Chapter Summaries

After defeating Xiao Hongchen, Ji Juechen suffered a severe Spiritual Power drain from using Weakness Insight and learned that his mysterious system had a powerful but costly ability. The next morning, he recovered through meditation and heard that Xiao Hongchen had reconsidered his approach to combat, while Huo Yuhao and Wang Donger watched Ji Juechen as a dangerous, secretive opponent.

• Ji Juechen returned to his dormitory after the duel, collapsed from Spiritual Power exhaustion, and learned that Weakness Insight would be unavailable for twenty-four hours.
• Ji Juechen questioned the system, received only garbled information and a directive to help him reach the pinnacle, then decided to treat it as a noisy whetstone.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Donger that Ji Juechen had paid a price for his victory and appeared to understand the weakness in Xiao Hongchen's weapon; they decided to observe him.
• Ji Juechen recovered part of his Spiritual Power through Deep Meditation and left his dormitory the next morning with his Iron Sword.
• Jing Ziyan praised Ji Juechen, and Meng Hongchen relayed Xiao Hongchen's thanks for showing him true precision and efficiency.

Ji Juechen fought Huo Yuhao in a challenge and defeated him by seeing through the weaknesses in his techniques and energy. Huo Yuhao recognized Ji Juechen as a formidable opponent, while Ji Juechen’s system began building a combat model of him.

• Huo Yuhao challenged Ji Juechen, and Wang Donger and Jing Ziyan watched their fight.
• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Mysterious Jade Hand, but Ji Juechen evaded and disrupted his attacks with precise strikes.
• Ji Juechen’s system recorded Huo Yuhao’s footwork as Huo Yuhao spread the embryonic form of Eternal Frost Domain.
• Huo Yuhao began gathering power for Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow, but Ji Juechen drew his sword and pierced the weakness in Huo Yuhao’s ice shield, stopping the blade less than an inch from his chest.
• Huo Yuhao admitted defeat and concluded that Ji Juechen’s strength lay in seeing weaknesses; Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Empress warned him to avoid fighting Ji Juechen until he could counter that ability.
• Ji Juechen left as his system reported progress on Huo Yuhao’s combat model and recommended collecting more data.

Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao joined forces when polluted energy erupted at an abandoned testing ground, threatening their classmates. They stopped the leak, and Huo Yuhao came to trust Ji Juechen as a companion.

• Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao, Wang Donger, Jing Ziyan, and other students searched the abandoned testing ground for Starlight Iron Ore.
• A damaged underground pipeline released a spreading cloud of Soul Tool Waste Energy and Wrathful Spirit Energy, injuring and disorienting students.
• Ji Juechen used the system's Energy Filtration Protocol to cut through the polluted mist while Huo Yuhao identified the Energy Node and covered his path with Extreme Ice.
• Ji Juechen pierced the Energy Node underground, stopping the eruption and dispersing the mist.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Ji Juechen, and the system recorded their completed joint tactic and updated its combat data.

Huo Yuhao stopped Ji Juechen from punishing Lin Tian without a trial, creating a conflict between their ideas of justice and efficiency. Ji Juechen walked away questioning the system’s recommendations, while its analysis ended in a logical paradox.

• Lin Tian threatened a lower-year student over unfinished Soul Tool components, and Huo Yuhao stepped in to stop him.
• Ji Juechen judged Lin Tian to be trouble and prepared to eliminate the risk with his sword intent.
• Huo Yuhao stood between them and argued that Lin Tian should face the academy tribunal and still might be capable of reform.
• Ji Juechen withdrew his sword intent, warned Huo Yuhao that his mercy could bring a greater price, and left with Jing Ziyan following.
• Ji Juechen began questioning whether the system’s efficient solutions could account for justice and possibility, and the system recorded a logical paradox.

Xiao Hongchen sought Ji Juechen’s judgment on an improved Soul Tool component, then Huo Yuhao proposed that they exchange insights and cooperate. Ji Juechen accepted, and the chapter ended with Huo Yuhao viewing him as a respected opponent and a reliable companion in some moments.

• Xiao Hongchen showed Ji Juechen an optimized Soul Guiding Core, and Ji Juechen judged it acceptable.
• Xiao Hongchen acknowledged that his former approach to Soul Tools was misguided and left with renewed resolve.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Ji Juechen for their cooperation and proposed exchanging insights instead of sparring.
• Ji Juechen accepted, and he and Huo Yuhao shared what their respective abilities revealed about their surroundings and Soul Power.
• Huo Yuhao told Wang Donger that Ji Juechen might not become his friend but would be a worthy opponent and reliable companion.

Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao cooperated to destroy an Evil Soul Master ritual in Qingshi Gorge, but Ji Juechen killed their wounded leader instead of allowing Huo Yuhao to capture him. They returned to the Academy with their combat teamwork proven and their trust strained by a clash over justice and risk.

• Jing Hongchen sent Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao to investigate and eliminate an Evil Soul Master stronghold in Qingshi Gorge.
• Huo Yuhao detected the ritual and identified three Evil Soul Masters using sacrificed travelers to feed a Black Crystal, while Ji Juechen planned to strike the core.
• Huo Yuhao restrained the enemies with Eternal Frost Domain as Ji Juechen shattered the Black Crystal, causing the ritual to collapse and the Evil Soul Masters to suffer backlash.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao defeated the surviving Evil Soul Masters, but Ji Juechen killed the wounded Soul King before Huo Yuhao could seal him for interrogation.
• Huo Yuhao challenged Ji Juechen's decision, and the two returned to Jing Hongchen with their cooperation intact but their trust weakened.

Ji Juechen reunited with Jing Ziyan and was recruited by Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to test a new anti-erosion Soul Tool shield. The group formed an unlikely team as Huo Yuhao approached.

• Jing Ziyan visited Ji Juechen in the secluded grove and devoured the Evil Aura remnants from his Black Crystal fragment.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen arrived with Jing Hongchen's order for Ji Juechen to join a project developing an anti-erosion shield.
• Ji Juechen initially refused, but Jing Ziyan explained that he would respond to a challenge to test the shield against his sword.
• Xiao Hongchen challenged Ji Juechen to attack the shield, and Ji Juechen agreed.
• Ji Juechen watched the group gather as Huo Yuhao's aura drew near, while the system recorded their new team dynamic.

Ji Juechen exposed and dismantled a flaw in Xiao Hongchen’s defensive Soul Tool, prompting Xiao to rethink his approach and begin planning a more adaptive design with Huo Yuhao. The group’s cooperation deepened, while Jing Hongchen watched from the shadows and anticipated that greater challenges would soon arrive.

• Xiao Hongchen demonstrated the Hongchen Barrier Unit 1 and challenged Ji Juechen to test it with his sword.
• Ji Juechen identified the barrier’s weaknesses and disabled its right-wing shield in exactly 1.7 seconds.
• Ji Juechen explained that relying on a fixed defensive model was itself a flaw, and Huo Yuhao suggested adding a Dynamic Calculation module.
• Xiao Hongchen eagerly asked Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao to help redesign the barrier, while Ji Juechen’s system recommended contributing combat data and guiding Soul Tool research.
• Jing Hongchen watched the group gather around Xiao Hongchen and anticipated that trouble would arrive sooner than expected.

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan were attacked by three Shadow Flow assassins, and Nana intervened to help them drive the attackers off. The danger passed for the moment, but Nana warned that a dangerous organization had targeted Ji Juechen.

• Ji Juechen detected three concealed assassins and moved in front of Jing Ziyan to block the first strike.
• Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan fought the assassins together, with Ji Juechen attacking and Jing Ziyan shielding his exposed back.
• Nana joined the battle, stopped an assassin from striking Ji Juechen, and helped turn the fight in their favor.
• Ji Juechen wounded the lead assassin, while the other two escaped into the shadows.
• Nana identified the attackers as Shadow Flow assassins and left after Ji Juechen told her to report the incident as she wished.
• Ji Juechen headed back to the academy and told Jing Ziyan to keep up.

Jing Hongchen sent Huo Yuhao, Ji Juechen, Xiao Hongchen, Jing Ziyan, and Nana to attack an abandoned mine stronghold, where their coordinated abilities quickly overwhelmed its defenders. After the team completed its first mission, their combat assessment improved and Ji Juechen’s sword intent grew more condensed.

• Jing Hongchen assigned Ji Juechen to make battlefield decisions and Huo Yuhao to coordinate the five-person mission.
• Huo Yuhao identified seven enemies in the mine while Xiao Hongchen marked the surveillance Soul Tools and Nana infiltrated the shadows.
• Xiao Hongchen, Huo Yuhao, and Jing Ziyan sealed and weakened the mine’s defenders as Ji Juechen broke the assassins’ coordinated attack with his sword intent.
• Jing Ziyan trapped the fleeing Soul Kings, Nana killed one from behind, and Ji Juechen struck down another.
• Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, Jing Ziyan, Nana, and Ji Juechen interrupted and eliminated the remaining threats.
• The team completed the mission, improved its combat assessment, and Ji Juechen felt his sword’s will to sever grow stronger.

