Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang’s team won the Freshman Assessment finals, and Elder Xuan compensated him for his shattered knife with a massive piece of Frost Titanium. The chapter left the academy’s leaders arguing over which department would claim Qian Chaoguang.

• Elder Xuan gave Qian Chaoguang a huge piece of Frost Titanium to compensate for his broken knife.
• Du Wilun declared Qian Chaoguang’s team the champions and announced that the Freshman Assembly would take place the next morning.
• Huo Yutong and Wang Dong celebrated the victory while Dai Huabin accepted his defeat and vowed not to lose again.
• Qian Chaoguang’s victory spread across the Outer Academy, earning him the nickname One-Blade Asura, and Wang Dong joined the Tang Sect.
• Elder Xuan argued that Qian Chaoguang belonged in the Martial Soul Department, prompting Xian Lin'er to challenge him because Qian Chaoguang was already Qian Duoduo’s disciple.

Shrek’s elders agreed to let the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments compete to recruit Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, while Mu En advised Elder Xuan not to pry into Qian Chaoguang’s First Soul Ring. The freshman elimination results were announced, leaving the students awaiting their class assignments.

• Qian Duoduo and Elder Xuan argued over which department should recruit the siblings until Mu En proposed a fair competition before their third year.
• Mu En warned Elder Xuan to respect Qian Chaoguang’s privacy, then pressured him to find a wife and pass down his Martial Soul.
• The surviving 459 freshmen gathered at Shrek Square as Du Wilun began announcing the elimination tournament rankings.
• Huang Chutian’s team took third place, and Dai Huabin’s team was announced as second, though its members showed little happiness.

Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong won the freshman assessment and received special recognition as Outer Academy Core Disciples. Du Wilun gave each of them a pouch containing a Soul Bone, leaving the trio poised to discover the academy’s extraordinary reward.

• Du Wilun announced the champions’ Soul Ring reward and revealed that Qian Chaoguang’s team would receive a confidential special prize.
• Du Wilun named Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, Wang Dong, and other standout freshmen as Outer Academy Core Disciples, then assigned the new classes.
• Du Wilun advised Huo Yutong to wait until the holiday to obtain her Third Soul Ring, and she agreed after consulting Qian Chaoguang.
• Du Wilun presented Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong with three pouches, explaining that their exceptional reward consisted of three high-quality Soul Bones.

Qian Duoduo and Fan Yu discussed building a Limit Soldier Combat Team around Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou, while Qian Duoduo explained to Xian Lin'er why he had given Huo Yutong a Soul Bone. Qian Chaoguang and his companions returned to class as Shrek welcomed back students who had been unfairly expelled.

• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou could form a powerful Limit Soldier Combat Team combining Soul Masters and Soul Tools.
• Qian Duoduo told Xian Lin'er that he had given Huo Yutong a Phantom Dance Butterfly Right Arm Bone because she was his disciple and Qian Chaoguang would understand.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong returned to class and found many previously expelled Class One students back at Shrek.
• Wang Yan apologized on behalf of the academy and promised the returning students they could study peacefully through graduation.
• Twelve of the thirteen expelled students accepted Shrek's invitation to return, while Tailong remained resentful.

Qian Duoduo explained his plan to build a Limit Soldier Combat Team around Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou, and defended giving Huo Yutong a rare Soul Bone. Qian Chaoguang and his classmates returned to Class One as the academy apologized to expelled students and welcomed them back.

• Qian Duoduo told Fan Yu that Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and He Caitou could form a Soul Tool-equipped Limit Soldier team and help prove the strength of combining soul masters with Soul Tools.
• Qian Duoduo told Xian Lin'er that he had given Huo Yutong the Phantom Dance Butterfly Right Arm Bone as a welcome gift and believed Qian Chaoguang would understand.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong entered Class One, where Qian Chaoguang recognized students who had previously been expelled by Zhou Yi.
• Wang Yan apologized on behalf of the academy for the expelled students' mistreatment and promised they could study in the Outer Academy through graduation.
• The invited students accepted the academy's apology and returned to study, with all assessments waived.

Shrek began a costly cleanup of the harm caused by Zhou Yi, while Wang Yan’s class debated Qian Chaoguang’s role in choosing class monitors. Qian explained his abilities, leaving many classmates astonished by his strength and versatility.

