Chapter Summaries

Zi Yao warned Shangguan Wei'er that the Xishui Alliance was backed by a continent-threatening Evil Soul Master organization and advised the Ordinary Alliance not to confront it. He left Shangguan Wei'er weighing whether to seek another powerful patron as their conflict with the Xishui Alliance seemed impossible to resolve peacefully.

• Zi Yao explained that he had rescued the Red-Haired Girl from Evil Soul Masters, and Shangguan Wei'er arranged for her to stay with the Ordinary Alliance while she recovered her memories.
• Shangguan Wei'er recognized Wang Dong as a girl, teased her about Zi Yao, and asked her to wait outside while she continued their intelligence exchange.
• Zi Yao offered information about the Xishui Alliance in return for help finding the Life Devouring Carving Knife, then revealed that a vast Evil Soul Master organization stood behind it.
• Zi Yao explained that Shrek's Inspection Team had driven Evil Soul Masters from the Three Great Empires into the Sun Moon Empire, where they had consolidated into a powerful organization.
• Zi Yao warned Shangguan Wei'er that the Sun Moon Empire would pay dearly to destroy the organization and advised her not to oppose the Xishui Alliance without choosing another master.

Zi Yao ended his negotiations with Shangguan Wei'er and focused on his studies, refining a new Soul Tool and strengthening himself after fusing with the Gold of Life. After breaking through to level thirty-four, he decided to remain at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy during the break.

• Zi Yao declined to discuss further business with Shangguan Wei'er, then left and encountered Wang Dong, who had been eavesdropping outside her office.
• Zi Yao noticed Ye Guyi passing by and reflected that Shangguan Wei'er would now be less likely to send her into danger after learning about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zi Yao fused the Gold of Life into his Spiritual Sea, improving his Spiritual Power, recovery, and healing while restoring some of Electrolux's divine consciousness.
• Zi Yao and Electrolux designed a Soul Tool Glove that combined close-combat thrust with a short-range Soul Power Cannon, earning Zi Yao acclaim from the academy's evaluation department.
• Zi Yao broke through to level thirty-four and told Wang Dong he would stay at the academy during the break rather than go home.

Lin Jiayi made Zi Yao and Wang Dong Core Disciples and proposed a match against the Hongchen Siblings, with Zi Yao asking to study Soul Tool techniques in Mingde Hall as his condition. After the two accepted the match, a white-haired youth approached Zi Yao and asked whether he was the record-breaking Level 3 Soul Master.

• Lin Jiayi named Zi Yao and Wang Dong Core Disciples, freeing them from grade-level restrictions and annual Final Exams.
• Lin Jiayi told Zi Yao and Wang Dong that they would fight Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who would seal their Fifth Soul Rings for the match.
• Zi Yao agreed to fight on the condition that he could study Soul Tool techniques in Mingde Hall, and Wang Dong agreed to the same condition.
• Wang Dong and Zi Yao discussed their chances against the Hongchen Siblings and teased each other as they left the office.
• A white-haired youth approached Zi Yao in the corridor and asked whether he was the one who had broken the Level 3 Soul Master record.

Wang Dong mocked Xiao Hongchen, who challenged Zi Yao to prove himself as the Sun Moon Empire’s greatest genius. Zi Yao agreed to compete only if Jing Hóngchén accepted his conditions, leaving Xiao eager to ask his grandfather for approval.

• Wang Dong ridiculed Xiao Hongchen’s reputation as a Rank 5 Soul Tool Master, and Meng Hongchen stopped her brother from starting a fight at the academy.
• Xiao Hongchen learned that Zi Yao had never studied Soul Tools before enrolling and challenged him to a competition.
• Zi Yao told Xiao Hongchen to get Jing Hóngchén to agree to his conditions before they competed, then left.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen went to Mingde Hall, where their knocking interrupted Jing Hóngchén as he worked on a Rank 8 Soul Tool.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Jing Hóngchén to agree to Zi Yao’s demands so he could compete with him.

