Chapter Summaries

Su Wen arrived with reinforcements and used his Book World Domain to completely restrain Zhao Hai and the ambushers. He ordered the captives taken alive for interrogation and control of Ninghai City, then healed Lin Tian and the vice pavilion masters.

• Su Wen opened his Book World Domain, suppressing Zhao Hai's group and weakening their attacks over time.
• Su Wen formed golden chains from the Book Pages and immobilized Zhao Hai and the other attackers.
• Wang Lin asked Steward Qian what the reinforcements had come to do, and Su Wen said the captives should be kept alive and taken to Sun Moon Pavilion.
• Su Wen explained that keeping the Soul Kings alive would help control the guard force and allow them to investigate how Lin Tian's operation had been leaked.
• Su Wen used Healing Light to stabilize Lin Tian's and the three vice pavilion masters' injuries.

Su Wen confirmed to Lin Tian that he came from the Douluo Continent, and explained why he had crossed the sea to study Soul Guidance Devices. As the Sun Moon Divine Sect took control of Ninghai City and wars spread across the continent, Lin Tian examined Su Wen’s remarkably crafted Mid-Level Soul Guidance Device.

• Lin Tian suspected Su Wen was from another continent, and Su Wen confirmed he came from the Douluo Continent alone.
• Su Wen told Lin Tian he had come to study Soul Guidance Devices and described them as a way for Soul Masters to grow stronger.
• The Sun Moon Divine Sect took over Ninghai City without unrest, while wars erupted between the Sun Moon Pavilion and city lords across the continent.
• Lin Tian examined the Mid-Level Soul Guidance Device Su Wen had made and marveled at its seemingly perfected Core Array patterns.

Su Wen revealed that he could reproduce the Stroke of Divinity and explained that he had come to spread his Academy across the Sun Moon Continent. Lin Tian experienced the Academy’s World of Learning and agreed to try contacting his teacher, while Su Wen gave him materials for the Visualization Method.

• Lin Tian saw that Su Wen had inscribed numerous Soul Guidance Devices with the Stroke of Divinity and asked whether he had a special technique.
• Su Wen explained that he had come to the Sun Moon Continent to spread the Academy, a Holy Land devoted to sharing knowledge and advancing the Soul Master and Soul Engineer worlds.
• Su Wen showed Lin Tian the Academy by having him use an anonymous Book Page-shaped Soul Seal to enter the World of Learning.
• After returning from the World of Learning, Lin Tian agreed to try contacting his teacher, a senior figure in the Sun Moon Divine Sect.
• Su Wen gave Lin Tian materials on the Visualization Method and explained that his own conception had helped him achieve the Stroke of Divinity.

Su Wen studied Lin Tian’s materials on high-level soul guidance devices and began developing a new core-array path based on concepts and spirituality. After Lin Tian’s teacher requested a meeting, Su Wen prepared to travel to Mingdu, where the Sun Moon Divine Sect’s headquarters remained amid the continent-wide conflict.

• Lin Tian inherited Su Wen’s Visualization Method and gave Su Wen basic materials from his teacher’s high-level soul guidance device research.
• Su Wen analyzed the stacked arrays used in high-level soul guidance devices and concluded that a Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array unit could raise their limits.
• Su Wen set aside Lin Tian’s method and began developing his own approach to high-level soul guidance devices by giving core arrays concepts and a blessing from heaven and earth.
• Lin Tian received his teacher’s reply: the teacher wanted to discuss the Visualization Method and Su Wen’s Academy, and invited Su Wen to the Holy Mountain outside Mingdu.
• Su Wen asked Lin Tian for a map, then located Mingdu and paused his gaze over the Demon Forest.

Su Wen reached Mingdu after collecting Rare Metals along the way and visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion to secure more materials for his plans. He asked about buying several highly regulated Rare Metals, prompting Liu Ye to question his purpose.

• Su Wen entered Mingdu and sensed the many Soul Guidance Devices kept semi-activated in the city walls.
• Su Wen decided to collect Rare Metals and prepare for the Academy he planned to build before visiting the Sun Moon Divine Sect headquarters.
• Su Wen went to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, a royal-backed Rare Metal trading organization competing with the Sun Moon Pavilion.
• Liu Ye welcomed Su Wen and claimed the pavilion stocked every kind of Rare Metal.
• Su Wen asked whether the pavilion had Mithril, Fine Gold, Amethyst, Bright Silver, Magic Crystal, and Nether Iron.
• Liu Ye said purchases of those regulated Rare Metals were limited and asked Su Wen to explain his intended use.

Su Wen bought over ten thousand units of Rare Metals from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, prompting Hall Deacon Sun to investigate the enormous sale. Sun realized that an illusionist had influenced more than Liu Ye and that the purchase was far more serious than he first thought.

