Chapter Summaries

Shrek Academy sent Tang San and the others to investigate Jixia Academy, where they marveled at the Great Wall and encountered rival academies and Dai Weisi. Dai Weisi left for the academy without confronting Dai Mubai, and the Shrek group continued toward Jixia Academy.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang to investigate Jixia Academy, and Yu Xiaogang decided to send Tang San and the others into Chang'an.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing admired the Great Wall as the group entered Chang'an, while Dai Mubai and Tang San criticized its cost and purpose.
• The group reached South City and encountered Canghui Academy, whose teacher Ye Zhi Qiu quickly led his students away after seeing Zhao Wuji.
• Zhao Wuji pointed out Plant Academy among the visitors, and Ning Rongrong asked why the Five Elements Academy was absent.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing spotted Dai Weisi, who smiled at them before continuing toward Jixia Academy with a Chang'an diplomat.
• Dai Mubai dismissed Zhao Wuji's questions, and the Shrek group followed the crowd toward Jixia Academy.

Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue infiltrated Chang'an to investigate Jixia Academy and discovered its recruitment was meant to build a Soul Master army. Hu Liena became curious about the guarded Mechanical Way building as the trio explored the academy.

• Hu Liena reprimanded Yan for drawing attention as the three Spirit Hall Soul Masters passed Chang'an's inspections using fabricated information.
• Xue Luochuan learned that outsiders had entered the city and allowed them to look around as long as they caused no trouble.
• Hu Liena discovered that Jixia Academy planned to graduate qualified students into military service and that local Soul Masters faced restrictions on leaving Chang'an.
• The trio entered Jixia Academy and saw its Martial Way, Magic Way, and Mechanical Way teaching buildings.
• Hu Liena noticed guards barring visitors from the Mechanical Way building and wondered whether it concealed something valuable.

Tang San’s group and visiting Soul Masters toured Jixia Academy’s Magic Academy and found students sleeping in a teacherless building. Shui Bing’er explained that sleeping was the academy’s unusual teaching method, leaving the visitors confused and skeptical as they took seats to try it.

• Tang San’s group entered the Magic Academy and found classrooms with no teachers, where students were napping.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan also inspected the building, and Hu Liena wondered whether funds had been embezzled.
• Dai Weisi and the Xing Luo delegation arrived with Shui Bing’er and mocked the academy’s apparent lack of teachers.
• Shui Bing’er stated that sleeping was the Magic Academy’s teaching method, prompting Ma Hongjun to envy the deal and the visitors to react with disbelief.
• Dai Weisi’s delegation, Hu Liena’s group, and Tang San’s group each found seats to sleep, while the visiting academies remained disappointed.

Soul Masters from across the continent entered Zhuang Zhou’s dream world at Jixia Academy and discovered that cultivating there greatly increased their speed. Hu Liena and the others eagerly trained, while Dai Weisi recognized the academy as a major force and Tang San coveted its cultivation ground.

• A mysterious teacher riding Kun Kun appeared in the dream, and the gathered Soul Masters debated the unusual silent teaching method.
• Shui Bing'er explained that students could cultivate or explore in Zhuang Zhou’s dream, where cultivation depended on each person.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan tested the dream and found that it accelerated cultivation, prompting them to sit down and train.
• Dai Weisi realized Jixia Academy’s cultivation ground could help the Chang'an Empire build a formidable force and stopped underestimating it.
• Ma Hongjun exclaimed over the dream’s benefits, Zhao Wuji scolded him, and Tang San secretly considered how to seize the valuable cultivation ground.

Students at Jixia Academy explored a dreamscape created by Zhuang Zhou, discovering Spirit Hall’s confidential teaching knowledge and a simulated Soul Beast forest. The visitors returned to the Magic Building stunned by its training capabilities, while Hu Liena wondered how the Chang’an Empire had gained such a foundation.

