Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan reflected on the danger of the human-refined Secret Technique Soul Bone before Du Busi brought him to meet Long Xiaoyao, a newly revealed Limit Douluo. Long Xiaoyao asked whether Du Busi possessed the Soul Bone made by the Eastsea City Evil Soul Master.

• Mu Yuan considered how Evil Soul Masters could use the Secret Technique to slaughter humans and make powerful Soul Bones.
• Du Busi told Mu Yuan that someone had arrived and took him to a seaside cliff to meet Long Xiaoyao.
• Du Busi recognized Long Xiaoyao as a living Limit Douluo and challenged him over appearing after Mu En's death.
• Long Xiaoyao explained that he had been secretly hunting powerful Evil Soul Masters while serving the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao asked Du Busi whether he and Mu Yuan had killed the Eastsea City Evil Soul Master and held the human-refined Secret Technique Soul Bone.

Du Busi and Mu Yuan left after Long Xiaoyao questioned the Body Sect’s Bloodline cultivation, and Electrolux explained that the sea was a world within a world under the Sea God’s influence. After two months of searching, Du Busi and Mu Yuan found a group of Evil Spirit Orcas led by a hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King.

• Long Xiaoyao questioned Du Busi about the Body Sect’s methods and warned he would fight them if they spread the evil secret technique, while Du Busi denied that the sect needed Secret Technique Soul Bones to cultivate Bloodline Power.
• Long Xiaoyao used a Soul Tool to inspect Mu Yuan’s Soul Power, found little Demonic Qi, and concluded Mu Yuan had suppressed the Demon Seed before leaving through a Spatial Rift.
• Du Busi told Mu Yuan about Long Xiaoyao’s past and admitted that the continent’s growing number of Limit Douluo put pressure on the Body Sect.
• Electrolux told Mu Yuan that the sea’s accumulated faith in the Sea God had made it a world within a world, but said he could still conceal Mu Yuan from Tang San.
• After searching the deep sea for roughly two months, Du Busi and Mu Yuan found more than thirty Evil Spirit Orcas, including a hundred-thousand-year Evil Orca King.

Mu Yuan and Du Busi watched an Evil Spirit Orca pod hunt Sea Soul Beasts, and Mu Yuan discovered that his Yang-to-Yin Heavenly Thunder Right Arm Bone drew in Blood Qi that the Heavenly Thunder destroyed, leaving nourishment for his Bloodline Power. As the orcas sensed them and surrounded the ship, Mu Yuan and Du Busi faced the approaching pod.

• Mu Yuan and Du Busi stopped their ship to watch dozens of Evil Spirit Orcas hunt Sea Soul Beasts from a distance.
• Mu Yuan drew Blood Qi from the blood-red seawater into his Yang-to-Yin Heavenly Thunder Right Arm Bone.
• The Heavenly Thunder destroyed the Blood Qi, and Mu Yuan found that the remaining power strengthened his Bloodline Power.
• Mu Yuan realized that Blood Qi could cultivate his Bloodline Power but could no longer help his Right Arm Bone evolve.
• The Evil Spirit Orca pod sensed the Soul Power and Blood Qi and rapidly encircled Mu Yuan and Du Busi.

Mu Yuan and Du Busi fought the Evil Orca King and its coordinated pack, with Du Busi swiftly overpowering them. Mu Yuan harvested the king’s Whale Rubber and Right Leg Bone and began refining them to prepare for the risks of absorbing a powerful Soul Ring.

• The Evil Spirit Orcas attacked Mu Yuan and Du Busi with mental assaults, spatial binding, and crushing axe strikes, but Mu Yuan’s protections stopped the mental attack and Du Busi broke through the rest.
• Du Busi crushed the attacking Evil Spirit Orcas and killed the Evil Orca King with a punch, then remarked that his strength had grown after changing his Second Soul Core into a Soul Core of Bloodline Power.
• Mu Yuan extracted the Whale Rubber from the Evil Orca King and used a modified Blood Essence Soul Ring array to burn his Blood Qi into flames and cook it.
• Mu Yuan ate the Whale Rubber to strengthen himself and increase his safety margin before absorbing another powerful Soul Ring.
• Mu Yuan removed the Evil Orca King’s Right Leg Bone, fused it into his right leg, and began refining it alongside the Whale Rubber’s energy.

