Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang visited the reorganized Demi-plane and watched Huo Yutong complete her God-Bestowed Soul Ring absorption, advancing to Soul Emperor with a sixth Soul Ring nearly eighty thousand years old. She wished it had reached eighty thousand years, while Qian Chaoguang assured her that their future Soul Ring enhancement method could raise its age.

• Qian Chaoguang learned that Nana had organized the Demi-plane and assigned its residents tasks, then asked Dragon One to take him to Huo Yutong.
• Dragon One brought Qian Chaoguang to the cultivation grounds, where Electrolux recorded Huo Yutong's ongoing Soul Ring absorption and received Spiritual Power from Qian Chaoguang.
• Huo Yutong endured the God-Bestowed Soul Ring's trials as its golden threads formed nine rings that merged into a black Soul Ring.
• Huo Yutong completed the absorption and advanced to Soul Emperor with two yellow and four black Soul Rings, including a sixth ring nearly eighty thousand years old.
• Huo Yutong lamented that her sixth Soul Ring had fallen short of eighty thousand years, and Qian Chaoguang reassured her that he and Electrolux would develop a method to enhance Soul Ring ages.

Qian Chaoguang used a God-Bestowed Soul Ring to strengthen his Fourth Soul Ring and gained Light Speed Movement and Elementalization, while Huo Yutong concealed her advancement to Soul Emperor. They returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Jing Hongchen remained consumed by the succession struggle and his alliance with Xu Tianran.

• Huo Yutong told Qian Chaoguang she wanted to stand beside him, and he encouraged her before beginning his own advancement.
• Qian Chaoguang absorbed a God-Bestowed Soul Ring, used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's insight to turn its remaining energy into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, and reached Level 53.
• Qian Chaoguang tested Light Speed Movement combined with Elementalization and explained its speed, defensive benefits, and heavy Soul Power cost to Huo Yutong.
• Qian Chaoguang told Huo Yutong to conceal her Soul Emperor strength, and the siblings planned to return to school before classes began.
• Lin Jiayi reported the siblings' return to Jing Hongchen, who remained preoccupied with Xu Tianran's bid for the throne, the unresolved thefts, and the danger of the Holy Spirit Cult.

After returning to the academy, Qian Chaoguang brought Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan into the Undead Demi-plane and resumed his research and training. Eleven months later, his team had made a breakthrough in gathering World Origin Energy, which a Soul Engineer recognized as a potential method for Soul Tools to absorb energy autonomously.

• Liu TieZhu confronted Qian Chaoguang for breaking his promise to study Soul Tools together, and Qian spent two sleepless nights making it up to him.
• Qian Chaoguang took Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan on an overnight tour of the Undead Demi-plane, where Ji fought hundreds of Death Knights and Jing became a popular teacher among the liches.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan agreed to keep Qian Chaoguang's secrets, and he arranged for Jing to teach Soul Engineers and liches while helping with future research.
• Qian Chaoguang spent the school year developing two types of Soul Armor and researching artificial Soul Rings and Black Warrior reincarnation with Huo Yutong, Electrolux, and their research groups.
• Electrolux's artificial Soul Ring team created a device that gathered World Origin Energy, and a passing Soul Engineer recognized it as a possible Energy Absorption Device for Soul Tools.

Qian Chaoguang and his allies continued developing an Energy Absorption Device while the exchange program neared its end. Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang brought Xuan Ziwen to their hidden base to reveal her final two creations, leaving him stunned by their equipment and an enormous device.

• Nana reported that the old Sea God's Totem Pole could be repurposed as an Energy Absorption Device, so Qian Chaoguang assigned liches and Death Knights to help improve it.
• Qian Chaoguang spent the second holiday at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy researching Close-Combat Soul Tools with Liu TieZhu, while the Pixiu Merchant Association's Rare Metal sales surpassed one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Huo Yutong reminded Xuan Ziwen of their wager and told him she had completed the final two creations, which she and Qian Chaoguang could show only by using a special method.
• Xuan Ziwen signed Qian Chaoguang's contract and followed him and Huo Yutong through a spatial passage to their hidden base.
• Xuan Ziwen saw twelve Soul Engineers wearing unfamiliar armor and watched a huge cylindrical device being lowered into the base.
• Qian Chaoguang handed Xuan Ziwen empty Milk Bottles to inspect, and Xuan Ziwen realized they were Level 8 models and asked whether Liu TieZhu had supplied them.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong demonstrated the Original Charging Tower to Xuan Ziwen, proving it could charge Milk Bottles by drawing on natural energy rather than Soul Masters. Impressed by its military potential, Xuan Ziwen questioned its power source and learned that it was an alchemical creation from another civilization.

• Qian Chaoguang activated the Original Charging Tower while Huo Yutong loaded more than a hundred Milk Bottles into its charging slots.
• The tower gathered natural energy and charged Milk Bottles, and Xuan Ziwen removed a completed Level 1 bottle and marveled at the device.
• Xuan Ziwen considered how the tower could support Soul Engineer legions equipped with Sealed Milk Bottles, while Qian Chaoguang later stopped the extraction and removed the unfinished bottles.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Qian Chaoguang about the Undead Legion, and Qian Chaoguang said he would reveal its secrets if Xuan Ziwen joined him before the memory-erasure contract took effect.
• Huo Yutong showed Xuan Ziwen the tower's energy module and explained that one Level 8 Milk Bottle powered each startup, while the tower used natural energy to sustain itself afterward.
• Qian Chaoguang told Xuan Ziwen that the Original Charging Tower was an alchemical product based on technology from another civilization.

Xuan Ziwen joined the Undead Legion after learning about its resources and research, while Qian Chaoguang arranged for him to leave Mingde Hall after the exchange program. As the program ended, Liu TieZhu asked Qian Chaoguang not to use his forging techniques to invade the Sun Moon Empire, predicting that Qian would eventually establish his own regime.

• Xuan Ziwen agreed to join the Undead Legion, signed Qian Chaoguang's Soul Contract, and received information about the Legion and its research.
• After learning that Qian Chaoguang had stolen Mingde Hall's Humanoid Soul Tool research, Xuan Ziwen offered to help guide the Legion's researchers and chose to call Qian his boss.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong persuaded Xuan Ziwen to return to Mingde Hall before leaving for the Pixiu Merchant Association three days after Shrek's departure.
• On the eve of the exchange program's end, Qian Chaoguang met Liu TieZhu in Lab One and reflected on their friendship and the gulf between their positions.
• Liu TieZhu asked Qian Chaoguang not to use the techniques he had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire, and predicted that Qian would eventually establish his own regime.

Qian Chaoguang said goodbye to Liu TieZhu after swearing not to use the technologies Liu had taught him to invade the Sun Moon Empire, while Huo Yutong negotiated a deal with Jing Hongchen for the Sealed Milk Bottle blueprint. The exchange students returned to the agreed meeting point, where Shrek’s deans arrived to receive them.

• Qian Chaoguang swore to Liu TieZhu that he would not use Liu’s Close-Combat Soul Tool and Soul Armor technologies to invade the Sun Moon Empire, then left the laboratory.
• Huo Yutong told Qian Chaoguang that Jing Hongchen had shown interest in her proposal but needed time to consult Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran attended the farewell ceremony, and Jing Hongchen later offered Huo Yutong a large collection of rare materials, including thirty Silver Dragon Scales and thirty kilograms of Cosmic Silver, in exchange for the Sealed Milk Bottle blueprint.
• Huo Yutong accepted the offer, gave Jing Hongchen the blueprint, and warned that Qian Chaoguang would return to invite him and Xu Tianran for tea if the storage ring’s contents were not as promised.
• Jing Hongchen escorted the Shrek group to the exchange point, where Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er arrived to receive them.

The exchange program ended, and Shrek’s students returned home with Huo Yutong’s haul from Mingde Hall and a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit-Attribute Evil Eye corpse. The chapter left Shrek’s leaders stunned when Huo Yutong revealed she had reached Rank 67 with the Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul.

• Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe exchanged farewells as the Sun Moon students departed, and Yan Shaozhe welcomed Shrek’s students home.
• At a meal with Shrek’s deans, Huo Yutong showed Xian Lin’er and Qian Duoduo the treasures she had brought back from Mingde Hall, including thirty Silver Dragon Scales.
• Elder Song appeared, followed by Xuan Zi, who gave Huo Yutong a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit-Attribute Evil Eye corpse and its Soul Crystal for a future Soul Ring.
• Huo Yutong thanked Xuan Zi and Elder Song, then revealed her Heavenly Snow Woman Martial Soul and Rank 67 cultivation, shocking Yan Shaozhe and the other Super Douluo.

Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang traveled toward Shrek Academy with its senior fighters after discussing their cultivation and preparations for the journey. The Holy Spirit Cult ambushed them on the way, and Long Xiaoyao appeared alongside Zhang Peng as the chapter ended.

• Huo Yutong revealed that she had reached Level Sixty-One, while Qian Chaoguang said he was Level Fifty-Eight and expected to reach Level Fifty-Nine before the tournament.
• Shrek's group left Maple Leaf City for the academy, with Xian Lin'er telling Qian Duoduo to protect Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong if enemies attacked.
• After flying for half an hour, Elder Xuan and Elder Song sensed an approaching enemy and prepared to fight.
• Zhang Peng emerged from a mass of black clouds and argued with Elder Xuan over Shrek's accusation that he was an Evil Soul Master.
• Elder Song called out another hidden arrival, and Long Xiaoyao stepped through a crack in the air to confront the group.

Qian Chaoguang halted the confrontation between Long Xiaoyao and Shrek Academy by claiming that Long Xiaoyao and Yan Shaozhe were close blood relatives. Long Xiaoyao angrily rejected the claim, but the chapter ended with Shrek’s elders urging him to take part in a bloodline test.

• Long Xiaoyao confronted Yan Shaozhe, Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, Elder Song, and Xuan Zi and demanded that they surrender a ring.
• Qian Chaoguang stepped forward and introduced himself and Huo Yutong as Mu En’s Personal Disciples.
• Qian Chaoguang prepared a bloodline test and asked Yan Shaozhe to place a drop of blood in the Ink Silver Liquid.
• Long Xiaoyao threatened Qian Chaoguang when he was asked for a blood sample, but Yan Shaozhe and the other Super Douluo blocked his pressure.
• Qian Chaoguang claimed Long Xiaoyao and Yan Shaozhe were close blood relatives, while Xuan Zi and Elder Song urged Long Xiaoyao to try the test.

Qian Chaoguang proved that Yan Shaozhe was a blood relative of Long Xiaoyao, then revealed that Ye Xishui was another close relative. Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek elders were left stunned by the discovery that his family was tied to the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders.

• Qian Chaoguang tested Long Xiaoyao’s blood against Yan Shaozhe’s and the drops merged, confirming their blood relationship.
• Long Xiaoyao recognized Yan Shaozhe as his descendant, then left with Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng.
• Yan Shaozhe asked Qian Chaoguang what else he knew about their family connection, and the group landed to hear the answer.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Ye Xishui was Yan Shaozhe’s other blood relative and that Zhong Liwu was his younger half-uncle.
• Yan Shaozhe and the Shrek elders were shaken to learn that his relatives were leaders of the Holy Spirit Cult, which sought to overthrow Douluo Continent.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong returned to Shrek Academy, where they found Mu En gravely weakened and near death. After hearing their account of the past two and a half years, Mu En warned that the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire would plunge the continent into war after he died.

• Qian Chaoguang revealed that Ye Xishui had a second Martial Soul, the Light Phoenix, and the group considered the danger she posed alongside Long Xiaoyao and Du Busi.
• Xuan Zi led everyone back to Shrek Academy, where Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong went to the Sea God Pavilion to see Mu En.
• Elder Song and the others realized that Qian Chaoguang could fly despite having only five rings and recalled that he had flown as a Rank 2 soul master.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong found Mu En frail and close to death, then recounted their experiences from the past two and a half years.
• Mu En urged them to grow stronger and warned that the Holy Spirit Cult and Sun Moon Empire would begin a continent-wide war after his death.

