Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze entered the Training Area to find Ji Juechen and discovered him training with Jing Ziyan. When Ji Juechen challenged him to a fight, Qin Ze revealed the Demon Armor, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Qin Ze asked the Training Area staff about Ji Juechen and learned he was in Advanced Training Room Five.
• Qin Ze entered the room and found Ji Juechen practicing with a crude sword while Jing Ziyan watched.
• Ji Juechen sensed something special about Qin Ze and challenged him to fight.
• Qin Ze warned Ji Juechen, released his pressure, and summoned his soul rings and Demon Armor.

Qin Ze and Ji Juechen clashed in the Training Area, and their competing demonic might and Sword Intent led Qin Ze to discover a new path for the Demon Armor. As the highest-level alarm sounded, Qin Ze began forming a dark-blue sphere of fused power while Ji Juechen prepared to attack.

• Ji Juechen released his Sword Intent at Qin Ze, who answered with the Demon Armor's demonic might and summoned the Demon Blade.
• Ji Juechen's Sword Intent and Qin Ze's demonic might clashed, damaging the cultivation room as Jing Ziyan tried to stop them.
• Qin Ze realized he could combine the Demon Armor's destructive power with Spiritual Power and Soul Power to create a technique of his own.
• Qin Ze fused the three powers, strengthening his demonic might and forcing Ji Juechen's Sword Intent back as the Training Area's highest-level alarm sounded.
• Ji Juechen prepared to attack, and Qin Ze's fused dark-blue light drew inward before expanding into a sphere that enveloped him.

Qin Ze unleashed his unfinished Destruction Airflow technique in a spar with Ji Juechen, leaving both fighters injured and the training room wrecked. Jing Hong Chen arrived to find the ceiling and a valuable Soul Gathering Soul Tool destroyed.

• Ji Juechen charged Qin Ze with a powerful sword strike, and Qin Ze met him with a dark-blue sphere of Soul Power.
• Qin Ze's sphere exploded into Destruction Airflow that devastated the training room and blasted Jing Ziyan backward.
• Qin Ze assured Jing Ziyan that Ji Juechen was alive, then explained that he had weakened the attack to keep it from killing him.
• Ji Juechen thanked Qin Ze and offered to sell his possessions to pay for the damage, while Qin Ze reflected on the technique's power and cost.
• Jing Hong Chen arrived with staff and students, learned how the spar had begun, and discovered that the ceiling and seventh-level Soul Gathering Soul Tool were ruined.

After his duel with Ji Juechen, Qin Ze realized that resonance among Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and his Martial Soul’s power had created a new soul skill. Ji Juechen took Qin Ze’s sword advice to heart, while surveillance footage was about to make Qin Ze famous.

• Jing Hong Chen excused Qin Ze and Ji Juechen from paying for the damage, then discovered that a seemingly intact training dumbbell crumbled into black dust at his touch.
• Jing Ziyan helped Qin Ze and Ji Juechen leave the Training Area, and Qin Ze told Ji Juechen that his swordsmanship seemed restrained before sharing the phrase, “The sword cuts the flesh; the heart cuts the soul!”
• Ji Juechen was struck by Qin Ze’s words and returned with Jing Ziyan, while Qin Ze went back to his dormitory and washed off the blood.
• A Practical Control Department upperclasswoman watched footage of Qin Ze leaving the Training Area and reaching the dormitory building.
• Qin Ze reviewed how Spiritual Power, Soul Power, and the Demon Armor’s power had combined, then realized their fusion had been caused by resonance.

After naming his new Soul Skill Light of Destruction, Qin Ze considered whether activating his bloodline could help him research Self-Condensing Soul Rings. He asked the Snow Empress to teach him the method and left the choice to her, while planning to use his research to gain Di Tian and the other soul beasts’ cooperation.

• Qin Ze realized the Demon Armor embodied destruction and named his newly developed Soul Skill Light of Destruction.
• Qin Ze woke the Snow Empress and asked how soul beasts activated inherited Soul Skills through their bloodlines.
• Qin Ze reasoned that human bloodlines might also become active near a breakthrough and decided to experiment with Self-Condensing Soul Rings during the next half year.
• Qin Ze asked the Snow Empress to teach him her bloodline-activation method, and she hesitated because adapting it could injure his origin.
• Qin Ze explained that successful research could help him earn Di Tian and the other soul beasts’ cooperation.