Jing Hóngchén agreed to a duel between Xiao Hongchen and Zi Yao, with Mingde Hall study as the stakes. After Meng Hongchen discovered Wang Dong was a girl, Zi Yao accepted Xiao Hongchen’s challenge and its conditions.

• Xiao Hongchen persuaded Jing Hóngchén to approve a duel, and Jing Hóngchén set two years of study at Mingde Hall as the reward if Zi Yao won.
• Xiao Hongchen sent Meng Hongchen to deliver his challenge letter to Zi Yao.
• Meng Hongchen found Wang Dong in her female form, and Wang Dong made her promise to keep the secret.
• Zi Yao arrived, accepted the challenge letter, and agreed to its conditions despite Wang Dong’s objections.

Zi Yao and Wang Dong challenged Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, wagering rare metals and a custom Soul Tool against the siblings’ service. At the duel, Zi Yao dodged Xiao’s barrage of cannons, and Xiao created a tracking shell to counter his agility.

• Zi Yao and Wang Dong added rare metals and a custom Level Six Speed Soul Tool to their challenge terms, which Jing Hóngchén accepted.
• Xiao Hongchen publicized the duel, and the crowded Soul Fighting Arena watched as Wang Dong and Zi Yao faced the Hongchen siblings.
• Wang Dong released her Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul to fight Meng Hongchen, while Zi Yao entered the duel with his Blue-Gold Long Spear instead of releasing his Martial Soul.
• Xiao Hongchen used Metal Control to summon and fire over a hundred Soul Tool Cannons at Zi Yao.
• Zi Yao used Myriad Spirits to weave through the cannon shells, and Xiao Hongchen responded by shaping Gold Condensation into a tracking Soul Tool shell.

Zi Yao fought through Xiao Hongchen’s overwhelming Soul Tool barrage and used Emperor’s Domain and Myriad Spirits to turn Xiao Hongchen’s Tracking Missile against him. The missile exploded, but Xiao Hongchen remained standing and declared that he had not lost.

• Zi Yao charged toward Xiao Hongchen while a Tracking Missile chased him, and Xiao Hongchen answered with a barrage from more than a hundred cannons.
• Wang Dong told Meng Hongchen that Zi Yao would win because he would not have accepted the wager unless he was sure of victory.
• Xiao Hongchen used Golden Sacrifice to strengthen his Soul Tools, while Zi Yao activated Emperor’s Domain to restore his stamina and Soul Power.
• Zi Yao broke through Xiao Hongchen’s Blue Silver Vine and steel fortress, but Xiao Hongchen trapped his spear with Golden Condensation and aimed his cannons at him.
• Zi Yao used the spear’s rebound to leap away, then used Myriad Spirits to seize control of Xiao Hongchen’s Tracking Missile and send it back at him.
• The missile exploded near Xiao Hongchen, prompting Jing Hóngchén and Meng Hongchen to rush toward him, but Xiao Hongchen insisted that he had not lost.

Zi Yao defeated Xiao Hongchen in the Soul Fighting Arena and earned a two-year token to study at Mingde Hall. After returning to the academy, he headed to Mingde Hall, where his new studies were about to begin.

• Xiao Hongchen used Golden Sacrifice to keep fighting, but Zi Yao knocked him unconscious and out of the arena.
• Jing Hóngchén gave Zi Yao a Mingde Hall token and thanked him for sparing Xiao Hongchen, then left with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.
• Wang Dong questioned Zi Yao about his Blue Silver Emperor Domain, but he brushed off her questions.
• Ju Zi watched Zi Yao leave and wondered where he had come from and whether Xu Tianran would recruit him.
• After Wang Dong returned to the Clear Sky Sect, Zi Yao used a medicinal bath, then headed to Mingde Hall amid the academy's attention.

