Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan completed two prototype Soul Tool communication devices and passed Xuan Ziwen’s assessment, earning a place as his student. Ju Zi recognized the device’s potential and began testing it, leaving Mu Yuan to receive a stream of messages she had sent.

• Mu Yuan finished two brick-shaped prototype communication Soul Tools in two hours.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Mu Yuan to Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu, then learned that Mu Yuan had already completed his assessment Soul Tool.
• Mu Yuan demonstrated how the devices transmitted messages using signals called 0 and 1, and Xuan Ziwen approved him as a student.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Mu Yuan research materials and said he would join Ju Zi and the others on a project, with Rare Metal available if he worked on it.
• Ju Zi tried the communication tool, quickly learned its encoding, and sent Mu Yuan several messages before realizing he was receiving them.

Mu Yuan joined Xuan Ziwen’s research on Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottles, studying their Soul Power circulation structures for his Spirit Forged Metal plans. Jing Hongchen decided to let the exchange students study freely and continued examining the nature of Spirit Forged Metal.

• Ju Zi returned Mu Yuan’s communicator and asked how he had made it, but he declined to explain.
• Mu Yuan read Xuan Ziwen’s materials and learned that the research aimed to stop Soul Power leaking from Milk Bottles, with Level 6 technology still in development.
• Mu Yuan studied Milk Bottle Core Arrays because their Soul Power channels could help him adapt Spirit Forged Metal for Battle Armor.
• After hearing Elder Ma’s report, Jing Hongchen ordered that the exchange group be left to study and planned to assess their progress after six months.
• Jing Hongchen examined the Spirit Forged Metal and reasoned that its spirituality already existed within Rare Metal, waiting to be awakened.

Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming examined Spirit-Forged Deep Silver and its ability to merge with them. Kong Deming abandoned his old Life Soul Tool plan to pursue a breakthrough before the Sun Moon Empire’s succession and likely war.

• Jing Hongchen absorbed the Spirit-Forged Deep Silver he had nurtured for half a year, but remained unsure how to uncover its spirit.
• The Sun Moon Imperial Family bought ten pieces of Spirit-Forged Deep Silver and gave them to Kong Deming for his secret research.
• Kong Deming concluded that Spirit-Forged Metal could merge with his Martial Soul and better support his Life Soul Tool than his Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Kong Deming decided to abandon the shield and use Spirit-Forged Metal to break through, despite wanting a rarer material.
• Kong Deming feared the Sun Moon Emperor’s death would bring Xu Tianran to the throne and lead the empire into war.

Mu Yuan successfully condensed a stable Blood Essence Soul Ring and considered using Sealed Milk Bottle technology to stabilize it further and inscribe Core Arrays. He asked Xuan Ziwen to help develop the necessary array, while Huo Yuhao continued struggling to memorize Mingde Hall’s Core Arrays.

• Xuan Ziwen was impressed by Mu Yuan’s talent, brought him into his research project, and taught him through practical Core Array work.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Detection to memorize Mingde Hall’s Soul Tool Core Arrays, but the effort left him exhausted and listless.
• Mu Yuan condensed Bloodline Power into a ring that no longer collapsed, though Electrolux pointed out that it had only the appearance of a Soul Ring and no practical use.
• Mu Yuan proposed adapting Sealed Milk Bottle technology to stabilize the Blood Essence Soul Ring and create an array within it.
• Mu Yuan showed his Blood Essence Soul Ring to Xuan Ziwen and asked him to help turn it into a Soul Tool by inscribing Core Arrays.

Mu Yuan and Xuan Ziwen experimented with inscribing a Core Array into Mu Yuan’s Blood Essence Soul Ring, and Mu Yuan discovered he could condense the ring again far faster than before. Electrolux explained that the process might turn the Blood Essence Ring Condensation into a Soul Skill, leaving Mu Yuan wondering whether he was cultivating toward becoming a Soul Beast.