Qian Chaoguang used Holy Light to ease Mu En’s suffering and prolong his life, but Electrolux confirmed that Mu En’s ruined body and soul could not be saved. Qian Chaoguang refused to stop trying, leaving Mu En with the promise that he would return the next day.

• Qian Chaoguang asked Mu En to let him examine his body, and Mu En agreed after Huo Yutong urged him to try.
• Qian Chaoguang used more than one hundred Divine Cures to suppress the Dragon Pill’s vicious aura and briefly ease Mu En’s pain.
• Qian Chaoguang asked Electrolux whether Mu En’s soul could be saved, and Electrolux said Mu En had at most a month to live and could not be rescued in his current state.
• Electrolux admired Mu En’s extraordinary willpower but said even his own abilities could only delay Mu En’s death.
• Mu En urged Qian Chaoguang to stop wasting effort, but Qian Chaoguang refused and promised to return the next day.

After leaving Sea God Pavilion, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong encountered the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in human form, then went their separate ways in Shrek City. Huo Yutong reached the newly established Tang Sect and found its grounds largely empty, leaving her uncertain about its development.

• Qian Chaoguang recognized a golden-haired girl as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, but pretended not to know her when she stopped to look at him and Huo Yutong.
• After the girl ran off, Qian Chaoguang showed Huo Yutong the fur cloth and reminded her to keep the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's identity secret.
• Huo Yutong headed to the Tang Sect while Qian Chaoguang went to check on the Pixiu Merchant Association's Shrek City branch.
• Following Beibei's map, Huo Yutong found the Tang Sect and was welcomed by a probationary disciple.
• Huo Yutong noticed the Tang Sect's many empty rooms and heard people talking inside its Discussion Hall.

Huo Yutong reunited with Beibei, He Caitou, and Xu Sanshi and learned how the Tang Sect had grown through its partnership with Qian Chaoguang’s Pixiu Merchant Association. Beibei explained the Tang Sect’s staffing and manufacturing troubles, then asked Huo Yutong whether they should sell Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons to outside customers and whether Qian Chaoguang could supply them.

• Huo Yutong returned to the Tang Sect’s discussion hall and reunited with Beibei, He Caitou, and Xu Sanshi after two and a half years away.
• Beibei and Xu Sanshi credited the Pixiu Merchant Association with helping the Tang Sect earn money, while the association’s generous employment offers drew most Shrek Soul Tool graduates away from the Tang Sect.
• Beibei told Huo Yutong that the Tang Sect lacked the people and resources to train its own Soul Engineers because Qian Chaoguang’s manufacturing prices were far below its costs.
• Huo Yutong and He Caitou silently recognized how dependent the Tang Sect had become on Qian Chaoguang’s control of its business and supplies.
• Beibei described the Tang Sect’s current structure and its sales of Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons to Shrek Academy and Shrek City, then asked Huo Yutong whether the Tang Sect should sell them externally and whether Qian Chaoguang could meet demand.

Huo Yutong discussed selling the Tang Sect’s improved Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons and preparing for the upcoming tournament with Beibei and the others. Qian Chaoguang reunited with them and was drawn into Shrek’s Singles’ Carnival Night, where he revealed he had known Wang Dong was a girl all along.

• Huo Yutong told Beibei that Qian Chaoguang had more than a thousand Rank 4 Soul Engineers and blacksmiths available, and the group discussed selling the cannons to the other kingdoms.
• Huo Yutong and He Caitou described improvements to the cannons and their shells, while Beibei discussed the coming tournament and the threat of war with the Sun Moon Empire.
• Tang Ya arrived and told Huo Yutong about Shrek’s event the next night, then Huo Yutong and Tang Ya left for the Academy with Nannan.
• Qian Chaoguang went to the Tang Sect looking for Huo Yutong, and Beibei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou brought him back toward the Inner Academy.
• Qian Chaoguang realized they were attending Singles’ Carnival Night and told Beibei and the others he had known Wang Dong was a girl from the first day of school.
• At the Inner Academy cafeteria, Beibei and Xu Sanshi urged Qian Chaoguang to join the gathering, and he tried wine for the first time since arriving on Douluo Continent.