After clearing the mine, Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen clashed over whether to preserve a strange token as evidence or destroy it, but the group agreed to take it back to the academy. Jing Hongchen revealed that he was using the group to confront the Holy Spirit Cult, while Ji Juechen’s system warned that Huo Yuhao carried an unknown divine mark.

• Xiao Hongchen celebrated the improved Soul Tool data as Jing Ziyan checked that Ji Juechen was unharmed.
• Huo Yuhao found a strange token on the Soul Emperor’s corpse, and Ji Juechen’s system identified faint traces of chaotic, depraved divine power.
• Ji Juechen urged the group to destroy the token, but Huo Yuhao argued that they needed to investigate it; Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen persuaded them to take it to the academy.
• Nana reported that the stronghold had been cleared, and the group left the mine with the token and the other recovered items.
• Jing Hongchen appeared after their departure, linked the token to the Holy Spirit Cult, and said he would use the group to hone the Sword Pavilion.
• Ji Juechen’s system reported that his ideological differences with Huo Yuhao had grown, the other core members trusted him more, and Huo Yuhao bore an unknown divine power mark.

Huo Yuhao and the others analyzed the contaminated black token when Ye Guyi arrived and tried to purify it. Ji Juechen stopped the token’s eruption by erasing its activity, drawing Ye Guyi’s attention and possibly alerting the mark’s source.

• Huo Yuhao identified the black token as a living source of Mental Pollution that might serve as a signal or coordinate.
• Ye Guyi entered the analysis room and prepared to purify the token, but Huo Yuhao warned that doing so could trigger an explosion or alert its source.
• The token reacted to Ye Guyi’s sacred aura and unleashed a powerful Mental Shock that strained the isolation force field.
• Ji Juechen severed the token’s abnormal activity with a single motion, leaving it inert and stopping the Mental Shock.
• Ye Guyi questioned Ji Juechen, then said she would remember him, while the system warned that the mark’s source might have detected his action.

Ji Juechen defeated Ye Guyi in a duel, showing her how his Absolute Silence could sever sacred power and judgment. Huo Yuhao challenged Ji Juechen’s philosophy, while Ye Guyi began questioning her belief in purification as the only path.

• Ye Guyi challenged Ji Juechen to understand the power that severed trouble, and he accepted.
• Ji Juechen cut apart Ye Guyi’s Sacred Light and redirected her Angel’s Assault without using Soul Power.
• Ji Juechen dismantled Ye Guyi’s Sacred Sword Judgment with Absolute Silence and stopped his sword just short of her brow.
• Ye Guyi watched Ji Juechen leave and questioned whether purifying evil was the only correct path.
• Huo Yuhao told Ji Juechen that the world needed healing and order as well as severance, and the two acknowledged their differing ideals.

Ji Juechen and his companions defeated the Evil Soul Masters and destroyed their sacrificial formation. After the battle, Ye Guyi asked to join Sword Pavilion, and Ji Juechen accepted her.

• The seven heroes charged into the abandoned transfer station and battled the Evil Soul Masters as the formation prepared to complete its ritual.
• Ye Guyi unleashed her angelic power, while the Wrathful Spirit Soul Saint and Bone Staff Soul Saint transformed and attacked her.
• Ji Juechen destroyed the Withering Death Ray, Huo Yuhao stunned the wraith giant, and Ye Guyi split it with her sacred sword.
• Ji Juechen pierced the Bone Staff Soul Saint’s defenses and shattered the formation core, killing him and collapsing the ritual.
• The companions eliminated the remaining Evil Soul Masters, and Ye Guyi asked to make room in Sword Pavilion for her holy sharpness.
• Ji Juechen agreed to Ye Guyi’s request.

After the seven fighters destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, Jing Hongchen asked them whether to formalize their group. Huo Yuhao chose to remain an ally, while Jing Yu joined the newly established Sword Pavilion as its seventh member and strategic support.

• Jing Hongchen praised the group’s victory and warned that the Holy Spirit Cult would now target them.
• Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Nana, Ye Guyi, and Ji Juechen agreed to make Sword Pavilion a permanent group, while Huo Yuhao chose to remain its steadfast external ally.
• Jing Hongchen introduced Jing Yu, whose Mirror of Tracing Light could process information, replay battles, and glimpse fragments of the future.
• Ji Juechen accepted Jing Yu’s abilities, and Jing Hongchen named him Sword Pavilion’s seventh member and its mirror and eye.
• Jing Hongchen established three Pavilion Rules, and the seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion stood together as their team module activated.

Ji Juechen and the Seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion received an invitation to Dragon City's grand auction, where Jing Hongchen assigned them to secure the empire's research targets, investigate rival factions, and watch the mysterious finale item. The group prepared to travel to Dragon City, aware that powerful factions were converging there and conflict was likely.

