five Soul Kings.
• Old Ma assigned Su Yu to face Heaven Spirit Royal Advanced Academy first, with Ma Rulong, Mi Jia, Chen Fei, and Lin Xi following and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen held in reserve.
• Su Yu entered the match against Chi Hengyu, and Bei Bei recognized him and recalled his thousand-year second soul ring and five-thousand-eight-hundred-year third soul ring.

Su Yu’s unusual Blue Silver Grass evolution and ability to absorb high-year soul rings were explained as he revealed his four soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring, during the match. He defeated Chi Hengyu by breaking through his defenses with sword qi and the Grafting Technique.

• Bei Bei was shocked that Su Yu had reached level forty and considered how adding Life Attribute might help other Blue Silver Grass soul masters.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team and Chi Hengyu were stunned when Su Yu revealed four soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring.
• Chi Hengyu formed a shield barrier and fired his Level 5 Soul Guidance Cannon as Su Yu activated his Blue Silver Domain and dodged.
• Su Yu used his first four soul skills in succession, creating a sword-qi storm that broke through Chi Hengyu’s Protective Barrier and Adamant Shield.
• Su Yu’s Blue Silver Grass struck Chi Hengyu, and the combined sword qi and Grafting Technique left him unable to fight; Su Yu won.