Recaps

Long Zhanye checked the academy grades and learned he ranked tenth, earning the last Outstanding Student qualification. He reunited with An Lengye, Shen Ce, and Fei Yuyan, who were stunned by his Class Six badge and achievement, and they agreed to keep working hard together.

• Long Zhanye used his Double Pupil to read the crowded bulletin board and saw that he ranked tenth with eighty-five points, the last place in the outstanding category.
• Long Zhanye met An Lengye, Shen Ce, and Fei Yuyan, who thought he had failed and offered to tutor him.
• Fei Yuyan, Shen Ce, and An Lengye noticed Long Zhanye's Class Six soul engineer badge and reacted with disbelief.
• Long Zhanye told them he had passed the assessment and earned the Outstanding Student qualification.
• Long Zhanye explained that he had hoped to rank first and encouraged his friends to follow their own paths and work hard together.

After passing the final assessment, Long Zhanye asked Jing Hongchen to let him continue studying at Mingde Hall. Impressed by his Class 6 Soul Engineer badge and the breakthrough he demonstrated in the assessment, Jing Hongchen approved his studies and offered personal guidance.

• Shen Ce treated Long Zhanye, Fei Yuyan, and An Lengye to a celebratory meal after all four passed the assessment.
• Long Zhanye told his companions he planned to ask Jing Hongchen to let him continue studying at Mingde Hall.
• Long Zhanye showed Jing Hongchen his Class 6 Soul Engineer badge and asked to remain at Mingde Hall.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Lin Jiayi, who explained how Long Zhanye combined five Class 4 Core Arrays into a powerful, lower-cost Class 6 Soul Tool during the assessment.
• Jing Hongchen approved Long Zhanye to study at Mingde Hall five days a week and offered him personal guidance alongside Lin Jiayi.

After a day studying in Mingde Hall, Long Zhanye encountered Ji Juechen, who challenged him after sensing in his aura what he had long pursued. Long Zhanye prepared to fight as Ji Juechen’s obsession with the sword became clear.

• Long Zhanye finished his research in Mingde Hall and headed toward his dormitory after dark.
• Ji Juechen stopped Long Zhanye on the road and said he had come because Long Zhanye had defeated Huo Yuhao.
• Ji Juechen bowed and asked Long Zhanye to let him experience the quality he had sensed in his aura.
• Ji Juechen revealed six Soul Rings and fixed his fervent attention on Long Zhanye, who judged him mad and took a fighting stance.
• Long Zhanye recalled Ji Juechen’s unusual path as a sword-obsessed Spirit Master and Soul Engineer who had never relied on medicine.

Ji Juechen challenged Long Zhanye to a duel of presence, hoping to see the power that had defeated Huo Yuhao. Their clash awakened Long Zhanye to a qualitative transformation of his mind, allowing his Soul Power and Mental Power to begin merging.

• Ji Juechen spent more than ten years shaping Extraterrestrial Meteorite Iron into a sword and came to challenge Long Zhanye after witnessing him defeat Huo Yuhao.
• Ji Juechen and Long Zhanye faced each other from a distance, each revealing his aura without launching an attack.
• Long Zhanye's killing intent initially overwhelmed Ji Juechen's sword intent, but Ji Juechen shifted his stance and pushed back with a new, predatory presence.
• Their clash caused Long Zhanye's Sea of Consciousness to boil as his Mental Power underwent a qualitative change called Boundless Vast Sea.
• Long Zhanye felt his Soul Power and Mental Power begin to merge, awakening a path equivalent to a Self-Created Soul Skill.

Long Zhanye used Ji Juechen’s sword intent to drive the fusion of his Soul Power and Mental Power, then met Ji Juechen’s all-out sword strike with his golden right arm. After the collision, Ji Juechen stood dazed and neither man attacked again.

