Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianran recruited Feng Yuan to develop a sealing formation against Evil Soul Masters, while Su Yu worked on a Strength Rune in Ming Capital. After an attack prompted a citywide alert and a battle against Evil Soul Masters began, Su Yu recognized a familiar Soul Power aura as the Grand Elder’s.

• Xu Tianran accepted Feng Yuan’s God Conferral Platform and funded his research into a great sealing formation.
• Su Yu outlined a Strength Rune, while the Third Prince’s sudden death shifted the imperial court’s balance of power.
• Su Yu asked Huo Yuhao to find out when Xuan Ziwen could help him with a technical bottleneck.
• Illustrious Virtue Hall went on level-one alert after Evil Soul Masters were discovered in Ming Capital, and Jing Hongchen dispatched the Patrol Guard to fight them.
• A powerful Soul Power Fluctuation swept over Ming Capital, and Su Yu recognized the aura as the Grand Elder’s.

Jing Hongchen used Xuan Zi’s appearance during the Sun Moon Empire’s raid on the Evil Soul Masters as a pretext to attack him, while Mu En intervened to help Xuan Zi escape. Both Shrek experts survived but suffered severe injuries, and Su Yu finished outlining the Speed and Protection Runes as Huo Yuhao reported that Xuan Ziwen seemed to be free.

• Xuan Zi appeared near the Evil Soul Masters during the Sun Moon Empire’s operation, and Jing Hongchen accused him of colluding with them before opening fire.
• Jing Hongchen and the city’s Soul Guidance Cannons heavily damaged Xuan Zi, who fled toward Ming Capital’s outskirts.
• Mu En blocked the city’s attacks and covered Xuan Zi’s escape, but he took further bombardment before leaving Ming Capital.
• Jing Hongchen detained Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu, while the Sun Moon Empire tallied the raid’s casualties and damage.
• Xuan Zi was left gravely injured, and Mu En’s already frail life aura nearly burned out after the battle.
• Su Yu spent two more days outlining the Speed and Protection Runes, and Huo Yuhao told him that Xuan Ziwen seemed to be free.

Su Yu visited Xuan Ziwen to exchange his Rune Method for knowledge of Sealed Milk Bottle technology, then discovered Xuan Ziwen’s experimental Soul Tool Armor and Star Staff. The chapter ended with Su Yu asking for the Star Staff’s blueprint.

• After learning Xuan Ziwen had ended his seclusion, Su Yu arranged to visit him at his Research Lab.
• Su Yu offered Xuan Ziwen the Rune Method in exchange for Sealed Milk Bottle technology, but Xuan Ziwen welcomed him as a senior brother and explained his plans to improve civilian Soul Tools.
• Su Yu gave Xuan Ziwen the Rune Method, and Xuan Ziwen praised its potential for soul masters who had opened their Sea of Consciousness.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Su Yu his Soul Tool Armor pieces and described his ambition to build an Eighth Level Soul Tool set; Su Yu suggested he consult the Hall Master about the Hall Master’s progress.
• Su Yu saw Xuan Ziwen’s Star Staff, recognized its potential to affect Star Power, and asked for a copy of its blueprint.

Su Yu studied the Star Staff and established levels for his runes, then questioned how Soul Ring Limits related to developing soul skills. Old Yi explained that soul rings gave a lasting vessel for a soul master’s insights, and Su Yu later uncovered how the Sealed Milk Bottle stored and preserved Soul Power.

• Xuan Ziwen gave Su Yu the Star Staff and its design blueprints, and Su Yu began studying its Core Arrays.
• Su Yu created the “star” rune and strengthened his “protect” rune with lines from Star Protection, then classified his runes into five levels.
• Su Yu questioned whether raising Soul Ring Limits was necessary, and Old Yi explained that soul rings could record a soul master’s insights and make them part of their realm.
• Su Yu concluded that Soul Rings remained meaningful, while privately considering Martial Soul, Mental Power, and the body as possible vessels for his own insights.
• Su Yu studied the Sealed Milk Bottle and identified how its arrays used resonance, gathering, and absorption to preserve and replenish stored Soul Power.