• Mu Yuan explained to Xuan Ziwen that a sufficiently powerful body could carry a Core Array if its attributes were compatible, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to help develop the Blood Essence Soul Ring using materials Mu Yuan provided.
• Xuan Ziwen and Mu Yuan attempted to inscribe Core Array patterns into the Blood Essence Soul Ring, but the ring collapsed during their experiment.
• Mu Yuan condensed the Blood Essence Soul Ring again in two hours, much faster than the several months it had taken the first time.
• Electrolux observed that the Laws of Heaven and Earth seemed to be helping the Blood Essence Soul Ring transform, and suggested that it could become a Soul Skill called Blood Essence Ring Condensation.
• Mu Yuan asked Electrolux whether he was following the path of a Soul Beast, and Electrolux agreed in theory, prompting Mu Yuan to worry about Soul Beasts’ deadly million-year tribulation.

Mu Yuan and Xuan Ziwen perfected the Blood Essence Soul Ring, turning Blood Essence Ring Condensation into Mu Yuan’s unique Soul Skill. After showing it to Chi Xiao and Qi Lin, Mu Yuan realized the Bloodline Furnace Method might also be preserved as a Soul Skill through the form of a Soul Ring.

• Mu Yuan regained confidence in cultivating his Blood Qi along a Soul Beast-like path and continued experimenting with Xuan Ziwen.
• Xuan Ziwen identified the need for a dynamic balance between the Blood Essence Soul Ring and the Blood Qi circulating through Mu Yuan’s body.
• Mu Yuan and Xuan Ziwen successfully inscribed a Core Array, stabilizing the ring and making Blood Essence Ring Condensation Mu Yuan’s Soul Skill.
• Mu Yuan gave Xuan Ziwen Peiyuan Pills, then returned to the dormitory and demonstrated his new technique to Chi Xiao and Qi Lin.
• Chi Xiao wondered whether the Bloodline Furnace Method could also become a Soul Skill, and Mu Yuan realized the key might be forming it as a Soul Ring.

Mu Yuan perfected his first Blood Essence Soul Ring with Xuan Ziwen’s help, making it part of his body and greatly improving his Blood Qi circulation. He failed to condense a second ring because the first was not yet complete, and began planning an explosive Blood Essence Soul Skill to finish it.

• Mu Yuan taught Qi Lin and Chi Xiao his Blood Essence Ring Condensation technique, and both elders expected to master it after about half a month.
• Xuan Ziwen helped Mu Yuan improve the Blood Essence Soul Ring’s internal structure, making his Bloodline Power circulate more smoothly and strengthening his cultivation.
• Xuan Ziwen streamlined the ring’s Core Array, then told Mu Yuan to continue the work himself.
• Electrolux advised Mu Yuan to try condensing a second Blood Essence Soul Ring, but the attempt failed because the first ring remained incomplete under the plane’s restrictions.
• Electrolux explained that Mu Yuan needed to develop the ring into a true Soul Ring by giving it a Soul Skill, and Mu Yuan chose to pursue explosive Blood Qi power.

Mu Yuan formed a heaven-and-earth contract for his Blood Essence Soul Ring with Electrolux’s help, then checked Chi Xiao and Qi Lin’s progress with Blood Essence Ring Condensation. After learning they could not inscribe the high-level Core Arrays he used, Mu Yuan devised a simpler set of arrays for them to practice.

• Electrolux helped Mu Yuan establish a contract between his Blood Essence Soul Ring and heaven and earth, causing silver patterns to appear and then vanish.
• Mu Yuan visited Chi Xiao and Qi Lin and confirmed that both elders could condense stable Blood Essence Soul Rings.
• Mu Yuan asked Chi Xiao and Qi Lin to inscribe three sixth-level Core Arrays, but their rings collapsed when they heard the difficulty.
• Electrolux suggested using lower-level Core Arrays, and Mu Yuan designed an array made from overlapping third-level techniques.
• Mu Yuan told Chi Xiao and Qi Lin to practice mastering the simplified array.

Mu Yuan explained the long-term potential of the Blood Essence Soul Ring Path to Chi Xiao and Qi Lin, then considered why the God Realm might suppress lower planes from reaching godhood. Back in his dormitory, he explored ways to improve his own Blood Essence Soul Rings and began testing whether he could raise the age of his existing Soul Rings.

• Mu Yuan told Chi Xiao and Qi Lin that they would need to keep upgrading their Core Array framework as their Mental Power and cultivation advanced, and both elders accepted the long-term effort.
• Mu Yuan reasoned that the God Realm had reasons to restrict lower planes from reaching God Level, but he still wanted to help the Body Sect’s cultivators pursue a path beyond their limits.
• After teaching the Blood Essence Soul Ring Path to the two elders, Mu Yuan returned to his dormitory and tried to turn the Bloodline Furnace into a Blood Essence Soul Skill, but could not yet inscribe it as a Core Array.
• Qi Lin’s remarks about having a visible path for improving Soul Rings inspired Mu Yuan to investigate whether he could increase the age of his existing Soul Rings.
• Mu Yuan activated his First Soul Skill, Diamond Demon Body, and considered how raising a Soul Ring’s age might improve its amplification while affecting its Soul Power cost.

Mu Yuan used his experience with the Diamond Demon Body to develop a method for elevating Soul Rings, hoping to learn how to condense Blood Essence Soul Rings. After a Spirit-Forged Deep Silver bridge dramatically improved the process, he and Electrolux continued despite the backlash from heaven and earth.

• Mu Yuan struggled to enhance his First Soul Ring by circulating Soul Power around it, gradually raising his efficiency to two hundred years of Soul Ring cultivation per year.
• Electrolux observed Mu Yuan's attempts and encouraged him to keep searching for better techniques.
• After a week of practice, Mu Yuan decided he needed a bridge into the Soul Ring and chose Spirit-Forged Deep Silver.
• Electrolux formed an array linking the Spirit-Forged Deep Silver, Mu Yuan's First Soul Ring, and heaven and earth.
• Mu Yuan used the bridge to raise his Soul Ring's cultivation by ten years in one day, while Electrolux endured the backlash.
• Mu Yuan asked whether the pressure was too much, and Electrolux offered to teach him how to withstand it before they resumed the elevation attempt.

Mu Yuan tempered his Willpower through Soul Ring Elevation during the exchange program and, when it ended, demanded the Core Arrays Huo Yuhao had reproduced from Shrek Academy. Du Busi backed Mu Yuan at the border, leaving Qian Duoduo under pressure to hand them over.

• Mu Yuan realized the oppression of heaven and earth tested Willpower, then used his Visualization Method while elevating his First Soul Ring to strengthen it.
• During the half-year exchange, Mu Yuan cultivated and researched with Xuan Ziwen while Huo Yuhao reproduced Mingde Hall’s Core Arrays and Fan Yu and He Caitou studied Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen escorted the exchange group to the border, where both sides completed the handover with Du Busi and Qian Duoduo.
• Mu Yuan told Du Busi to stop Shrek’s people and demanded that Qian Duoduo hand over all the Core Arrays Huo Yuhao had reproduced.
• Qian Duoduo offered one copy on conditions, and Du Busi released his Soul Power to pressure Shrek’s group.

Qian Duoduo and the others traveled to Shrek City with Du Busi and the Body Sect, but Du Busi judged their Core Array materials incomplete and punished Fan Yu by poisoning his arm. Qian Duoduo brought Fan Yu to the Sea God Pavilion for treatment after Du Busi departed.