After returning to Shrek Academy, Qian Chaoguang reunited with Zhang Bowen and spent the night alone beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, where he unexpectedly resonated with the Law of Light and entered enlightenment. He woke the next morning with his connection to light apparently strengthened, though he had not yet understood what had changed.

• Qian Chaoguang reunited with Zhang Bowen at the banquet, where Zhang told him about their friends’ progress and warned that Ma Xiaotao would likely seek him out at Sea God's Fate.
• After declining Zhang Bowen's invitation to go to Shrek City, Qian Chaoguang stayed at Sea God Pavilion and reflected on his bond with Huo Yutong and the other people in his life.
• Qian Chaoguang touched the Golden Ancient Tree and began resonating with the Law of Light, while Electrolux recognized that he had entered an extraordinary state of enlightenment.
• Mu En watched over Qian Chaoguang and believed the enlightenment could help him advance his first martial soul toward Ultimate Light.
• Qian Chaoguang woke the next morning in bed, discovered he could see glowing golden specks, and gathered them effortlessly with his Power of Faith to create unusually brilliant Holy Light.

After a night of enlightenment, Qian Chaoguang discovered that his affinity with Light had grown to an inexplicable, nearly ultimate level, though neither he nor Electrolux could identify the full change. He treated Mu En and then headed to Beibei and Xu Sanshi’s dormitory to prepare for Sea God’s Fate, where He Caitou planned to use newly developed equipment.

• Qian Chaoguang found that Light Elements responded to his thoughts with unprecedented eagerness, but Electrolux could not explain what had changed in his constitution.
• Qian Chaoguang showed Mu En that their powers of Light fused together, and Mu En concluded that Qian Chaoguang’s light had become quasi-ultimate despite Qian Chaoguang sensing no difference.
• Qian Chaoguang gave Mu En his daily Holy Light treatment, then recovered and went to Beibei and Xu Sanshi’s dormitory to learn the rules of Sea God’s Fate.
• Beibei left to review the event procedures with his senior disciple sister, while teasing Xu Sanshi and urging He Caitou to try to find a partner.
• Qian Chaoguang told He Caitou to wear their newly developed hovering equipment at Sea God’s Fate, and Xu Sanshi asked about getting one for himself.

Qian Chaoguang and He Caitou attended the Sea God's Fate Dating Convention, where Qian Chaoguang claimed a lotus leaf with astonishing speed and He Caitou arrived in powerful Soul Tool armor. During the first stage, Xu Sanshi identified Jiang Nannan and Ye Liu provoked a furious response from a female student wielding Phoenix Fire.

• Qian Chaoguang and He Caitou arrived at the convention without Inner Academy uniforms, and He Caitou prepared his Soul Tool armor before the event began.
• Qian Chaoguang reached the middle lotus leaf in a flash and froze the water around it, while He Caitou flew to the leaf behind him in his heavy armor.
• Xu Sanshi used Mysterious Nether Exchange to take a position, then angered Jiang Nannan with his speech before removing her veil after a beating.
• Ye Liu sent a huge wave toward the female students, but one of them unleashed Phoenix Fire and evaporated it as she cursed him.

Qian Chaoguang overwhelmed the first stage of the Sea God’s Fate Matchmaking Convention, revealing nearly every Sea God maiden’s face before romantically reuniting with Huo Yutong. In the second stage, he received eighteen lights despite the Three-Eyed Golden Lion rejecting him, while Xu Sanshi was left with only two.

• Ma Xiaotao blasted Ye Liu into Sea God Lake after he offended her, and he withdrew from the convention as the only contestant eliminated in the first stage.
• Qian Chaoguang used his shared martial soul and first soul skill to remove seventeen bamboo hats, then flew to Huo Yutong and revealed her face himself.
• Qian Chaoguang embraced Huo Yutong, set her up on the lotus leaf, and returned to his place after Beibei warned him to stop showing off.
• Qian Chaoguang took first place in the reshuffling, and Beibei introduced the second stage, in which the women left lights on for favored contestants.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion turned off her light for Qian Chaoguang, but the other eighteen lights remained on for him.
• When Xu Sanshi faced the second stage, nearly all the lights went out immediately, leaving only two beams.