• Shrek invited students expelled by Zhou Yi to resume their studies and began examining current and former students for lasting injuries.
• The cleanup strained Shrek’s finances and staff, and Sea God Pavilion elders realized how much worse the academy’s crisis could have been without Qian Chaoguang and Mu En.
• Wang Yan nominated Assault Type and Control Type candidates for class monitor and vice monitor, prompting classmates to dispute whether Qian Chaoguang belonged among the Control Type students.
• Wu Feng and Cui Yajie described Qian’s control abilities, while Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan insisted he had defeated them before they could use their skills.
• At Wang Yan’s request, Qian introduced himself as an eighteenth-rank Battle Soul Master with the Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul, a shaping control skill, strong physical abilities, and blade skills.
• Dai Huabin, Zhou Sichen, and Wu Feng were left stunned by Qian’s claim that his tournament victories had relied on physical strength rather than his Martial Soul.

Qian Chaoguang became Class One’s class monitor despite wanting to avoid the responsibility, while Huo Yutong was elected Control Type vice class monitor. At the Soul Tool Department, Qian Duoduo began testing Huo Yutong’s targeting skill and learned that Qian Chaoguang’s first Soul Skill could attack from as far as five hundred meters.

• Wang Yan moved Qian Chaoguang’s name to the Assault Type ballot after the class agreed that he should run for that position.
• Qian Chaoguang won the class monitor election, and Huo Yutong became Control Type vice class monitor.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong visited Qian Duoduo’s exclusive test area to begin their Soul Tool studies.
• Qian Duoduo summoned Fan Yu to test Huo Yutong’s lock-on skill with Fixed Soul Cannons and moving targets.
• Huo Yutong explained that her targeting could be nearly certain within five hundred meters, prompting Qian Duoduo to learn that Qian Chaoguang’s first Soul Skill had a five-hundred-meter range.

Qian Duoduo and the others tested Huo Yutong’s Lock On with He Caitou’s long-range Soul Tool, revealing its exceptional accuracy and potential. Qian Duoduo then brought Qian Chaoguang to the forging area and agreed to support his work after he pointed out he had no money.

• He Caitou joined Qian Duoduo, Qian Chaoguang, and Huo Yutong at the testing grounds and introduced himself to the siblings.
• Huo Yutong used Lock On to guide He Caitou’s Fixed Soul Cannonball, which struck a moving target from a hundred meters away.
• Huo Yutong estimated she could assist around fifty shots at that distance, or perform about a hundred Lock Ons herself, and more at closer range.
• Qian Duoduo asked He Caitou to teach Huo Yutong Soul Tool basics, then took Qian Chaoguang to demonstrate his Forging Technique.
• Qian Chaoguang showed Qian Duoduo his empty pockets, and Qian Duoduo agreed to provide for his disciple.

Qian Chaoguang used Qian Duoduo’s Rare Metals to demonstrate his forging skill and began fusion forging Heavy Silver with Bright Light Refined Gold. The metals continued merging under his hammers as Qian Duoduo watched in disbelief.

• Qian Duoduo gave Qian Chaoguang Bright Light Refined Gold and let him choose more Rare Metals.
• Qian Chaoguang selected Heavy Silver to improve his Thousand Forgings Cold Iron Saber and prepare for fusion forging.
• Qian Chaoguang completed Hundred Forgings on the Heavy Silver and Bright Light Refined Gold.
• Qian Chaoguang struck both metals together, channeling Soul Power and Bloodline Power to fuse them.
• Qian Chaoguang’s twin hammers and dense Blood Qi Wolf Smoke drove the metals to merge as Qian Duoduo watched.

Qian Chaoguang completed a Saint-grade alloy through Fusion Forging, stunning Qian Duoduo and He Caitou with the metal’s spiritual awakening. He kept the alloy and planned to share his forging methods, while Qian Duoduo remained eager to learn how he had made it.

• Qian Chaoguang continued forging for hours as Huo Yutong bought food for him and Qian Duoduo.
• Qian Chaoguang used both hammers and his Bloodline Power to complete a Saint-grade alloy, whose rising light and spiritual signs revealed a successful Fusion Forging.
• Qian Chaoguang performed a Blood Sacrifice on the alloy and judged it to be Divine Metal with the potential to become Divine Grade Metal.
• Qian Duoduo and He Caitou examined the alloy but could not understand its mysteries, while Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong ate the food she had brought.
• Qian Chaoguang stored the alloy and told Qian Duoduo to eat, while considering how shared research could systematize forging.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong began absorbing their Soul Bones under Qian Duoduo’s supervision. As Qian Chaoguang fused with the Blood Scythe Mantis Right Arm Bone, his Bloodline Power began devouring its energy and strengthening his body.

