Chapter Summaries

Du Busi led the Body Sect in a raid on Mingde Hall, unaware that Ma Rulong had supplied the information under orders from a mysterious Evil Soul Master. The attack left the underground base devastated and began a battle between the raiders and Mingde Hall’s defenders.

• Du Busi reassured the Body Sect that Qin Ze was not in Mingde Hall and ordered them to prepare to steal its soul tools.
• Ma Rulong told a mysterious level 98 Evil Soul Master that his intelligence had left Mingde Hall vulnerable, then received orders to flee to Sea Soul City and visit the Deep Sea Auction House.
• Five explosions struck crowded areas beneath Mingde Hall, killing researchers at the blast centers and injuring many others.
• Du Busi and the black-robed Body Sect members entered through the blasted openings, looting the base while some of them attacked its soul engineers.
• Four Titled Douluo emerged to defend the base; three engaged Du Busi while another tried to contact the Hall Master.

The Body Sect attacked Mingde Hall, where Du Busi fought the defenders while his men looted the underground base. After the Body Sect retreated, Qin Ze and Ji Juechen followed Ma Rulong through Ming Capital.

• Mingde Hall’s spiral Soul Tools paralyzed Body Sect Soul Masters, but Du Busi destroyed the weapons with poisonous gas and fought several Rank 9 Soul Masters.
• The white-haired elder and three Rank 9 Soul Masters activated the Fire Chain Star Chart, shielding Mingde Hall’s Soul Masters from Du Busi’s poison.
• More Mingde Hall Rank 9 Soul Masters arrived and saw their fallen successors, while Du Busi learned that his men had finished looting.
• Du Busi ordered the Body Sect to retreat, then unleashed exploding soul-power attacks to cover their escape.
• After leaving the restaurant, Qin Ze spotted Ma Rulong hurrying away and followed him with Ji Juechen.

Qin Ze uncovered Ma Rulong’s scheme to pit the Body Sect against the Sun Moon Royal Guards and hurried to warn Du Busi. He found the Body Sect near the suspected tunnel entrance, where Du Busi revealed he had already chosen a different retreat route.

• Ma Rulong reported that the royal family had mobilized against the Body Sect and urged his contact to leave the Ming Capital.
• Qin Ze and Ji Juechen followed Ma Rulong, learned he was working with Evil Soul Masters, and suspected the Body Sect was being lured into a trap.
• After spotting soldiers heading toward the academy, Qin Ze deduced that an unfinished villa district could be the Body Sect’s tunnel entrance and went there with Ji Juechen.
• Ji Juechen clashed with Yu Tao in the darkness, then Qin Ze recognized him and met Du Busi and the other Body Sect members.
• Qin Ze warned Du Busi that Ma Rulong’s informant was an Evil Soul Master and that the suggested retreat route led into an ambush, but Du Busi said he had chosen another route.

Qin Ze helped Du Busi lead the Body Sect out of Ming Capital and revealed that an informant had conspired with Evil Soul Masters. In a mountain cave, the Body Sect discovered two unusual Soul Tools before Evil Soul Masters surrounded them, and Qin Ze recognized their leader’s martial soul as Gui Wujing’s ancient book.

• Qin Ze persuaded Du Busi to leave Ming Capital with him, and the Body Sect escaped the city despite the soldiers’ and Soul Engineers’ search.
• After carrying Qin Ze nearly four hundred kilometers, Du Busi heard Qin Ze explain that an informant had planned to let Evil Soul Masters attack the Body Sect after its clash with the Royal Guards.
• Third Elder and Fourth Elder brought out two Soul Tools stored in Starlight Sapphires, including a Humanoid Soul Tool and an unfamiliar machine.
• An Evil Soul Master called out from outside the cave, and Du Busi led the others out to face a force of roughly three hundred Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Ze recognized the ancient-book form of the enemy leader’s martial soul as Gui Wujing’s.

Du Busi confronted the Evil Soul Master leader Gui Wujing while the Body Sect’s elders and Qin Ze faced a much larger force outside the cave. Qin Ze weakened the attackers with purification and strengthened his allies, setting the stage for the Body Sect’s counterattack.

• Gui Wujing demanded that Du Busi hand something over, but Du Busi refused and revealed his three hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings as the two prepared to fight.
• Gui Wujing summoned nine strange white Soul Rings and ordered his Evil Soul Masters to attack, while Du Busi sent the Body Sect members, Qin Ze, and Ji Juechen away from the main battlefield.
• The Third Elder led roughly a hundred Body Sect members against around three hundred Evil Soul Masters as Du Busi and Gui Wujing fought in the sky.
• Qin Ze revealed his hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, released Myriad Things Return to Spring, and used its rain to purify the Evil Soul Masters.
• Qin Ze summoned a mermaid whose light reduced the Body Sect’s Soul Power consumption, then readied six Spinning Blades as the Third Elder charged and struck the ground with his hammer.