• Qian Duoduo refused to hand over Shrek's Core Array materials until they reached Shrek City, and Du Busi agreed to travel with the Shrek group.
• Near Shrek City, Fan Yu handed over materials, but Mu Yuan declared them insufficient, so Huo Yuhao and then Fan Yu produced more.
• Du Busi poisoned Fan Yu's right hand after receiving the final materials, and Qian Duoduo amputated Fan Yu's arm to stop the poison from spreading.
• Du Busi left Shrek City with Mu Yuan and the other Body Sect members after looking toward the Sea God Pavilion.
• Qian Duoduo took Fan Yu and the others to the Sea God Pavilion and asked Elder Zhuang to stabilize Fan Yu's injuries.

Mu Yuan returned to the Body Sect with Soul Tool Core Array materials and learned how severely Du Busi's campaign had weakened Shrek Academy. Mu Yuan traced the hidden powers supporting Shrek to the Clear Sky Sect, which Du Busi identified as the Body Sect's true enemy.

• Du Busi examined the Core Arrays Mu Yuan brought back, and Mu Yuan explained that Huo Yuhao had likely copied them using Mental Detection.
• Du Busi revealed that the Body Sect had intercepted Shrek students, fought the Golden Ancient Tree, crippled Shrek's enrollment, and driven more than a hundred Outer Court students to withdraw.
• Mu Yuan and Du Busi discussed the two powerful figures who had attacked the Body Sect, and Mu Yuan suggested they were the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape.
• Mu Yuan reasoned that Da Ming and Er Ming were likely staying somewhere connected to Tang San, and Du Busi concluded that the Clear Sky Sect was their true enemy.

Mu Yuan restrained Du Busi from rashly attacking the Clear Sky Sect and warned him that Wang Dong might carry a deity's methods. The Body Sect planned to weaken Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect through a Spirit Forging technology blockade and considered establishing itself at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Mu Yuan urged Du Busi to take the long view against the Clear Sky Sect, then warned him that attacking Wang Dong could provoke a fatal counterattack.
• Du Busi decided to convene a Body Sect meeting after concluding that directly targeting Clear Sky Sect disciples was too risky.
• Long Aotian proposed pressuring Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect while blocking their access to Spirit Forging technology and Spirit Forged Metal.
• Mu Yuan estimated that Spirit Forging could help other factions catch up to Shrek in a hundred years, or ten years under continuous pressure.
• Yu Gu proposed that the Body Sect establish itself at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Du Busi agreed that his strength now allowed him to claim it.

Mu Yuan and the Body Sect took control of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and discovered it could serve as a cultivation ground for Body Martial Souls. Mu Yuan began refining his body between the springs with the power of two Immortal Herbs, while Electrolux noticed his Visualization Method changing alongside his body.

• Du Busi agreed that the Body Sect should occupy the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then returned from scouting it with news that the Clear Sky Sect's defenders had been defeated.
• Mu Yuan and the Body Sect disciples entered the valley, where they examined the springs, the damaged grounds, and the replanted Heavenly Treasures.
• Mu Yuan, Long Aotian, and the other disciples tested the springs' power and learned that its ice and fire could temper Body Martial Souls and aid Secondary Awakening.
• Du Busi gave Mu Yuan the Blazing Glue and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, which Mu Yuan swallowed before entering the space between the springs to refine his body.
• Mu Yuan endured the alternating heat and cold as phenomena appeared in his Spirit Sea, and Electrolux observed that his Visualization Method had become more closely connected to his body.

During Ice and Fire Golden Body Refining, Mu Yuan entered a strange state that transformed his Dharma Image and began his Body Martial Soul’s Second Awakening. He woke before completing the transformation and realized what was happening.

• Mu Yuan entered his Spirit Sea and watched the Eight-Armed God Demon Dharma Image change as his spirit and flesh began to intertwine.
• Mu Yuan explored his body through colored lights, making his Dharma Image more complete and tangible.
• Du Busi sensed Mu Yuan becoming the core of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and recognized that he was undergoing Martial Soul Second Awakening.
• Mu Yuan twisted the lights in his strange vision and formed two additional arms, bringing his total to four.
• Electrolux woke Mu Yuan when his body reached its limit, and Mu Yuan recognized that he had begun Martial Soul Second Awakening.