• Qian Duoduo explained the siblings’ Core Disciple benefits and gave Huo Yutong a rare Phantom Dance Butterfly Right Arm Bone.
• Huo Yutong and Qian Chaoguang each began absorbing a right arm Soul Bone.
• Qian Chaoguang worried that his growing ambition to claim powerful Soul Bones had made him reckless, then calmed himself and continued the fusion.
• Qian Chaoguang’s Golden Body Art activated automatically, driving his Bloodline Power into his right arm.
• Qian Chaoguang discovered that his Bloodline Power was consuming the Blood Scythe Soul Bone’s energy and using it to strengthen his body.

Qian Chaoguang absorbed the Blood Scythe Mantis Right Arm Bone, strengthening his body and gaining a controllable light blade skill. After discussing his progress with Qian Duoduo, he arranged to study Soul Tools and focus on close-combat weapons and armor.

• The Soul Bone energy transformed Qian Chaoguang’s blood vessels and meridians, greatly improving his physique and cultivation prospects.
• Qian Chaoguang gained the skill Blade Light and suspected he could absorb Soul Bone energy and acquire skills without fixing them into his bones.
• Qian Chaoguang ended his cultivation while Huo Yutong continued her fusion, then told Qian Duoduo about his improved body and new skill.
• Qian Duoduo scheduled daily study sessions for Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong and asked Qian Chaoguang to choose a Soul Tool specialty.
• Qian Chaoguang chose close-combat Soul Tools based on cold weapons and armor, and Qian Duoduo offered him time and facilities to forge.

Qian Duoduo discussed Soul Tools with Qian Chaoguang, praised his knowledge, and invited him to show off a new blade. After Huo Yutong finished absorbing her Soul Bone, the students returned to their demanding routine, with Huo Yutong achieving her first Thousand Forging using Azurite Iron.

• Qian Chaoguang explained Soul Tools and Soul Engineers to Qian Duoduo, but admitted he did not know where Soul Tools would lead in the future.
• Qian Duoduo praised Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong's forging skills, then asked Qian Chaoguang to forge his new blade for him to inspect.
• Qian Chaoguang returned to the dormitory with Huo Yutong and found Wang Dong meditating, determined to defeat Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu next semester.
• Qian Chaoguang, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong began a busy campus routine of classes, training, cultivation, and Soul Tool study.
• Huo Yutong completed her first Thousand Forging with Azurite Iron and gained the same Spirit Awakening effect as Qian Chaoguang.

Qian Chaoguang abandoned the idea of copying Blue Star technology and rapidly mastered Soul Tool theory with instruction from Shrek’s top Soul Engineers. Eight months after the New Student Competition, he and Huo Yutong crafted Soul Tools using Thousand Forged Metal, and Huo Yutong neared completion of a Third-Level Core Array.

• Qian Chaoguang’s experiments with boiling water and gunpowder showed him that Blue Star technology could not be reproduced wholesale on Douluo Continent, so he focused on local knowledge and adaptable theories.
• Qian Chaoguang learned Soul Tool theory at extraordinary speed, receiving instruction from Qian Duoduo, Fan Yu, and Xian Lin'er as Huo Yutong struggled to keep pace.
• Eight months after the New Student Competition, the first-year students approached vacation and the advancement exam that would determine whether they stayed at Shrek Academy.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong crafted Soul Tools with Thousand Forged Metal, whose Core Magic Arrays had proved substantially stronger than ordinary versions.
• Huo Yutong used her Demon Spirit Silver Engraving Knife to carve a Third-Level Core Array, astonishing He Caitou as she neared completion.

Huo Yutong completed a Rank 3 Hand Cannon, and Qian Chaoguang finished a powerful Rank 3 Half-body Armor for her after eight months of Soul Tool study. The chapter ended with the siblings celebrating their success while Qian Duoduo praised them and He Caitou marveled at their talent.

• Huo Yutong assembled a Rank 3 Hand Cannon, and Qian Duoduo recognized her as a genuine Rank 3 Soul Engineer.
• Qian Chaoguang used the Extreme Ice Light to project a Core Magic Array and rapidly engraved the final component for his Soul Armor.
• Qian Chaoguang tested all four Core Magic Arrays, assembled the armor, and completed a matte-silver Female Half-body Light Armor for Huo Yutong.
• Qian Chaoguang presented the armor to Huo Yutong, who accepted it happily and embraced him.
• He Caitou compared the siblings' progress with his own and privately concluded that both were monsters, while Qian Duoduo applauded their achievement.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong became Rank 3 Soul Engineers, and Qian Duoduo offered to take them to obtain Soul Rings during the break. Qian Chaoguang declined and revealed his fabricated ability to sense destiny, ending with a claim about Beibei and Mu En.