• Long Zhanye entered the fused state he had learned from Elder Gu, while Chaos Qi concealed his opened Heavenly Eye.
• Ji Juechen’s sword intent could not shake Long Zhanye, so he launched a lightning-fast charge and swept his sword with overwhelming force.
• Long Zhanye stepped forward and met Ji Juechen’s sword with his Flawless Golden Body right arm.
• The clash shattered the ground and sent Ji Juechen farther back than Long Zhanye, leaving Ji Juechen bloodied and staring silently at his sword.

After defeating Ji Juechen, Long Zhanye struggled with the growing killing intent left by Slaughter City's Divine Slaughter's Domain and buried himself in Soul Tool research. Four months later, he had become a genuine level-six Soul Engineer, but Ji Juechen still pursued him for sparring, and Long Zhanye tried to escape another challenge.

• Ji Juechen admitted defeat after his duel with Long Zhanye, then left while Long Zhanye reflected on what he had learned.
• Long Zhanye noticed that the killing intent within him grew harder to control after battles and chose to keep the problem secret.
• Long Zhanye studied at Mingde Hall, learned to carve level-five and level-six Core Arrays, and became a genuine level-six Soul Engineer.
• Ji Juechen repeatedly challenged Long Zhanye, having developed a unique path combining Sword Intent, Soul Power, and Mental Power.
• Long Zhanye tried to leave Mingde Hall through the back door, found Ji Juechen waiting with his usual request to spar, and turned away.

Long Zhanye’s Heavenly Eye warned him of an attack on Mingde Hall, allowing him to survive four devastating explosions. As masked Body Sect experts slaughtered researchers and destroyed the base, he stayed hidden beneath an experiment table to avoid being exposed as a sect disciple.

• Long Zhanye sensed an explosion through his Heavenly Eye and rolled beneath an experiment table, shielding himself with Chaos energy.
• Four blasts tore through Mingde Hall, killing more than a hundred Soul Engineers and wrecking research equipment.
• Masked fighters emerged from the blast craters and began killing survivors and destroying the underground base.
• Long Zhanye recognized the attackers as Body Sect members, including at least a dozen Title Douluo, and realized their raid threatened to expose him.
• Long Zhanye stayed motionless under the table as the attackers continued their slaughter and destruction.

The Body Sect’s surprise attack on Mingde Hall turned into a fierce battle after Jing Hongchen arrived to lead the defense. Long Zhanye remained trapped beneath an experimental table as the combat around him grew more destructive.

• Mingde Hall’s alarm sounded, and its dome-mounted Soul Tools paralyzed the Body Sect’s fighters while Soul Engineers counterattacked.
• Du Busi evaded the purple attacks and melted the dome’s Soul Tools with green poison, but Jing Hongchen blocked the corrosive liquid before it struck the Soul Engineers.
• Jing Hongchen and Du Busi ordered their forces to kill, and the two sides clashed throughout the underground base.
• Long Zhanye hid beneath an experimental table and tried to shield himself, but the Soul Power storm shredded his Mental Power and left him bleeding and in pain.

Long Zhanye hid from the battle raging above Mingde Hall, then escaped through a newly dug underground tunnel. As he sensed fresh air ahead, he realized the Body Sect’s assault might be a diversion to steal Mingde Hall’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

• Long Zhanye decided not to help either side and concealed himself beneath the wreckage of an experiment table.
• Long Zhanye sensed a fresh tunnel five meters underground and dug into it to escape the fighting.
• Long Zhanye followed the tunnel deeper into Mingde Hall’s underground base as the battle grew quieter behind him.
• Long Zhanye noticed fresh air ahead and suspected the tunnel had been dug by the Body Sect as part of its true objective.
• Long Zhanye recalled the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo hidden by Mingde Hall and concluded it was likely the target of the attack.

Long Zhanye decided to avoid the Body Sect’s hidden objective, but collapsing tunnels forced him deeper into Mingde Hall’s underground base. As the fighting stopped amid the tremors, Jing Hongchen realized the collapse came from the direction of the secret target.

• Long Zhanye weighed whether to pursue the Body Sect’s true objective, then chose to wait rather than risk confronting the infiltrator.
• The tunnel behind Long Zhanye collapsed, leaving him no choice but to run deeper into the passage.
• Long Zhanye continued toward the unknown destination and wondered how the intruders knew Mingde Hall’s layout so well.
• The underground base shook violently, forcing both sides to stop fighting as they feared being buried alive.
• Jing Hongchen recognized the direction of the collapse and demanded to know why Du Busi had caused it.

Du Busi held Jing Hongchen and the Mingde Hall powerhouses at bay while Long Zhanye searched the unstable base. In a laboratory, Long Zhanye discovered that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast had escaped from a shattered Seal God Platform, leaving a Body Sect expert frozen in ice.

• Du Busi transformed into countless figures and attacked the Mingde Hall powerhouses, forcing Jing Hongchen to turn back and fight.
• Long Zhanye entered a passage and followed a faint trace of Body Sect Soul Power into an empty laboratory.
• A wave of frigid air filled the laboratory as an unseen figure cursed humans and smashed something; Long Zhanye protected himself with Chaos energy and Flawless Golden Body.
• After the cold weakened, Long Zhanye found the corridor encased in thick ice and a core Body Sect expert frozen inside a block.
• Long Zhanye recognized a damaged Class 9 Seal God Platform and realized the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo it had contained had escaped.

Long Zhanye confronted Huo Yuhao in the dark passage beneath Mingde Hall and accused him of involvement in the explosion after suspecting his story. Their confrontation turned physical, leaving Huo Yuhao pushed back but protected by Red Dust Protection and Ice Emperor Body Protection.

• Long Zhanye left the frozen Body Sect expert behind and continued through the dark passage after the explosion disabled its lights.
• Long Zhanye encountered Huo Yuhao, questioned why he was near Mingde Hall's restricted laboratory, and demanded to inspect his Storage Soul Tool.
• Huo Yuhao accused the attackers of belonging to the Body Sect, making Long Zhanye fear that he knew the sect's secret.
• Long Zhanye decided to subdue Huo Yuhao and struck him with a powerful punch.
• Huo Yuhao activated Red Dust Protection and Ice Emperor Body Protection, blocking the blow as Long Zhanye recognized the Level 9 Soul Tool and accused him of stealing it.

Huo Yuhao fought Long Zhanye in the passage after being accused of stealing from Mingde Hall, but Long Zhanye’s Chaos abilities overwhelmed him. Huo Yuhao broke free of an invisible cage, only for Long Zhanye to shatter his Storage Soul Tool and reveal its contents.

• Huo Yuhao used Ice Emperor’s Wrath against Long Zhanye, who revealed five black Soul Rings and one unprecedented platinum Soul Ring.
• Long Zhanye restricted Huo Yuhao’s spiritual power with Chaos Demon Light and attacked his Storage Soul Tool with Chaos Dragon Claw, but Sky Dream Ice Silkworm guided Huo Yuhao’s evasions.
• Long Zhanye trapped Huo Yuhao inside five Colorless Walls and accused Shrek’s people of stealing from Mingde Hall.
• Huo Yuhao broke the Colorless Walls with Ice Empress Pincer, then dodged Long Zhanye’s Weakening Ray.
• The Weakening Ray struck and shattered Huo Yuhao’s imitation Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, spilling its contents across the ground and changing Long Zhanye’s expression.

Long Zhanye discovered the Rare Metals, Core Array blueprints, Soul Tools, shattered Seal God Platform, and enormous Starlight Sapphire Huo Yuhao had taken from Mingde Hall, then attacked him in fury. The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm froze Long Zhanye so Huo Yuhao could escape, but Long Zhanye activated his Heavenly Eye and Fifth Soul Skill in an attempt to break free.

