Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen completed the contract that transformed Snow Empress into an egg, preserving her power and life. After Ice Empress entrusted the egg to him, it entered Ye Chen’s body and Elder Yi explained that Snow Empress had become an additional soul ring.

• Ye Chen used his Spiritual Power to complete the contract, forming a bond with Snow Empress as she became an infant-sized egg.
• Ice Empress cradled Snow Empress’s egg, then handed it to Ye Chen and asked him to protect Xue'er.
• Ye Chen promised to keep Snow Empress safe and sensed the bond between them as he held the egg.
• Snow Empress’s egg glowed and entered Ye Chen’s body, shocking him.
• Elder Yi told Ye Chen that Snow Empress had become part of him and that he now had an additional soul ring.

After Huo Yuhao fused with the Dream Devourer's Soul Ring, he refused Ye Chen's offer of its skull bone so he could grow through his own efforts. Ye Chen returned to Shrek Academy, having resolved the Snow Empress matter and gained a dark-gold Soul Ring, while Huo Yuhao headed back to prepare for Inner Court study.

• Huo Yuhao completed his two-day fusion with the Dream Devourer's Soul Ring and refused to accept its skull bone from Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen respected Huo Yuhao's decision and agreed to keep the soul bone until Huo Yuhao might need it later.
• Ye Chen found that the Snow Empress had settled in his Sea of Consciousness and that his Taiyin Youying Martial Soul had gained a dark-gold Soul Ring.
• Ye Chen decided to wait for the Ice Empress's soul to recover further before forming a contract with her.
• Ye Chen told Huo Yuhao to return to the academy and prepare to enter the Inner Court's Martial Soul Department, then headed to the Soul Tool Department himself.

Huo Yuhao fused with the Dream Devourer's Soul Ring and refused Ye Chen's offer of its soul bone, insisting on growing through his own efforts. Ye Chen left the Small World for Shrek Academy, where he planned to resume studying soul tools while Huo Yuhao prepared to enter the Inner Court.

• Huo Yuhao completed his two-day fusion with the Dream Devourer's Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao refused the Dream Devourer's head soul bone, and Ye Chen agreed to keep it for now.
• Ye Chen confirmed that the Snow Empress had become his dark-gold third Soul Ring and decided to wait before making a contract with the still-recovering Ice Empress.
• Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao left the Small World, and Ye Chen told Huo Yuhao to focus on studying in the Inner Court's Martial Soul Department before their trip to the Sun Moon Empire in four months.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the academy while Ye Chen headed to the Inner Court's Soul Tool Department to resume his studies.

Ye Chen returned to Soul Tool studies at Shrek, rapidly advancing to Rank 4 while spending his evenings with Wang Dong'er. After two more months of making Soul Tools and stabilizing his progress, he prepared to leave for the Sun Moon Empire the next day.

• Ye Chen found Fan Yu, Qian Duoduo, Xian Lin'er, and Yin Ming absorbed in blueprints, so he took the Soul Tool books Fan Yu gave him and went to practice.
• Ye Chen made Rank 1 and Rank 2 Soul Tools, then successfully completed a Rank 3 Soul Tool and became a Rank 3 Soul Master.
• Ye Chen made nearly a thousand Rank 3 Soul Tools in just over a month and later became a Rank 4 Soul Master two hours before Huo Yuhao, setting an academy record.
• Ye Chen spent his days making Soul Tools and his evenings with Wang Dong'er, finding comfort in the regular life at Shrek.
• Ye Chen made every Rank 4 Soul Tool Shrek possessed, failed his first Rank 5 attempt, and paused to stabilize his progress before departing for the Sun Moon Empire the next day.

Ye Chen returned to Shrek and rapidly resumed his Soul Tool studies, making every Rank 3 and Rank 4 design he knew and becoming a Rank 4 Soul Master. After two more months of regular study and time with Wang Dong'er, he prepared to leave for the Sun Moon Empire the next day.

• Ye Chen found Fan Yu, Qian Duoduo, Xian Lin'er, and Yin Ming absorbed in blueprints, then used the Soul Tool books Fan Yu gave him to resume crafting.
• Ye Chen made Rank 1 and Rank 2 Soul Tools before successfully crafting a Rank 3 Soul Tool and becoming a Rank 3 Soul Master.
• Ye Chen spent over a month making Shrek's Rank 3 Soul Tools, then studied and crafted a Rank 4 core formation.
• Ye Chen became a Rank 4 Soul Master two hours before Huo Yuhao and set a new academy record while still three months shy of fourteen.
• Ye Chen made Shrek's Rank 4 Soul Tools, failed at his first Rank 5 attempt, and paused to stabilize his progress as the departure for the Sun Moon Empire drew near.