Su Yu refined the resonance patterns in his Runes while the Snow Empress decided to cultivate in a town near the Far North. A month later, Jing Hongchen invited Su Yu to review the new Construction Method course materials and join a cultivation-method research project.

• Su Yu incorporated resonance and absorption patterns into his existing Runes, without needing to blur their Mental Power imprint.
• The Snow Empress reached three deep purple soul rings and chose to cultivate for several years in a town on the outer edge of the Far North Land.
• Su Yu reached level forty-six in eight months, impressing Jing Hongchen with his rapid cultivation.
• Jing Hongchen asked Su Yu to review the Construction Method course materials before Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy opened the course next semester.
• Jing Hongchen invited Su Yu to join the funded research team developing and improving cultivation methods.

Su Yu took charge of the General Cultivation Method Research Institute while Kong Deming developed a Multi-Rune Combination System to strengthen martial souls and harmonize their conflicts. Kong Deming prepared to absorb a sixth soul ring after applying the method to his martial souls.

• Jing Hongchen appointed Su Yu to lead the General Cultivation Method Research Institute and gave him the Soul Power circulation materials collected so far.
• Su Yu entered seclusion for two months, developing runes to strengthen martial souls and harmonize conflicts.
• Kong Deming told Su Yu that he had developed a Multi-Rune Combination System by layering rune circuits into new patterns.
• Kong Deming used the system to create a martial soul enhancement that met his needs and planned to harmonize the conflicts between his martial souls.
• Kong Deming told Su Yu to prepare for his attempt to absorb a sixth soul ring in a few days.

Kong Deming decided to hunt an Evil Eye Tyrant for a hundred-thousand-year soul ring as his Sixth Ring, hoping to strengthen his physique and improve the harmony between his Martial Souls. Su Yu prepared to join the hunt and checked on Xuan Ziwen's Battle Armor research, which was ready for its first production test.

• Kong Deming weighed the risks of his two Martial Souls suppressing each other and chose to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring as his Sixth Ring.
• Kong Deming planned to hunt an Evil Eye Tyrant in the Evil Demon Forest, considering whether its Soul Ring might help Sun and Silver Moon achieve a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Su Yu returned to the Illustrious Virtue Hall and asked Jing Hongchen for leave, warning him that the hunt could last months while the research institute was due to open in two months.
• Su Yu visited Xuan Ziwen's Research Lab and learned that the Elementary Battle Armor's theory and Core Array tests were complete, leaving only production.

Su Yu and Xuan Ziwen began making an Elementary Battle Armor designed to fuse with its wearer’s Martial Soul and be practical for Soul Kings to use. After a day of forging and array work, they completed all fourteen components and prepared to make the final adjustments.

• Su Yu explained that Elementary Battle Armor would use custom Marking Arrays to help its wearer control the armor, project arrays onto the Martial Soul, and equip it quickly.
• Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Huo Yuhao came to Xuan Ziwen’s Private Workshop to watch Su Yu and Xuan Ziwen begin production.
• Su Yu forged and shaped the armor from Sinking Silver, Refined Iron, and Purple Spirit Gold while Xuan Ziwen inscribed the Core Arrays and Projection Magic Arrays.
• Su Yu added his exclusive Runes to the completed Arm Armor to further enhance its effects through Mental Power.
• After an entire day, Su Yu and Xuan Ziwen finished all fourteen Fifth Level Soul Tool components and moved on to the final adjustment stage.

Su Yu tested his newly assembled fourteen-piece Elementary Battle Armor and found that it greatly increased his combat strength. Jing Hongchen arranged for Xiao Hongchen to challenge him at Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Su Yu appeared in the armor before an audience of soul engineers.