• Long Zhanye accused Huo Yuhao of stealing Mingde Hall's treasures after finding piles of Rare Metals, Core Array blueprints, Soul Tools, the shattered Seal God Platform, and a huge Starlight Sapphire.
• Long Zhanye unleashed Divine Slaughter's Domain and punched at Huo Yuhao with overwhelming killing intent.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm possessed Huo Yuhao and froze Long Zhanye with Sky Dream Finger just before the punch landed.
• Huo Yuhao left the passageway while the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned that even a Soul Douluo would need time to escape the ice.
• Long Zhanye realized Huo Yuhao's escape could make the Body Sect bear the blame for Mingde Hall's losses, then activated his Heavenly Eye and Fifth Soul Skill, Son of Mingling, to break free.

Long Zhanye broke free from Huo Yuhao’s Ice Seal after his Body Martial Soul advanced to a Silver-Level Awakening, then pursued and overwhelmed Huo Yuhao. The chapter left Huo Yuhao trapped and unable to escape as Long Zhanye continued attacking him.

• Long Zhanye’s Body Martial Soul underwent a Silver-Level Awakening, suppressing his killing intent and greatly increasing his strength and Soul Ring ages.
• Long Zhanye shattered the Ice Seal and chased Huo Yuhao, using the Chaos Qi in his domain to appear behind him.
• Huo Yuhao fought back with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s power and Mysterious Jade Hand, but Long Zhanye’s Chaos Qi began dissolving his hands.
• Huo Yuhao activated his Sixth-Grade Propulsor to flee, but Long Zhanye caught him and smashed the Soul Tool to pieces.
• Huo Yuhao protested that he had stolen nothing from Long Zhanye’s family, but Long Zhanye silently continued punching him.

Long Zhanye beat Huo Yuhao unconscious, discovered the stolen Humanoid Robot and other Mingde Hall secrets, and hid with him in the ruined underground base. There, he watched Jing Hongchen and Du Busi fight a newly escaped Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, whose power threatened both sides.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm attacked Long Zhanye's mind, but Long Zhanye continued beating Huo Yuhao until Huo Yuhao collapsed unconscious.
• Long Zhanye searched Huo Yuhao's belongings and discovered a fifteen-meter Humanoid Robot hidden inside the Star Sapphire, along with other stolen treasures and blueprints.
• Long Zhanye decided to hand the stolen items to Jing Hongchen and use the incident to turn blame toward Shrek.
• Long Zhanye dragged Huo Yuhao behind a collapsed experimental table and surveyed the devastated underground base.
• Long Zhanye saw Jing Hongchen and Du Busi fighting a little girl who had escaped from the Seal God Platform as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.

Du Busi and Jing Hongchen attacked the Snow Empress, but Jing Hongchen’s Crystal Ball bound her with red threads and prevented Du Busi from taking her. Refusing to be captured, the Snow Empress detonated her cultivation, unleashing an explosion that shattered Mingde Hall’s defenses and devastated the Underground World.

• Du Busi and Jing Hongchen jointly attacked the Snow Empress with a giant dark-green hand and Jing Hongchen’s Heaven-Shocking Rainbow.
• After the Snow Empress’s freezing energy weakened, Du Busi ordered the Body Sect experts to retreat, but Jing Hongchen’s forces attacked them.
• Jing Hongchen’s Crystal Ball released red threads that bound the Snow Empress and rapidly dissolved Du Busi’s Soul Power.
• The Snow Empress condemned the humans hunting Soul Beasts and declared that she would die rather than serve their ambitions.
• Jing Hongchen raised layered barriers while Du Busi retreated with the Body Sect, but the Snow Empress detonated her cultivation and shattered the defenses in a catastrophic explosion.

Snow Empress’s self-destruction devastated Mingde Hall’s underground base, while the Body Sect escaped and Jing Hongchen’s pursuit failed. Long Zhanye was rescued while secretly waiting with the unconscious Huo Yuhao, and Jing Hongchen returned to face the ruin and swear revenge.