Zi Yao used his Myriad Spirits soul skill and Electrolux’s Spiritual Power to absorb knowledge from Mingde Hall’s library into Spiritual Imprints in his Spiritual Sea. After two hours of this, he met Ju Zi, who had fallen asleep while studying and then startled herself by sneaking close to him.

• Zi Yao presented the Hongchen Token at Mingde Hall and learned that he could study only in the Sixth Laboratory’s permitted areas.
• Zi Yao visited the academic exchange section, then went to the library and used his soul skill to detect the books’ contents.
• Electrolux organized the extracted knowledge into Spiritual Imprints and carved them into Zi Yao’s Spiritual Sea with the Golden of Life.
• Zi Yao meditated while Electrolux imprinted the contents of five bookshelves over two hours, leaving Electrolux exhausted but able to recover within the Golden of Life.
• Ju Zi woke from a two-hour nap, noticed Zi Yao meditating, and leaned close to inspect him before he opened his eyes and startled her into falling.

Zi Yao enlisted Ju Zi to help him build a long-range Soul Tool from his memories of modern firearms, promising to teach her Mingde Hall knowledge in return. The chapter left them in Lab 6 with Ju Zi studying his Desert Eagle design and questioning how it could work without a Core Array.

• Ju Zi caught Zi Yao studying in the library and asked how he had memorized the Rank 6 Soul Tool knowledge so quickly.
• Zi Yao went to the experimental area and learned that his reward for defeating Xiao Hongchen included large Rare Metal quotas.
• Ju Zi caught up with Zi Yao and offered her Soul Tool expertise in exchange for him teaching her from Mingde Hall books.
• Zi Yao agreed to the secret arrangement, and he and Ju Zi went to Lab 6.
• Zi Yao gave Ju Zi a blueprint based on a Desert Eagle, but she questioned how it could work without a Core Array.

Zi Yao demonstrated his powerful Desert Eagle to Ju Zi and proposed that they adapt it into a Soul Tool suitable for mass production. Ju Zi agreed to study his plans, and hurried him back to the laboratory after he promised to sell her the first mass-produced pistol.

• Zi Yao explained the Desert Eagle’s design and led Ju Zi to a testing area to try it.
• Ju Zi fired the pistol and saw that it could injure powerful Soul Masters without consuming Soul Power.
• Ju Zi asked whether Zi Yao would sell the design to the Sun Moon Empire, but he said the costly prototype was not suitable for arming an army.
• Zi Yao gave Ju Zi plans for adding charging and Core Arrays, and she agreed to try improving the pistol into a Soul Tool.
• Zi Yao promised Ju Zi the first Desert Eagle once mass production began, and she hurried him back to the laboratory.

Zi Yao showed Xuan Ziwén the Desert Eagle and explained that it was a firearm rather than a Soul Tool, prompting Xuan Ziwén to recognize its potential for civilian use. After firing it, Xuan Ziwén enthusiastically asked Zi Yao to sell him the patent, leaving the weapon’s future and their collaboration unresolved.

• Xuan Ziwén found Ju Zi asleep in Lab 6 and discovered the blueprint she and Zi Yao had been developing.
• Xuan Ziwén studied the blueprint, and Zi Yao returned and woke Ju Zi.
• Zi Yao asked Xuan Ziwén whether civilians could use weapons powerful enough to injure Soul Masters, then offered to show him a weapon if he kept it secret.
• Zi Yao handed Xuan Ziwén the Desert Eagle, and Ju Zi gave him its evaluation report.
• Xuan Ziwén fired several shots, realized the firearm could be adapted for civilian use, and asked Zi Yao to sell him the patent.

Zi Yao shared the Desert Eagle’s core structure with Xuan Ziwén, received Huo Yuhao’s letter about his plans to seek a Soul Ring in the Extreme North, and advanced to level thirty-five while seeking Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber. Xuan Ziwén developed a charging-array design for the gun and proposed specialized bullets.