After absorbing the Evil Orca King's Hundred-thousand Year Soul Ring, Mu Yuan escaped Tang San's reach by entering the Undead Semi-Plane, where Electrolux studied the Sea God’s power and began forming an embryonic God Position. A month later, Mu Yuan returned to the Body Sect and learned he would join a second exchange with Mingde Hall.

• Mu Yuan absorbed the Evil Orca King's Soul Ring and gained Evil Orca Mirror Destruction and Evil Orca Demonic Capture.
• Electrolux warned that Tang San was using Sea God Faith to mark Mu Yuan, so Mu Yuan and Du Busi entered the Undead Semi-Plane.
• Electrolux shielded Mu Yuan from Tang San while studying the mark, and Mu Yuan agreed to let him investigate the Sea God’s power.
• A month later, Mu Yuan saw the gray heart-like embryonic form of a God Position in the Undead Semi-Plane and returned to the Body Sect.
• Mu Yuan learned that Jing Hongchen planned a second exchange event with Mingde Hall.

Mu Yuan returned to Mingde Hall, where he learned that Ju Zi had graduated early and suspected that changes in the Sun Moon Empire were tied to Kong Deming’s breakthrough in Spirit Forged Metal. While resuming his studies with Xuan Ziwen, he realized the Blood Essence Soul Ring needed a soul or trace of spirituality to become a true Soul Ring.

• Mu Yuan returned to Mingde Hall and continued studying under Xuan Ziwen, who told him that Ju Zi had graduated early and left the hall.
• Huo Yuhao and the other exchange students arrived three days later, with Shrek Academy and Mingde Hall staggering their arrivals to avoid the Body Sect.
• Mu Yuan discussed his Blood Essence Soul Ring with Xuan Ziwen and concluded that filling it with Core Arrays could not make it a true Soul Ring.
• Xuan Ziwen proposed that the Blood Essence Soul Ring lacked a Soul Beast’s remnant soul, which he called a Soul Ring Heart.
• Mu Yuan concluded that he could nurture a trace of spirituality in the Blood Essence Soul Ring himself, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to leave the matter to him.

Mu Yuan and Electrolux discussed how Mu Yuan could strengthen himself enough to withstand the Sea God's interference after becoming a god. Mu Yuan realized his Blood Essence Soul Ring might be developed through bloodline power, and Electrolux urged him to uncover a bloodline unique to humanity.

• Electrolux warned Mu Yuan that he would likely be able to condense only a First-Class God Position, so he needed to build enough strength beforehand to fight at God King level.
• Electrolux advised Mu Yuan to improve his Soul Skills, prepare materials for Divine Artifacts, and expand his cultivation without letting Spirit Forged Metal and the Blood Essence Soul Ring overlap.
• Mu Yuan concluded that giving the Blood Essence Soul Ring sentience required bloodline power, which he could either condense himself or obtain from elsewhere.
• Mu Yuan considered asking Snow Empress for help if he made no progress over the next six months, but worried that revealing her identity would damage their relationship.
• Electrolux explained that contracts could fuse external bloodlines and encouraged Mu Yuan to cultivate his own bloodline, suggesting that Martial Souls might be a talent of humanity.

Mu Yuan completed his first Blood Essence Soul Ring by contracting with his own Eight-Armed God Demon Dharma Image, which strengthened his Bloodline Power and improved his cultivation. He then began a localized third awakening of his right arm, whose golden radiance turned platinum.

• Mu Yuan realized that awakening a martial soul might be a talent that could develop further, and considered whether Blood Qi could awaken new martial souls.
• Mu Yuan emptied his Blood Essence Soul Ring and tried to manifest his right arm into it, but Electrolux helped him form a contract with his own Dharma Image and connect the process to heaven and earth.
• The Blood Essence Soul Ring was completed, and Mu Yuan's Blood Qi circulated more smoothly as his body shed weak cells and his Bloodline Power grew ten percent stronger.
• Mu Yuan told Electrolux that the ring had eased his cultivation and loosened his bottleneck, then said his right arm could undergo a localized third awakening.
• Mu Yuan displayed his Gold-level Secondary Awakening, summoned a crimson Blood Essence Soul Ring, and watched his right arm's golden radiance turn platinum as Electrolux sensed its distinct aura.