• Snow Empress’s explosion damaged the underground base despite its barriers, while Du Busi shielded the Body Sect and led its members away with their fallen companions.
• Jing Hongchen chased after Du Busi, but Long Zhanye remained frozen beside a concealed experiment table as a transparent liquid landed on Huo Yuhao and seeped into his body.
• Mingde Hall’s survivors found Long Zhanye and carried him to safety, where he waited to give Jing Hongchen the unconscious Huo Yuhao and the stolen goods.
• Jing Hongchen returned empty-handed and organized emergency reinforcements as he surveyed the collapsed, ruined base and mourned its casualties and losses.
• Jing Hongchen blamed the Body Sect for the disaster and vowed to remember the grudge.

After the Body Sect escaped Ming Capital, Jing Hongchen learned that Experimental Subject No. 1 had vanished from Laboratory No. 1. He concealed the theft and ordered an urgent recovery effort, leaving Mingde Hall preparing to hunt down the Body Sect.

• Jing Hongchen sealed Ming Capital after the Body Sect escaped through a collapsed tunnel, though he doubted the army could stop them.
• Lin Jiayi reported that the warehouse was intact but Experimental Subject No. 1 was missing, and Jing Hongchen collapsed after hearing the news.
• Lin Jiayi said he had sealed Laboratory No. 1 and changed its access code before reporting the theft, so no one else knew.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to keep everyone present silent and to watch auctions for the missing subject.
• Jing Hongchen ordered kill-on-sight missions against the Body Sect through Mercenary Guilds and Assassin Guilds.

After Mingde Hall’s underground base was attacked, Long Zhanye presented Huo Yuhao and stolen treasures as evidence that Shrek Academy was responsible. Jing Hongchen recognized the accusation against Shrek as a lie but saw no evidence to blame the Body Sect, leaving Huo Yuhao framed for the disaster.

• Jing Hongchen ordered Mingde Hall’s healthy members to mobilize, repair the base, and reinforce defenses while asking whether the Shrek exchange students were safe.
• Long Zhanye emerged with the injured Huo Yuhao and interrupted Jing Hongchen’s call for healers by revealing that Experimental Subject No. 1 had been recovered.
• Long Zhanye showed Jing Hongchen the Star Sapphire, the shattered Seal God Platform, Rare Metals, blueprints, and Soul Tools, claiming Huo Yuhao had stolen them and released the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo.
• Long Zhanye identified Huo Yuhao as the thief and accused Shrek Academy of orchestrating the explosion and sending the Black-Clad Men.
• Jing Hongchen recognized that Du Busi had led the Black-Clad Men, but realized he lacked evidence to blame the Body Sect and that Mingde Hall would otherwise bear the losses.

Jing Hongchen blamed Shrek Academy for the disaster at Mingde Hall and imprisoned its exchange students, while Long Zhanye kept a stolen Level 9 Soul Tool for himself. Days later, Jing Hongchen visited Long Zhanye’s dormitory with Lin Jiayi and two unfamiliar men, still praising him for his supposed service.

• Jing Hongchen praised Long Zhanye, let him keep most of the recovered Rare Metals and blueprints, and decided to report the incident to the royal family.
• After Long Zhanye left, Jing Hongchen beat the unconscious Huo Yuhao and ordered Lin Jiayi to arrest and torture every Shrek exchange student.
• Long Zhanye learned the Shrek students had been imprisoned and privately kept Huo Yuhao’s Red Dust Protection Soul Tool.
• Long Zhanye examined his knowledge of Experimental Subject No. 1 and concluded he could neither operate it nor safely keep it.
• Jing Hongchen arrived at Long Zhanye’s dormitory with Lin Jiayi and two unfamiliar men, praising Long Zhanye for his role in the incident.

Long Zhanye recounted how he had recovered Experimental Subject No. 1, while carefully hiding his knowledge of the Body Sect and shifting the blame onto Huo Yuhao. After hearing him, the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders competed to recruit him, and Jing Hongchen offered him an exceptional position as a Mingde Hall researcher.