• Qian Duoduo awarded Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong Rank 3 Soul Engineer badges, and Fan Yu and He Caitou congratulated them.
• Qian Duoduo offered to take the siblings to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain Soul Rings, noting that Huo Yutong might be able to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Qian Chaoguang declined the trip and asked Qian Duoduo whether he could trust him completely.
• Qian Duoduo swore that he would never harm either sibling, and Qian Chaoguang told him he had a special ability called See Through Destiny.
• Qian Chaoguang claimed that his ability had revealed a connection between Beibei and the old man at the dormitory entrance, whom he identified as Mu En, the Dragon God Douluo.

Qian Chaoguang convinced Qian Duoduo that he could uncover hidden truths, then revealed his disguised First Soul Ring was truly ten thousand years old. He left Qian Duoduo stunned and explained that a premonition had led him toward the Extreme North in search of further Soul Rings.

• Qian Chaoguang used library records and clues about Mu En, Beibei, and Zhou Yi to explain how he had deduced their secrets.
• Qian Duoduo demanded direct proof, and Qian Chaoguang hinted at a private matter between Qian Duoduo and Xian Lin'er until Qian Duoduo believed him.
• Qian Chaoguang encouraged Qian Duoduo to pursue Xian Lin'er, and the two shared a knowing smile while Huo Yutong remained confused.
• Qian Chaoguang revealed a black ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring and said he had disguised it as a ten-year ring with Light Mimicry.
• Qian Chaoguang said his martial soul had drawn him toward the Extreme North, where his premonition promised another ten-thousand-year or possibly hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Qian Chaoguang convinced Qian Duoduo to let him travel alone to the Extreme North by revealing that his Second Martial Soul of Extreme Ice was about to awaken. Mu En praised Chaoguang’s sincerity and ability, while warning Qian Duoduo not to decide which department was best for him.

• Qian Chaoguang refused Qian Duoduo’s offer to accompany him to the Extreme North and revealed his imminent Extreme Ice Martial Soul awakening as his reason for going alone.
• Qian Chaoguang explained to Huo Yutong that revealing his secrets to Qian Duoduo was a way to earn Shrek’s trust and support.
• Qian Duoduo told Mu En about Chaoguang’s ten-thousand-year First Soul Ring and Precognitive Ability, and Mu En praised Chaoguang for showing sincerity.
• Mu En rejected Qian Duoduo’s suggestion that Chaoguang join the Martial Soul Department, telling him not to impose his own choices on the child.

Mu En persuaded Qian Duoduo to let Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong choose their own paths and become Dual-Attribute Core Disciples. Qian Chaoguang traveled to the Extreme North, where he revealed to the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he knew about its Molted Shell, the Ice Empress, and their meeting, leaving the silkworm stunned.

• Mu En convinced Qian Duoduo that Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong should be allowed to cultivate in both departments and promised a final assessment before fully supporting them.
• Qian Chaoguang left Huo Yutong and traveled alone for five days to the Ice Sealed Forest on the outskirts of the Extreme North.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave Qian Chaoguang an insulating layer made from its Molted Shell before he headed toward the Extreme North Core Area.
• Qian Chaoguang told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm he would reveal some of his secrets after they met the Ice Empress.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that he had deliberately waited for the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, leaving it dumbfounded.

Qian Chaoguang persuaded Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to trust him and followed its plan into the Extreme North Core Area, avoiding the Titan Snow Demon King. After enjoying a hot meal in a concealed Ice House, he began the operation to draw Ice Empress out.

• Qian Chaoguang admitted that he knew the plan would succeed and convinced Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that Ice Empress could keep her consciousness as his Second Martial Soul.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained the next steps, and the two traveled deep into the Extreme North while avoiding the Titan Snow Demon King.
• Qian Chaoguang used snowboards and then Extreme Ice Light to cross the harsh terrain toward the Core Area.
• Qian Chaoguang dug an underground Ice House, cooked hotpot, and reassured the anxious Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.
• Qian Chaoguang prepared for the operation, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm released its vast Spiritual Power across the Extreme North Core Area.