Mu Yuan’s Ice and Fire Golden Body Refining triggered a Gold-grade Martial Soul Secondary Awakening, giving his Eight-Armed God Demon Dharma Image a complete physical form. Du Busi realized that Mu Yuan’s awakening was powerful but costly to use before he reached Rank 90, and considered whether the valley’s Heavenly Treasures could help replenish his depleted origin.

• Mu Yuan regained control of his body and realized that his two physical arms no longer matched the eight arms of his Dharma Image, which had stalled his Secondary Awakening.
• Mu Yuan circulated an instinctive esoteric technique and began merging the Eight-Armed God Demon Dharma Image into his body.
• Golden light erupted around Mu Yuan as Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and the ice and fire springs surged around him.
• Du Busi saw Mu Yuan’s fully manifested Dharma Image and recognized that Mu Yuan had achieved an unprecedented Gold-grade Secondary Awakening.
• Du Busi realized that Mu Yuan might be unable to use the awakening safely before Rank 90, but the valley’s Heavenly Treasures could potentially replenish the origin each use consumed.

Mu Yuan completed a Gold-level Second Awakening and learned that his Visualization Method and the Blade of Life helped him recover from its origin depletion. After testing the ability, he reached a five-hundred-percent enhancement before his body and mind forced him to stop.

• Mu Yuan emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after his Gold-level Second Awakening solidified four arms of his Eight-Armed God Demon Dharma Image.
• Du Busi asked Mu Yuan about the experience, then explained that Gold-level Second Awakenings consumed origin.
• Electrolux told Mu Yuan that his abundant origin and the Blade of Life had been restoring him, and Mu Yuan attributed his fast recovery to his Visualization Method.
• Mu Yuan manifested his Dharma Image and tested the awakening, first gaining a two-hundred-percent enhancement and then raising it to five hundred percent by burning more origin.
• Mu Yuan stopped when depletion outpaced recovery and the strain made him feel weak, then withdrew from the awakening before collapsing.

After his Ice and Fire Golden Body Refining and Martial Soul Second Awakening pushed his Soul Power to a bottleneck, Mu Yuan returned to the Body Sect and designed a new method to condense a Soul Core. He succeeded, reached level 60, and prepared to seek his Sixth Soul Ring.

• Mu Yuan's Soul Power stalled near level 60, so Du Busi took him back to the Body Sect to study Soul Core condensation.
• Mu Yuan spent three months designing a complex Core Array and asked Elder Electrolux to let him condense the Soul Core himself.
• Mu Yuan used his Blood Essence Soul Ring to form the Core Array and guide his Soul Power into a vortex in his Dantian.
• Mu Yuan fed the vortex life energy stored in a Spirit Forged Spirit Crystal, completing his Soul Core and reaching level 60.
• Mu Yuan considered his planned choice for a Sixth Soul Ring.

Mu Yuan decided to hunt an Evil Spirit Orca for a control-type sixth Soul Skill, confident that he could withstand the Soul Ring and avoid detection by the Sea God. After preparing an escape route through the Undead Semi-Plane, he and Du Busi left the Body Sect and arrived at a village from Mu Yuan’s past.

• Mu Yuan reviewed his Soul Skills and decided his sixth Soul Ring should come from an Evil Spirit Orca to grant him spatial control.
• Du Busi learned of Mu Yuan’s plan and worried the Sea God might detect them, but Mu Yuan explained that Electrolux could block the Sea God’s perception.
• Mu Yuan assured Du Busi they could escape through the Undead Semi-Plane if they encountered danger, and Du Busi agreed to go into the deep sea.
• Mu Yuan and Du Busi prepared quietly and left the Body Sect for the East Sea coast.
• Mu Yuan returned to the rebuilt village where he had once obtained a Secret Technique Soul Bone, and Du Busi watched him silently as he recalled the past.