Recaps

Tang San's newly awakened domain wounded the monster, but the monster absorbed Long Zhanye's attacks and began pulling them toward its mouth. Long Zhanye entered Unity of Heaven and Man, awakened his Bronze Level Body Martial Soul, and began spinning into a vortex of fused power.

• Tang San formed twelve azure-green Fire Lotuses with its domain and blasted the monster, then bit into one of its wounds.
• The monster swallowed Long Zhanye's mental attack, healed rapidly, and knocked Tang San back.
• The monster unleashed a powerful suction that dragged Long Zhanye and Tang San toward its mouth.
• Long Zhanye entered Unity of Heaven and Man and awakened his Bronze Level Body Martial Soul.
• Long Zhanye began spinning faster and faster, condensing and fusing his Soul Power, mental power, and Chaos Qi into a growing vortex.

Long Zhanye fought the monster with a devastating Chaos Storm, but the exhausted warrior faced its blooming Chaos Lotus with no apparent way to survive. He threatened to destroy his Sea of Consciousness and Medusa’s Divine Sense unless she helped him, prompting her to laugh and answer his challenge.

• Long Zhanye’s vortex dragged the monster back onto the Narrow Path, shattered its four wings, and hurled it farther down the path.
• The wounded monster gathered Chaos energy into a massive lotus-shaped attack capable of destroying the Narrow Path as Long Zhanye’s strength ran out.
• Tang San tried to stand beside Long Zhanye but repeatedly fell, while the Chaos Lotus reached its limit.
• Long Zhanye confronted Medusa in his Sea of Consciousness and threatened to destroy them both by detonating it if she refused to help.
• Medusa’s phantom laughed at Long Zhanye’s threat, saying no human had dared threaten her in thousands of years.

Long Zhanye accepted Medusa’s inheritance and began the God Trial of the God of Sin, allowing her Divine Sense to take over his body. Medusa used the Soul-Absorbing Tablet to petrify the monster’s attack and its decoy, while the Black Iron Staff trapped the fleeing creature.

• Long Zhanye accepted Medusa’s inheritance after she threatened to perish alongside him if he refused.
• Black mist flooded Long Zhanye’s body, awakening a terrifying power and letting Medusa’s Divine Sense take control.
• Medusa summoned the Soul-Absorbing Tablet and petrified the monster’s Chaos energy before it could strike Long Zhanye.
• Medusa fired the tablet’s beam again, destroying a phantom double the monster created to shield its main body.
• The monster tried to escape, but the Black Iron Staff’s power trapped it in place.

Medusa destroyed the ancient exotic beast Chaos and told Long Zhanye to refine its Inner Core into his sixth Soul Ring. Long Zhanye then discovered that the mysterious Black Iron Staff was impossibly heavy and could not be stored, leaving him to drag it along the Narrow Path.

• Chaos unleashed a final Chaos energy sphere, but Medusa used Blood Sin Abyss to turn the beast to stone and destroy it.
• Medusa identified the surviving grayish-white orb as Chaos’s Inner Core and said Long Zhanye could refine it into his sixth Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye stored the Inner Core and regained control of his exhausted body as Medusa’s will withdrew.
• Long Zhanye found that the Black Iron Staff was extraordinarily heavy and could not be lifted normally.
• The Black Iron Staff bounced out of Long Zhanye’s Storage Belt, so he dragged it along the Narrow Path despite his exhaustion.

Long Zhanye continued along the Hell Road with Tang San, carrying the mysterious Black Iron Staff after Medusa warned him not to abandon it. As the path grew hotter and the evil aura intensified, both travelers struggled to keep their minds under control.

• Medusa told Long Zhanye that the Black Iron Staff was extraordinary and urged him to keep it, so he continued dragging it along the Narrow Path.
• Tang San caught up, lifted the thousand-pound staff in its mouth, and carried it ahead with ease.
• Long Zhanye and Tang San continued deeper along the Hell Road as the heat and blood-filled Abyss grew more intense.
• The oppressive evil aura stirred their Killing Intent, and Tang San began showing signs of losing control.
• Long Zhanye realized they had to cross the Hell Road quickly before the aura overwhelmed their minds.

Long Zhanye and Tang San reached the end of Hell Road, where a thousand-meter-wide Blood Lake blocked the way to the exit. After crossing it by different routes, Long Zhanye entered the White Light Curtain as the Killing Intent accumulated within him began to merge with him.