Ye Chen and Wang Dong'er said goodbye before he left Shrek Academy for a two-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire. He joined the group led by Fan Yu, Xuan Zi, and Yan Shaozhe, while Shrek continued monitoring the Extreme North.

• Ye Chen offered to give up the exchange, but Wang Dong'er urged him to go and promised to visit him; they shared a brief kiss beside Sea God Lake.
• Ye Chen and Wang Dong'er talked late into the night, and he carried her back to her dormitory after she fell asleep.
• Ye Chen left Shrek Academy without saying goodbye to Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and the others, then met Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Fan Yu at the gates.
• Seven other Inner Court students from the Soul Tool Department arrived, followed by Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, officially beginning the group's journey to the Sun Moon Empire.
• The chapter recounted Xuan Zi's unsuccessful investigation of the island and the Extreme North, where Mu En had stationed Shrek experts to monitor the region.

Ye Chen prepared to leave Shrek Academy for a two-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire, sharing an emotional farewell with Wang Dong'er before setting out. As the group gathered, the academy's leaders prepared to escort them, while Mu En continued monitoring the unexplained activity in the Extreme North.

• Ye Chen offered to cancel his exchange, but Wang Dong'er urged him to go and promised to visit him.
• Ye Chen kissed Wang Dong'er, and they spent the night talking beside Sea God Lake before he carried her back to her dormitory.
• Ye Chen left for the academy entrance at dawn, where Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Fan Yu were waiting.
• The other exchange students arrived, followed by Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, officially beginning the journey to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xuan Zi reported that he had found strange Sea Soul Beast remains on an island but could not damage its black, Life Energy-filled rocks.
• Mu En stationed a Title Douluo and academy elites near the Extreme North and warned the neighboring empires to stay prepared.

Ye Chen and ten others traveled from Shrek Academy to Maple Leaf City for a two-and-a-half-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire, with Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao secretly tasked with advancing Shrek's Soul Tool Department. At the meeting with the Sun Moon Empire delegation, Ye Chen recognized Jing Hongchen and began plotting how to take advantage of him.

• Xuan Zi warned the exchange students to protect Shrek Academy's reputation and secretly told Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao to keep a low profile while pursuing their mission.
• Wang Dong'er watched Ye Chen depart from the academy gates in tears, having hidden her awakening so she would not ask him to stay.
• Ye Chen led the group toward Maple Leaf City, where he and Huo Yuhao displayed low-level Soul Master badges while He Caitou openly wore his Level 6 badge as cover.
• Ye Chen urged the students to endure the restrictions they expected in the Sun Moon Empire, and the group settled in Maple Leaf City before continuing their cultivation.
• Ye Chen arrived at Maple Leaf Square and saw Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and their grandfather Jing Hongchen waiting for the exchange ceremony.

Ye Chen and the other Shrek Academy exchange students set out for the Sun Moon Empire, with Xuan Zi secretly tasking Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao to investigate its Soul Tool Department. At Maple Leaf City, Ye Chen met the Sun Moon delegation and Jing Hongchen, setting his sights on outmaneuvering the Ming De Hall master.

• Xuan Zi warned the eleven travelers to uphold Shrek Academy’s reputation and secretly told Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao to keep a low profile while pursuing their mission.
• Wang Dong'er watched Ye Chen leave Shrek Academy and cried, having hidden her awakening so she would not ask him to stay.
• Ye Chen led the group toward Maple Leaf City, where he and Huo Yuhao disguised their ranks while He Caitou openly wore his Level 6 Soul Master Badge.
• Ye Chen urged the other students to endure any mistreatment in the Sun Moon Empire, and the group arrived in Maple Leaf City after a night of cultivation.
• Ye Chen recognized Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen among the Sun Moon delegation and saw their grandfather, Ming De Hall master Jing Hongchen, for the first time.

Ye Chen met Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as the student exchange between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire began. Jing Hongchen and Shrek’s leaders completed the formal handover, with both sides wary of the other’s intentions.

• Xiao Hongchen confronted Ye Chen over losing the tournament, and Ye Chen taunted him while insisting he would never win.
• Meng Hongchen greeted Ye Chen warmly and kept asking him questions, while Ye Chen acted arrogantly as Mu En had advised.
• Jing Hongchen and Xuan Zi exchanged veiled threats about the safety of the students during the exchange.
• Yan Shaozhe reminded Jing Hongchen of his visit to Sea God's Pavilion, and Jing Hongchen cut short the conversation.
• Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe shook hands to complete the student exchange while secretly weighing each other’s intentions.

