Chapter Summaries

Xu Tianming bought battlefield metal fragments from a black-market stall after recognizing that the seller was lying about their origin. He and Zhang Tiezhu then entered Ming Capital’s Underground Auction House, where they were welcomed as honored guests.

• Xu Tianming exposed the stall owner’s false claim that the metal fragments came from a border battlefield and bought the pieces on display for eighty Gold Soul Coins.
• The stall owner promised to fetch more fragments from home, and Xu Tianming warned that he would only accept goods identical to those on the stall.
• Xu Tianming told Zhang Tiezhu he had bought the fragments to study their unusual forging techniques, without revealing their true significance.
• Zhang Tiezhu led Xu Tianming through a concealed passage beneath the black market and explained that the abandoned sewer system housed an underground auction.
• Zhang Tiezhu presented his Eighth-Level Soul Engineer badge at the guarded gate, and the pair entered the auction house, where a veiled woman welcomed them.

Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu attended an underground auction hosted by the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce, where the first item was a ton of smuggled Star Pattern Steel. Bidding began in a frenzy, and the chapter left Xu Tianming watching the price climb.

• Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu took their seats at the auction and dismissed the maid assigned to attend them.
• Zhang Tiezhu discussed his ambition to create a humanlike Bionic Intelligent Soul Tool Puppet, and Xu Tianming wondered at the idea.
• Auctioneer Xiaowei opened the event and explained that the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce were working against the Xishui Alliance.
• Xiaowei revealed that the first auction item was a ton of Star Pattern Steel, prompting shock from the attendees.
• Xiaowei set the starting bid at ten million Gold Soul Coins, and the displayed price began rising rapidly.

At a black-market auction in Ming Capital, Xu Tianming recognized a broken sword as a possible fragment of the Angel Holy Sword and fought to buy it. He won the sword for ninety thousand Gold Soul Coins after Zhang Tiezhu advised him to bid carefully.

• Xu Tianming and Zhang Tiezhu watched the Star Pattern Steel and other auction items sell for high prices.
• Auctioneer Xiaowei introduced a broken sword whose material and exceptional durability had baffled a Level 9 Soul Master.
• Electrolux sensed a dense holy aura in the sword, leading Xu Tianming to suspect it was part of Qian Renxue's Angel Holy Sword.
• Xu Tianming asked Zhang Tiezhu for a loan, and the two gathered enough money to bid up to one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Following Zhang Tiezhu's advice, Xu Tianming waited until the last moments and raised bids by one thousand at a time.
• Xu Tianming won the broken sword with a final bid of ninety thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Xu Tianming watched the Lingxi Dream-Guiding Blade auction while the system warned him of an impending crisis and offered him a choice. A masked Title Douluo then raided the auction with the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Legion, leaving Xu Tianming and the other attendees in custody.

• Auctioneer Xiaowei introduced the Lingxi Dream-Guiding Blade, and its bidding price climbed past ten million Gold Soul Coins.
• The system warned Xu Tianming of danger, and he chose to surrender without revealing his identity, earning a Spirit Master Summoning Card.
• An elderly masked man interrupted the auction, killed a Spirit Douluo with an unseen attack, and revealed himself as a Title Douluo.
• Hundreds of Sun Moon Empire soldiers stormed the auction house and surrounded the attendees and organizers.
• Officer Ying asked the elderly Title Douluo what to do with the crowd, and he ordered the soldiers to take everyone away.

Xu Tianming was questioned after the Sun Moon Empire Royal Soul Master Legion raided an underground auction, but he was more concerned with getting back the broken sword he had bought. At the Crown Prince’s Mansion, Xu Tianran learned that his cousin Xu Tianming had been among those captured and was amused by how unlike his cautious father he seemed.

• Zhang Tiezhu worried that the legion’s raid and Shadow Douluo Xue Chen’s involvement meant serious trouble, while Xu Tianming remained optimistic.
• Xue Chen questioned Xu Tianming about his father, Xu Xiang, and why he had attended the underground auction.
• Xu Tianming asked Xue Chen to return the lower half of the broken sword he had bought, but Xue Chen ordered soldiers to take him away.
• Xu Tianran told Xue Chen that the empire would cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult against the Pingfan Alliance and Otto Chamber of Commerce while using the situation to warn their backers.
• Xue Chen reported that Xu Tianming had been captured, and Xu Tianran remarked that Xu Xiang’s son was unlike his cautious father.

Xu Tianran learned of Xu Tianming’s exceptional talent and decided to spare him punishment for attending the underground auction, sending him the broken sword he had bought and a gift from the imperial treasury. Xu Tianming received both boxes from Shadow Douluo and opened the gift box, but the chapter ended before revealing its contents.