• Jing Hongchen introduced Long Zhanye to Xu Tianyuan and Wang Yiheng, who both commanded elite Soul Engineer regiments.
• Lin Jiayi asked Long Zhanye to explain what had happened, and Long Zhanye gave a calm, detailed account that blamed Huo Yuhao for stealing Experimental Subject No. 1.
• Xu Tianyuan angrily condemned Shrek Academy, while Jing Hongchen explained that Experimental Subject No. 1 was Mingde Hall’s ultimate research goal and assured Long Zhanye he would not be silenced.
• Lin Jiayi praised Long Zhanye’s talent, and Wang Yiheng offered him a senior position and personal instruction in the Evil Monarch Soul Master Regiment.
• Xu Tianyuan offered Long Zhanye the deputy commander position in the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment.
• Jing Hongchen offered Long Zhanye his own laboratory and an exceptional appointment as a Mingde Hall researcher with the highest benefits.

Long Zhanye declined offers to join the Evil Monarch and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiments, choosing to remain at Mingde Hall and focus on Soul Tool research. Jing Hongchen, Wang Yiheng, and Xu Tianyuan each gave him a powerful Soul Tool, leaving him with Xu Tianyuan’s Demon-Breaking Sword.

• Long Zhanye thanked Wang Yiheng and Xu Tianyuan for their offers but said he wanted to stay at Mingde Hall and study Soul Tools.
• Wang Yiheng and Xu Tianyuan accepted his decision and said their regiments would welcome him in the future.
• Jing Hongchen gave Long Zhanye the Level 9 Clarity Necklace and Level 8 Supersonic Bionic Flight Wings as Mingde Hall’s gifts.
• Wang Yiheng presented Long Zhanye with the Level 9 Blood Net, a passive defense Soul Tool he had forged himself.
• Xu Tianyuan argued that Long Zhanye needed stronger offensive power and offered him the Demon-Breaking Sword, which contained a Ten-Thousand-Year Sea Dragon Soul Bone.

Long Zhanye received several powerful soul tools from Xu Tianyuan and Wang Yiheng, then woke to see Huo Yuhao and ten other Shrek exchange students being paraded through the streets in disgrace. He relished their humiliation, believing it avenged his own suffering, while recognizing that they could not be killed because Jing Hongchen’s grandchildren were studying at Shrek.

• Xu Tianyuan gave Long Zhanye a Demon-Breaking Sword and a High-Energy Compression Milk Bottle, warning him not to absorb the bottle’s Soul Power all at once.
• Long Zhanye thanked Xu Tianyuan and Wang Yiheng, then celebrated his haul of powerful soul tools and imagined using them in future battles.
• Long Zhanye woke near dusk to loud jeering outside and saw eleven Shrek exchange students being paraded naked and wounded through the streets.
• Long Zhanye recognized Huo Yuhao among the captives and understood that the group was being punished for Huo Yuhao’s mistake.
• Long Zhanye watched the crowd attack and insult the Shrek group, felt satisfied by their humiliation, and returned to bed knowing they could not be killed.

Juzi secured Huo Yuhao’s release from Mingde Hall by order of the Crown Prince and stayed beside him as he recovered from his torture. After waking, Huo Yuhao said he could not return to the Sun Moon Empire, and Juzi promised to find him once she had finished her duties.

• Juzi hurried to a quiet palace hall and reported an urgent matter to a calm, wheelchair-bound man, who gave her a casual wave of approval.
• Juzi and Shadow Douluo arrived at Mingde Hall by order of the Crown Prince and demanded that Jing Hongchen release Huo Yuhao.
• Jing Hongchen yielded, and Juzi’s group found Huo Yuhao gravely injured on the Dragon-Peeling Pillar and rushed him to the palace for treatment.
• Huo Yuhao remained unconscious for more than ten days before waking with Juzi at his bedside.
• Huo Yuhao told Juzi he could not return to the Sun Moon Empire, and Juzi promised to come find him after finishing her duties.