• Long Zhanye and Tang San sprinted along the Narrow Path as the heat and Killing Intent grew more intense.
• Long Zhanye found the Narrow Path ended at a vast Blood Lake, with the exit floating on the far shore.
• Long Zhanye used his Flight Soul Guidance Device to cross the lake along the cavern ceiling.
• Tang San bounced along the cavern wall and joined Long Zhanye at the exit.
• Long Zhanye felt his accumulated Killing Intent being drawn from him, then entered the White Light Curtain.

Long Zhanye survived the Divine Slaughter's Domain and emerged from Slaughter City with a new Colorless Domain. After learning its effects, he began refining the ancient Chaos Qi he had absorbed in the Hell Road.

• Long Zhanye endured the white domain's crushing Killing Intent until he lost consciousness and realized it was the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
• Long Zhanye awoke in the desert and discovered white patterns on his Qilin Arm that unfolded into a Colorless Domain.
• Medusa explained that the domain weakened opponents by ten percent and let Long Zhanye exert ten percent more power at its current level.
• Long Zhanye reunited with Tang San and smiled with relief after escaping Slaughter City.
• Long Zhanye meditated to refine the primal Chaos Qi he had absorbed from a Chaos Beast in the Hell Road.

Long Zhanye refined the Chaos Beast’s inner core, gaining a platinum sixth Soul Ring with two soul skills and transforming his appearance and power. Medusa then began his God of Sin inheritance with the first trial, False Speech, and revealed that passing the sixth trial would let him wield the Soul-Absorbing Tablet.

• Long Zhanye absorbed a wisp of chaos energy and raised his Soul Power Level from sixty-one to sixty-three.
• Long Zhanye swallowed the Chaos Inner Core and spent ten days refining it while Tang San guarded him.
• Long Zhanye emerged with gray-white hair and skin, a stronger Heavenly Eye Martial Soul, and a platinum sixth Soul Ring that granted two soul skills.
• Long Zhanye asked Medusa about the God of Sin inheritance, and she said he could begin its ten trials whenever he wished and promised he could become a god within five years.
• Medusa’s first trial, False Speech, appeared as a black mark on Long Zhanye’s forehead, and she said passing the sixth trial would let him wield the Soul-Absorbing Tablet.

After nearly six months away, Long Zhanye realized he had missed the enrollment deadline for Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and rushed back to seek an exception. Lin Jiayi told him the rules barred his enrollment, and an arrogant staff member recognized him as the chapter ended.

• Long Zhanye discovered that Tang San could swallow the Black Iron rod and successfully stored both of them in his Storage Soul Tool.
• Long Zhanye realized his three-month vacation had stretched to nearly six months and that he had missed the academy's registration deadline.
• Long Zhanye flew nonstop for three days and nights to Ming Capital and learned from the gate guard that temporary-student registration had closed.
• Long Zhanye brought his recommendation letter to the teaching affairs office, where Lin Jiayi confirmed the letter was valid but said the academy could not accept him under the rules.
• A thin, tall man in a Guidance Office uniform approached Lin Jiayi's desk, recognized Long Zhanye, and drew Long Zhanye's startled attention.

After Lin Qiao rejected Long Zhanye’s late registration at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, Long Zhanye discovered a soul tool sparring event with Shrek Academy that offered a chance to enter Mingde Hall. He headed to the arena, intrigued by the opportunity to face Huo Yuhao.

• Lin Qiao refused Long Zhanye’s recommendation letter because the registration period had passed and told him to leave.
• Lin Jiayi offered Long Zhanye priority consideration the following year, but Long Zhanye took the letter and walked out of the academic affairs office.
• Long Zhanye blamed Lin Qiao for blocking his enrollment and wondered where he could go next.
• Long Zhanye read a notice announcing a three-day soul tool exchange and sparring event against Shrek Academy, with Huo Yuhao as the representative and entry to Mingde Hall among the rewards.
• Long Zhanye decided to go to the Soul Tool Trial Arena to watch the event, considering that he might have a chance to participate.

Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s sparring match with Huo Yuhao drew hundreds of applicants, prompting Hall Master Hongchen to restrict entry to Spirit Kings and above. Huo Yuhao accepted the challenge, and Long Zhanye joined the packed arena as the event was about to begin.

• Lin Jiayi reported that more than three hundred students had signed up to fight Huo Yuhao, and Hall Master Hongchen raised the registration requirement to Spirit King and above.
• Huo Yuhao dismissed He Caitou’s concern about the unfair rules and said he wanted to test the Sun Moon soul engineers’ strength.
• Long Zhanye entered the Soul Tool Trial Arena and observed its huge crowd, testing field, and linked defensive Soul Tool system.
• An amplified voice called for silence across the arena.

At Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s sparring exchange, Huo Yuhao entered the arena with the Shrek students as the crowd doubted his ability. The students unfurled provocative banners around him, enraging the spectators just as the event was about to begin.

• Lin Jiayi announced that Huo Yuhao would represent Shrek Academy in a sparring match judged by Xuan Ziwen.
• Huo Yuhao and the nine other Shrek exchange students entered the arena, drawing doubt and ridicule from the Sun Moon students.
• Fan Yu went to the rest area while the other Shrek students formed up around Huo Yuhao.
• The Shrek students unfurled banners proclaiming Shrek and the Tang Sect’s supremacy and challenging anyone who disagreed to fight.
• The Sun Moon crowd erupted in anger, and Lin Jiayi shouted for everyone to calm down.

Huo Yuhao provoked the Sun Moon Academy crowd before facing Class 5 soul engineer Xia Xuanchen in the first match. When the duel began, Huo Yuhao charged across the arena, and Xia Xuanchen deployed twin arm-mounted cannons to meet him.

• Lin Jiayi ordered the teachers to control their students as the stands erupted in anger at the Shrek group.
• Huo Yuhao calmly taunted the Sun Moon Academy crowd while Long Zhanye watched from the passageway.
• Xuan Ziwen started the match between Huo Yuhao and Xia Xuanchen, a Class 5 soul engineer.
• Huo Yuhao rushed forward as Xia Xuanchen turned toward him, quickly closing the distance between them.
• Xia Xuanchen raised his arms and revealed two black Soul Tool cannons mounted over his forearms.

Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection and a precise series of maneuvers to evade Xia Xuanchen’s Soul Cannons, then overwhelmed him with a Dark Gold Terrorclaw. Long Zhanye recognized the claw as an External Soul Bone and watched with growing interest.

• Huo Yuhao used Spirit Detection to anticipate Xia Xuanchen’s Soul Oscillation Cannon and dodged its blast.
• Xia Xuanchen’s tracking high-explosive shell pursued Huo Yuhao, who evaded it at the last moment and used Ice Emperor Body Protection to ride the blast wave toward his opponent.
• Huo Yuhao reached Xia Xuanchen and cut through his Level 5 Soul Barrier with a dark-golden claw, destroying both Soul Cannons without injuring his arms.
• Huo Yuhao held the claw at Xia Xuanchen’s shoulder, leaving him unable to move as the crowd erupted.
• Long Zhanye identified Huo Yuhao’s weapon as a Dark Gold Terrorclaw External Soul Bone and remarked that the match had become more interesting.

Huo Yuhao defeated thirty-three Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy opponents across two days, including twenty elite Class 6 soul engineers from Mingde Hall. The arena fell into stunned silence as his winning streak reached thirty-three without a loss.

• Huo Yuhao defeated Xia Xuanchen in about ten seconds and challenged the audience to send the next opponent.
• Jing Hongchen silenced the crowd, revealed Huo Yuhao was only fifteen, and ordered the sparring matches to continue.
• Huo Yuhao won seventeen matches in the morning and thirteen more in the afternoon, ending the first day with thirty consecutive victories.
• Lin Jiayi announced that Huo Yuhao could use Soul Tools he had made himself against the Class 6 soul engineers from Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao defeated the Class 6 opponents who took the stage, bringing his record to thirty-three consecutive victories.

Jing Hongchen offered a huge rare-metal reward to find someone willing to challenge Huo Yuhao, and Long Zhanye stepped forward despite being only a Class 4 soul engineer. Their match began with a clash of presence, where Long Zhanye’s killing intent overwhelmed Huo Yuhao’s icy aura.