Qin Ze arranged Recording Soul Tools for the Shrek exchange students so they could gather evidence if the Sun Moon Empire students ostracized or bullied them. After distributing the devices, he encountered a girl he suspected was Ju Zi and considered whether to kill her to prevent her future role in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Qin Ze called Fan Yu and asked him to make Recording Soul Tools for the exchange students, and Fan Yu agreed they should document any mistreatment.
• The next day, Fan Yu gave Qin Ze eleven devices and explained that they recorded sound and could preserve it for at least half a year.
• Qin Ze secretly distributed the devices to the students, explaining to Huo Yu Hao and Yu He Caitou that recordings could serve as evidence and might secure compensation in Rare Metals.
• As footsteps approached, Qin Ze and the others split up, and Qin Ze passed a beautiful student on the stairs whom he suspected was Ju Zi.
• Qin Ze wondered whether he should kill Ju Zi to prevent her from becoming the Sun Moon Empire's Empress War God.

Qin Ze learned how the Practical Control Soul Tool Department ran its weekly gatherings and testing schedule. After joining Ghost Nana’s group at the crowded Battle Room, he waited as the gathering began.

• Qin Ze told Huo Yu Hao to keep his Recording Soul Tool running, while He Caitou and Huo Yu Hao described their experiences with their teachers and classmates.
• Jing Ziyan reminded Qin Ze that the Practical Control Soul Tool Department’s grand gathering was scheduled for Friday, and He Caitou explained her exceptional soul-tool talent.
• Qin Ze went to the Battle Room, where more than a hundred and ninety students had gathered in teams.
• Ghost Nana invited Qin Ze to sit with her group and explained the department’s weekly progress checks and lottery-based soul-tool testing schedule.
• An Amplifying Soul Tool carried a command for quiet, and the Battle Room fell silent.

Qin Ze joined the Practical Control Department’s assembly, where students teased him over a misunderstanding about his bare-chested walk back to the dorm. The assembly then reviewed teams’ Soul Tool progress and discussed cultivation difficulties.

• Xiong Kuang introduced Qin Ze as a Shrek Academy exchange student and asked him to introduce himself.
• Bai Zeyan teased Qin Ze about returning to the dorm with his upper body bare, and Nana explained the Sun Moon Empire’s old matchmaking custom.
• Xiong Kuang began the assembly, warning that the team with the worst Soul Tool progress would clean the department’s teaching area and toilets.
• The students checked their progress in using Soul Tools and discussed cultivation difficulties with Xiong Kuang and the other teachers.

After Huo Yu Hao was badly injured by students at the research lab, Qin Ze and Fan Yu confronted Sun Moon Imperial Academy’s dean and demanded an explanation. Jing Hong Chen received the news and crushed his communication soul tool, leaving his response unresolved.

• Qin Ze learned that Huo Yu Hao had been injured and hurried with He Caitou to Fan Yu’s dormitory.
• Huo Yu Hao explained that he had let the other students beat him so he could demand compensation and obtain more rare metals.
• Fan Yu sent He Caitou to alert Shrek Academy’s contacts, then took Qin Ze and Huo Yu Hao to confront Lin Jia Yi.
• Fan Yu warned Lin Jia Yi that Shrek’s Senior Elders might come to the academy unless he provided a reasonable explanation.
• Lin Jia Yi contacted Jing Hong Chen, who crushed his communication soul tool after hearing what had happened.

After Huo Yu Hao was attacked by students at Mingde Hall, Qin Ze and Fan Yu used a recording of the incident to demand accountability from Jing Hong Chen. Qin Ze urged Huo Yu Hao to stand up to the powerful rather than prey on the weak, while Xuan Ziwen took the students responsible to Mingde Hall for punishment.

• Jing Hong Chen learned that someone had attacked an exchange student despite his orders and hurried to Lin Jia Yi's office, where Qin Ze played a recording of the students threatening and insulting Huo Yu Hao.
• Fan Yu called for the exchange program to end, but Jing Hong Chen promised Shrek a satisfactory resolution and ordered Xuan Ziwen to bring the offending students to Mingde Hall.
• After Jing Hong Chen and the others left, Huo Yu Hao got up and admitted he had been pretending to be gravely injured; Qin Ze told him to demand rare metals as compensation.
• Qin Ze asked Huo Yu Hao whether he wanted to draw his sword toward the strong or the weak, and Huo Yu Hao vowed to target the strong.
• Xuan Ziwen confronted Ju Zi, Ke Ke, Zi Mu, and Wang Shaojie about Huo Yu Hao's beating, nearly striking Wang Shaojie with a sword before taking the four students to Mingde Hall.

After Ju Zi compensated Huo Yu Hao with Rare Metals and left the academy to join Xu Tianran’s camp, Qin Ze received Snow Empress’s agreement to learn her race’s bloodline-activation method. Snow Empress began guiding him through the dangerous process, leaving Qin Ze to control the cold energy entering his acupoints.

• Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu apologized to Huo Yu Hao, while Wang Shaojie was expelled for insulting him.
• Ju Zi used Rare Metals obtained from Xu Tianran to settle the incident, protected Ke Ke and Zi Mu, then dropped out and joined Xu Tianran’s camp.
• Fan Yu divided Ju Zi’s Rare Metals between Shrek Academy and Huo Yu Hao as the students celebrated their windfall.
• Snow Empress agreed to teach Qin Ze her race’s bloodline-activation method and explained its risks and need for intense ice energy.
• Qin Ze used an Ice Scorpion Soul Bone as a source of ice energy, and Snow Empress began imprinting the method in his mind.
• Snow Empress directed the cold energy into Qin Ze’s acupoints, then left him responsible for controlling it.

Qin Ze opened his acupoints and tried to activate his bloodline with the Snow Empress’s guidance, but his human cultivation differed from hers. His lower dantian’s sea of blood erupted on its own, releasing bloodline power and leaving him unsure why the process had succeeded so easily.

• The Snow Empress explained how Qin Ze could open his acupoints and stimulate his bloodline, while a brief purple flash crossed his brow.
• Qin Ze’s acupoints opened under the Ice Jade Scorpion’s cold air, and fiery Acupoint Qi spread through his body, consuming the cold.
• Qin Ze and the Snow Empress realized they meant different things by a dantian, so Qin Ze directed his Acupoint Qi into his lower dantian.
• Qin Ze entered a blood-red sea within his dantian, but the Snow Empress could offer no further instructions and warned that her Spiritual Power would soon run out.
• The sea of blood surged outward, and the Snow Empress shielded the dorm room as Qin Ze’s clothes shattered and blood-red energy filled the space.
• Qin Ze recognized the released energy as his bloodline power and wondered whether some outside force had caused his bloodline to awaken.

Qin Ze tried to merge his Bloodline Power with the Demon Armor Martial Soul so he could uncover whether his bloodline could grant soul skills, but the Martial Soul repeatedly rejected it. After Snow Empress suggested using a soul ring as a container, Qin Ze’s four soul rings broke away from him and surrounded the blood cloud.

• Snow Empress sensed that Qin Ze’s Bloodline Power was already comparable to that of an eighty- or ninety-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Qin Ze used his Spiritual Power to draw his Bloodline Power toward the Demon Armor, but the Martial Soul repeatedly expelled it.
• Qin Ze realized the Demon Armor was not a suitable container for his Bloodline Power because it could not hold the energy.
• Snow Empress suggested that Qin Ze try using a soul ring as a container.
• Qin Ze summoned his four soul rings, and they detached from his body to hover around the blood cloud.

Qin Ze successfully infused his bloodline power into his four soul rings, then discovered a transformed blood sea in his dantian and activated his bloodline again despite severe backlash. As his Demon Armor absorbed the bloodline energy, a mysterious Transparent Soul Ring appeared around his waist.

• Qin Ze infused bloodline qi into all four soul rings, which briefly took on a blood-red appearance and sent their energy back into his dantian.
• Qin Ze found that his dantian’s sea of blood had become a crystal-like world and realized his acupoints were open enough to activate his bloodline without external stimulation.
• Qin Ze activated the bloodline method and drove Acupoint Qi into his dantian, but overusing it caused him to spit blood.
• Qin Ze’s bloodline cloud surrounded him as his four soul rings formed an array, and he guided its energy toward the Demon Armor.
• Qin Ze equipped the Demon Armor, which absorbed the bloodline energy, and a Transparent Soul Ring appeared around his waist.

Qin Ze’s Transparent Soul Ring consumed his accumulated soul power and bloodline power, growing into an eighty-thousand-year black ring. He then used Spirit Gold to infuse his bloodline with life energy, leaving his body injured as the bloodline absorbed it.

• Qin Ze’s Transparent Soul Ring formed and steadily advanced from white to yellow, purple, and black as it absorbed soul power and bloodline power.
• The Snow Empress estimated that the ring had reached eighty thousand years and could grow stronger before the energy ran out.
• Qin Ze entered the Azure Dragon Space and asked the Azure Dragon to release the Spirit Gold, which it sent to him.
• Qin Ze brought out the Spirit Gold and used its life energy to nourish his bloodline, injuring himself as the bloodline absorbed the golden energy.

Qin Ze exhausted himself to force his soul ring to reach the Hundred-Thousand-Year level, unleashing an aura that alarmed Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Jing Hong Chen followed a mysterious summons to a city park, where he encountered Taotie Douluo and a gentle-faced elder.