Mu Yuan discovered that condensing Blood Essence Soul Rings caused a corresponding God Position to gestate in the God Realm, enraging Tang San. After Mu Yuan formed a second ring, he realized the God Position’s emergence could draw God of Destruction’s attention and protect him from Tang San.

• Mu Yuan examined his platinum right arm and explained that its awakened power drew on the power of heaven and earth while placing less strain on his origin.
• The God Realm shook as a mysterious new God Position began to form, delighting God of Destruction and alarming Tang San, who feared its use of the God Realm’s foundation would hinder his own advancement.
• Tang San sensed Mu Yuan in Ming City and decided he had to interrupt the new God Position’s condensation.
• Electrolux warned Mu Yuan that Tang San was searching Ming City, and suggested Mu Yuan test the connection by forming a second Blood Essence Soul Ring.
• Mu Yuan condensed the second ring and awakened his left arm to platinum, while Electrolux sensed that the ring’s formation interacted with a God Position.
• Mu Yuan concluded that God of Destruction might notice the God Position and keep Tang San occupied, then prepared to condense more Blood Essence Soul Rings.

Mu Yuan perfected his Blood Essence Soul Ring secret method and finished condensing his third and fourth rings, while reserving a framework to inscribe Core Arrays. He then helped Xuan Ziwen complete and test a Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottle.

• Mu Yuan decided to condense four Blood Essence Soul Rings and use future rings to draw the God of Destruction's attention if needed.
• Mu Yuan condensed his third and fourth Blood Essence Soul Rings, then replaced a rudimentary fifth ring with a framework inscribed with Core Arrays.
• Mu Yuan told Xuan Ziwen that he had perfected the Blood Essence Soul Ring secret method and credited Xuan Ziwen's earlier help.
• Xuan Ziwen assigned Mu Yuan to forge the Spirit Crystal blank for a Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottle, and Mu Yuan shaped it into a mold.
• Mu Yuan observed Xuan Ziwen inscribing Core Arrays and asked questions about techniques he could use in his own work.
• Xuan Ziwen and Mu Yuan completed the bottle and confirmed that its Soul Power storage was stable and did not leak during testing.

After completing the Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottle, Xuan Ziwen planned a new civilian Soul Tool project focused on transportation and asked Mu Yuan for ideas. Mu Yuan warned that civilian technology could still be used in war and proposed making the results open source to the Douluo Three Kingdoms in exchange for Spirit Forged Metal, leaving Xuan Ziwen considering the deal.

• Xuan Ziwen finished the Level 6 Sealed Milk Bottle research and promised Ke Ke and the other students a month off after they organized the report.
• Xuan Ziwen announced that his next project would be a transportation Soul Tool, and Mu Yuan suggested the name Soul Tool Train.
• Xuan Ziwen called Mu Yuan aside to discuss the train and asked for other ideas for civilian Soul Tools.
• Mu Yuan argued that civilian Soul Tools could inevitably serve military purposes and suggested making the research open source to the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
• Mu Yuan offered Spirit Forged Metal from the Body Sect in exchange for access to the results, and Xuan Ziwen began to see the proposal as possible.

Mu Yuan proposed open-source cooperation with the Douluo Three Kingdoms and shared plans with Xuan Ziwen to improve communication Soul Tools and develop engines powered by electricity or Heaven and Earth Vital Energy. Xuan Ziwen agreed to seek approval for the projects, beginning with the Soul Tool Train technology.

• Xuan Ziwen agreed to add Mu Yuan to the project application and include his request for open-source cooperation.
• Mu Yuan explained how metal vibrations could transmit signals over long distances and how Signal Relay Stations could improve communication Soul Tools.
• Mu Yuan proposed developing engines that used Electrical Energy or drew on Heaven and Earth Vital Energy with Soul Power as an aid.
• Xuan Ziwen agreed to approach the Hall Master about open-sourcing Soul Tool Train technology before applying for the communicator and engine projects.
• Xuan Ziwen admitted he had grown reliant on researching Sealed Milk Bottle technology and felt listless doing so.

Mu Yuan negotiated with Jing Hongchen to open-source Soul Tool Train technology in exchange for Spirit Forged Metal and a tiered rare-metal trade agreement. He then sought more soul tool technology, leaving negotiations poised over mining rare metal veins.