The Body Sect battled the Evil Soul Masters as Qin Ze killed a faceless attacker and joined Ji Juechen against another enemy. Meanwhile, Du Busi and Gui Wujing exchanged powerful attacks, and Gui Wujing summoned Hellfire from the Gate of Hell.

• The Body Sect elders and their fighters attacked the Evil Soul Masters, while the Third Elder and the other Titled Douluo drew their opponents away from the main battle.
• A faceless Evil Soul Master ambushed Qin Ze, but Qin Ze blocked him and killed him with his Spinning Blades.
• Qin Ze sent his Spinning Blades to help Ji Juechen, and the two joined forces against a Soul Douluo Evil Soul Master.
• Du Busi’s whirlpool-like light absorbed Gui Wujing’s attack, then unleashed dark green spheres at him.
• Gui Wujing opened a massive Gate of Hell and summoned Hellfire to meet Du Busi’s assault.

Du Busi and Gui Wujing fought in the sky as Qin Ze and Ji Juechen battled an Evil Soul Master below. After the other Evil Soul Masters began retreating, Qin Ze and Ji Juechen struck at their opponent as he tried to escape.

• Du Busi grew to a hundred meters tall and shattered Gui Wujing’s Hellfire meteor attack with a punch.
• Gui Wujing vanished through a spatial skill, then reappeared a thousand meters away and blocked Du Busi’s ray with his Wall of Souls Soul Tool, sacrificing nearly five hundred souls.
• The Ghost Shadow Evil Soul Master ordered a retreat, and the other three Titled Douluo Evil Soul Masters withdrew from their fights with the Body Sect elders.
• The Soul Douluo Evil Soul Master fighting Qin Ze and Ji Juechen turned into black mist and tried to flee.
• Ji Juechen’s sword beam tore through the Evil Soul Master’s life-draining black gas as Qin Ze followed with a dark-blue attack.

Qin Ze killed the black-fog Evil Soul Master with the Light of Destruction, and Ji Juechen agreed to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. As Du Busi struggled to break free of Gui Wujing’s Soul Prison, the Demon Empress appeared above the Abyssal Tome and aimed her power at him.

• Qin Ze unleashed the Light of Destruction, erased the black-fog Evil Soul Master, and depleted forty percent of his Soul Power and Spiritual Power.
• Ji Juechen told Qin Ze that he had decided to join the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Du Busi was trapped in Gui Wujing’s Soul Prison, and he refused to surrender the item Gui Wujing demanded.
• Du Busi used his eighth soul skill, Death Feast, to melt and break open the Soul Prison with his innate poison.
• Gui Wujing summoned the Demon Empress through the Abyssal Tome, and she gathered purple-gold light to attack Du Busi.

Gui Wujing used a Limit Douluo's attack to badly wound Du Busi and threatened the Body Sect unless it surrendered the Life Fusion Device. As Du Busi hesitated, a powerful newcomer arrived, urging him not to give in.

• Qin Ze recognized the woman emerging from the Abyssal Tome as the figure from Maple Leaf Village and warned the Third Elder that she was at least a Limit Douluo.
• The woman unleashed the Demon God Light, striking Du Busi and leaving him badly wounded as the Body Sect watched helplessly.
• Gui Wujing threatened to attack the Body Sect members unless Du Busi handed over the Life Fusion Device, while Qin Ze secretly finished a Communication Soul Tool call.
• A yellow light raced toward the battlefield, and a powerful voice called out to Du Busi, mocking him for surrendering.

Xuan Zi arrived in time to force Gui Wujing and the Evil Soul Masters to retreat, then helped Du Busi and Qin Ze leave before Ming Capital’s forces arrived. The attack left Mingde Hall devastated, with two experiment subjects missing, and Jing Hong Chen began planning to secure his future by supporting the Crown Prince.

• Xuan Zi joined Du Busi to confront Gui Wujing, who withdrew with the other Evil Soul Masters.
• Xuan Zi questioned Qin Ze about his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Qin Ze said he would explain after returning to the academy.
• Du Busi removed the purple-gold light, thanked Xuan Zi for his help, and led the Body Sect away from the area.
• Jing Hong Chen learned that Mingde Hall had lost one-third of its high-level Soul Tools, 340 Soul Engineers, and Experiment Subjects One and Two, then fainted.
• Jing Hong Chen learned the Emperor had also fainted over Experiment Subject Two and decided to support the Crown Prince.
• Jing Hong Chen learned that Qin Ze planned to return to Shrek Academy and that the other Shrek students had escaped unharmed.

