Chapter Summaries

Dai Hao learned that Dai Huabin had killed Huo Yun'er and ordered Huo Yuhao to abandon the Dai surname and stay hidden, while Huo Yuhao swore revenge. Chen Ming learned of Huo Yun'er's death and began investigating the Tang Sect, as Long Xiaoyao discovered that Shrek had decided to exterminate it.

• Dai Hao recalled Huo Yun'er as a former lover, learned she had borne him Dai Yuhao, and dismissed her death as unimportant.
• Dai Hao ordered Huo Yuhao to change his surname and remain out of sight, and Huo Yuhao silently accepted while vowing to kill Dai Hao with the White Tiger Dagger.
• Chen Ming learned that Dai Huabin had beaten Huo Yun'er to death and sent Huo Yuhao a letter urging him to endure his hardships.
• Chen Ming began investigating the Tang Sect and learned that the Iron Blood Sect was preparing to destroy it while Shrek mobilized its Inspectorate disciples.
• Long Xiaoyao questioned Shrek's failure to protect the Tang Sect, then learned that Shrek itself had decided to exterminate it.

Long Xiaoyao learned that Shrek Academy had decided to let the Tang Sect fend for itself, and Yan Shaozhe defended the plan as a matter of Shrek’s honor. Long Xiaoyao withdrew from the dispute, while the Iron Blood Sect invaded the Tang Sect and began killing its members.

• Long Xiaoyao challenged the elders over Shrek’s role in the Tang Sect’s plight, and Yan Shaozhe explained that Shrek would not help the Tang Sect survive on its own.
• Xuan Zi declared that Shrek’s honor mattered above all, and Long Xiaoyao gave up arguing and returned to the Outer Court.
• Long Xiaoyao disguised himself as an old man and rested near the New Student Dormitory Building, trying to forget the meeting and his family troubles.
• The Iron Blood Sect attacked the Tang Sect after learning that Shrek tacitly approved of its decline.
• Tang Ya’s parents sent her through a secret passage, and Tie Li watched an Iron Blood Sect Soul Elder defeat and kill Tang Ya’s father.

Tie Li destroyed the Tang Sect while Tang Ya escaped with a mysterious letter that turned her against Shrek Academy, but Tang San altered her memories and sent her to Shrek. Chen Ming’s experiment succeeded in stirring the thread of fate, while Tang San’s control of the God Realm Hub and his campaign against potential gods were revealed.

• Tie Li killed Tang Ya’s parents and searched the Tang Sect for valuables as Tang Ya escaped through a secret passage.
• An anonymous benefactor gave Tang Ya a letter and soul tool inviting her to the Star Dou Empire Royal Academy, and Tang Ya blamed Shrek for the Tang Sect’s destruction.
• A Sea God Family Soul Douluo killed the Shrek watcher who considered murdering Tang Ya, then reported that events had gone wrong.
• Tang San read Tang Ya’s memories, erased her knowledge of the letter, and implanted the belief that she needed to attend Shrek Academy to restore the Tang Sect.
• Tang San used the God Realm Hub to monitor powerful Douluo and described how he had used rival factions to eliminate people capable of becoming gods.
• Tang Ya joined Shrek Academy, and Chen Ming learned that his experiment had produced the reaction he expected.

Chen Ming realized Tang Chen’s notes offered only fragmented theories about the Great Sumeru Hammer, while the Mysterious Heaven Skill might be incomplete and dangerous to cultivate. He began designing a safer body-tempering method based on techniques from his past life, settling on the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and experimenting with it in seclusion.

• Chen Ming discovered that Tang Chen’s notebook contained scattered theories about Soul Ring Detonation but no concrete instructions for the Great Sumeru Hammer.
• Worried that the Mysterious Heaven Skill lacked its true foundation and could leave him vulnerable to Tang San, Chen Ming decided to develop his own cultivation method.
• Chen Ming saw Zhang Lexuan imprisoned in Mingde Hall and became more determined to grow strong enough to avoid a similar fate.
• Chen Ming spent half a month collecting and evaluating cultivation ideas from his previous life, then chose the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill as a practical foundation.
• Chen Ming tested ways to coordinate Soul Power with movement and found that radio calisthenics offered especially stable circulation.
• Chen Ming continued developing his method in seclusion by combining medicinal applications, Soul Power activation, and rhythmic patting.