• Su Yu connected his soul power to the fourteen components and assembled the battle armor, which felt like an extension of his body.
• Su Yu estimated that the armor gave him a chance against a Soul Emperor below rank sixty-five, and Jing Hongchen judged the amplification a major success.
• Xiao Hongchen offered to test Su Yu, citing his earlier fight against a Soul Emperor, and Jing Hongchen agreed.
• Su Yu, Xiao Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen went to Illustrious Virtue Hall's Martial Arts Arena as curious soul engineers gathered to watch.
• Su Yu summoned the silver-white battle armor with faint purple patterns, revealing the complete Fifth Level Soul Tool Armor to the onlookers.

Su Yu demonstrated the power of Elementary Battle Armor by defeating Xiao Hongchen in a spar, convincing Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen of its potential. Xiao Hongchen asked Xuan Ziwen to teach him how to make armor, while Su Yu left the first suit in the research lab and planned to forge his own later.

• Su Yu used his Battle Armor, Blue Silver Domain, and soul skills to break through Xiao Hongchen’s cannon fire and defenses in the Martial Arts Arena of Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Su Yu drew the Godslayer Sword and cleaved through Xiao Hongchen’s fortress, leaving a wound that Xiao Hongchen quickly healed.
• Jing Hongchen urged Xuan Ziwen to begin considering Intermediate and Advanced Battle Armor, and told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to learn from him.
• Su Yu left the first suit of Battle Armor in Xuan Ziwen’s Research Lab as a collection piece and planned to forge his own armor while accompanying Kong Deming to obtain a soul ring.
• After being defeated, Xiao Hongchen asked to learn how to make Battle Armor, and Xuan Ziwen invited him to study while calling him Teacher Xuan.

Su Yu prepared to develop Intermediate Battle Armor with Xuan Ziwen and learned from Kong Deming how its design might enable Soul Ring Linkage at the Soul Emperor level. After traveling to the Evil Demon Forest and completing his own Elementary Battle Armor, Su Yu set out with Kong Deming to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant without alerting the Evil Emperor.

• Su Yu gathered rare metals, discussed Intermediate Battle Armor’s flight and summoning features with Xuan Ziwen, and received Jing Hongchen’s compression technology.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming that Elementary Battle Armor could raise a Soul King’s strength by about one and a half titles, then shared its design principles.
• Kong Deming suggested using Intermediate Battle Armor’s Core Arrays to let Soul Emperors achieve Soul Ring Linkage, expanding Su Yu’s original plan.
• Su Yu and Kong Deming traveled for five days to the Evil Demon Forest, during which Su Yu crafted every component of his own Elementary Battle Armor.
• At the forest’s outskirts, Su Yu equipped his self-made Battle Armor and joined Kong Deming in preparing to hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant without alerting the Evil Emperor.

Kong Deming prepared to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Evil Tyrant while leaving Su Yu safely outside the Evil Demon Forest. As Su Yu studied battle armor, Old Yi helped him explore ways to fuse metal with a Soul Master and develop the Spiritualization Method.

• Kong Deming explained the Evil Eye Clan's strength and chose a Hundred-Thousand-Year Fire Evil Tyrant with only spirit and fire attributes as his target.
• Kong Deming left Su Yu on a secluded stretch of coast behind a ninth-grade Soul Guidance Barrier before entering the Evil Demon Forest alone.
• Su Yu studied Intermediate Battle Armor and asked Old Yi about fusing Rare Metal into a Soul Master's body.
• Old Yi suggested adapting Contract Magic and the Blood Pact Technique into Core Arrays to create the technology Su Yu wanted.
• Su Yu and Old Yi researched the Spiritualization Method together, and half a month passed as Old Yi marveled at the Douluo Plane's rules.

Su Yu realized that spiritualizing rare metals could make them contractable like soul beasts, while Old Yi explained that the method required a difficult array. After Kong Deming killed a Fire Evil Tyrant, he began absorbing its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring with Su Yu supplying life force.