• Mu Yuan told Elders Chi Xiao and Qi Lin that open-sourcing Soul Tool Train technology was vital to giving Douluo Three Kingdoms a fair chance against the Sun Moon Empire, and asked them to prepare for dangerous negotiations.
• Xuan Ziwen submitted Mu Yuan's project proposal to Jing Hongchen, who summoned Mu Yuan to discuss the Soul Tool Train technology.
• Mu Yuan and Jing Hongchen haggled over Spirit Forged Metal and rare metals, eventually agreeing to tiered prices for rare-metal purchases of up to one hundred cubic meters annually.
• Mu Yuan reflected that the agreement made buying rare metals easier than smuggling, then planned to pursue other soul tool technologies.
• Three days later, Jing Hongchen rejected Mu Yuan's request for a higher rare-metal quota in exchange for Soul Communication Tool technology, so Mu Yuan asked for technology to mine rare metal veins instead.

Mu Yuan negotiated with Jing Hongchen for Mingde Hall's research equipment in exchange for Spirit Forged Metal, then learned that Electrolux had become an Undead Soul Beast and was preparing to revive himself. Electrolux planned to delay Human Transformation until after the exchange event, leaving Mu Yuan to discuss the matter with Xue'er when he returned to the Body Sect.

• Mu Yuan asked Jing Hongchen for Soul Tool technology, but Jing Hongchen offered a full set of research equipment exclusively to the Body Sect instead.
• Jing Hongchen raised the price to seven pieces of Spirit Forged Metal, and Mu Yuan accepted the deal because Electrolux could use the equipment.
• Mu Yuan contacted Electrolux, who explained that he had used the Blood Essence Soul Ring system as inspiration to become an Undead Soul Beast.
• Electrolux estimated that he would reach a hundred thousand years of cultivation in a month but planned to wait until after the exchange event to undergo Human Transformation.
• Electrolux explained that Human Transformation would leave him as an embryo, and Mu Yuan decided he would speak frankly with Xue'er after returning to the Body Sect.

Mu Yuan negotiated access to engine derivative technologies and finalized trades with Jing Hongchen, while Xuan Ziwen began researching three technologies. Electrolux’s breakthroughs strengthened the Undead Semi-Plane and raised the possibility that it could become a God Realm, as Jing Hongchen wondered whether Mu Yuan was accelerating the research.

• Mu Yuan secured the right to study engine derivative technologies developed over the next ten years and agreed to trade five pieces of Spirit Forged Metal to Jing Hongchen.
• Fan Yu reassured Huo Yuhao that Shrek Academy could obtain samples of the technologies traded by the Douluo Three Kingdoms using Huo Yuhao’s Mental Detection and the academy’s influence.
• After the month-long break ended, Xuan Ziwen began researching the Communication Soul Tool, engine, and Soul Tool Train technologies with help from Ke Ke and the others.
• Electrolux passed his hundred-thousand-year lightning tribulation inside the Undead Semi-Plane and told Mu Yuan that his God Position could help the semi-plane develop into a true plane, perhaps even a God Realm.
• After undergoing two Heavenly Tribulations, Electrolux noticed they differed from the lightning tribulation, while Mu Yuan explained that soul beasts throughout the universe were bound by the Dragon God’s rule.
• Jing Hongchen saw that the research was progressing unusually quickly and wondered whether Mu Yuan had extraordinary talent in Soul Tool research.

Mu Yuan told Jing Hongchen that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually prevail but could not unify the continent quickly, and explained that his dealings were meant to prepare the continent for its future. After Mu Yuan left to end the exchange, Jing Hongchen worried that his talent and influence could make him a target.

• Jing Hongchen asked Mu Yuan how he viewed the continent’s political situation, and Mu Yuan said the Sun Moon Empire could defeat the Douluo Three Kingdoms within three years if it accepted any cost.
• Mu Yuan denied working for the Douluo Three Kingdoms and said the Sun Moon Empire’s internal problems would delay unification, while Jing Hongchen argued that the war’s outcome was still inevitable.
• Mu Yuan said he would wait until the Sun Moon Empire unified the continent before befriending it, because he recognized the future Sun Moon Federation rather than the current empire.
• Mu Yuan left Jing Hongchen’s office and began packing to end the exchange, while Jing Hongchen wondered whether Mu Yuan could reverse the Three Kingdoms’ technological disadvantage.
• Jing Hongchen decided he had to conceal Mu Yuan’s research talent because Xiao and Meng were in the Body Sect, and feared Xu Tianran might send the Holy Spirit Cult to assassinate Mu Yuan.