• Jing Hongchen offered one hundred kilograms of rare metals to anyone who defeated Huo Yuhao, but none of the Sun Moon students dared accept.
• Jing Hongchen challenged the students’ courage, and Long Zhanye volunteered from the back of the stands.
• Jing Hongchen doubled the reward to two hundred kilograms, and Long Zhanye walked to the arena as the crowd watched.
• Long Zhanye introduced himself as a Class 4 soul engineer, and Huo Yuhao recognized him from their encounter in Shrek City two years earlier.
• Xuan Ziwen started the match, and Huo Yuhao’s presence was split apart by Long Zhanye’s killing intent.

Long Zhanye unleashed Divine Slaughter’s Domain, overwhelming the arena with killing intent and forcing Huo Yuhao to take him seriously. Huo Yuhao struck first with his Dark Gold Terrorclaw, but Long Zhanye blocked it effortlessly with his golden arm.

• Huo Yuhao used the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion’s savage-beast aura to resist Long Zhanye’s killing intent.
• Long Zhanye released Divine Slaughter’s Domain, and Jing Hongchen learned that he was an auditing student assigned from the Evil Monarch Soul Master Regiment who had missed registration.
• Huo Yuhao launched his Dark Gold Terrorclaw and used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track with Spirit Detection to attack at high speed.
• Long Zhanye tracked Huo Yuhao with his Double Pupil and transformed his right arm with the second level of Flawless Golden Body.
• Long Zhanye blocked Huo Yuhao’s full-force Terrorclaw strike with his golden arm without suffering a mark.

Huo Yuhao unleashed his hundred-thousand-year soul ring and powerful Ultimate Ice and mental attacks against Long Zhanye, but Long Zhanye’s defenses and counterattacks kept him at a disadvantage. The fight ended with Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock striking the killing intent surging inside Long Zhanye.

• Huo Yuhao rapidly slashed at Long Zhanye, whose golden right arm blocked every attack without yielding.
• Huo Yuhao revealed a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and attacked Long Zhanye with the Ice Empress Pincer, but Long Zhanye endured the strike and sent Huo Yuhao staggering backward.
• Huo Yuhao combined Ice Emperor's Wrath with Group Weakness and Mental Confusion, but Long Zhanye’s Demon Eye Barrier absorbed and reflected the mental attacks while his Mental Rays clashed with the ice shockwave.
• The collision forced Long Zhanye back three steps and Huo Yuhao back five, while Long Zhanye struggled to control his surging killing intent.
• Huo Yuhao mistook Long Zhanye’s momentary daze for the effect of his attack and used Soul Shock, which struck the killing intent inside Long Zhanye.

Long Zhanye lost control after defeating Huo Yuhao and nearly killed him before Jing Hongchen stopped him with a Weakness Ray. After waking from half a day of unconsciousness, Long Zhanye accepted responsibility for what happened.

• Long Zhanye's Bronze Mask shattered as his killing intent erupted, and he grabbed Huo Yuhao by the throat despite Huo Yuhao conceding.
• Jing Hongchen struck Long Zhanye with a Weakness Ray, causing him to release Huo Yuhao and collapse.
• Jing Hongchen declared Long Zhanye the victor and ended the day's sparring.
• Long Zhanye woke half a day later while healing-type Spirit Masters treated him, and they told Jing Hongchen he would recover within two or three days.
• Jing Hongchen apologized on behalf of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, but Long Zhanye said his loss of control was his own fault.

After Long Zhanye recovered from nearly losing control, he negotiated generous rewards and a path to study at Mingde Hall with Jing Hongchen. He remained in the infirmary recovering while planning to enroll at Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and investigate his new Soul Rings and the Black Iron Staff.

• Long Zhanye asked Jing Hongchen for the promised rewards, and Jing Hongchen offered him two hundred jin of rare metals, a customized Soul Tool, and the rank-eight Weakness Ray.
• Jing Hongchen arranged for Long Zhanye to study at Mingde Hall three days a week and told him he could join permanently next year if he became a Class 5 soul engineer and an outstanding student.
• Long Zhanye thanked Jing Hongchen and resolved to meet those requirements and study hard at the academy.
• With Jing Hongchen's special attention, Long Zhanye recovered in the infirmary over the next few days.
• Long Zhanye planned to collect the rare metals, complete his enrollment with Lin Jiayi, and examine the soul skills from his platinum-colored Soul Rings and the Black Iron Staff.