• Su Wen learned that the pavilion’s daily quotas for controlled Rare Metals were already reserved, then ordered a large batch of metals anyway.
• Liu Ye arranged dozens of Storage Soul Tools filled with Rare Metals, which Su Wen transferred into his Illusion World before leaving.
• Liu Ye reported the sale to Hall Deacon Sun, who learned Su Wen had bought over ten thousand units and asked about Mithril.
• Sun ordered an investigation into Su Wen’s identity and questioned Liu Ye for failing to report the purchase.
• Sun realized Liu Ye’s authority could not cover a sale of that size and concluded that other people had also been affected by Illusion.

Hall Deacon Sun discovered that Su Wen had taken a huge amount of Rare Metal through an apparent Illusion, and initially decided to conceal the loss. After finding that the payment consisted of fifteen Stroke of Divinity Soul Guidance Devices, he chose to report the discovery, seeing it as a breakthrough that could win him a reward; Su Wen checked into a Mingdu hotel to continue his research.

• Hall Deacon Sun realized that the Rare Metal sale had exceeded his quota and suspected that Su Wen had hypnotized him and other Pavilion staff.
• Hall Deacon Sun decided to hide the shortfall, believing he could pass the sale off as an ordinary transaction.
• Liu Ye showed Hall Deacon Sun the fifteen Mid-Level Soul Guidance Devices Su Wen had used as payment.
• Hall Deacon Sun tested the devices, recognized that they were all Stroke of Divinity, and abandoned his plan to conceal the transaction.
• Su Wen checked into a hotel in Mingdu and decided to continue researching Soul Guidance Devices instead of meeting Lin Tian's teacher.

Su Wen developed a new framework for seventh-level Soul Guidance Devices by modeling how a Soul Master's seventh ring integrates earlier abilities. As Stroke of Divinity Mid-Level Soul Guidance Devices stirred competition across the empire, Elder Yang feared the Royal Family would recruit Su Wen before the Sun Moon Divine Sect could reach him.

• Su Wen began secluded cultivation at the Mingdu Grand Hotel and considered how Soul Guidance Devices could progress beyond level six without reaching a dead end.
• After half a month of research, Su Wen concluded that seventh-level Soul Guidance Devices should integrate multiple Core Arrays, setting three Ten Thousand Year Level Core Arrays as the standard for a Seventh-Rank Soul Engineer.
• Elder Yang realized Su Wen had been in Mingdu for a month and that the Sun Moon Divine Sect's hall master was urging him to make contact.
• Elder Yang learned that the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion had obtained fifteen Stroke of Divinity Mid-Level Soul Guidance Devices and distributed some as rewards to institutions across the empire.
• Elder Yang concluded that Su Wen had supplied the devices and feared the Sun Moon Royal Family would find and recruit him first, so he panicked.

Su Wen completed a Seventh-Level Soul Tool and then spent two months establishing his Array System, unaware that the Sun Moon Divine Sect and the Sun Moon Royal Family were both searching for him. He sensed that his Soul Guidance Devices had begun generating Faith Power and realized his influence among Soul Engineers was spreading.

• Elder Yang searched Mingdu for Su Wen after learning the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion had obtained Stroke of Divinity-quality Soul Guidance Devices, but Su Wen remained hidden in seclusion.
• Su Wen completed the Tyrant Dragon Spear, a Seventh-Level Soul Tool that integrated the Spear Like Dragon, Spiritual Pressure, and Man Spear Unity core arrays.
• Su Wen turned his attention to Stone God's Assessment and spent two months developing a complete Array System.
• The Sun Moon Divine Sect and the Sun Moon Royal Family entered a tense calm as both forces searched for Su Wen.
• Su Wen noticed a change in his Faith Power and realized that Soul Engineers across the Sun Moon Continent were beginning to admire him because of his Soul Guidance Devices.

Su Wen announced the Array System through the World of Learning, then traveled across Sun Moon Continent to record its terrain and meditate on the planet’s operation. He began condensing his first Soul Core in a valley, where his Heavenly Book formed an illusory world and resonated with him.

• Su Wen announced the Array System, prompting soul masters across the World of Learning to discuss how arrays might reproduce Soul Skills and Soul Power Circulation Routes.
• Su Wen concluded that he still needed to spread the Array System on Sun Moon Continent and planned to establish the Academy there while completing Sea God's Fourth Trial.
• Su Wen decided to postpone testing the Evil Emperor and focus on breaking through to the seventieth level and condensing a Soul Core.
• Su Wen surveyed and recorded the terrain of Sun Moon Continent over two months, then entered deep meditation in a southern valley.
• Su Wen's Soul Power compressed in his Middle Dantian as the Heavenly Book's pages joined into an illusory world and resonated with him.

Su Wen condensed a unique soul core by resonating with the Douluo Plane, combining the Soul Core Method with the Ancient Method of solidifying soul power. He considered how further fusion with a Martial Soul could strengthen different two-soul-core methods and left his attention turned toward Mingdu.

• Su Wen resonated with the illusory world modeled on Douluo Star and successfully condensed a soul core.
• Su Wen's soul core combined a solid inner core with circulating liquid and gaseous soul power, enabling exceptionally efficient soul-power conversion.
• Su Wen concluded that the Ancient Method emphasized developing and fusing a soul core with a Martial Soul, while the Soul Core Method emphasized its operating mechanism.
• Su Wen reasoned that Ancient Method development could compensate for a weakness in Isotopic Resonance Two Soul Cores, but doubted Yin-Yang Complement Two Soul Cores could safely fuse with a Martial Soul.
• Su Wen considered that Twin Martial Souls with opposed yet compatible abilities might support separate Ancient Method soul cores, then looked toward Mingdu.

After condensing a soul core and breaking through to rank seventy, Su Wen considered how to study unconventional soul-ring condensation so he could perfect his method for creating a Seventh Soul Ring. He decided to return to Mingdu, while Elder Yang had spent nearly half a year searching for him and feared the Royal Family had found him first.

• Su Wen condensed a soul core, broke through to rank seventy, and anticipated faster cultivation through the Soul Saint and Soul Douluo stages.
• Su Wen concluded he still needed to observe an unusual soul-ring condensation process and asked Ning Rongrong to alert him before she next absorbed a God-bestowed Soul Ring.
• Su Wen considered studying Xiao Wu and Ah Yin, then realized the Sun Moon Divine Sect might offer a nearer opportunity through its God-bestowed Soul Rings.
• Su Wen decided to return to Mingdu and continue his preparations there.
• At the Holy Mountain, Elder Yang lamented that the sect had been unable to find Su Wen for nearly half a year and wondered whether the Royal Family had reached him first.

Su Wen returned to Mingdu and learned that the Royal Family was gathering Soul Engineers to pursue a new path for Soul Guidance Devices. As Ma Xiong embraced the opportunity to advance, Li Xiong stayed silent, constrained by his own ties.

• Elder Yang suspected the Royal Family had detained Su Wen and feared they might become enemies if they met again.
• Su Wen returned to Mingdu and noticed that the city’s atmosphere had changed as the two major factions searched for him.
• Su Wen listened to Li Xiong and Ma Xiong discuss the Royal Family’s invitations to help advance Soul Guidance Devices.
• Ma Xiong said the Royal Family’s proposed new system gave him hope of becoming a Super Soul Engineer, and he intended to devote his life to it.
• Li Xiong fell silent because, despite being a free agent, he still had ties that prevented him from freely choosing sides.

Su Wen revealed to Ma Tianlong and Li Yuan that he had created the Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array and invited them to research it with him. He brought them to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where he faced the powerful Soul Engineers searching for him and opened negotiations.

• Ma Tianlong and Li Yuan discussed whether to join the Royal Family or the Sun Moon Divine Sect to study the Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array.
• Su Wen drew the two Titled Douluo into his Illusion World and claimed that the Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array was his research and that he had made both factions’ samples.
• Su Wen showed Ma Tianlong and Li Yuan a vision of himself making a Soul Tool, then brought them into the World of Learning and toward the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Liu Ye recognized Su Wen and hurried off to summon the person leading the project to find him.
• Su Wen pulled three Titled Douluo into an Illusion Realm, and the old man among them agreed to hear what Su Wen wanted to discuss.

Su Wen met three Soul Engineers from the Royal Family and demonstrated the reach of his Spiritual Power while negotiating from within an Illusion Realm. He left the old man wary after revealing that his apparent feats were not illusions at all.

• Su Wen reflected on the Sun Moon Continent's weak Soul Power foundations and was surprised that the old man had surpassed Rank Ninety-five.
• The old man examined Su Wen's Illusion Realm and recognized that it combined illusion with spatial power and reflected extraordinary Spiritual Power control.
• Su Wen identified himself and told the three Royal Family Soul Engineers that he knew the bargaining chip he had brought.
• The old man challenged Su Wen's confidence, and Su Wen made his figure appear in every direction before stopping in front of him.
• Su Wen claimed he could perform the same feat in reality and clarified that what he had shown was not an illusion.

Su Wen demonstrated his mastery of Spatial Power to the Royal Family’s representatives and proposed cooperation to establish a new Holy Land and reform Soul Tools. He brought the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s Soul Masters into the World of Learning, where Lin Dong welcomed them as outsiders.

• Su Wen revealed that the Illusion Realm was a virtual world he controlled through Spatial Power, convincing the old man that the visitors were trapped and that Su Wen had come seeking cooperation.
• Su Wen asked the Royal Family to consider allowing him to establish a new Holy Land on the Sun Moon Continent and proposed joint research into a new Soul Tool system.
• Su Wen brought the three Titled Douluo and the Soul Masters in the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion into the World of Learning.
• Lin Dong received the newcomers and reflected on his progress after gaining a thousand-year First Soul Ring and improving his Five Elements Spear Martial Soul.
• The old man sensed Lin Dong’s Soul Power and was astonished that the roughly ten-year-old boy had reached Level 20.

Su Wen brought the Sun Moon Continent delegation into the World of Learning, where Lin Dong explained its role and the Academy’s influence. The old man recognized that the World of Learning was the source of Su Wen’s confidence and decided the Sun Moon Royal Family needed to join it.

• The old man asked where Su Wen had brought the delegation, and Lin Dong explained that the World of Learning connected Soul Masters and spread knowledge.
• Lin Dong described Su Wen’s reforms and the Academy, while the old man noticed the reverence people showed Master Wen.
• The old man learned how the World of Learning had accelerated Douluo Continent’s Soul Master development and concluded that it could outpace the Sun Moon Continent.
• Lin Dong guided the old man and the other visitors through the Academy, where each received a Cultivation Method.
• The chapter ended by revealing that the Academy’s true treasure was the Myriad Laws Tome that carried its Cultivation Methods.

Su Wen introduced the Sun Moon Continent’s Soul Engineers to the World of Learning, where they witnessed the Douluo Continent’s Martial Soul cultivation and began considering how soul tools might complement it. After the visitors woke, news of the World of Learning spread across Mingdu and the Sun Moon Continent, while Su Wen went to investigate the Sun Moon Divine Sect.

• Lin Dong explained that the Academy’s Soul Tool Hall had been established to develop soul tools, and the Sun Moon elders considered exchanging their knowledge for the Myriad Laws Tome.
• The old man and the other Soul Engineers toured the World of Learning for three hours and marveled at its reach and the strength of the Douluo Continent’s Soul Masters.
• In Mingdu’s Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, some visitors tried to steal from the sleeping people, but the victims were forced out of the World of Learning and caught them.
• Su Wen told the old man to report the day’s events to Your Majesty, then vanished as the visitors woke and recognized him as Master Wen.
• The old man left without trying to suppress the news, which spread from Mingdu across the Sun Moon Continent.
• Su Wen appeared before the Holy Mountain and ascended it to see the Sun Moon Divine Sect.

Su Wen climbed the Sun Moon Divine Sect’s Holy Mountain and used his Heavenly Book Martial Soul to pull its members into the World of Learning. After the two Holy Sons questioned him about the Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array, he offered them the Visualization Method inheritance.

• Su Wen spread his Spiritual Power across the Holy Mountain and summoned his Heavenly Book Martial Soul to draw the sect’s Soul Masters and Soul Engineers into the World of Learning.
• Elder Yang explained what was happening, then entered the World of Learning, followed by the hall masters, elders, and consecrates.
• The Blazing Sun Holy Son and the Cold Moon Holy Son stayed behind to watch the God Hall and questioned Su Wen about developing the Ten-Thousand-Year Core Array.
• Su Wen explained that he had applied his Visualization Method to Soul Tool crafting and invited the two Holy Sons to receive its inheritance in the World of Learning.

Su Wen explained the demands and benefits of the Visualization Method, then asked the Sun Moon Divine Sect to cooperate with his Academy on the Sun Moon Continent. The Holy Sons deferred the decision to the Sect’s absent leaders, but Su Wen revealed that the Deities behind the Divine Statues might already have sensed him.

• Su Wen explained that the Visualization Method made cultivation more demanding but could improve Soul Skill training and overall progress.
• Su Wen reasoned that cultivating multiple methods alongside the Visualization Method could create Soul Masters with the potential to become gods, though Divine Positions and Faith remained major obstacles.
• Su Wen told Blazing Sun Holy Son and Cold Moon Holy Son that his Academy was his foundation and that he wanted to establish it on the Sun Moon Continent through cooperation with the Sect.
• Blazing Sun Holy Son said the Sect would wait for the two palace masters and worshippers to return before deciding whether to accept the Academy.
• Su Wen pointed to the Divine Statues and told the Holy Sons that the Deities behind them might already have sensed his presence through the Faith he had gathered.