After returning to the Body Sect, Mu Yuan confronted Xue'er about her identity as the Snow Empress and asked how she had achieved Human Transformation. Her method gave Electrolux a possible route to Human Transformation, and the chapter ended with Xue'er confirming that Mu Yuan's Dragon Pearl could serve as his foundation.

• Mu Yuan returned to the Body Sect, reported to Du Busi, and went to speak with Xue'er in private.
• Mu Yuan asked Xue'er if she was the Snow Empress, and she accepted that he had discovered her identity.
• Mu Yuan summoned Electrolux and explained that the 500,000-year Beast King wanted to follow Xue'er's path of Human Transformation.
• Xue'er explained that her Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus had formed the foundation of her Human Transformation and that she had become a genuine Human Soul Master.
• Xue'er said Electrolux would need a suitable Heavenly Treasure, and Mu Yuan suggested a Dragon Pearl formed from a Bright Sacred Dragon.
• Xue'er confirmed that the Dragon Pearl could work if its power exceeded that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Immortal Herb and Electrolux used his Undead methods.

Mu Yuan discussed finding Mu En’s Dragon Core so Electrolux could use its power, while Xue'er prepared to travel to the Far North and make Ice Empress her Sixth Soul Ring. Electrolux suggested that Snow Empress might possess the Ice God Bloodline, leaving Xue'er eager to know whether the rumor was true.

• Mu Yuan explained that Mu En’s Dragon Core had become untraceable after his death and suggested it might be with Bei Bei at Shrek Academy or with Long Xiaoyao.
• Electrolux described the danger of the million-year Heavenly Tribulation, and Mu Yuan saw how the Soul Beast race was burdened by it.
• Xue'er said her Snow Lotus Martial Soul had stabilized and that she had reached rank sixty, prompting Mu Yuan to guess she planned to use Ice Empress for her Sixth Soul Ring.
• Mu Yuan taught Xue'er the Soul Spirit Contract Array and said he would seek Sect Master to obtain the Dragon Core for Electrolux.
• Electrolux suggested that Xue'er’s original body might have an Ice God Bloodline, and Xue'er asked whether she truly possessed it.

Mu Yuan revealed Electrolux to Du Busi and asked him to help obtain a Dragon Core for Electrolux’s Human Transformation. At Shrek Academy, Xuan Zi secretly considered devouring the Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin of Life to repair his martial soul and break through.

• The Snow Empress explained to Xue'er that her power and the Far North’s faith connected her to the Ice God Bloodline.
• Mu Yuan found Du Busi struggling to condense the Blood Essence Soul Ring and introduced him to Electrolux.
• Mu Yuan explained that Electrolux needed a Dragon Core as a foundation for Human Transformation, and Du Busi agreed to travel with them to Shrek Academy.
• Yan Shaozhe questioned Xuan Zi about his delayed breakthrough, but Xuan Zi claimed he needed more time and kept eating chicken legs.
• After Yan Shaozhe left, Xuan Zi resolved to seize an opportunity to devour the Golden Ancient Tree’s Origin of Life to repair his martial soul and reach the limit.

Du Busi confronted Shrek Academy and demanded the Dragon Core, while Mu Yuan realized that Ah Yin was inside the Golden Ancient Tree. The Golden Ancient Tree denied that Shrek had the Dragon Core, and Du Busi attacked it, forcing Ah Yin to defend herself without revealing too much of her power.

• Du Busi surrounded Shrek City with his blood essence, and Xuan Zi and the Shrek elders came out to face him.
• Xuan Zi called on the Golden Ancient Tree to kill Du Busi, while Mu Yuan suspected Ah Yin was involved in its Blue-Gold Vines.
• The Golden Ancient Tree appeared and warned Du Busi to leave, but he demanded the Dragon Core in Mu En's possession.
• The Golden Ancient Tree said the Dragon Core was not in Shrek, but Du Busi refused to believe it and unleashed a blood-essence attack.
• Ah Yin defended the Golden Ancient Tree while concealing its true nature to protect her plan to make it a Life Core.