Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng returned to Nine-Headed Serpent Academy, designed its school emblem, and arranged to stay at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Tang San and Xiao Wu. The trio reunited there, where Chen Feng asked Tang San about the Blue Silver Grass model he was making.

• Chen Feng designed a golden nine-headed emblem on a blue background and gave the drawing to Flender.
• Chen Feng told Flender and Grandmaster he would stay with Dugu Bo, then arranged for Xiao Wu to join him at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Chen Feng visited Meng Yiran, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong before leaving the academy with Xiao Wu.
• Dugu Bo noticed that Xiao Wu's aura matched Tang San's and asked how the two were related; Chen Feng said they might have a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Chen Feng and Xiao Wu arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tang San was working with Blue Silver Grass and Tang Hao kept watch over the Blue Silver Emperor.
• Chen Feng asked Tang San whether the Blue Silver Grass he was handling was the model based on the patterns he had seen.

Chen Feng and Tang San discovered that circuits inside Lightning Yuan Stones could absorb lightning and that similar circuits might explain how Soul Tools worked. Chen Feng then proposed using logical analysis to work out how to create soul bones, shocking Dugu Bo and Tang Hao.

• Chen Feng asked Tang San to forge a circuit-shaped metal model, and they confirmed that smashing a Lightning Yuan Stone left the same pattern in each fragment.
• Tang Hao forged a metal sphere with a Star Soul Mithril circuit inside, and Chen Feng found that it absorbed lightning.
• Tang San activated Jade Snow Ice and saw its circular circuit, leading Chen Feng and Xiao Wu to connect circuits with the workings of Storage Soul Tools.
• Tang San regretted that they lacked a soul bone to study, while Tang Hao privately kept the Blue Silver Emperor's soul bone from him.
• Chen Feng told Dugu Bo and Tang Hao that they wanted to try making soul bones and proposed first analyzing the conditions needed to create one.

Chen Feng, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Tang Hao, and Dugu Bo discussed the conditions for creating artificial soul bones and planned an experiment using a cooperative Soul Beast. Chen Feng also tested his theories about the Purple Demon Eye and circuits, leaving the group with new questions about which materials could gain properties from circuits.

• Chen Feng proposed that creating a soul bone might require a circuit, a Soul Beast's Soul Power, life force, and the Soul Beast's flesh and blood as a catalyst.
• Chen Feng outlined an experiment with a powerful but manageable Soul Beast, and Tang Hao explained that leader-class Spirits could win the favor of their own kind; Chen Feng asked Dugu Bo to try using his evolved serpent Spirit.
• After Dugu Bo left, Chen Feng had Xiao Wu conceal and reveal her aura while Tang San observed her with the Purple Demon Eye, confirming that the vision changed with her Soul Power fluctuations.
• Chen Feng reasoned that the Purple Demon Eye perceived circuits through their effects on Soul Power, then confirmed that Tang San could not see the circuit in an uncharged Lightning Yuan Stone.
• Chen Feng wondered which materials could acquire properties through circuits and concluded that making the first artificial soul bone was the group's immediate goal.

Chen Feng, Tang San, and Dugu Bo’s first attempt to create an artificial soul bone from a Lightning Yuan Stone and a Silver Electric Flying Snake failed. Chen Feng realized they had used the wrong circuit, but the chapter left the group without a way to map the Soul Beast’s internal Soul Power pathways.

• Dugu Bo returned with a ten-thousand-year Silver Electric Flying Snake, and Chen Feng used gestures and Dugu Bo’s threat to persuade it to cooperate.
• Chen Feng, Tang San, and Dugu Bo prepared the experiment with the Lightning Yuan Stone, the snake’s blood and Soul Power, and Tang San’s life force, but the stone showed no change.
• Chen Feng revealed that he had once obtained a soul bone from a living Soul Beast that remained unharmed, shocking Dugu Bo and Tang Hao; Dugu Bo swore to keep the secret.
• Dugu Bo’s remark that a soul bone gathered a Soul Beast’s essence led Chen Feng to realize that its circuit should come from the Soul Beast rather than the Lightning Yuan Stone.
• Tang San could not see the Silver Electric Flying Snake’s internal circuit, leaving Chen Feng wondering whether Soul Power pathways could only be learned while acquiring a Soul Ring.

Chen Feng rejected tying soul bone acquisition to the new soul ring method and explored whether a living Soul Beast’s will could help form physical soul bones. His experiment with the Silver Electric Flying Snake and Star Soul Mithril began to react, but the chapter ended before the result was clear.

• Chen Feng explained that binding soul bone acquisition to the new method could provoke widespread violence and decided instead to pursue the creation of physical soul bones.
• Tang San proposed mapping Soul Beast circuits through years of observation and documentation, but Xiao Wu suggested using a complete Soul Beast in the experiment.
• Chen Feng theorized that a Soul Beast’s intact soul and strong will helped produce soul bones, and argued that living Soul Beasts might be especially likely to form them.
• Chen Feng began an experiment to replace the Soul Master’s role with Star Soul Mithril, using the Silver Electric Flying Snake, Lightning Yuan Stones, and Tang San’s life force.
• The Silver Electric Flying Snake sent mixed energy into the blood-soaked Star Soul Mithril ball, which glowed before erupting in intense electric light.

Chen Feng and the others successfully created a head soul bone from Star Soul Mithril, and Chen Feng absorbed it to discover how it affected the body. After waking three days later, he found his Purple Demon Eye had improved and revealed that he had found an answer about the soul bone’s transformation.

• Chen Feng, Tang San, Dugu Bo, and the others watched the Star Soul Mithril transform into a horn-shaped head soul bone resembling the Silver Electric Flying Snake’s horn.
• Dugu Bo gave the soul bone to Chen Feng, who chose to absorb it himself rather than risk Yu Tianheng as a test subject.
• Chen Feng absorbed the soul bone, grew two blue horns with silver patterns, and developed heightened spiritual perception while lightning surrounded his head.
• Tang San kept watch over Chen Feng for three days while also refining pills for Xiao Wu and the Silver Electric Flying Snake.
• Chen Feng woke with improved vision that suggested his Purple Demon Eye had reached the Micro Realm, then showed the others a small metal sphere in his palm.

Chen Feng theorized that spirit rings and spirit bones were forms of energy shaped by special circuits, while Grandmaster began training the former Shrek students to control Soul Power precisely. The chapter ended with Grandmaster assigning difficult practical tasks, including Dai Mubai carving names into tofu with Soul Power and Ma Hongjun tending a carefully controlled fire.

• Chen Feng examined an artificial spirit bone’s metal carrier, wondered whether spirit rings and spirit bones both contained special circuits, and decided not to investigate the circuits further.
• Grandmaster challenged the former Shrek students to break a bowl without touching it or using soul skills, and Bai Chenxiang succeeded by recalling the feeling of releasing Feather of Wind.
• Dai Mubai shattered a bowl with Soul Power, and Gu Yue Ling also passed the test, prompting Grandmaster to explain the group’s Soul Power control training.
• Grandmaster told the students to build a restaurant and cook for him themselves, then assigned Dai Mubai to carve their names into tofu using only Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai shattered Oscar’s tofu while trying to practice, and Grandmaster assigned Ma Hongjun to tend a fire at specified heat levels.

Grandmaster assigned unusual Soul Power control exercises to the students while Chen Feng trained to control the lethal speed of his third spirit skill. Chen Feng struggled to raise his sword during Swift Thunder and wondered how to improve his reaction speed.

• Grandmaster told Meng Yiran to learn to control her poisonous Serpent Cane well enough to catch uncontaminated fish, then assigned Zhu Zhuqing to secretly monitor the other students.
• Grandmaster assigned Oscar vegetable-growing and pickling, Ning Rongrong multitasking with jars and spirit skill boosts, Bai Chenxiang hidden weapon practice, and Gu Yue Ling the task of pounding sticky rice through a covered barrel.
• Chen Feng practiced his Cell Activation Method and trained with Raikiri, determined to control Swift Thunder so it would not accidentally kill opponents.
• Chen Feng repeatedly charged at a target with Swift Thunder but could not raise his sword in time; Tang San suggested using his spirit bone, and Xiao Wu said her reaction after using Flash came naturally to her.

Chen Feng developed Moment, an ability that greatly accelerated his reactions and let him control Raikiri, while continuing his experiments with spirit bones and an electromagnetic flying sword. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang San successfully refined the lethal King of Hell's Sticker, and Chen Feng suggested it was time for them to return to the academy.

• Chen Feng used his head spirit bone to develop Moment, recovering from an initial electrical mishap with Tang San's help.
• Chen Feng combined Moment with Raikiri and finally brought his Third Spirit Skill under control, though using Moment left him exhausted.
• Over the following month, Chen Feng summarized his spirit bone experiments and tested the electromagnetic flying sword, but failed to master electrical current control.
• Tang San refined the King of Hell's Sticker at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with Chen Feng adding ingredients and Dugu Bo protecting him from the poison.
• Tang San revealed the finished poison could kill a Title Douluo, and Chen Feng said it was time for them to return to the academy.

Dugu Bo agreed to take an honorary position at Chen Feng’s academy in exchange for one of Chen Feng’s three promised favors, then helped Tang San choose herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Tang San left with several immortal herbs and Dugu Bo’s Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.

• Chen Feng persuaded Dugu Bo to accept an honorary academy position as one of the three favors Dugu Bo had promised him.
• Dugu Bo chose the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma for Dugu Yan after Tang San explained its benefits for her dragon bloodline.
• Tang San stored the dangerous Snowy Swan Kiss, then took the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma for Grandmaster with Dugu Bo’s approval.
• Dugu Bo allowed Tang San to take up to ten individual herbs, and Tang San selected the Dark Jade Divine Bamboo and nine other herbs, including the Earth Dragon Golden Melon.
• Dugu Bo gave Tang San a Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch that could preserve herbs and store living things.

Chen Feng returned to Nine-Headed Serpent Academy with Dugu Bo, who agreed to join as an advisor, and reunited with his classmates after their first training stage. When Tailong challenged Chen Feng over Ning Rongrong, Chen Feng disarmed him and held his sword at Tailong’s mouth.

• Chen Feng concluded that Soul Beasts could create only one soul bone before needing an unknown recovery period, then left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Bo and Tang San.
• Zhu Zhuqing advanced to Level 29, Dai Mubai completed his training tasks, and Grandmaster began the students’ Combat Training stage.
• Dugu Bo accepted an advisor position at Nine-Headed Serpent Academy, while Chen Feng handed out gifts and greeted his classmates.
• Tailong confronted Ning Rongrong and challenged Chen Feng to a one-on-one fight, claiming he was the young master of the Strength Clan.
• Tailong attacked Chen Feng with his Great Ape Martial Soul, but Chen Feng deflected his punch and swiftly placed the Tai Chi Bagua Sword in Tailong’s mouth.

Chen Feng defeated Tailong with his explosive Instant skill, then joined Tang San in distributing Immortal Herbs to the group. Lovesick Heartbreak Red became the focus when Zhu Zhuqing failed to pluck it, and Chen Feng urged Tang San to let Xiao Wu try.

• Chen Feng used Instant to put his sword in Tailong's mouth, and Tailong conceded and fled after the others challenged his claim that he had been ambushed.
• Chen Feng explained that Instant drained his mental stamina and that Tang San's Refreshing Tea could only ease his fatigue, not restore that stamina.
• Tang San distributed Immortal Herbs, including Qing Feng Bi Ying Hua to Bai Chenxiang, Earth Dragon Golden Melon to Gu Yue Ling, and Fierce Spirit Blood Amber to Meng Yiran.
• Chen Feng suggested giving Lovesick Heartbreak Red to Xiao Wu, but Tang San said it required a partner to pluck; after Xiao Wu told its legend, Tang San realized he had overlooked the implications for Chen Feng's relationships.
• Zhu Zhuqing tried to pluck Lovesick Heartbreak Red, but her doubts caused it to settle back onto the Black Absolute Stone, and Ning Rongrong declined to try it.
• Chen Feng urged Tang San to let Xiao Wu try Lovesick Heartbreak Red instead.