Ye Chen and the Shrek delegation arrived in the Sun Moon Empire for a two-and-a-half-year student exchange, where he reunited with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen. Jing Hongchen and Shrek’s leaders completed the formal exchange amid veiled threats and mutual suspicion.

• Xiao Hongchen blamed Ye Chen for the Sun Moon Team’s tournament loss, and Ye Chen taunted him about losing again in the next tournament.
• Meng Hongchen welcomed Ye Chen and eagerly questioned him, while he pretended to be reckless and concealed his Soul Tool talent as Mu En had instructed.
• Jing Hongchen greeted Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe, and Xuan Zi warned him not to let anything happen to the Shrek students during their stay.
• Yan Shaozhe reminded Jing Hongchen of his unsettling visit to Sea God’s Pavilion, prompting Jing Hongchen to end the conversation and proceed with the exchange.
• Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe shook hands and affirmed that the Sun Moon students would be treated well, while both sides concealed their suspicions.

Ye Chen and the Shrek students arrived in Mingdu to begin their exchange at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. After settling into the academy, Ye Chen joined the group for the required physical examinations.

• Ye Chen traded parting remarks with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen as the academies exchanged places, while Yan Shaozhe and Elder Xuan said farewell to Jing Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen led the Shrek group toward Mingdu, and Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao secretly memorized the structures of his flying and defensive Soul Tools.
• The group reached Mingdu, where Fan Yu praised the city before Jing Hongchen escorted them to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Jing Hongchen left with Fan Yu, and Lin Jiayi welcomed the ten Shrek students, gave them campus materials and private dormitories, and arranged their enrollment examinations.
• Ye Chen memorized the academy map, then led Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and the other students to have their physical conditions recorded.

Ye Chen and the Shrek students arrived in Mingdu and were welcomed to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy for their exchange program. After receiving their dormitories and academy materials, they followed Lin Jiayi to begin the academy’s admission tests.

• Ye Chen traded taunts with Xiao Hongchen, while Meng Hongchen told Ye Chen she would find a way to return to him.
• Jing Hongchen took Ye Chen, Huo Yuhao, and the other Shrek students to Mingdu, where Ye Chen and Huo Yuhao secretly memorized the structures of the soul tools used during the journey.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed the Shrek group to Mingdu and led them to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy.
• Lin Jiayi introduced himself, gave the students conduct codes, maps, and dormitory keys, and explained that they would take physical tests.
• Ye Chen led Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and the other Shrek students after Lin Jiayi to begin the tests.

Lin Jiayi brought Ye Chen and the Shrek students to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s Physical Examination Room, where Ye Chen volunteered to be examined. The instrument began scanning him and revealed astonishing physical measurements, leaving his physical strength still to be determined.

• Lin Jiayi explained that the Shrek students would study with dedicated instructors and receive scheduled access to Ming De Hall without formally enrolling.
• Ye Chen considered how to prevent Xu Tianran’s death from plunging the Sun Moon Empire into civil war and planned to seek out a worthy imperial successor.
• Lin Jiayi led the group through a Soul Tool-filled teaching building and opened the Physical Examination Room.
• Ye Chen handed his Storage Soul Tool Ring to Huo Yuhao, who used his Simulation Soul Skill to conceal Ye Chen’s pupil color.
• Ye Chen stood on the examination platform, and the instrument recorded his strength, Soul Power, age, and soul-bone enhancements while rating him as a Soul Sage with Soul Douluo-level body strength.

Lin Jiayi guided Ye Chen and the Shrek students through Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and brought them to its Physical Examination Room. Ye Chen began the examination, and the instrument reported astonishing physical measurements while leaving his physical power untested.

• Ye Chen considered how to prevent the Sun Moon Empire from collapsing into civil war after Xu Tianran's death, and planned to seek out imperial relatives with decent character.
• Lin Jiayi led the group through the academy's Soul Tool-equipped teaching building and opened the Physical Examination Room.
• Ye Chen handed his Storage Soul Tool Ring to Huo Yuhao and concealed his eye color before stepping up for the examination.
• The examination instrument scanned Ye Chen and recorded level-eighty physical strength, an overall Soul Sage assessment, and physical strength comparable to a Soul Douluo, while his physical power remained pending.

Ye Chen’s physical assessment stunned the Sun Moon Academy staff, and Lin Jiayi reported his results to Jing Hongchen. Jing Hongchen ordered the academy to publicize Ye Chen’s performance but forbade an attack on him for now; after the tests ended, the Shrek group went to their accommodations as their two-and-a-half-year stay began.