• Zi Yao refused to sell the Desert Eagle but let Xuan Ziwén study its core mechanical structure, while refusing Ju Zi the same access.
• Huo Yuhao wrote that he planned to travel to the Extreme North during Shrek’s summer break to absorb a Soul Ring, and Zi Yao warned him to stay safe and secretly told Tian Meng not to target the Ice Empress.
• Zi Yao reached level thirty-five after using Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and decided to obtain Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber from the Shrek Treasure Appraisal Fair through Huo Yuhao.
• Xuan Ziwén showed Zi Yao a design integrating a Charging Array into the gun and suggested developing explosive, freezing, and lightning bullets.

Zi Yao and Xuan Ziwén completed an improved Desert Eagle, which proved more powerful and efficient than the original. Xuan Ziwén advised Zi Yao to use Mingde Hall’s established sales network, while Zi Yao considered the challenges of building his own faction and entering the Soul Tool market.

• Zi Yao used his Life Guardian Blade to engrave and forge the weapon, explaining to Xuan Ziwén that his soul skill let him sense and control objects.
• Xuan Ziwén invited Zi Yao to join Mingde Hall, but Zi Yao asked whether Xuan Ziwén would later join a faction of his own; Xuan Ziwén said he would consider it if its research resources and blueprints were sufficient.
• Zi Yao and Xuan Ziwén assembled the Modified Desert Eagle with a lighter Titanium Gold body and a Soul Power charging device.
• Zi Yao tested the gun, which achieved Level 37 lethality, a speed of 600 meters per second, and an S rating.
• Xuan Ziwén recommended that Zi Yao let Mingde Hall mass-produce and sell the weapon, warning that the Soul Tool market was controlled by powerful organizations.

Zi Yao offered the Ordinary Alliance a deal to mass-produce and sell his Rank 3 Soul Tool Handgun, which impressed Shangguan Wei'er with its power and market potential. He secured her agreement by offering the alliance thirty percent of the profits and a Level 98 Super Douluo as a hidden backer.

• After Xuan Ziwén gave the Soul Tool Handgun an S rating, Zi Yao told Ju Zi he would manufacture and sell it himself.
• Zi Yao asked Shangguan Wei'er whether she had found any Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, and she said she had no leads.
• Zi Yao proposed that the Ordinary Alliance mass-produce and sell his handgun, then demonstrated it to Shangguan Wei'er at the alliance's underground base.
• Shangguan Wei'er was impressed by the handgun's power and low Soul Power consumption and agreed it could capture a large share of the low-level Soul Tool market.
• Zi Yao offered the Ordinary Alliance thirty percent of the profits and a Level 98 Super Douluo as a hidden backer, prompting Shangguan Wei'er to accept the deal.

Ice Empress killed Nangong Wan while defending the Ordinary Alliance’s shipment, and Zi Yao warned Shangguan Wei'er that the Holy Spirit Cult might retaliate. After leaving the Alliance, Ice Empress decided to stay with Zi Yao and invited him to sleep with her.

• Nangong Wan ambushed the Ordinary Alliance’s convoy with several dozen Evil Soul Masters and tried to seize its rare metals.
• Ice Empress revealed her ultimate ice power, killed Nangong Wan, and helped Zi Yao collect the attackers’ spoils.
• Shangguan Wei'er worried that the Holy Spirit Cult would retaliate, and Zi Yao told her that the alliance was already bound to him.
• Ice Empress warned Zi Yao to stay away from Shangguan Wei'er, then chose to remain with him rather than return to Earth Dragon Gate.
• Ice Empress reminded Zi Yao that they had not slept together since his Martial Soul awakening and said he belonged to her that night; Zi Yao agreed.

Ice Empress lay beside Zi Yao and, after reflecting on her feelings and desire to leave descendants, kissed him while he slept. Snow Empress Remnant Soul warned her through the Extreme Ice Divine Crystal, but Ice Empress ignored her and found messages pleading with her to stop.

• Zi Yao and Ice Empress went to sleep in the same bed, and Ice Empress quietly moved closer after he fell asleep.
• Ice Empress considered her long-standing pride, her wish to pass on her bloodline, and the possibility that Zi Yao was the only male she could accept.
• Snow Empress Remnant Soul confronted Ice Empress through the Extreme Ice Divine Crystal and warned her not to touch Zi Yao.
• Ice Empress defied Snow Empress Remnant Soul and kissed Zi Yao while he slept.
• Ice Empress examined the dimmed crystal and found Snow Empress Remnant Soul's pleas not to touch him and an offer of a Hundred Thousand Year Snow Lotus.

Zi Yao grew closer to Ice Empress while the Xishui Alliance survived attacks after Nangong Wan’s death, and Ju Zi concealed her connection to the Soul Tool Handgun from Xu Tianran. Ice Empress left to pursue a breakthrough, while Xu Tianran continued seeking the Holy Spirit Cult’s support and Ju Zi returned to her research.

• Ice Empress woke in Zi Yao’s arms, and the two played together before Zi Yao invited her to explore Ming Du.
• Ice Empress spent the next dozen days with Zi Yao in Ming Du as he checked the Soul Tool Handgun production line and earned 1.3 million Gold Soul Coins.
• After Nangong Wan’s death, Feng Ling destroyed more than a dozen factions attacking the Xishui Alliance, and the alliance stopped its rivals from taking advantage of the turmoil.
• Ice Empress left to devour Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow and pursue a breakthrough.
• Xu Tianran asked Ju Zi about the Soul Tool Handgun and gave her one, but Ju Zi claimed she already owned one and concealed her ties to its production.

Huo Yuhao wrote to Zi Yao about his failure to become a Martial Soul Department core disciple and sent him the Whale Rubber. Zi Yao identified it as Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and consumed it to strengthen his First Soul Ring, while Meng Hongchen arrived seeking his help for Xiao Hongchen.

• Huo Yuhao wrote about placing second in the Freshman Assessment and being rejected as a core disciple, then sent Zi Yao the Whale Rubber he had bought.
• The Titan Snow Demon King and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm discussed Zi Yao's relationship with the Ice Snow Twin Empresses and recalled how the Titan Snow Demon King became Huo Yuhao's second Soul Ring.
• Zi Yao read Huo Yuhao's letter, criticized Shrek's Martial Soul Department for overlooking his potential, and replied with encouragement to consider whether he wanted to stay.
• Zi Yao recognized the grayish-black Whale Rubber as Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, melted it in the laboratory, and swallowed it with medicinal herbs to try to raise his First Soul Ring to ten thousand years.
• As the Whale Rubber's heat surged through Zi Yao's body and his First Soul Ring darkened, Meng Hongchen arrived at the laboratory door hoping to ask him to help Xiao Hongchen.

Zi Yao refined Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, which raised his First Soul Ring to the ten-thousand-year level and increased his Soul Power to Level 36. After Meng Hongchen asked him to speak with her despondent brother, Zi Yao went with her to see Xiao Hongchen, who recoiled when he opened the door.

• Meng Hongchen found Zi Yao overwhelmed by the Whale Rubber's effects, and he nearly harmed her before the Snow Empress helped him suppress the medicinal power.
• Zi Yao refined the Whale Rubber, advanced his First Soul Ring to the ten-thousand-year level, and rose from Soul Power level thirty-five to Level 36.
• Meng Hongchen told Zi Yao that Xiao Hongchen had shut himself in his room since their match and asked him to talk to her brother.
• Zi Yao bathed and followed Meng Hongchen to her family's villa, where they went to Xiao Hongchen's room.
• Xiao Hongchen opened the door, saw Zi Yao, and backed away in fear, warning him that the match was over.