• Qin Ze used the last of his bloodline power and Spirit Gold to complete the soul ring, then collapsed as it emitted a terrifying blood-red aura.
• Snow Empress suppressed the aura and fell into deep sleep, while purple and green lights appeared at Qin Ze's brow and two voices discussed his future.
• Huo Yu Hao, Ice Empress, Skydream Iceworm, and Electrolux sensed the unusual aura, and several Titled Douluo gathered above the dormitory area.
• Jing Hong Chen received a Soul Power transmission threatening a killing spree in Ming Capital and flew with four elders to meet its source.
• Jing Hong Chen found Taotie Douluo and a gentle-faced elder in a city park, whose presence made him feel an even greater sense of oppression.

After surviving the painful process of condensing a soul ring, Qin Ze recovered with Spirit Gold and discovered that his fifth ring was a hundred-thousand-year red ring. He wrote down a rough method for creating Self-Condensing Soul Rings, then joined He Caitou and Huo Yu Hao to meet Director Lin as negotiations over Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s compensation continued.

• Qin Ze woke badly injured, and Spirit Gold restored his body while the Snow Empress explained that protecting him had left her nearly depleted.
• Qin Ze used Spirit Gold to feed life energy to the Snow Empress, then checked his soul rings and found his fifth ring was red and his cultivation had reached level fifty-five.
• Qin Ze recorded the steps for a Self-Condensing Soul Ring and wondered whether the divine realm had prevented ordinary humans from condensing their own rings.
• He Caitou and Huo Yu Hao arrived to tell Qin Ze that Xuan Zi had challenged the compensation from Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, drawing the Sun Moon Emperor’s attention.
• Qin Ze agreed to go with them to Director Lin’s office, and He Caitou and Huo Yu Hao saw the bloodstained state of his dormitory.

Xuan Zi negotiated compensation with Jing Hong Chen for the mistreatment of Shrek’s students, and Qin Ze agreed to settle the dispute. Afterward, Xuan Zi told Qin Ze that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had chosen him as an honorary elder, then sent him back to the Sun Moon Empire while Mu En watched from the forest.

• Qin Ze, Huo Yu Hao, and He Caitou went to Lin Jia Yi’s office, where Xuan Zi and Jing Hong Chen were discussing compensation.
• Xuan Zi showed the students a list of compensation, and Qin Ze accepted it, ending the dispute with Jing Hong Chen.
• Xuan Zi told Jing Hong Chen that his grandson and granddaughter were improving at Shrek and would receive suitable soul rings there.
• Xuan Zi told Qin Ze that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had chosen him as an honorary elder and offered to collect him when he was ready to return to the academy.
• Qin Ze returned to the Sun Moon Empire, while Mu En emerged from the forest and watched him from afar.

Qin Ze followed Ghost Nana to a suspected Evil Soul Masters’ stronghold and discovered Ma Rulong leaving it in disguise, raising suspicions about his connection to the group. Nearly half a year later, Qin Ze continued investigating Nana and Ma Rulong while preparing to return to Shrek Academy, and Ma Rulong’s watchful behavior toward Mingde Hall made Qin Ze expect trouble.

• Qin Ze recognized Ghost Nana in Ming Capital, followed her to a black-roofed courtyard, and suspected it was an Evil Soul Masters’ base.
• Qin Ze recalled Gui Wujing, the Holy Spirit Cult’s mysterious grand elder, and wondered whether he led the group pursuing the power of faith.
• Qin Ze saw Ma Rulong leave the stronghold in disguise and suspected he had become involved with Evil Soul Masters.
• Over nearly half a year, Qin Ze worked to improve his Self-Condensing Soul Ring method and planned to return to Shrek Academy to explain matters to Di Yue Li.
• Qin Ze observed Nana’s worries about her imprisoned parents’ souls and Ma Rulong’s increasingly suspicious behavior toward Mingde Hall.

Qin Ze reunited with Ji Juechen, fought him, and invited him to leave the Sun Moon Empire and join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Ji Juechen considered the offer, while an unknown group gathered in a tunnel beneath the academy.

• Qin Ze studied acupoint cultivation and considered asking Du Busi for help with physical cultivation.
• Qin Ze encountered Ji Juechen, who thanked him for helping him understand himself, and they fought in an arena.
• After their fight, Qin Ze and Ji Juechen went drinking, where Qin Ze revealed he planned to leave the Sun Moon Empire.
• Qin Ze invited Ji Juechen to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and promised to take him to Shrek Academy's Inner Court; Ji Juechen said he would think it over and understood that he should tell Jing Ziyan.
• A group gathered in a tunnel beneath Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where five glowing Soul Tools were attached to a metal wall.