• Xie Yue and Hu Liena found Spirit Hall’s confidential cultivation texts in the dreamscape, and Zhuang Zhou explained that he had dreamed them up.
• Zhao Wuji, Tang San, Dai Weisi, and Spirit Hall’s students reacted with shock to Zhuang Zhou’s ability to reproduce Spirit Hall’s knowledge.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan explored the building and discovered that it was surrounded by dreamlike versions of the Star Dou Forest and the Sunset Forest.
• Zhao Wuji found that several close-combat Soul Skills were sealed in the forest, while Xiao Wu was killed by a Soul Beast and revived unharmed in her seat.
• Tang San and the Shrek group returned to the Magic Building, and Zhao Wuji praised its potential as a training ground.
• Hu Liena and the others returned to the building, where Yan recognized Jixia Academy’s power to train Soul Masters and Hu Liena questioned the Chang’an Empire’s resources.

Xue Luochuan summoned Ji Xiaoman to teach at Jixia Academy, while Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan explored the academy after leaving the dreamscape. They discovered the Martial Arts Building’s close-combat training facilities and debated whether the academy’s lack of teachers reflected an advanced philosophy or a shortage of resources.

• A soldier reported that Hua Mulan had repelled a Tian Dou attack and retaken a city, while Xue Luochuan worried about the Chang'an Empire’s depleted treasury and Tian Dou’s trade sanctions.
• The system rewarded Xue Luochuan with an extra summoning chance, and he summoned the Level 71 Soul Saint Ji Xiaoman.
• Xue Luochuan assigned Ji Xiaoman to help teach at the Martial Arts Academy, disappointing Ji Xiaoman, who had hoped to escape his Master's discipline.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan returned from the dreamscape and discussed Chang'an’s weak Soul Master foundation and the possibility of humiliating Jixia Academy at the next tournament.
• Dai Weisi led his team, Shrek Academy, and the others into the Martial Arts Building, where Hu Liena found that long-range soul skills were sealed and students trained with weapons and equipment.
• Tang San wondered why the academy had no teachers, Zhao Wuji suggested it lacked qualified instructors and funding, and Ning Rongrong reconsidered after recalling the Great Wall.

Yan confronted Ji Xiaoman after criticizing his laziness, but the Martial Arts Academy disciple overpowered him despite Yan's higher cultivation. Yan struggled to understand how Ji Xiaoman broke his soul skill without summoning his Martial Soul.

• Yan mocked a lounging female Soul Master, and Ji Xiaoman blocked his way and demanded an apology.
• Yan refused, so Ji Xiaoman kicked him into a corridor wall, shocking Xie Yue and drawing the attention of nearby Soul Masters.
• Ji Xiaoman introduced himself as Master Fuzi's prized disciple and the Martial Arts Prodigy of the Martial Arts Academy.
• Yan revealed himself as a Level 47 Battle Soul Ancestor with the Flame Lord Martial Soul and attacked Ji Xiaoman with his third soul skill.
• Ji Xiaoman dodged Yan's punch with martial arts and kicked him through his magma armor, leaving Yan badly beaten and bewildered.

Ji Xiaoman overwhelmed the Spirit Hall geniuses and revealed that she was a level seventy-one Soul Saint, astonishing everyone at Jixia Academy. The chapter left Xiao Wu admiring Ji Xiaoman and longing to study martial arts.

• Ji Xiaoman defeated Yan with a single kick, leaving Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and the gathered Soul Masters stunned.
• Dai Weisi, Zhu Zhuyun, Zhao Wuji, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu reacted to Ji Xiaoman's strength and considered what Jixia Academy could produce.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, Bewitching Charm, against Ji Xiaoman.
• Ji Xiaoman broke Bewitching Charm with a kick and sent Xie Yue and Hu Liena crashing into the corridor wall.
• Ji Xiaoman revealed that she was a level seventy-one Soul Saint, shocking Tang San and Zhao Wuji while Xiao Wu admired her.

After Ji Xiaoman defeated Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, the mysterious Master healed them and gave each guidance in martial arts. The visitors left impressed by Jixia Academy’s power, while the Star Luo delegation resolved to report the Chang'an Empire’s rise to their emperor.

• The Master appeared unseen and healed Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, giving each of them guidance on close-combat soul skills.
• Hu Liena thanked the Master, and Xie Yue concluded that Martial Arts Academy’s dean was likely as powerful as Zhuang Zhou.
• Zhao Wuji and the Shrek group realized the Master had intervened, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing were tempted to join Jixia Academy for its protection.
• Visiting soul masters asked to enroll, and Dai Weisi recognized that Jixia Academy’s appeal could draw talent away from other forces.
• Zhu Zhuyun urged the Star Luo delegation to report the Chang'an Empire’s growth to their emperor and seek sanctions, and the visiting groups departed.

Reports of Jixia Academy’s strength alarmed Spirit Hall, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Xing Luo Empire. As the chapter ended, Xing Luo joined an economic blockade against the Chang'an Empire.

• Bibi Dong learned that Zhuang Zhou had used Spirit Hall’s ancient texts to teach at Jixia Academy, but had not discovered its most guarded secrets.
• After learning that Ji Xiaoman had defeated Hu Liena and the other two, Bibi Dong decided to cancel the Elite Soul Master Academy Tournament and gave them three soul bones.
• Ning Fengzhi read Ning Rongrong’s account of Jixia Academy and considered sending the sect’s Soul Masters there, while Sword Douluo advised waiting for a safer moment.
• Dai Weisi described Jixia Academy to Xing Luo’s emperor and ministers, who rejected military action and agreed to join an economic blockade of the Chang'an Empire.

With Chang'an Empire short on funds and metal, Xue Luochuan ordered a surprise attack on Gengxin City to seize its resources. Mozi led the vanguard in mechanical beasts, and the chapter ended with City Lord Dai Rui recognizing the constructs and calling for President Lou Gao.

• Xue Luochuan decided that Chang'an Empire would attack Gengxin City to secure metal and resources.
• Xue Luochuan assigned Mozi to seize Gengxin City first, while Hua Mulan and Baili Xuance led the main force to reinforce him and other generals guarded the supply lines.
• Mozi accepted the perilous mission and departed with the army after nightfall.
• Chang'an's mechanical Vermilion Birds and mechanical white tigers reached Gengxin City and triggered its alarm.
• Dai Rui realized the approaching beasts were metal mechanisms and ordered his men to summon President Lou Gao.

Mechanical Vermilion Birds and Mechanical White Tigers led an invading army into the City of Slaughter, overwhelming its defenders and setting the city ablaze. Dai Rui and Lou Gao fought back, but Lou Gao was so fascinated by the machines that their creator remained a mystery as the defenders began surrounding the invaders.

• Mechanical Vermilion Birds carried enemy soldiers over the walls while Mechanical White Tigers attacked the city head-on, setting off battles throughout the city.
• Dai Rui fought the Mechanical White Tigers and summoned Lou Gao to help stop the invasion.
• Lou Gao admired a disabled Mechanical White Tiger and admitted he could neither build nor dismantle it without studying it for several days.
• Dai Rui dragged Lou Gao away from the machine, and Lou Gao marveled at the flying Mechanical Vermilion Birds as they attacked the wall.
• Lou Gao joined Dai Rui in defending the wall, while awakened Blacksmith Association Soul Masters and the city’s defenders encircled the invaders, who began to falter.

Scorpion Mozi revealed himself as a Level 96 Heavenly Scorpion Douluo and led the Chang'an Empire's forces to capture Gengxin City. Lou Gao joined the Chang'an Empire and begged to study Mozi's Peace Watcher mech, while Mozi watched anxiously toward the south as the wider battle continued.

• Scorpion Mozi identified himself as the dean of the Mechanical Way Academy and summoned the Peace Watcher mech, shocking Dai Rui and Lou Gao with his strength.
• Lou Gao asked Dai Rui to capture Mozi alive so he could learn how to make Mechanical Beasts, but Mozi enveloped himself in the Peace Watcher mech.
• Dai Rui attacked Mozi with his Eighth Soul Skill, but Mozi pierced through Dai Rui's White Tiger Phantom and killed him with a single strike.
• Chang'an's forces fought through the night, taking Gengxin City and killing or capturing most of its defenders.
• Lou Gao and the Blacksmith Association joined the Chang'an Empire, and Lou Gao pleaded to study Mozi's mech, but Mozi refused and looked toward the south.

Xing Luo besieged Gengxin City after Chang'an Empire seized it, while Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall reconsidered their plans around Chang'an’s advance. As the vastly outnumbered defenders faced the assault, Scorpion Mozi activated the Mechanical Azure Dragon.

• Emperor Xing Luo ordered troops to retake Gengxin City, and a large army surrounded the city as Mozi organized its defenses.
• Xue Ye decided Heaven Dou would withdraw from its border cities and redeploy along Chang'an’s territory, treating Chang'an as a shield against Xing Luo and Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong chose to let Chang'an and Xing Luo wear each other down before Spirit Hall intervened.
• Lou Gao feared that Gengxin City would fall as its defenders dwindled below eight thousand against Xing Luo’s two hundred thousand troops.
• Scorpion Mozi declared that Chang'an would win and activated the Mechanical Azure Dragon’s forbidden slaughter.

Dai Weisi led the Xing Luo Grand Army in an assault on Gengxin City, where the Hell White Tiger threatened to overwhelm Chang'an's defenders. Scorpion Mozi unleashed the Mechanical Azure Dragon, which killed the fused beast and its two Soul Douluo pilots, while Scorpion Mozi declared that occasional war was necessary for lasting peace.

• Dai Weisi commanded the Xing Luo Grand Army as it attacked Gengxin City, and the Hell White Tiger broke through the defenders' Mechanical White Tigers.
• Lou Gao identified the Hell White Tiger as Xing Luo Empire's trump card, fused by two Soul Douluo and powerful enough to defeat an ordinary Titled Douluo.
• Scorpion Mozi activated the Mechanical Cube, transforming it into a Mechanical Azure Dragon that grew to nearly the size of a small mountain.
• The Mechanical Azure Dragon shattered the Hell White Tiger's diamond armor, restrained it, and strangled it to death, killing its two Soul Douluo pilots.
• Scorpion Mozi called the Mechanical Azure Dragon the Mohist Mechanical Paths' final trump card and said occasional war was necessary for lasting peace.

Scorpion Mozi and the defenders held Gengxin City after the Mechanical Azure Dragon shattered the Xing Luo Grand Army’s assault, while Silong brought Blacksmith Association disciples to reinforce the walls. With Chang'an reinforcements due in five days, Dai Weisi ordered another attack, and Scorpion Mozi prepared to meet it.

• The Mechanical Azure Dragon destroyed siege weapons and frightened the Xing Luo Soul Douluos, allowing Scorpion Mozi’s troops to clear the enemy from the walls.
• Lou Gao sent Silong to gather the Blacksmith Association disciples, who eagerly joined Chang'an’s defense after witnessing Mohist Mechanical Paths.
• The Blacksmith Association disciples helped the defenders wipe out the enemy on the walls, and Dai Weisi withdrew to blockade Gengxin City.
• Dai Weisi learned Chang'an reinforcements would reach Gengxin City in five days and decided to capture the city before they arrived.
• Scorpion Mozi vowed to hold out for five days and summoned his Golden Sky Scorpion as the Xing Luo Grand Army advanced again.

After Gengxin City survived a seven-day siege, Hua Mulan delivered Xue Luochuan’s decree placing the city under Mozi’s command, and Mozi recruited Lou Gao to help build a Mohist mechanical force. Emperor Xing Luo and Bibi Dong learned how the Mechanical Azure Dragon had stopped the invasion, while Mozi revealed that the Mechanical Xuan Wu was mainly intended for civilian use.