• Shadow Douluo told Xu Tianran about Xu Tianming’s rare Martial Soul, powerful Soul Rings, combat feats, and Super Douluo teacher.
• Xu Tianran ordered Shadow Douluo to return Xu Tianming’s broken sword and send him the Dark Gold Engraving Knife as a gift.
• Shadow Douluo reported that Zhang Tiezhu had not returned after questioning, leaving Xu Tianming increasingly uneasy.
• Shadow Douluo told Xu Tianming that Xu Tianran had intervened to prevent his punishment and handed him two boxes.
• Xu Tianming confirmed that one box held the broken sword and opened the second box to see the Crown Prince’s gift.

Xu Tianming received a rare Dark Gold Engraving Knife from Shadow Douluo Xue Chen and returned safely to the academy, where he reunited with Mu Ye. After learning Mu Ye had completed his assignment, Xu Tianming planned another trip to the Far North after arranging matters at the academy.

• Shadow Douluo Xue Chen gave Xu Tianming the Dark Gold Engraving Knife and advised him to cultivate properly.
• Xu Tianming asked about his mentor Zhang Tiezhu and learned that Zhang would return later, then was escorted back to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy.
• Xu Tianming reflected on Xu Tianran's apparent alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult and the trap surrounding the underground auction.
• Mu Ye greeted Xu Tianming at the academy gates and said he had waited there, prepared to wreak havoc in Ming Capital if Xu Tianming did not return.
• Xu Tianming learned Mu Ye had completed his assignment and asked him to accompany him to the Far North after he arranged matters at the academy.

Xu Tianming learned that Electrolux could not break the seal on the Angel Holy Sword without its missing half or a sacred-attribute Spirit Master, then summoned Yuanen Yehui with a Spirit Master Summoning Card. He brought her toward the dean’s office to arrange her identity and encountered Meng Hongchen, who reacted warily to the girl beside him.

• Electrolux explained that the broken Angel Holy Sword held immense sacred power but was sealed by blood-fiend power, and he suggested finding its upper half or a Spirit Master with a sacred attribute to help undo the seal.
• Xu Tianming decided to postpone seeking Ye Guyi or the sword’s other half until after his return from the Far North, then used a Spirit Master Summoning Card.
• The system summoned fifteen-year-old Yuanen Yehui, a Level 42 Spirit Master with Titan Giant Ape and Fallen Angel Martial Souls and four black Soul Rings.
• Yuanen Yehui arrived at Xu Tianming’s room and pledged loyalty to him, and he asked her to call him by his name at the academy and accompany him to the dean’s office to settle her identity.
• Xu Tianming and Yuanen Yehui met Meng Hongchen outside, and Meng Hongchen greeted Xu Tianming before frowning at the girl beside him.

Xu Tianming arranged a bet between Yuanen Yehui and Xiao Hongchen to secure her admission to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. Yuanen Yehui revealed her four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and overwhelming strength, forcing Xiao Hongchen to concede.

• Xu Tianming introduced Yuanen Yehui as a friend from Dongyang City who had missed the academy entrance examination and asked Xiao Hongchen to help secure her admission.
• Xiao Hongchen insulted Yuanen Yehui, and Xu Tianming proposed a match: Xiao Hongchen would arrange her admission if she won, while Xu Tianming would return Xiao Hongchen's lost Soul Forging Secret Silver if Xiao Hongchen won.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted the challenge after Yuanen Yehui called him a coward, and Meng Hongchen questioned Xu Tianming's motives while warning that Yuanen Yehui seemed strong.
• Yuanen Yehui revealed her Titan Giant Ape Martial Soul and four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, then charged Xiao Hongchen before he could use a soul skill.
• Xiao Hongchen's Invincible Barrier activated and carried him dozens of meters as Yuanen Yehui struck him, and he conceded once the barrier's effect ended.

After Yuanen Yehui defeated Xiao Hongchen, Xu Tianming promised to help him grow stronger in exchange for arranging her enrollment at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy. Jing Hongchen confronted Xu Tianming about the Black Market Auction, then balked at admitting Yuanen until Yuanen revealed her four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

• Yuanen Yehui revealed that her Martial Soul was the Titan Giant Ape, and Xiao Hongchen accepted that his loss to her had been fair.
• Xu Tianming encouraged Xiao Hongchen and promised he might help him become stronger, prompting Xiao to agree to arrange Yuanen Yehui's enrollment.
• Jing Hongchen accused Xu Tianming of buying rare metals at the Black Market Auction, and Xu admitted he had visited but denied having money for controlled metals.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to make an exception and enroll Yuanen Yehui, but Jing angrily refused.
• At Xu Tianming's suggestion, Yuanen Yehui revealed her four black Soul Rings, astonishing Jing Hongchen, and Xu urged him to make an exception for her talent.

