Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li ambushed Evil Soul Masters traveling to Baihe City and discovered their operation involved setting up statues to spread faith. After the massacre, they confronted Soul Saint Wang Tieying and the wounded Zheng Jianghong, who challenged them over the strength gap between soul masters and Evil Soul Masters.

• Wang Tieying arrived in Baihe City and told Zheng Jianghong that he would oversee affairs within a hundred-kilometer radius, while Zheng reported that twenty-nine statues had been set up.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li prepared an ambush as Wang Tieying asked about the statues and revealed that the manager in Jiangyuan City had been killed for poor results.
• Qin Ze fired the Gatling from the hill, killing the Evil Soul Masters in one carriage and damaging the carriage carrying Wang Tieying and Zheng Jianghong.
• Wang Tieying escaped with Zheng Jianghong, revealing his White Bone Iron Eagle Martial Soul and Soul Saint-level strength as Qin Ze and Di Yue Li flew after them.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li released their soul rings, and Qin Ze accused the Evil Soul Masters of spreading faith; Wang Tieying warned them about the strength gap between soul masters and Evil Soul Masters.

Qin Ze fought Wang Tieying while Di Yue Li faced Zheng Jianghong. Qin Ze withstood Wang Tieying’s bone-based soul skills and confronted his Bone Transformation Ground, which began pulling him toward the earth.

• Wang Tieying released his sinister Bone Melting Wind at Qin Ze, who dispersed it and charged through it.
• Qin Ze sent five blades at Wang Tieying, then used his oppressive aura and sword strikes to pressure the Soul Saint.
• Wang Tieying blocked Qin Ze’s sword with his bone wings and unleashed his sixth soul skill, Bone Transformation Ground.
• Bone hands reached for Qin Ze and the ground’s force dragged at him, but his spinning blades chopped the hands apart.

Qin Ze used a seventh-level Explosive Bullet against Wang Tieying, while Di Yue Li killed Zheng Jianghong with her Golden Dragon Spear. Wang Tieying survived the blast and fled toward a ship carrying more Evil Soul Masters, whose Fixed Soul Cannon Shells forced Qin Ze and Di Yue Li to retreat.

• Wang Tieying's bone sword shattered against Qin Ze's Demon Armor, and Qin Ze threw a tracking Explosive Bullet at him.
• Wang Tieying tried to escape, but Qin Ze's Spinning Blades slowed him and the Explosive Bullet detonated nearby.
• Di Yue Li pierced Zheng Jianghong with her light-infused Golden Dragon Spear, killed him, and absorbed his life force.
• Qin Ze spotted a ship approaching with several black-robed figures and realized another group of Evil Soul Masters had arrived.
• Wang Tieying emerged alive from the crater and flew toward the ship, while Qin Ze sent his Spinning Blades after him.
• The ship fired three Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and Qin Ze pulled Di Yue Li toward safety as he prepared his defensive soul tools.

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li survived the premature explosion of a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell and returned to Baihe City to eliminate its Evil Soul Masters and their collaborators. After striking at the hotel and city lord’s manor, they faced an Elder who challenged their right to kill imperial officials.

• Qin Ze shielded Di Yue Li from the Fixed Soul Cannon Shell’s blast, and they emerged alive from the destroyed forest.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li decided to wipe out the remaining Evil Soul Masters in Baihe City and turn the city lord and other collaborators over to the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qin Ze knocked Bai Li unconscious at the Baihe Grand Hotel and learned the remaining Evil Soul Masters were away; he and Di Yue Li waited for them to return.
• When the Evil Soul Masters came back, Qin Ze attacked them with the Gatling Soul Tool while Di Yue Li went to the city lord’s manor and killed Bai Ming and others.
• Qin Ze joined Di Yue Li at the manor and told an Elder that imperial law required those who cooperated with Evil Soul Masters to be executed, leaving the officials stunned.

Qin Ze exposed an Evil Soul Master organization in Baihe City and reported the threat to Shrek Academy, then reunited with his friends. As he prepared to leave for the Sun Moon Empire for two and a half years, Di Yue Li asked him what their relationship was.

• Qin Ze showed the corpses of ten Evil Soul Masters to the people in Baihe City, and Shen Tianlei confirmed their identities.
• Qin Ze left Shen Tianlei to handle the aftermath, then returned to Maple Leaf Village and paid his respects at Grandma's grave with Di Yue Li.
• Qin Ze reported the organized Evil Soul Master threat to Yan Shaozhe, who agreed to inform his teacher and consider more patrols in remote regions.
• Qin Ze's friends offered to take Inspection Team missions in remote villages, and Bei Bei lamented that Qin Ze would leave for the Sun Moon Empire for two and a half years.
• Qin Ze embraced Di Yue Li beside Sea God Lake and promised her a surprise when he returned, and she asked what kind of relationship they had.