• Dai Weisi withdrew the Heavenly Dou Army from Gengxin City after failing to capture it, leaving the walls surrounded by corpses.
• Hua Mulan arrived with reinforcements and conveyed Xue Luochuan’s order for Mozi to turn Gengxin City into the Mohist Mechanical Way Academy.
• Mozi invited Lou Gao to join the Mohist Mechanical Way, and Lou Gao accepted after Mozi explained its commitment to universal love.
• Emperor Xing Luo learned that the Mechanical Azure Dragon had thwarted his army’s attacks and worried about the unseen Mechanical Xuan Wu.
• Bibi Dong realized that Chang'an had seized Gengxin City to gain access to Jixia Academy’s powerful mechanical creations and regretted underestimating its ambitions.
• In the renamed Mohist Mechanical City, Mozi told Lou Gao that the Mechanical Xuan Wu was primarily designed for underground water circulation rather than combat.

Xue Luochuan reviewed the Chang'an Empire’s strategic position and watched Jixia Academy reveal its first year’s results: an army of ten thousand Soul Masters equipped with Battle Armor. The display left the other factions guessing about Chang’an’s strength, while Xue Ye anxiously awaited intelligence in the Heaven Dou Imperial Capital.

• Xue Luochuan assessed the Tian Dou Empire’s powerful factions and decided to wait until Chang’an had enough wealth to fund future wars.
• As the years passed, the Chang’an Empire relied on the Great Wall to repel attacks while Jixia Academy trained its first Soul Master force.
• Xue Luochuan arrived at Jixia Academy’s underground parade ground, where ten thousand Soul Masters greeted him and Ji Xiaoman presented their records.
• Xue Luochuan learned that most of the troops were Third Ring Soul Masters, but Battle Armor could boost each wearer’s strength by twenty levels.
• Xue Ye waited anxiously for news of the parade, fearing the Chang’an Empire’s growing force of Battle Armor-equipped Soul Masters.

Xing Luo Empire, Spirit Hall, and Tian Dou Empire watched Chang'an Empire’s newly completed Battle Armor Corps as its forces began striking back against Tian Dou raids. The chapter ended with the Good and Evil Doctor leading an armored Soul Master force into Dugu Bo’s territory at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

• Dai Weisi and Emperor Xing Luo discussed Chang'an Empire’s completed Battle Armor Corps and the threat it posed.
• Bibi Dong ordered continued scouting, while Spirit Hall and both empires canceled the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Academy Tournament, disappointing Shrek Academy.
• Five thousand armored Soul Masters reinforced the Great Wall, and a hundred of them routed a thousand Tian Dou soldiers who had attacked a pass.
• Xue Ye concluded that Chang'an’s Soul Master army was too small to expand, unaware that other forces had begun advancing into Tian Dou Empire.
• Dugu Bo sensed intruders at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and confronted the Good and Evil Doctor, who had arrived with an armored Soul Master force.

Bian Que led Chang'an Empire troops to claim the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye and threatened Dugu Bo with Dugu Yan, forcing him into a duel. Dugu Bo sent his Nine-Sectioned Jade to poison Bian Que, but Bian Que's medicinal energy knocked the snake unconscious.

• Dugu Bo warned Bian Que and his soldiers to leave, then unleashed venomous snakes that the soldiers' battle armor repelled.
• Bian Que identified his troops as Chang'an's army and demanded Dugu Bo submit or die, while threatening Dugu Yan's safety.
• Dugu Bo challenged Bian Que to a one-on-one duel, wagering Chang'an's withdrawal from Sunset Forest if he won.
• Bian Que and Dugu Bo revealed their martial souls and Titled Douluo identities, then Dugu Bo sent the Nine-Sectioned Jade to bite Bian Que.
• Bian Que's medicinal energy surged back against the Nine-Sectioned Jade and knocked it unconscious, shocking Dugu Bo.