Di Yue Li tested new Soul Tools while preparing for the Inner Court assessment, then learned that Qin Ze had returned to Shrek Academy. As Qin Ze approached the city, he and Di Yue Li spotted each other and smiled across the distance.

• Di Yue Li demonstrated her strength in the Soul Tool Department’s new cultivation room, and Xian Lin'er announced that Inner Court assessment missions would begin the next day.
• Tang Ya told Di Yue Li that Qin Ze was returning, so she and the others went to wait at the academy gate.
• Wang Dong arrived hoping Huo Yu Hao had returned, but Bei Bei told him Qin Ze was the one coming back.
• Xuan Zi led Qin Ze and the others toward Shrek City, where Qin Ze and Di Yue Li saw each other from afar and smiled.

Qin Ze and Xuan Zi discussed the fallout from the raid on Mingde Hall before Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan joined them on their return to Shrek Academy. Huo Yu Hao received a letter from Qin Ze, and Di Yue Li completed a perfect light-defense test at Shrek.

• Qin Ze and Xuan Zi read that the Mingde Hall raid had strengthened Xu Tianran’s position in the succession struggle and made the Body Sect famous.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan arrived after withdrawing from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Qin Ze reassured Jing Ziyan about her choice to go to Shrek Academy.
• Qin Ze, Xuan Zi, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan left Ming Capital for Shrek Academy.
• Ghost Nana delivered Qin Ze’s letter to Huo Yu Hao, who read it in his dormitory and reacted with shock.
• Di Yue Li completed the light-defense test by deflecting its final beam and received a perfect result.

Xuan Zi brought Qin Ze, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan back to Shrek Academy, where Qin Ze reunited with Di Yue Li and introduced his two companions to the academy’s leaders. Jing Ziyan was welcomed to conduct Soul Tool research through Shrek’s partnership with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, and Ji Juechen was welcomed as well.

• Xuan Zi brought Qin Ze, Ji Juechen, and Jing Ziyan to the academy gates, where Qin Ze reunited with Di Yue Li and tested his strength against her punch.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li joined Bei Bei and the others, then entered the academy with Xuan Zi and the returning group.
• Xuan Zi led everyone to the Sea God Pavilion, where Mu En asked Qin Ze to introduce Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.
• Qin Ze introduced Jing Ziyan as a former Mingde Hall Rank 6 Soul Engineer, and Xian Lin'er welcomed her to conduct research at Shrek under its partnership with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Qin Ze introduced Ji Juechen, and Yan Shaozhe welcomed him to Shrek Academy.

After returning to the academy, Qin Ze revealed that his fifth soul ring was self-condensed and explained how he had created it. Mu En planned a Sea God Pavilion meeting to discuss improving the flawed method, while Qin Ze and Di Yue Li left their plans for a walk unspoken among the group's dinner conversation.

• Xuan Zi revealed that Qin Ze's fifth soul ring was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and Qin Ze summoned it to show everyone.
• Qin Ze explained to Mu En and the others that he had self-condensed the ring rather than obtaining it from a soul beast.
• Qin Ze described the method's stages and flaws, and Mu En announced plans to discuss improving it at a Sea God Pavilion meeting the next day.
• The group welcomed Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan at dinner, while Ning Tian confirmed she had arranged their sect applications.
• Wang Dong grew anxious when Tang Ya and Xu San Shi discussed finding Huo Yu Hao a girlfriend.
• Qin Ze invited Di Yue Li for a walk, and she agreed while feeling that her identity might have been exposed.

Qin Ze and Di Yue Li spent the evening together in Shrek City, where they kissed and he revealed that he knew she was a soul beast. They agreed to take responsibility for each other, and Qin Ze planned to accompany her to the Star Dou Great Forest to share the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method, despite Di Tian possibly disapproving.

• Bei Bei and the others returned to Shrek Academy while Qin Ze and Di Yue Li went into Shrek City together.
• Qin Ze and Di Yue Li explored the city before sitting beside a quiet stream, where she leaned against him.
• Qin Ze kissed Di Yue Li, then told her he knew her true identity through the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.
• Di Yue Li worried that Qin Ze might hate her, but he accepted her and said he had chosen her; they agreed to take responsibility for each other.
• Qin Ze offered to accompany Di Yue Li home to the Star Dou Great Forest and spread news of the Self-Condensing Soul Ring Method, though she warned that Di Tian might beat him up.