• Old Yi explained that awakened rare metals could be treated as soul beasts and might fuse with soul masters through contracts.
• Su Yu connected Spiritualization Method research to Spirit Forging and Soul Forging, then decided to focus on perfecting other Intermediate Battle Armor technologies.
• Kong Deming used Ninth Level Soul Guidance Cannons, his runes, and his soul skills to kill the Fire Evil Tyrant before it could crystallize.
• Kong Deming retrieved Su Yu and returned to the battlefield, where he set up five Ninth Level Soul Guidance Cannons to guard the area.
• Kong Deming began absorbing the Fire Evil Tyrant's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring as Su Yu used the Blade of Life to provide life force.

Kong Deming absorbed the Fire Evil Tyrant's soul ring, gaining two eye-type External Soul Bones and a major increase in Mental Power. He and Su Yu then developed Soul Tool Linked Ring Technology, planning to use it to help Kong Deming absorb his seventh soul ring.

• Su Yu used the Blade of Life's vitality to help Kong Deming absorb the Fire Evil Tyrant's soul ring, and the two fled as powerful Mental Power swept through the Evil Demon Forest.
• Kong Deming explained that the soul ring had greatly improved his physique and Mental Power, and advised Su Yu on guiding an Evil Eye Tyrant's soul power to form an external eye soul bone.
• Kong Deming confirmed that he had developed a Self Martial Soul Fusion Technique, which could strengthen him and help reduce the pressure of absorbing soul rings.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming about his early work on using Soul Tools and Fusion Soul Tool Technology to assist Soul Ring Linkage, and Kong Deming helped him refine the approach.
• Su Yu and Kong Deming spent half a month developing the Soul Tool Linked Ring Technology, then Kong Deming urged Su Yu to go absorb more soul rings.

Su Yu and Kong Deming searched for a suitable hundred-thousand-year soul beast for Kong Deming’s seventh ring and discovered a dangerous Space Rift in Dragon Valley. Su Yu recognized that the rift likely led to a realm of dead dragons and urged Kong Deming to scout it with a soul tool.

• Kong Deming explained that Dragon Valley might contain a powerful fire dragon, and he and Su Yu traveled there to investigate.
• Kong Deming found that Dragon Valley’s deepest area was a Space Rift surrounded by chaotic space power and powerful dragon auras, so he had not entered it.
• Su Yu asked Old Yi about the rift, and Old Yi sensed True Dragons, likely including Beast Kings, as well as Death Qi on the other side.
• Su Yu told Kong Deming that he sensed no life force beyond the rift and suggested using a soul tool to scout it.
• Kong Deming agreed to make a soul tool that could enter the rift and send back a strong signal.

Su Yu entered Dragon Valley through the Space Rift after Kong Deming confirmed that an Eighth Level Soul Guidance Barrier could carry him safely across. He absorbed Dragon Clouds for three days, then encountered an energy-bodied Earth Dragon whose energy prompted Old Yi to urge him to hunt more.

• Kong Deming tested the Space Rift with soul tools and discovered that an Eighth Level Soul Guidance Barrier could transport a Fifth Level Soul Tool safely.
• Su Yu entered the rift carrying a barrier and a Signal Transmitter, while Old Yi observed his early understanding of Space Power.
• Su Yu landed in Dragon Valley, absorbed nearby Dragon Clouds, and gained improvements to his physique, Mental Power, and elemental perception.
• Su Yu reported his safety to Kong Deming after three days and continued absorbing Dragon Clouds.
• Su Yu destroyed an energy-bodied Earth Dragon with his Sword Rune, and Old Yi urged him to hunt more creatures like it.

Su Yu spent three months in Dragon Valley, discovering that its spiritual energy could strengthen his body, bloodline, Martial Soul, and soul rings. After nurturing the Dragon Graveyard with Blue Silver Grass and receiving the dragons’ energy, he left and continued comprehending Space Power.