Xiao Wu successfully picked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and the group began absorbing their immortal herbs. As Chen Feng watched Meng Yiran’s Serpent Cane transform into a real snake, he concluded that her Martial Soul contained a special kind of soul he named a Living Spirit.

• Xiao Wu picked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and Tang San explained that it would never wither unless she destroyed it herself.
• Chen Feng reassured Zhu Zhuqing after she failed to pick the flower and told her to consume the Narcissus Jade Bone before receiving his promised gift.
• After resting, Chen Feng learned that Oscar had gained five Soul Power levels and Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul had become the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Meng Yiran demonstrated the Snake Transformation Method, and her Serpent Cane softened and became a lifelike snake.
• Chen Feng recognized the transformed Martial Soul as containing a special kind of soul and named it a Living Spirit.

Chen Feng tested Meng Yiran’s living Serpent Cane and began considering contracts as a way to study autonomous Beast Spirits. After the group consumed immortal herbs, Bai Chenxiang gained the ability to fly and Ma Hongjun transformed into a handsome youth, ending with him shamelessly thanking Chen Feng.

• Chen Feng had Tang San knock Meng Yiran unconscious, and her snake continued attacking Tang San until she woke and it returned to her side.
• Chen Feng concluded that the snake had independent consciousness and considered researching contracts for detached Beast Spirits like it and Golden Horn.
• Grandmaster, Zhu Zhuqing, and Bai Chenxiang woke after taking immortal herbs; Grandmaster hurried away to bathe, Zhu Zhuqing reached Rank 30, and Bai Chenxiang rose from Rank 22 to Rank 29.
• Bai Chenxiang discovered that the Qing Feng Bi Ying Hua had let her fly, but a phoenix cry disrupted her and she fell until Zhu Zhuqing caught her.
• Ma Hongjun emerged from golden-red flames transformed into a lean, handsome youth and thanked Chen Feng, joking that Chen Feng could do whatever he wanted with his perky ass.

After the group gained strength from their immortal herbs, Chen Feng revealed his identity as the Biological Pioneer and asked Meng Yiran to help test his unfinished Self-Condensed Spirit Ring Theory. He then began an experiment to see whether a soul bone could replace a spirit ring, leaving Zhu Zhuqing ready to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul bone.

• Ma Hongjun showed off his slimmer body and level-thirty Soul Power, but Oscar challenged him to fly, and Ma Hongjun repeatedly failed.
• Xiao Wu brought up Ma Hongjun's bet with Zhu Zhuqing, and Chen Feng declared it a draw.
• Gu Yue Ling emerged from her cultivation with golden dragon eyes and said her Soul Power had risen six levels, to level thirty-nine.
• Oscar revealed that Chen Feng was the legendary Biological Pioneer, and Meng Yiran agreed to keep his identity and research secret.
• Chen Feng told Dugu Bo he wanted to test whether a soul bone could replace a spirit ring, then offered Zhu Zhuqing a ten-thousand-year soul bone to absorb.

Chen Feng’s artificial Soul Bone transformed completely into a Soul Ring when Zhu Zhuqing absorbed it, granting her a new shadow-traveling skill. After preparing to seek Soul Beasts through negotiation, Flender led the group to the Death Desert, where they arrived at Crimson Sand City and entered the desert.

• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed Chen Feng’s artificial right leg Soul Bone, which spread dark purple light through the cabin and caused her pain before the energy subsided.
• Zhu Zhuqing woke with a third Soul Ring, and Chen Feng concluded the Soul Bone had been completely consumed in the transformation.
• Zhu Zhuqing discovered her new Soul Skill let her move between unconnected shadows, overcoming a major limitation of her Shadow Escape.
• Flender decided to seek Soul Beasts for Ma Hongjun and Ning Rongrong in the Death Desert, while Chen Feng told Gu Yue Ling about the mutually beneficial Soul Ring Experiment.
• After five days of travel, Flender led the teachers and students to Crimson Sand City, where they changed into desert clothing and entered the Death Desert.