• Ji Juechen examined the Dragon City Auction invitation, and his system identified it as a high-grade Soul Tool invitation and warned of potential threats from several factions.
• Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ye Guyi, Nana, and Jing Yu each showed interest or concern about attending the auction.
• Jing Hongchen summoned the group and ordered them to help the empire acquire key research items, investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and Body Sect, and monitor the auction's finale item while prioritizing their safety.
• Ji Juechen sensed through his system that the finale item could provoke powerful reactions and draw many factions together.
• Jing Yu described a vision of many colored threads converging dangerously, and Huo Yuhao urged Ji Juechen to prepare for trouble as they set out for Dragon City.

The Sword Pavilion team attended the Dragon City Auction House to obtain Soul Tool research materials, while Ji Juechen detected several dangerous factions in attendance. The auction ended its buildup by revealing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Empress embryo, and Ji Juechen’s system warned that contact with it could be fatal.

• The Seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion and Huo Yuhao entered the auction house, where Ji Juechen’s system identified powerful presences linked to the Holy Spirit Cult, the Body Sect, and the Sun Moon Imperial Family.
• Ode opened the auction, and Sword Pavilion members watched as bidders competed for rare treasures and materials.
• Ji Juechen outbid the Body Sect and Holy Spirit Cult for the Void Star Marrow, then Sword Pavilion obtained more materials and ancient Soul Tool notes.
• Ode revealed the finale: a Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Empress embryo sealed inside a crystal coffin, causing the auction hall to erupt in shock and greed.
• Ji Juechen’s system identified the embryo as extremely unstable and warned him to prevent the team from approaching it.

Jing Hongchen outbid the Holy Spirit Cult and the Body Sect to secure the unstable Hundred Thousand Year Ice Sky Snow Woman Embryo for the Sun Moon Empire. As the group returned to Sun Moon Academy, Ji Juechen's system warned that the danger had not passed, and the embryo's arrival at Mingde Hall threatened to provoke further conflict.

• The Holy Spirit Cult, the Body Sect, and other factions drove the embryo's price above one hundred million Gold Soul Coins.
• Ji Juechen's system warned that the embryo was unstable and that forced fusion carried an almost certain risk of self-destruction.
• Jing Hongchen bid two hundred million Gold Soul Coins, and Ode declared the Sun Moon Empire the winner.
• Jing Hongchen's trusted subordinates took the sealed embryo from the auction house and transferred it for the journey back to Sun Moon Academy.
• Huo Yuhao asked Ji Juechen whether Jing Hongchen planned to absorb the embryo, and Ji Juechen suggested he might intend to research it.

Huo Yuhao infiltrated Mingde Hall’s underground base, discovered the Sun Moon Empire’s Grim Reaper Soul Tool, and stole one of its Core Arrays before escaping. Jing Hongchen suspected him after the theft, but Huo Yuhao concealed his involvement as preparations began for an exchange visit to Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao evaded Mingde Hall’s defenses and discovered the Grim Reaper Soul Tool, whose Law of Death threatened even Electrolux.
• Huo Yuhao seized a disconnected Grim Reaper Core Array and escaped to his dormitory with it hidden in his Starlight Sapphire Storage Ring.
• Mingde Hall discovered the Core Array was missing and raised its alert level while investigating everyone involved.
• Jing Hongchen suspected Huo Yuhao, but Huo Yuhao cooperated with the investigation and gave no evidence of his role.
• Ji Juechen sensed the suspicion around Huo Yuhao but remained silent, while Huo Yuhao accepted the danger of keeping the Core Array hidden.

Du Busi led the Body Sect in an assault on Mingde Hall to seize the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Embryo, but Jing Hongchen’s trump-card Soul Tools forced the attackers to retreat. Amid the battle’s destruction, Huo Yuhao secretly infiltrated the laboratory’s outer seal and touched the embryo.

• Du Busi and the Body Sect attacked Mingde Hall, demanding that Jing Hongchen hand over the embryo.
• Jing Hongchen and Mingde Hall’s Soul Engineers countered the assault, while Du Busi’s poison techniques and powerful body battered their defenses.
• Du Busi transformed into his Martial Soul Avatar and clashed with Jing Hongchen’s ninth soul skill enhanced by three Rank 9 Soul Tools, leaving both sides badly hurt.
• Du Busi withdrew when reinforcements approached, leaving Mingde Hall devastated but the embryo’s seal intact.
• During the chaos, Huo Yuhao used a Simulation Soul Skill to enter the laboratory’s outer sealing area and touch the embryo unnoticed.