Long Zhanye entered Mingde Hall with Lin Jiayi and discovered the enormous, heavily secured underground Soul Tool research base. Lin Jiayi explained its scale and hierarchy, leaving Long Zhanye to realize he had entered the sphere of the empire’s most powerful Soul Engineers.

• Lin Jiayi escorted the recovered Long Zhanye toward Mingde Hall and warned him to speak little and avoid unnecessary contact with the auditing students.
• Long Zhanye passed three security checkpoints and descended by elevator into the underground facility.
• Long Zhanye saw Mingde Hall’s vast production base, where thousands of experiment tables filled a cavernous hall.
• Lin Jiayi explained that Mingde Hall housed the empire’s strongest Soul Engineers and described its research groups and secret laboratories.
• Lin Jiayi revealed that he was a Level 8 Soul Engineer and that four Level 9 Soul Engineers, including the Hall Master, led Mingde Hall.
• Long Zhanye learned that Lin Jiayi’s teacher was one of the four Level 9 Soul Engineers and silently memorized his explanations.

Long Zhanye received his own workbench in Mingde Hall and discovered it could function as a miniature Soul Tool production workshop stocked with rare materials. After spending the day studying its manual and features, he left with Lin Jiayi, eager to learn more and mindful of his teacher’s warning to be careful.

• Lin Jiayi assigned Long Zhanye workbench 1235 and explained how its ID card and material quotas worked.
• Lin Jiayi gave Long Zhanye an operating manual and told him how to contact him in the No. 2 Secret Experimental Zone.
• Long Zhanye read the manual and tested the workbench, discovering its many functions for producing and testing Soul Tools.
• Long Zhanye spent the day studying the workbench while staff delivered his meals, then left Mingde Hall with Lin Jiayi after dark.
• Lin Jiayi told Long Zhanye he could enter Mingde Hall on his own starting the next day and warned him to avoid causing trouble.

Long Zhanye studied Mingde Hall’s soul-tool technology and completed a level-four Soul Propulsion Device designed for his fighting style. With the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy’s final assessment approaching, he entered the exam determined to earn outstanding-student status, and the assessment began.

• Long Zhanye secretly recorded the structure of Mingde Hall’s experimental table and spent two days studying its Core Arrays and soul-tool designs.
• Long Zhanye designed and completed a level-four Soul Propulsion Device suited to his needs, then resolved to excel in the final assessment to qualify for Mingde Hall.
• On the morning of the assessment, Long Zhanye joined thousands of students and was assigned to Examination Room Seventeen, Seat Seven.
• Two class-seven examiners announced the assessment rules and time limit, and Long Zhanye and the other examinees began creating their Soul Tools.

Long Zhanye designed a Soul Cannon that combined five Class 4 core arrays into a Differential Amplification structure, producing power beyond its apparent class. After it shattered a Class 5 barrier during the exam, the examiners called Teaching Director Lin Jiayi to appraise it.

• Long Zhanye began the assessment by engraving five Class 4 core arrays instead of assembling a conventional Soul Tool.
• Long Zhanye connected the arrays with a Differential Amplification structure and built them into a Fixed Soul Cannon.
• One examiner initially judged the cannon to be an ordinary Class 4 Soul Tool, but another recognized its unusual array cluster and proposed testing it.
• Long Zhanye's cannon shattered a Class 5 Invincible Barrier and blasted an examiner backward.
• The examiners decided they could not rate the cannon and sent for Teaching Director Lin Jiayi to appraise it.

Lin Jiayi recognized Long Zhanye’s Fixed Soul Cannon as a sixth-level Soul Tool and promoted him to sixth-level Soul Engineer. Long Zhanye learned that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s absence made his Outstanding Student qualification practically guaranteed, and awaited the evaluation results.

• Lin Jiayi examined Long Zhanye’s Fixed Soul Cannon and judged it a sixth-level Soul Tool, noting its power and lower production cost.
• Lin Jiayi praised Long Zhanye’s design and pinned a sixth-level Soul Engineer badge to his chest.
• Long Zhanye asked whether his new rank qualified him as an Outstanding Student, and Lin Jiayi said it was practically guaranteed now that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen had left for Shrek Academy.
• Lin Jiayi explained that Xiao Hongchen was a seventh-level Soul Engineer and Meng Hongchen a top-tier sixth-level Soul Engineer, while Long Zhanye resolved to keep improving and await the evaluation results.