Chen Ming tested an early version of his Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill and explained his plan to help Soul Masters improve their innate limits by actively opening and strengthening their meridians. Inspired by Chen Ming’s reasoning, Kong Deming began documenting his own cultivation state, then shifted focus to assessing the three youngsters for their fourth Soul Rings.

• Chen Ming guided Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen through rhythmic exercises that circulated Soul Power and stimulated their bodies.
• Chen Ming explained that his new cultivation method aimed to strengthen the body and meridians so Soul Masters could push beyond the limits imposed by their talent.
• Kong Deming realized that his own open meridians and continuous Soul Power circulation could provide a model for a new cultivation system, and he began recording diagrams of his condition.
• Kong Deming announced that Chen Ming, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen had waited long enough at the fortieth-level threshold and needed fourth Soul Rings.
• Kong Deming planned to assess their spiritual and Soul Power conditions over the next few days before leading them to hunt suitable Soul Rings.

Kong Deming tested Chen Ming, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen, then assessed their fourth soul-ring limits and led them to the Star Dou Great Forest to find suitable beasts. Xiao Hongchen absorbed a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear’s soul ring, while Chen Ming declined the other bear and found no soul bone in its body.

• Kong Deming examined the three youths, praised their exceptional physical abilities, and determined how old their fourth soul rings could be.
• Chen Ming, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen chose the kinds of soul skills and beasts they wanted, so Kong Deming led them to the Star Dou Great Forest with Jing Hongchen and Chen Li.
• After ten days of searching, the group found two Dark Gold Dread Bears, and Chen Ming declined them because he wanted a stronger target.
• Chen Li subdued the bears, and Xiao Hongchen absorbed the roughly fifteen-thousand-year-old bear’s soul ring over six hours.
• Chen Ming had the bear’s body opened but found no soul bone, leaving him disappointed by his continued bad luck.

Xiao Hongchen gained the Golden Sacrifice Soul Skill from his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear Soul Ring, and Meng Hongchen obtained a rare Exotic Two-Headed Snake Soul Ring that granted her Ice Fire Fusion. Kong Deming revealed that two Hundred-Thousand-Year serpents lived in the icefire mountains and planned for Meng to seek their Soul Rings in the future before leading the group deeper into the Core Area for Chen Ming’s Soul Ring.

• Xiao Hongchen demonstrated Golden Sacrifice, which let him burn Soul Power or metal to strengthen his gold attribute, and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level forty-four.
• Kong Deming led the group to the icefire mountains, where they searched the swamp for a suitable poison-type Soul Beast for Meng Hongchen.
• Kong Deming unearthed a nearly twenty-thousand-year-old Exotic Two-Headed Snake with ice, fire, and poison attributes, and Meng Hongchen chose it for her Fourth Soul Ring.
• Meng Hongchen obtained Ice Fire Fusion, which let her combine or burn her ice and fire attributes and wield both cold and fire poison.
• Kong Deming disclosed that two Hundred-Thousand-Year ice- and fire-attribute serpents lived in the mountains and said he planned to bring Meng back for their Soul Rings when she needed her Eighth and Ninth Soul Rings.
• Kong Deming credited Chen Ming’s research into Sea God’s life story for helping him find the Immortal Herbs, then prepared to search the Core Area for Chen Ming’s Soul Ring.

Kong Deming, Chen Li, and Jing Hongchen protected Chen Ming as they searched the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area for a Soul Ring. They subdued a twenty-one-thousand-year Golden Earth Dragon King, and Chen Ming absorbed its Soul Ring, awakening golden bloodline and Light Power.

• Kong Deming kicked a Hundred-Thousand-Year Demon Eye Magic Tree that was pretending to be a plant, then let it flee.
• After three days of searching, the group found a newly evolved Golden Earth Dragon King in its canyon nest.
• Chen Li paralyzed the Golden Earth Dragon King and broke its limbs while Kong Deming cut open its body for Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming collected the dragon’s golden-red blood and absorbed its black Soul Ring, suppressing the beast’s resentful remnant with his Vajra Dragon Elephant Phantom.
• As Chen Ming completed the absorption, golden energy and Light Power began to emerge from within him.

Chen Ming absorbed the Golden Earth Dragon King's Soul Ring, gained powerful holy Light Attribute abilities, and explained that Golden Earth Dragons descended from Bright Earth Dragons altered by the Golden Dragon King's power. His Fourth Soul Skill, Golden Glory, could restore his reserves and transfer the cooldowns of his other Soul Rings; the group left the Star Dou Great Forest with Chen Ming wondering whether he could take Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in two years.

• Chen Ming absorbed the Golden Earth Dragon King's power, which fused suppressed White Dragon blood into his Martial Soul and greatly strengthened his Light Attribute.
• Chen Ming explained his theory about Golden Earth Dragons to Chen Li and Kong Deming, who examined his new Light Attribute and found it pure and powerful.
• Chen Ming revealed that he had reached Level 46 and described Golden Glory's restorative effect and ability to transfer his other Soul Ring cooldowns.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen recognized the extraordinary value of Chen Ming's Soul Skill, while Kong Deming stored the Golden Earth Dragon King's corpse.
• The group left the Star Dou Great Forest, and Chen Ming wondered whether he could take Sky Dream Ice Silkworm when he returned in two years.

After reaching Rank 49, Chen Ming received the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and suspected its Life Gold and Vengeful Spirit concealed a powerful secret. He used the Dragon Elephant Sect’s Holy Water Pool to purify it with the Angel God's Chestplate Fragment, then left unaware that the fragment had begun draining the knife’s life force.

• Chen Ming advanced from Rank 46 to Rank 49 in eight months, and Chen Li gave him the cursed Spirit Devouring Carving Knife as a belated birthday gift.
• Chen Li told Chen Ming how the knife had driven its owners to madness and death, and how the sect had treated it with Holy Water.
• Chen Ming recognized the knife as Life Gold and wondered about its ancient maker, its powerful Vengeful Spirit, and the fate of its former owners.
• Chen Ming and Chen Li took the knife to the Dragon Elephant Sect’s Holy Water Pool, where the Angel God's Chestplate Fragment awakened and unleashed the Angel Sword to subdue it.
• Chen Ming found the knife’s rejection had vanished and sensed its immense life force, but it slowly devoured his Soul Power and vitality; Chen Li lamented that the chestplate had lost most of its energy.
• After Chen Ming and Chen Li left, the chestplate fragment climbed onto the knife and began siphoning its life force, strengthened by faith gathered from the Dragon Elephant Sect.

Huo Yuhao left White Tiger Duke's Mansion to seek his first Soul Ring, carrying a renewed desire for revenge against the Dai Family. Near the Star Dou Great Forest, he met Chen Ming, who offered to help him become a Soul Engineer and obtain a Spirit System Soul Ring; Huo Yuhao agreed, despite the possibility of opposing the Star Luo Empire.

• Huo Yuhao left White Tiger Duke's Mansion and resolved to punish the Dai Family members and servants who had wronged him and his mother.
• After traveling for several days, Huo Yuhao reached the Star Dou Great Forest and found Chen Ming grilling fish beside a river.
• Chen Ming shared medicinal-herb grilled fish with Huo Yuhao and warned him after Huo Yuhao used spiritual power to probe him.
• Chen Ming recognized Huo Yuhao's potential as a Spirit Attribute Soul Master, explained Soul Tools, and gave him an introductory book.
• Chen Ming offered to help Huo Yuhao obtain a Spirit System Soul Ring if he joined the force behind him, warning that it might bring him into conflict with the Star Luo Empire and the White Tiger Duke.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Chen Ming's offer and said he did not mind opposing the Star Luo Empire.

Chen Ming gave Huo Yuhao a storage Soul Tool and introductory books before revealing that his faction was the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy. After meeting Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Long Xiaoyun, Chen Ming took Huo Yuhao toward the Star Dou Great Forest, where a Wind Baboon's Soul Ring drew an unexpected voice that mistook Huo Yuhao for someone with the Spirit Attribute.

• Chen Ming gave Huo Yuhao a Level 3 storage Soul Tool and three introductory encyclopedias, then identified their faction as the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuhao met Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Long Xiaoyun while grilling fish, and Chen Ming shared six fish with them before leaving with Huo Yuhao.
• Chen Ming packed away the tent and led Huo Yuhao toward the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a soul beast.
• Chen Ming killed a Wind Baboon that attacked them, and its ten-year Soul Ring caught his attention.
• An unseen voice searched for a human with the Spirit Attribute, then complained when it realized Huo Yuhao had a strength attribute instead.

Chen Ming confronted the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and forced him to agree to sacrifice himself to Huo Yuhao, who received ten golden Soul Rings. As the ritual ended, the sky darkened and a gray current flowed through a rift into Huo Yuhao’s mind.

• Chen Ming tried to capture the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but his armor blocked the silkworm’s spiritual attack and his Soul Cannon Shells intimidated him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm refused to sacrifice himself to Chen Ming because Chen Ming lacked a Spirit Attribute, and he insisted that he could only sacrifice himself to a Spirit System Soul Master.
• Chen Ming and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm agreed that the silkworm would sacrifice himself to Huo Yuhao, provided both sides swore not to harm him.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm began the sacrifice, sending energy into Huo Yuhao and embedding ten golden Soul Rings in his body.
• As the ritual ended, a rift opened in the darkened sky and a gray current flowed into Huo Yuhao’s mind.

Electrolux escaped Huo Yuhao’s Sea of Consciousness and entered Chen Ming, taking a portion of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Origin and giving Chen Ming basic Light Magic knowledge. After Huo Yuhao completed the Sacrifice and Chen Ming flew with him toward the Sun Moon Empire, Scarlet King and the Three-Eyed Golden Gaze followed a mysterious call that led them toward the pair.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to repel Electrolux, but Electrolux used the attack to tear away one-tenth of his Origin and enter Chen Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux stabilized himself in Chen Ming’s mind, absorbed some of his Light and Holy Power, and left him knowledge of the Church’s Basic Light Magic.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm completed his Sacrifice to Huo Yuhao, leaving behind a Silkworm Slough as several powerful presences stirred in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Gaze sensed a guiding voice, persuaded Scarlet King to carry her toward the forest’s outskirts, and directed him toward its source.
• Chen Ming and Huo Yuhao flew along the forest’s edge, landed to recover from the storm, and shared grilled fish while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to conceal his identity from Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed a strong enemy, and Scarlet King stopped after detecting Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Detection as the Three-Eyed Golden Gaze recognized that the voice had led them toward him.

Chen Ming and Huo Yuhao encountered the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and Scarlet King outside the Star Dou Great Forest. After Chen Ming fought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Huo Yuhao returned to stand beside him, Chen Ming challenged her to a ten-move wager to secure their escape.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King caught the scent of Golden Dragon Blood on Chen Ming and focused their attention on him.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm explained the two Soul Beasts’ power and admitted he could teleport Huo Yuhao away but could not take Chen Ming with him.
• Chen Ming powered up, gave Huo Yuhao a Level 6 Invincible Soul Tool, and charged the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who struck him down without seriously injuring him.
• Huo Yuhao ran back to help Chen Ming and stood between him and the two Soul Beasts, prompting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to pause.
• Chen Ming bet that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could not kill him within ten moves, wagering that she and the Star Dou Great Forest’s Soul Beasts would let them leave if he won.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King accepted the wager.

Chen Ming fought the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to survive their wager while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm took control of Huo Yuhao and escaped with the Adamant Tiger Soul Bone. After the Auspicious Beast used nine moves, Chen Ming charged into her final attack.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion wagered that Chen Ming could not withstand ten moves and offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone if he forced her back, while Sky Dream Ice Silkworm gave Chen Ming his Silkworm Slough.
• Chen Ming endured the Auspicious Beast's first five attacks, using his resilience and Soul Tools to withstand her overwhelming strength.
• Chen Ming used gravity manipulation and the Silkworm Slough to survive the sixth and seventh moves as Sky Dream Ice Silkworm seized Huo Yuhao's Body, stole the Adamant Tiger Head Bone, and teleported away.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Scarlet King condemned Huo Yuhao's escape, and Scarlet King allowed the fight to continue while counting it as Chen Ming's eighth move.
• Chen Ming deflected the ninth move's Lion Meteor Shower with a Level 8 Invincible Shield, then charged at the Auspicious Beast as she launched her final attack.

Chen Ming survived the Three-Eyed Golden Gaze’s attack by using his right-leg soul bone skill, won their wager, and escaped back to Mingde Hall with his Invincible Hearthstone. He recounted a partly altered version of events to Kong Deming, who grew concerned about the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and vowed to remember the Star Dou Great Forest’s treatment of his disciple’s grandson.

• Chen Ming activated Dragon’s Protection and repelled the Three-Eyed Golden Gaze’s attack, injuring her forelimbs and claws.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Gaze honored their wager and let Chen Ming leave, then asked his name and Martial Soul before Scarlet King carried her back toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Chen Ming used his special talisman to activate the Invincible Hearthstone and teleport from the outskirts of the forest to Mingde Hall, scrapping the Rank 9 Soul Tool in the process.
• Kong Deming questioned Chen Ming about his battered condition, and Chen Ming gave him a partly altered account of meeting Huo Yuhao, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, the Three-Eyed Golden Gaze, and Scarlet King.
• Kong Deming suspected the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was an unusual Spirit System Fierce Beast and said he would examine the presence in Chen Ming’s mind, while vowing to remember the Star Dou Great Forest’s actions.

After Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's teleportation returned Huo Yuhao near Tang Ya's group, Huo Yuhao broke down over his Big Brother's apparent death and refused Tang Ya's offer to join Shrek Academy. When Tang Ya tried to force him to stay, Huo Yuhao and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm escaped, and Huo Yuhao set out for the Sun Moon Empire to find his Big Brother.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's teleportation dropped Huo Yuhao into a stream near Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Long Xiaoyun, and they pulled him ashore.
• Huo Yuhao grieved over betraying his Big Brother and smashed his head against a tree until Tang Ya restrained him with Blue Silver Grass.
• Huo Yuhao told Tang Ya that Scarlet King, a three-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast, had attacked them, and Tang Ya abandoned her plan to seek revenge.
• Tang Ya offered Huo Yuhao the Tang Sect's recommendation to Shrek Academy, but Huo Yuhao refused because he wanted to reach the Sun Moon Empire and find his Big Brother.
• Tang Ya attacked Huo Yuhao when he tried to leave, so Sky Dream Ice Silkworm used Spirit Shock to knock down Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Long Xiaoyun.
• Huo Yuhao left for the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Engineer Academy, suspecting that someone had been trying to steer him toward Shrek Academy.

After Electrolux awakened inside Chen Ming, he lost control and severely damaged Chen Ming’s Sea of Consciousness, then sacrificed fragments of his divine soul to help repair it. Chen Ming recovered enough to meet Electrolux and the Dragon Elephant Sect’s Angel God phantom in his spiritual world, where the two agreed to restrain themselves and talk.

• Chen Ming asked Kong Deming to search Shrek Academy and the surrounding realms for Huo Yuhao, while Kong Deming investigated the consciousness within Chen Ming and arranged to seek help from Evil Soul Masters.
• Chen Li took Chen Ming back to the Dragon Elephant Sect, where sacred energy and the Golden Dragon Blood Crystal helped stimulate Electrolux’s awakening.
• While Chen Ming watched the Sect’s children awaken their Martial Souls, Electrolux awoke in confusion and violently disrupted Chen Ming’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux regained his memories, realized he had harmed Chen Ming, and used the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s origin and fragments of his divine soul to repair Chen Ming’s mind.
• Chen Li placed Chen Ming in the Holy Water Pool and used medicine and the Angel God’s Divine Armor Fragment to stabilize him, allowing Electrolux to draw on the outside energy and finish repairing Chen Ming.
• Inside Chen Ming’s spiritual world, Electrolux and the Angel God phantom confronted each other before Chen Ming persuaded them to stop fighting and discuss the misunderstanding.

After recovering from the ceremony, Chen Ming spoke with Electrolux and revealed that he knew the Holy Demon Continent’s history from a book in his previous life. Electrolux accepted Chen Ming as his disciple and began teaching him Paladin cultivation, while reserving his unique Light Magic until Chen Ming proved himself.

• Chen Li examined Chen Ming after the ceremony and left the Angel God's Divine Armor Fragment and Life Gold beside him before returning to stabilize the sect.
• Chen Ming entered his Sea of Consciousness and apologized to Electrolux, who had nearly caused it to collapse while awakening.
• Chen Ming told Electrolux about his past and shared the stories of Divine Throne and Peerless Tang Sect, leaving Electrolux shaken by the fate described in the latter.
• Electrolux reasoned that Chen Ming’s arrival had already changed the world’s fate, then asked about Chen Ming’s goal; Chen Ming said he wanted to become a god and repay his sect.
• Electrolux agreed to take Chen Ming as his disciple, offering Light and soul magic at first and withholding his unique Light Magic until Chen Ming passed a test.
• Electrolux gave Chen Ming the Paladin cultivation method and explained how it strengthened the body and will through Light and Holy Power.