Qin Ze attended a Sea God Pavilion meeting and learned that he had officially become a member, in recognition of his contributions to Shrek Academy. The meeting was about to begin with the academy’s senior leaders gathered.

• Qin Ze absorbed the morning Purple Qi, then ate breakfast with Di Yue Li before Yan Shaozhe called him to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Qin Ze arrived at the Sea God Pavilion and found Mu En, the deans, and several senior elders gathered there.
• Mu En announced that Qin Ze had officially become a member of the Sea God Pavilion because his actions had strengthened the Golden Ancient Tree and enriched Sea God Island’s energy.
• Qin Ze accepted the seat beside Cai Mei'er, while Mu En told Xuan Zi to put away his chicken leg.

Elder Yun outlined the steps and risks of a method for condensing Soul Rings from bloodline power, and Mu En assigned Shrek Academy researchers to develop and test it. Qin Ze then proposed using external objects to open acupoints, leaving the group waiting to hear his explanation.

• Elder Yun explained that a Bloodline Activation Method would be needed to draw out bloodline power and that opening main acupoints was too difficult for most Soul Masters.
• Elder Yun suggested that ordinary Soul Masters start with ordinary acupoints, while powerful experts nearing Titled Douluo could attempt main acupoints.
• Mu En warned that opening acupoints could endanger Soul Masters whose bodies were not strong enough, and Xuan Zi noted the method suited the Body Sect.
• Mu En instructed Yan Shaozhe to organize research into the activation method and acupoint-opening sequence, with research funds to follow.
• Qin Ze said acupoints could be opened with external objects as well as Soul Power, and Mu En asked him to explain.

Qin Ze helped Shrek Academy plan how to develop the Self-Condensing Soul Ring method and identified the mysterious Limit Douluo as likely the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's wife. After Mu En made the method the academy's priority, Qin Ze left the Sea God Pavilion to visit Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.

• Qin Ze suggested using Soul Tool technology to open suitable acupoints, and Mu En assigned Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er to develop the idea.
• Mu En directed the elders and deans to complete the Self-Condensing Soul Ring method to protect both humans and soul beasts.
• Qin Ze told Mu En and Xuan Zi that Gui Wujing had summoned the same Limit Douluo figure he had seen in the village and suggested she was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's wife.
• Mu En concluded that the woman had likely joined the Holy Spirit Cult, but he and Qin Ze could not determine her location or Gui Wujing's objective.
• Qin Ze asked Mu En to keep his Sea God Pavilion membership secret, teased Xuan Zi about finding a wife, then left to visit Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan.

Qin Ze returned to Shrek Academy and found Ji Juechen sparring with Ma Xiaotao at the Inner Court combat arena. After the fight, Qin Ze spoke with Ma Xiaotao and Zhang Lexuan, then learned Ji Juechen knew he could not defeat Ma Xiaotao at full strength.

• Qin Ze felt a fleeting strange sensation as he walked near Sea God Lake, then went to Ji Juechen's pavilion and found him absent.
• Bei Bei and Xu San Shi told Qin Ze that Ji Juechen and Ma Xiaotao had fought and planned to spar again at the combat arena, then took him there.
• Qin Ze arrived after the fight ended and saw Ji Juechen battered but standing while Ma Xiaotao still had strength to continue.
• Ma Xiaotao greeted Qin Ze and challenged him to fight, but he declined, and Zhang Lexuan arrived and asked how he had found life in the Sun Moon Empire.
• After Zhang Lexuan took Ma Xiaotao away, Ji Juechen admitted to Bei Bei and Xu San Shi that he could not beat her.

Qin Ze advised Ji Juechen to find a weapon that suited him and told Xiao Hong Chen and Meng Hong Chen about the damage to Mingde Hall and their grandfather’s loss of his ducal title. He then visited Shrek Academy’s Soul Tool Department with Ji Juechen, where he met Jing Ziyan and began plotting to help Ji Juechen pursue her.

• Qin Ze told Ji Juechen that the Firewood Stick did not suit him and that he should switch to a better weapon.
• Meng Hong Chen bowed to Qin Ze and asked about Mingde Hall, and he told her it had suffered severe losses and that Red Dust Hall Master had lost his ducal title.
• Meng Hong Chen collapsed at the news, and Xiao Hong Chen hurriedly supported her and took her away.
• Qin Ze brought Ji Juechen to the Soul Tool Department, where they found Jing Ziyan talking with Xian Lin'er.
• Qian Duoduo urged Qin Ze to share more inventions, and Qin Ze said he would draw up blueprints for new ideas later.
• Qin Ze noticed Ji Juechen's silence and decided he needed to help him win Jing Ziyan's affection.