Qin Ze used the Sacred Soul Grass to communicate with the Snow Empress, who was sealed inside the Platform for Conferring Gods. After learning that the Ice Empress was alive within another person, the Snow Empress agreed to stay quiet while Qin Ze arranged a reunion.

• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li agreed to revisit their relationship and promised to remain faithful to each other.
• Qin Ze ate the Sacred Soul Grass and gained the ability to communicate with the Spiritual Power of living beings.
• Qin Ze spoke with the Snow Empress and explained that she had been captured while trying to recultivate as a human.
• Qin Ze told the Snow Empress that the Ice Empress had sacrificed herself to become someone's soul ring but had retained her soul.
• Qin Ze used his Power of Destiny to stabilize the Snow Empress's origin, and she agreed not to reveal any Spiritual Power fluctuations.
• Qin Ze promised to help the Snow Empress reunite with the Ice Empress the next day, then wondered whether Di Yue Li had mixed a soul beast's aura into his Power of Destiny.

Qin Ze studied Huo Yu Hao’s Ice Scorpion Martial Soul so the Snow Empress could confirm that the Ice Empress was with him. After discussing their upcoming trip to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Qin Ze gave Huo Yu Hao a book and warned him to keep it from Wang Dong.

• Qin Ze left the library and asked Huo Yu Hao to show him his Ice Scorpion Martial Soul.
• Huo Yu Hao released his Martial Soul, and the Snow Empress recognized the Ice Empress’s aura and wondered how she had entrusted herself to Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze praised Huo Yu Hao’s Martial Soul, while the Ice Empress’s favorability toward Qin Ze increased by ten.
• Huo Yu Hao told Qin Ze that Dean Qian planned to prepare defensive Soul Tools for their trip to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Qin Ze said he was not interested in learning how to make them.
• Wang Dong left after Huo Yu Hao teased her about toy Soul Tools, and Qin Ze gave Huo Yu Hao a copy of Continental Strange Martial Souls Magazine Record, warning him not to let Wang Dong see it.

Qin Ze explained how the Ice Empress preserved a fragment of her soul and discussed his plans with the Snow Empress before spending nearly three months preparing for the trip to the Sun Moon Empire. On the eve of departure, Mu En gave Qin Ze, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou advice for their exchange, and their friends gathered to see them off.

• Qin Ze told the Snow Empress that the Skydream Iceworm had helped the Ice Empress preserve her spiritual origin by fusing her Life Origin with Huo Yu Hao's Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Ze admitted that he hoped to obtain the Snow Empress's sacrifice and learn how to form a Self-Condensing Soul Ring, arguing that his future godhood could prevent harm to soul beasts.
• Over the next nearly three months, Qin Ze cultivated, spent time with Di Yue Li, sparred with Wu Feng, and grew closer to the Snow Empress; the Heaven Soul Emperor also ordered a purge of Evil Soul Masters.
• Mu En warned Qin Ze, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou to stay alert and support one another at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and told Qin Ze he could return before the two-and-a-half-year exchange ended.
• Mu En gave the three students a day off, and Qin Ze, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou joined Bei Bei, Di Yue Li, Ning Tian, Wang Dong, and the others at Sea God Lake before departing.

Huo Yu Hao read that the Light Goddess Butterfly could only be awakened by beautiful women and struggled with the realization that Wang Dong was a girl. Qin Ze and the exchange students left Shrek for the Sun Moon Empire, reaching Maple Leaf City with Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo.

• Huo Yu Hao read about the Light Goddess Butterfly and grew flustered as he looked at the sleeping Wang Dong.
• Qin Ze told the group he might return within a year, and he spent the night revisiting familiar places with Di Yue Li.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo led the eleven exchange students out of Shrek Academy while Di Yue Li and the others saw them off.
• Qin Ze joined the flight toward the Sun Moon Empire, hoping to recruit people and investigate Self-Condensing Soul Rings at Mingde Hall.
• Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo brought the students to Maple Leaf City and settled them into a hotel.

Qin Ze and the Shrek students exchanged places with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy students for their visit to Mingde Hall. The teams parted ways after Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo demonstrated their Super Douluo strength, leaving Jing Hong Chen wary but confident in the empire’s soul tools.

• Ye Xiao Sheng greeted Qin Ze and offered to help He Caitou and Huo Yu Hao during their stay in the Sun Moon Empire.
• The Shrek students met Jing Hong Chen, the Hong Chen siblings, and the other Sun Moon exchange students in Maple Leaf Square.
• Xiao Hong Chen vowed to make Qin Ze feel pain in the next Soul Fighting Competition, and Qin Ze chilled him with a controlled burst of demonic pressure.
• The two academies exchanged students, and Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo flew away without soul tools or visible soul power fluctuations.
• Jing Hong Chen recognized that both departing Shrek leaders were Super Douluo, then reminded himself that the empire’s soul tools could still force them to submit.

Jing Hong Chen escorted Fan Yu and the Shrek Academy students to Ming Capital, demonstrating the Sun Moon Empire’s advanced bionic Flying Soul Tools. Seeing the city’s lights and skyscrapers stirred Qin Ze’s memories of his previous life, but he accepted that he had begun a new journey.

• Jing Hong Chen welcomed Fan Yu and the Shrek Academy students to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and led them into the air.
• Jing Hong Chen surrounded the group with a Light Membrane that blocked the wind, and Fan Yu praised Mingde Hall’s bionic soul-tool technology.
• Jing Hong Chen explained Mingde Hall’s goal of building long-distance Flying Soul Tools from ordinary metals, while Qin Ze reflected on how technology might shape the future.
• After nightfall, Jing Hong Chen slowed down to show the group Ming Capital’s vast skyline and brightly lit streets.
• Qin Ze saw a resemblance between Ming Capital and the mountain city from his previous life, then returned his attention to the present.

Jing Hong Chen welcomed the Shrek students to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and learned that Qin Ze had come to spar with soul engineers rather than study soul tools. The group began its exchange program with physical examinations, whose early results showed that Shrek’s students were unusually strong.

• Jing Hong Chen introduced Ming Capital and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy campus to Fan Yu and the Shrek students.
• Fan Yu told Jing Hong Chen that Qin Ze was not there to study soul tools, so Jing Hong Chen assigned him to the Practical Control Soul Tool Department.
• Lin Jia Yi gave the students their handbooks and explained the academy’s study requirements before leading them to the physical testing room.
• Lin Jia Yi demonstrated the Soul Tool Body Measurement Devices, and Ye Xiao Sheng’s scan showed physical strength at Rank 54 and an overall evaluation of Soul Emperor.
• Huo Yu Hao and He Caitou calmed down after Qin Ze reminded them of Mu En’s words, while the teachers were astonished by the students’ strong physical test results.

Lin Jia Yi oversaw the physical tests of the Shrek students, and Yu He Caitou, Huo Yu Hao, and Qin Ze each revealed extraordinary physical attributes. Qin Ze’s results stunned everyone, and Lin Jia Yi resolved to report them to the hall master.

• Yu He Caitou’s test showed Rank 70 physical strength, Level 64 resilience, Rank 51 soul power, and a torso soul bone attachment, astonishing Lin Jia Yi and the others.
• Huo Yu Hao’s results showed Level 54 physical strength, Level 58 resilience, Rank 36 soul power, and attachments for two soul bones.
• Qin Ze stepped onto the device after handing his Storage Soul Tool to Huo Yu Hao.
• Qin Ze’s test showed Level 82 physical strength, Level 83 resilience, Rank 50 soul power, and several soul bone attachments, leaving the testing room speechless.
• Lin Jia Yi realized Qin Ze could become a fourteen-year-old Soul King after absorbing a soul ring and decided to report the results to the hall master.

Qin Ze and the Shrek Academy students completed strength and reaction tests, and his extraordinary power destroyed the strength-testing Soul Tool. The tests ended with Qin Ze eliminated at the twelfth square of the reaction test.

• Lin Jia Yi led the students through a strength test after Qin Ze's physique test had astonished the seniors.
• He Caitou reached the strength tester's Rank 70 limit by using his food-type martial soul, while Huo Yu Hao scored Rank 50 without Soul Power or a martial soul.
• Qin Ze warned Lin Jia Yi that he might break the tester, then punched through it and shattered its internal components.
• The students took a reaction test, where He Caitou hit eight squares at once and Huo Yu Hao performed poorly after spending his Spiritual Power studying the Soul Tools.
• Qin Ze was eliminated when the reaction test reached twelve illuminated squares.

Qin Ze and the other Shrek exchange students settled into their dorms at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Jing Hong Chen learned how extraordinary Qin Ze’s physical abilities were. He ordered the academy to proceed with the exchange as planned and assigned Qin Ze to the Practical Control Soul Tool Department.

• Lin Jia Yi ended the test and told the students to gather after breakfast to meet their mentors.
• Teachers escorted the eleven students to their dormitory rooms, and Qin Ze checked his room for spying Soul Tools before showering.
• Lin Jia Yi reported He Caitou’s and Huo Yu Hao’s abilities to Jing Hong Chen, then revealed that Qin Ze had Soul Douluo-level strength and resilience, three soul bones, and had destroyed the strength tester.
• Lin Jia Yi suggested killing Qin Ze, but Jing Hong Chen refused because Shrek might retaliate and their own students were at Shrek.
• Jing Hong Chen told Lin Jia Yi to assign Qin Ze to the Practical Control Soul Tool Department and arrange the other exchange students as originally planned.