• Ye Chen recorded astonishing physical assessment results, including strength at the level of an eighty-level Soul Master, and returned to Shrek Academy’s lineup.
• Lin Jiayi left the assessment area to tell Jing Hongchen about Ye Chen’s abilities.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Ye Chen was the son of Shrek’s Soul Tool Department deans and ordered Lin Jiayi not to target him on Sun Moon territory.
• Jing Hongchen instructed Lin Jiayi to publish Ye Chen’s results to challenge the Sun Moon Academy students’ confidence in Soul Tools over martial souls.
• Ye Chen excelled in the remaining tests, and the Shrek group headed to their accommodations late at night.

Ye Chen’s physical tests revealed strength far beyond his cultivation, stunning the Sun Moon Academy staff and Shrek students. Jing Hongchen decided not to target him on campus and ordered his results publicized, while the Shrek group finished testing and headed to their quarters as their stay in the Sun Moon Empire began.

• Ye Chen’s test results showed physical strength at the Soul Douluo level, along with exceptional evaluations in other areas, and he returned to Shrek Academy’s group.
• Lin Jiayi reported Ye Chen’s abilities to Jing Hongchen, who recognized him as Shrek’s prized successor and rejected the suggestion to kill him on Sun Moon Academy’s grounds.
• Jing Hongchen ordered the academy to publish Ye Chen’s test results to challenge students who believed soul tools surpassed martial souls.
• Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and the rest of Shrek’s group completed their tests, and Ye Chen also excelled in reaction speed and absolute strength.
• After the tests ended late at night, the group followed their teacher to their quarters as classes were set to begin the next day.

Ye Chen recorded the designs of the Soul Tools he had seen Jing Hongchen use, completing a blueprint for a Rank 9 flying Soul Tool before reporting to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. After breakfast, he discovered that his laboratory assignment differed from Huo Yuhao and He Caitou’s, leaving his instructor’s location unclear.

• Ye Chen searched his dormitory for surveillance devices and began drawing the Soul Tool designs he had seen, as Fan Yu had instructed.
• Ye Chen finished the precise blueprint for Jing Hongchen’s Rank 9 flying Soul Tool by dawn and resolved to draw the Rank 7 defensive Soul Tool later.
• Ye Chen, Huo Yuhao, and He Caitou met outside their rooms and went to breakfast, where they encountered hostile gossip about Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Fan Yu ate together and avoided discussing their mission in the crowded cafeteria.
• The four went to find their instructors, and Ye Chen noticed that unlike Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, his assignment sheet listed only a laboratory location.

Ye Chen spent the night reconstructing the Soul Tools he had seen Jing Hongchen use, then set out with Huo Yuhao and He Caitou for their first day at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. After breakfast, he discovered that his instructor’s laboratory was not in the sixth-year teaching building, unlike the laboratories assigned to Huo Yuhao and He Caitou.

• Ye Chen checked his room for surveillance Soul Tools and began drawing the Rank 9 flying Soul Tool and Rank 7 defensive Soul Tool he had seen Jing Hongchen use.
• Ye Chen completed the flying Soul Tool’s blueprint before dawn, then meditated briefly to restore his Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Ye Chen, Huo Yuhao, and He Caitou went to breakfast and discussed the hostility Ye Chen’s tournament reputation had stirred among the academy’s students.
• Ye Chen, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Fan Yu spoke cautiously about their impressions of the Sun Moon Empire, aware that Jing Hongchen might be watching them.
• After breakfast, Ye Chen learned that Huo Yuhao and He Caitou’s instructors had laboratories in the sixth-year teaching building, but his information sheet listed a different laboratory location.

Ye Chen arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s Rank Nine Laboratory and realized its instructor, Yin Fan, was the half-brother who had saved Yin Ming. He entered hoping to meet Yin Fan, but the person who arrived was a silver-haired girl he had seen in Star Dou Forest.

• Ye Chen found the Rank Nine Laboratory and learned that Level 9 Soul Engineer Yin Fan was its instructor.
• Ye Chen recognized Yin Fan’s name from Yin Ming’s account and recalled that Yin Fan had intervened to save his brother.
• Ye Chen used Lin Jiayi’s card to enter the laboratory and decided to observe Yin Fan before revealing his connection to Yin Ming.
• Ye Chen knocked on Yin Fan’s room but received no answer, then waited as someone opened the laboratory’s main doors.
• A silver-haired girl entered, and Ye Chen recognized her as the girl who had been with Mu Yiyi in Star Dou Forest.