Chen Feng’s group traveled through the Death Desert in search of suitable Soul Beasts for Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun, then was surrounded at night by a tribe led by a sixty-thousand-year Great Steel Snake. Gu Yue Ling stepped forward to communicate with the leader as a dragon-blooded creature, leaving the group poised to see whether that would avert a fight.

• Flender explained the Death Desert’s sandstorms, quicksand, and ambushing Soul Beasts, while Chen Feng described the group’s rope and clasp preparations.
• Flender led the group toward a distant mountain in search of a flying Soul Beast for Ma Hongjun, but they found no suitable Soul Beasts before making camp.
• During the night, Chen Feng heard movement underground and warned everyone to leave, but the group discovered moving ridges had surrounded them.
• A Great Steel Snake emerged with a tribe of Great Rock Snakes, and Grandmaster identified their leader as a roughly sixty-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Gu Yue Ling said the leader was likely dragon-blooded and stepped forward with glowing golden dragon pupils to speak to it.

Gu Yue Ling led Chen Feng and the others to a Great Rock Snake tribe, where they gained the snakes’ trust and found a young Great Steel Snake for Ning Rongrong’s Soul Ring Experiment. The experiment began after the tribe’s leader helped them communicate with the chosen snake.

• Gu Yue Ling approached the Great Steel Snake, which bowed to her, and she suggested using the tribe for Ning Rongrong’s Soul Ring Experiment.
• The Great Steel Snake led the group to its underground nest, where the snakes allowed them to enter and light torches.
• Gu Yue Ling asked the leader for a snake around a thousand years old, and Grandmaster identified a young Great Steel Snake as a suitable choice for Ning Rongrong.
• Chen Feng prepared to guide Ning Rongrong through the experiment with Tang San’s help, while explaining that he would not use an elemental item this time.
• The Great Steel Snake leader relayed Chen Feng’s request to the young snake, and the second Soul Ring Experiment began as Zhao Wuji worried about another sudden breakthrough.

Ning Rongrong successfully used Chen Feng’s Ring Expansion Method to obtain a Soul Ring from a Great Steel Snake, prompting the group to discuss the risks of promoting it and their hopes for peaceful relations between humans and Soul Beasts. After Bai Chenxiang broke through to level thirty, the group prepared to leave the nest and find a Wind Attribute Soul Beast for Ma Hongjun, first giving the Great Rock Snakes Tang San’s Iron Essence as thanks.

• Ning Rongrong awoke with a third Soul Ring and gained a defensive Soul Skill that increased her defense by forty percent.
• Chen Feng named the new method the Ring Expansion Method and explained that spreading it required caution because it threatened Soul Beast-hunting businesses and depended on communicating with Soul Beasts.
• Chen Feng described his goal of peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit between humans and Soul Beasts, and Gu Yue Ling wished him success as the others pledged to help.
• Bai Chenxiang woke after cultivating and announced that she had reached level thirty.
• Flender proposed taking the group to higher elevations to find a flying Soul Beast for Ma Hongjun, and Tang San offered Iron Essence to the Great Rock Snakes as thanks.

After rewarding the Great Rock Snake Tribe, Chen Feng’s group climbed toward the summit, where Bai Chenxiang obtained a Wind Slime as her Spirit Ring target. She successfully used the Ring Expansion Method and gained a Spirit Skill that recalled her Feather of Wind, broadening the method’s known applications.

• Ning Rongrong fed Gold Soul Coins to the Great Steel Snake, and Tang San and Ning Rongrong also rewarded the Great Rock Snake Tribe with Iron Essence before the group continued onward.
• The Great Steel Snake leader carried Chen Feng’s group to the edge of its territory, and they climbed the mountain toward their destination.
• Chen Feng identified a sixteen-hundred-year Wind Slime as a possible source of Bai Chenxiang’s Spirit Ring, and Flender brought it back from beyond the cliff.
• Chen Feng proposed using the Ring Expansion Method on the Wind Slime, and Bai Chenxiang spent the night sending her Soul Power into it while Ma Hongjun kept watch.
• At dawn, Bai Chenxiang had successfully obtained her fourth Spirit Ring from the Wind Slime and demonstrated that her new Spirit Skill recalled her Feather of Wind.