• Old Yi explained that Dragon Valley’s energy could nourish Su Yu’s Martial Soul and soul rings, and that spirituality could help increase their age.
• Su Yu spent a month absorbing Dragon Cloud and living creatures, improving his constitution, bloodline, Mental Power, elemental affinity, and soul-ring ages.
• Old Yi warned Su Yu that powerful baleful resentment lay deeper in the valley, but Su Yu advanced and used his Blue Silver Domain to cover Dragon Bones with Blue Silver Grass.
• After three months, Su Yu tried to leave, but the dragons’ energy pushed him toward more Dragon Bones, so he promised to do one last thing for them.
• Su Yu used the Blade of Life to spread vitality through the Dragon Graveyard, received a surge of energy that broke through a limit in his physique, and departed.
• Su Yu activated the Space Vibration Device and comprehended Space Power until the Space character Rune in his Sea of Consciousness grew nearly complete.

After leaving Dragon Valley, Su Yu broke through to Level Fifty and emerged with greatly strengthened soul rings, physique, and Mental Power. In the Star Dou Great Forest, the Silver Dragon King awakened, learned someone had entered Dragon Valley, and revealed that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Power of Fate had been targeted.

• Su Yu completed Electrolux’s inheritance and perfected his space Rune while exploring Dragon Valley with Old Yi’s guidance.
• Su Yu left Dragon Valley and his suppressed soul power surged to Level Fifty as his Soul Ring Limit, physique, and Mental Power increased.
• Kong Deming questioned Su Yu about Dragon Valley and concluded that the Empire should control access to the place.
• The Silver Dragon King awakened beneath the lake in the Star Dou Great Forest and told Di Tian that an outsider had entered Dragon Valley, but she sensed no hostile intent.
• The Silver Dragon King examined the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and said that someone had targeted her Power of Fate.

Su Yu returned to Ming Capital with Kong Deming after learning about Dragon Valley’s effects and asking him to search for a Blue Silver Emperor. Back in the capital, Su Yu and Kong Deming began exploring how contract arrays could help advance battle armor technology.

• Su Yu told Kong Deming he believed he could absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring as his Fifth Soul Ring and asked him to search the Sun Moon Empire for a Blue Silver Emperor.
• Kong Deming explained that the Old Emperor was urging him to return because of worries about Xu Tianran, and the two returned to Ming Capital half a month later.
• Su Yu studied Kong Deming’s battle armor research and showed him the Contract Array and Blood Contract Array he had found in Dragon Valley.
• Su Yu proposed using the arrays to help Advanced Battle Armor integrate with its wearer, while Kong Deming considered whether Spirit Forging could turn rare metals into soul-ring-like existences.
• Su Yu met Xuan Ziwen at Illustrious Virtue Hall, where they combined their designs and compression technology into a complete method for creating Intermediate Battle Armor.

Su Yu advanced to Seventh-Level Soul Engineer and began forging Intermediate Battle Armor while planning to seek a nearly two-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor and a Thunder Hell Vine. The chapter ended with him successfully binding awakened rare metal to his Martial Soul and Old Yi warning that such contracts would eventually burden his Mental Power.

• Su Yu gave Xuan Ziwen Old Kong's Intermediate Battle Armor technology, then spent half a month cultivating and became a Seventh-Level Soul Engineer; Xiao Hongchen became a Sixth-Level Soul Engineer and returned to secluded cultivation after hearing the news.
• Xuan Ziwen completed the theoretical foundation for Intermediate Battle Armor, and Su Yu learned from Kong Deming that a Blue Silver Emperor had been found near Skysea City with nearly one hundred ninety thousand years of cultivation.
• Su Yu identified the Thunder Hell Vine as a potential source of destructive life force for his Blue Silver Grass and used the Soul Beast Intelligence Database to locate possible specimens.
• Su Yu decided to forge Intermediate Battle Armor before meeting the Blue Silver Emperor, and began crafting his armor with Kong Deming's help in the imperial family's Back Mountain.
• Su Yu inscribed the Spiritualization Array and Spirit Fusion Array into rare metal, successfully bound the alloy to his Martial Soul, and heard Old Yi warn that such bindings would eventually strain Mental Power.