Qin Ze discussed the future of soul beasts and his plan to test Self-Condensing Soul Rings with the Snow Empress, who shared an account of how the Dragon Clan’s extinction changed wild beasts. He began to suspect that the energy from that event had altered human evolution and restricted humans’ ability to gain soul skills from their own bloodlines, but he could not complete the thought.

• Qin Ze reassured the Snow Empress that he had come to the Sun Moon Empire for an academy exchange, not to hand her over.
• The Snow Empress said humans’ growing reliance on soul beast soul rings could eventually drive land-based soul beasts to extinction, and Qin Ze proposed Self-Condensing Soul Rings as a way for the two races to coexist.
• Qin Ze told the Snow Empress that Yue Li had taken him to meet Di Tian and that his beloved was the Auspicious Beast, then asked her to advise him as he prepared to test a self-condensed fifth soul ring.
• The Snow Empress explained that her race inherited soul skills through bloodlines and that soul rings carried soul beast bloodline power and soul skills.
• The Snow Empress recalled that the Dragon Clan’s extinction released energy that transformed wild beasts, including a group resembling humans whose evolution differed from that of other beasts.
• Qin Ze suspected the energy had changed human evolution and caused humans to lose the ability to produce soul skills from their bloodlines, but his train of thought suddenly stalled.

Qin Ze agreed to help Snow Empress preserve her soul with powerful life energy so she could fuse with him, then realized he might already possess what she needed. At Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he and the other Shrek students received their study arrangements and learned how they could qualify to study at Mingde Hall.

• Snow Empress revealed that her unstable origin power could explode within ten years and offered to fuse with Qin Ze if he found enough life energy to protect her soul.
• Qin Ze promised to help Snow Empress, then remembered he had an enormous source of life energy.
• Qin Ze absorbed Purple Qi and reflected on how his equipment and abilities had developed.
• Qin Ze ate breakfast with Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and Fan Yu before the Shrek students were summoned to the sixth-year teaching building.
• Lin Jia Yi explained that the Shrek students would study under Rank 7 Soul Engineers for a month before assessments determined how often they could attend Mingde Hall.

Qin Ze joined the Practical Control Soul Tool Department at Sun Moon Academy and met its director, Xiong Kuang. The chapter ended with Xiong Kuang pairing him against a tall student named Nana, whose name reminded Qin Ze of Ghost Nana.

• Lin Jia Yi explained the academy’s rules for leaving campus and assigned mentors to the exchange students.
• Qin Ze was the only student left without a mentor because he had been assigned to the Practical Control Soul Tool Department.
• Lin Jia Yi brought Qin Ze to the department’s battle room, where students were testing close-combat Soul Tools.
• Xiong Kuang welcomed Qin Ze and explained that the department trained Soul Masters who used Soul Tools but could not make them.
• Xiong Kuang introduced Nana as Qin Ze’s opponent, and Qin Ze wondered whether she was the Ghost Nana he remembered.

Fourteen-year-old Qin Ze agreed to spar with Nana, a seventeen-year-old Soul King, at the Practical Control Department. He overwhelmed her with his unusual Soul Rings and speed, ending the match with his palm blade at her neck.

• Nana asked Xiong Kuang to check Qin Ze’s cultivation, and Qin Ze revealed he was level 50 and had recently turned fourteen.
• Nana challenged Qin Ze to a spar, and Xiong Kuang expanded the Battle Platform for their match.
• Nana released her five Soul Rings and charged Qin Ze with her giant blade, while Qin Ze revealed four unusually colored Soul Rings.
• Qin Ze dodged Nana’s first slash, caught her next blade light with his armored hand, and crushed it.
• Qin Ze used Lightning Step to bypass Nana’s clones, knocked the giant blade from her grasp, and stopped his palm blade beside her neck.

Qin Ze defeated Nana in a brief spar, then went to the Training Area to look for Ji Juechen and encountered Ma Rulong. Ma Rulong secretly passed Mingde Hall secrets to a mysterious figure and vowed revenge on Mingde Hall and Jing Hong Chen.

• Qin Ze quickly defeated Nana with the Golden Light Saber, and Xiong Kuang explained how the Practical Control Soul Tool Department operated.
• Qin Ze asked Xiong Kuang where to find Ji Juechen and learned that he usually trained in the Training Area.
• Qin Ze encountered Ma Rulong outside the Training Area, exchanged a few words with him, and went inside.
• Ma Rulong met a mysterious person in a hotel suite and reported that he had sent out details about Mingde Hall's humanoid soul-tool research and secret stockpile.
• The mysterious person promised to help Ma Rulong reach Titled Douluo and exact revenge, while Ma Rulong blamed Jing Hong Chen and Mingde Hall for his grandfather's death.