Xu Tianming secured Yuanen Yehui’s admission to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Master Academy, but Jing Hongchen required him to compete in the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament as punishment for his black-market dealings. He also requested forging lessons for Xiao Hongchen and a long leave to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, which Jing Hongchen considered approving.

• Jing Hongchen sent Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen out, then learned from Xu Tianming that Yuanen Yehui was one of his people and agreed her talent warranted an exception to join the academy.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Xu Tianming to compete as a preselected team member in the All-Continent Soul Master Tournament, waiving his punishment if he won and imposing both penalties if he lost to Shrek Academy.
• Xu Tianming asked for Xiao Hongchen to study forging under Zhang Tiezhu, explaining how his Forging Technique could complement Xiao’s Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul, and Jing Hongchen agreed.
• Xu Tianming requested a long leave to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, explaining that his mutated Body Martial Soul needed a rare, suitable Soul Ring and the search could take a long time.
• Jing Hongchen offered to arrange a Level 9 Soul Master to accompany Xu Tianming, but Xu refused, saying his cultivation mentor would travel with him.

Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen searched the Far North for a suitable fifth Soul Ring when they encountered a youth effortlessly defeating a pack of Snowfield Ice Wolves with his bare hands. After the youth noticed them watching, the two women decided to approach him.

• Ling Luochen thanked Zhang Lexuan for accompanying her to the Far North to find a Soul Beast for her fifth Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen heard a commotion and followed the sounds of Snowfield Ice Wolves across the snowfield.
• Zhang Lexuan stopped Ling Luochen from intervening after they saw a lightly dressed youth fighting dozens of Thousand-Year Snowfield Ice Wolves without using his Martial Soul or soul skills.
• The youth killed or incapacitated the wolves with his fists, and Zhang Lexuan suspected his physical strength came from a sect she knew.
• The youth noticed Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen watching, so Zhang Lexuan decided they should approach him.

Xu Tianming met Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen in the Far North after they saw him defeat Snowfield Ice Wolves barehanded. He showed them Mu Ye’s map and pointed out a Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix as a promising Soul Ring target for Ling Luochen.

• Xu Tianming noticed Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen hiding nearby, and they revealed themselves after investigating the wolves’ howls.
• Zhang Lexuan introduced herself and Ling Luochen, and Xu Tianming realized they were from Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan asked whether Xu Tianming belonged to the Body Sect, but he denied it.
• Xu Tianming offered to help the women hunt Soul Rings and showed them Mu Ye’s map of Soul Beast territories.
• Xu Tianming recommended the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Ling Luochen chose to pursue it with Zhang Lexuan’s help.

Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen reached the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix’s location in the Far North and rested in Xu Tianming’s Soul Tool cabin. As they discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s Moon Martial Soul, Xu Tianming explained that its bloodline could be traced to the imperial family, while Zhang Lexuan concealed her strange sense of kinship with him.

• Xu Tianming suggested they rest before hunting the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen agreed.
• Xu Tianming brought out a warm, domed cabin Soul Tool, and Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen left their flimsy tent to join him inside.
• Ling Luochen told Zhang Lexuan that Xu Tianming’s aura made her feel comfortable, while Zhang Lexuan privately sensed a peculiar connection to him.
• Xu Tianming described the Sun Moon Empire’s rapid Soul Tool development and named the Sun and Moon Martial Souls as its imperial family’s inherited Martial Souls.
• Xu Tianming explained that the Sun and Moon Martial Souls could be held outside the empire, but their possessors had to carry the imperial family’s bloodline.

Xu Tianming questioned the origin of Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul, concealed his reasons for raising suspicion, and deduced that she and Ling Luochen were Shrek Academy students. Their conversation was interrupted when a thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix attacked their hut, leaving Ling Luochen unsure whether she could absorb its Soul Ring.

• Ling Luochen suggested that Martial Souls from the Sun Moon Empire might have spread to the Douluo Continent through centuries of conflict, while Xu Tianming quietly hoped to plant suspicion in Zhang Lexuan’s mind.
• Zhang Lexuan questioned Xu Tianming’s knowledge, and he claimed he had traveled with his family’s elders; Ling Luochen wondered whether he belonged to a reclusive sect, but Zhang Lexuan doubted he came from the Sun Moon Empire because of his formidable physical strength.
• Xu Tianming deduced that Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen were Shrek Academy students, and Ling Luochen offered to guide him around the academy someday.
• A sudden impact shook the domed hut, and Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen went outside to find a Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix circling overhead.
• Xu Tianming identified the Soul Beast as thirty thousand years old and asked whether Ling Luochen could absorb its Soul Ring; she hesitated because it far exceeded her experience and Shrek Academy’s recommended limit.

Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen fought a rare thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, while Xu Tianming revealed the power of his Sun Moon Twin Pupils. The phoenix fell wounded, and Ling Luochen still had to claim it before it recovered.

• Ling Luochen chose to try for the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, and Zhang Lexuan began the fight with her Moon Martial Soul.
• Zhang Lexuan pierced the phoenix with her sixth soul skill, but it absorbed ice elemental energy and rapidly healed.
• The phoenix summoned a massive icy tornado, and Xu Tianming used Solar Flame Burning City to engulf it in Yang Flame.
• Zhang Lexuan struck the burning phoenix with beams of moonlight, blasting its wings and bringing it down.
• Ling Luochen asked whether Xu Tianming possessed an Ultimate Fire Martial Soul, and Xu Tianming urged her to finish off the fallen phoenix before it recovered.

Xu Tianming, Zhang Lexuan, and Ling Luochen killed the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, which left behind a rare External Soul Bone for Ling Luochen. When Ling Luochen struggled to absorb its Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, Xu Tianming offered an unusual way to help her.

• Xu Tianming explained that his life-force-fueled flames kept burning on the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix, then directed Ling Luochen to strike its ice crystal heart.
• The Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix died and vanished into flying snow, leaving a black Soul Ring and an ice-crystal External Soul Bone.
• Xu Tianming declined the Spirit Bone because its attributes did not suit him, and Zhang Lexuan gave it to Ling Luochen, who prepared to absorb the Soul Ring.
• Ling Luochen endured increasingly severe pain as she absorbed the Thirty-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, while Zhang Lexuan prepared to intervene if necessary.
• Xu Tianming offered to help Ling Luochen, drew a drop of gold-and-silver blood from his finger, and placed his finger in her mouth.

Xu Tianming’s blood helped Ling Luochen withstand the strain of absorbing the thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring, but she clamped down on his finger and would not let him pull it out. While they waited for her absorption to continue, Zhang Lexuan questioned the source of his blood and took offense when he asked if her Moon Martial Soul meant she came from the Sun Moon Empire.

• Xu Tianming put a drop of his gold-and-silver blood into Ling Luochen’s mouth while she struggled to absorb the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring.
• The blood’s opposing hot and cold energies balanced Ling Luochen’s body, letting her refine the Soul Ring’s energy and gain the upper hand in its spiritual assault.
• Zhang Lexuan noticed Ling Luochen had stabilized, but Xu Tianming could not withdraw his finger because Ling Luochen was clamping down on it.
• Xu Tianming vaguely explained that his special physique had made his blood miraculous, and Zhang Lexuan chose not to press him for details.
• Xu Tianming asked whether Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul meant she came from the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial family; she said she came from the Heaven Dou Empire, and he apologized.

Ling Luochen woke after absorbing the thirty-thousand-year Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring with Xu Tianming’s help, and Zhang Lexuan invited him to join Shrek Academy. Xu declined and continued his trial in the Far North, where a God-Level Choice notification offered him three possible second Martial Souls.

• Ling Luochen woke and learned that Xu Tianming’s blood had helped her absorb the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan gave Ling Luochen the Snow Crystal Sky Phoenix Wings External Soul Bone, which Ling planned to absorb back at Shrek Academy.
• Zhang Lexuan invited Xu Tianming to join Shrek Academy, but he said he needed his sect elders’ permission and declined to travel with them.
• Xu Tianming said farewell to Zhang Lexuan and Ling Luochen, then continued alone into the Far North.
• A God-Level Choice notification offered Xu Tianming the Ice Empress, Titan Snow Demon King, or Ice Bear King as his second Martial Soul.

Xu Tianming learned that Snow Empress had damaged her origin after failing to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core, and he decided to seek her out as a potential Soul Spirit. At Snow Woman Mountain, Snow Empress accepted that she had to rebuild herself into a human to have any hope of surviving her coming Heavenly Tribulation.

• Xu Tianming questioned the system about Snow Empress and received a fourth choice to persuade her to become his Soul Spirit.
• The system revealed that Snow Empress had failed to condense a Yin-Yang Complementary Soul Core and was struggling to survive.
• Xu Tianming asked Mu Ye about Snow Empress's whereabouts, and Mu Ye identified Snow Woman Mountain as her birthplace and likely location.
• Xu Tianming ordered Mu Ye to take him to Snow Woman Mountain, despite Mu Ye's concerns about confronting a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Snow Empress lamented her weakened origin and concluded that rebuilding herself into a human was her final chance to survive the seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation.