Chapter Summaries

At the banquet, Jiang Yi helped Huo Yutong enjoy the dance while Xian Lin'er struggled with her feelings for him. Later, Xian Lin'er confessed her desire to Jiang Yi in his dormitory, but their kiss was interrupted by Huo Yutong searching for Qing'er.

• Jiang Yi led Huo Yutong through a dance, and she delighted in the guests’ admiration and his attention.
• Meng Hongchen sulked over Jiang Yi dancing with Huo Yutong, while Xian Lin'er rejected a man's invitation and lamented her feelings.
• Tian Meng stole blueprints from Virtue Hall and spotted Body Sect members tunneling underground toward it.
• After the banquet, a drunk Xian Lin'er went to Jiang Yi's dormitory, embraced him, and asked him to kiss her.
• Jiang Yi kissed Xian Lin'er, but Huo Yutong knocked and asked whether he had seen Qing'er.

Jiang Yi’s private moment with Xian Lin'er was interrupted when Huo Yutong and then Meng Hongchen arrived at his dormitory. After Meng Hongchen gave him a token and kissed him before flying away, Jiang Yi returned to find Xian Lin'er and Huo Yutong awkwardly sitting together.

• Xian Lin'er stopped kissing Jiang Yi when Huo Yutong knocked, then hid in the wardrobe as Jiang Yi let Huo Yutong into the room.
• Jiang Yi kissed Huo Yutong, and she hid under the bed when Meng Hongchen knocked at the door.
• Meng Hongchen gave Jiang Yi her grandfather’s token to enter Virtue Hall, kissed his cheek, and flew away before answering his question.
• Jiang Yi returned to find Xian Lin'er and Huo Yutong sitting awkwardly on the bed, then stepped forward to address them.

Jiang Yi teased Xian Lin'er and Huo Yutong until they fled, then faced a mysterious black-robed girl who attacked him in his dorm. He defeated her with ease and left her unconscious.

• Xian Lin'er dragged Huo Yutong away after Jiang Yi joked about getting late-night snacks together.
• Tian Meng appeared on Jiang Yi's shoulder and told him that a new maid had arrived.
• A black-robed girl burst through the wall and attacked Jiang Yi with a Blink Sword, but he knocked it aside.
• The girl split into three and launched blade attacks, but Jiang Yi shattered them and identified her real body.
• The girl tried to escape after firing hidden shortswords, but Jiang Yi struck her with lightning and knocked her unconscious.

Jiang Yi captured Nana after Tian Meng brought her back, then convinced her that he was a Shrek representative rather than an Evil Soul Master. Nana begged him to save her parents from the Holy Spirit Cult and revealed her painful past, leaving Jiang Yi in a position to help her.

• Jiang Yi questioned Tian Meng about bringing Nana back and instructed her to search Bright City's armory while the Body Sect kept digging beneath Virtue Hall.
• When Nana woke, Jiang Yi explained that she had attacked him first and confirmed that he knew about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jiang Yi introduced himself as Shrek Academy's Soul Tool Department vice dean, untied Nana, and offered to hear her grievances.
• Nana begged Jiang Yi to save her parents, then told him that the Holy Spirit Cult had forced her to join and tormented her for years.
• Jiang Yi comforted Nana as she cried in his arms, while Tian Meng watched him win Nana over.

Nana told Jiang Yi that the Holy Spirit Cult held her parents’ souls and asked him to help rescue them, so he agreed to infiltrate a gathering with her the following week. After accepting a connection to Nana’s soul and spending the night with her, Jiang Yi headed underground with a young man beside him.

• Nana explained that the Holy Spirit Cult used her parents’ captive souls to force her obedience and asked Jiang Yi to help her.
• Jiang Yi agreed to accompany Nana to the Cult’s gathering next week and accepted the portion of her soul she offered him.
• Nana urged Jiang Yi to suppress the Evil Soul Masters threatening Bright City, and they spent the night together.
• Nana woke in the dormitory to find breakfast, an immortal herb, and a note from Jiang Yi, then cried with relief.
• Jiang Yi rode an underground elevator with a refined young man and recalled that Bing'er had nearly frozen him after he challenged her.

Jiang Yi toured Virtue Hall with Xuan Ziwen, impressed by its Soul Tool production and discussing ideas for making Soul Tools accessible to ordinary people. When Xuan Ziwen brought him to his laboratory, they found Xian Lin'er and Huo Yutong facing off against Ju Zi and Keke over access to equipment.

• Xuan Ziwen showed Jiang Yi Virtue Hall's public research base and explained its advanced workbenches and private laboratories.
• Jiang Yi and Xuan Ziwen discussed Soul Tool mechanics, and Xuan Ziwen invited Jiang Yi to his laboratory for a closer exchange of ideas.
• Xian Lin'er confronted Keke and other students after they tried to keep her and Huo Yutong from using the laboratory.
• Ju Zi proposed settling the dispute through a contest of Soul Engineer theory, and Xian Lin'er accepted.
• Xuan Ziwen and Jiang Yi entered the laboratory, and Xuan Ziwen angrily rebuked his students for the confrontation.

Jiang Yi and Xian Lin'er turned a wager with Ju Zi and the Sun Moon Royal Academy students into a chance to showcase Shrek's Soul Tool technology. Xian Lin'er revealed that her gun could fire without Soul Power, leaving Ju Zi and the others stunned.

• Ju Zi recognized Jiang Yi, and he persuaded Xuan Ziwen to let the students continue their competition.
• Xian Lin'er and Ju Zi agreed to a blind Soul Tool dismantling contest, with each tasked to reconstruct the other's Soul Tool design.
• Jiang Yi and Xuan Ziwen wagered the Heavenly Secret Umbrella blueprints and a method for sealing Milk Bottles on the contest's outcome.
• Xian Lin'er reconstructed over ninety percent of Ju Zi's flying Soul Tool, while Huo Yutong judged Ju Zi's reconstruction of the gun to be only about fifty percent accurate.
• Xian Lin'er removed the gun's Milk Bottle and fired it anyway, revealing that it could hit a target without Soul Power and astonishing the Sun Moon Royal Academy students.

Ju Zi and Xuan Ziwen examined Jiang Yi’s gun design, and Xuan Ziwen spent the following week researching with him. Nana then went to meet the Holy Spirit Cult, hoping to escape the cage and save her parents.

• Ju Zi lost the laboratory bet and left with Keke after Xian Lin'er declined to explain the gun’s design.
• Huo Yutong copied the structure of the Golden Cicada Wings while Xuan Ziwen accepted Jiang Yi’s gun and took it apart.
• Jiang Yi explained his approach to Soul Tool design to Xuan Ziwen, who shared Sun Moon Empire research with him over the following week.
• Jiang Yi learned that Nana planned to meet the Holy Spirit Cult that night and promised to save her parents.
• Nana entered a secret passage after confirming the Holy Spirit Cult’s code at a courtyard in Bright City.

Nana, Jiang Yi, and Huo Yutong infiltrated the Holy Church’s altar chamber, where Nana avenged her parents by killing the Second Holy Spirit after Jiang Yi defeated him. Huo Yutong captured both Holy Spirits’ souls, and the group prepared to enter the Soul Altar to rescue its prisoners.

• Nana approached the First and Second Holy Spirits, then used Undead Whisper to distract the First while Jiang Yi beheaded him with a sudden sword strike.
• The Second Holy Spirit attacked Jiang Yi, but Jiang Yi’s sword qi severed his claw and his Domination Domain shattered the man’s body without destroying his brain.
• Jiang Yi let Nana take revenge, and she tortured the helpless Second Holy Spirit before killing him for destroying her home and torturing her parents’ souls.
• Huo Yutong initially recoiled from Nana’s brutality, but changed her mind after Jiang Yi compared the victim to Dai Hao and watched Nana’s revenge with interest.
• Huo Yutong summoned the First and Second Holy Spirits’ souls into the Undead Demiplane, then Jiang Yi asked Nana to lead them to the Soul Altar to save the people there.

Jiang Yi and Huo Yutong freed the souls trapped in a Ten-Thousand Souls Banner and accepted the allegiance of the rescued Holy Spirit Cult disciples. After returning, Jiang Yi’s group continued their mission while Xu Tianran secretly read a Shrek romance novel and received an unexpected visitor.

• Jiang Yi carried Nana away from the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner while Huo Yutong used holy light to release the imprisoned souls, allowing Nana to reunite with her parents.
• Jiang Yi told the freed Holy Spirit Cult disciples that the Great Holy Spirit was dead and sent them to Shrek City with a letter for the Tang Sect.
• Nana chose to follow Jiang Yi and, after her Martial Soul evolved, merged into his shadow without a time limit.
• Jiang Yi, Huo Yutong, and Nana returned after destroying the Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, while Xu Tianran secretly read a Shrek romance novel in the imperial palace.
• Xu Tianran hid the novel beneath his memorials when footsteps approached, then asked the girl who entered the hall why she had come.

Ju Zi reported Shrek’s Soul Tool research to Xu Tianran, who sent her toward a military role and rejected the Eighth Prince’s marriage request for Meng Hongchen. At the academy, Jing Hongchen agreed to keep Xuan Ziwen busy while Meng went shopping with Jiang Yi, and he prepared to confront the Holy Spirit Cult over missing students.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Shrek’s Soul Tool research was advanced and that Meng Hongchen had taken an interest in Jiang Yi.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi he would send her to the military, then rejected the Eighth Prince’s request to marry Meng Hongchen because she already had someone in her heart.
• Meng Hongchen persuaded Jing Hongchen to assign Xuan Ziwen a project, took money from his desk, and left to meet Jiang Yi.
• Lin Jiayi informed Jing Hongchen that visitors had arrived, and Jing Hongchen ordered them brought in after condemning the Holy Spirit Cult for targeting academy students.
• Meng Hongchen waited at the academy gates, and Jiang Yi arrived and took her hand as they headed into Bright City.

Jiang Yi and Meng Hongchen enjoyed a flirtatious date in Bright City before Jiang Yi helped a veiled purple-haired woman whose daughter had been captured. The Eighth Prince then confronted the pair, interrupting their date.

• Jiang Yi and Meng Hongchen wandered Bright City's streets, flirting as the Eighth Prince watched them and devised a scheme.
• Meng Hongchen and Jiang Yi found a purple-haired woman standing beside scattered buns while a stall owner demanded compensation.
• Jiang Yi paid the stall owner with Meng Hongchen's Gold Soul Coins, and the purple-haired woman lowered her hand instead of attacking the crowd.
• Tian Meng confirmed that the purple-haired woman was the Demon Empress, whose husband was dead and daughter had been captured, and told Jiang Yi he had located Bright City's underground armory.
• Jiang Yi teased Meng Hongchen about letting him knead her breasts, but the Eighth Prince arrived with a group of dissolute friends and surrounded them.

Jiang Yi defended Meng Hongchen when the Eighth Prince, Xu Tianyun, accused him of being a Shrek spy and tried to provoke him into an arrest. After Jiang Yi revealed his overwhelming power and froze the city guards, he comforted Meng Hongchen and flew away with her from Bright City.

• Xu Tianyun blocked Meng Hongchen and Jiang Yi from leaving, then accused Jiang Yi of being a Shrek spy and challenged him to fight.
• Jiang Yi slapped Xu Tianyun and his guards when they insulted him and tried to provoke him.
• When city guards moved to arrest Jiang Yi, he revealed nine red soul rings and froze them with his icy power.
• Xu Tianyun collapsed in fear, and Jiang Yi dismissed him before comforting the worried Meng Hongchen.
• Jiang Yi embraced Meng Hongchen and flew with her out of Bright City on a summoned azure bird.

Xu Tianran investigated Jiang Yi while Jiang Yi and Meng Hongchen grew closer and she agreed to follow him to Shrek someday. The chapter ended with a bomb detonating beneath Virtue Hall as Body Sect launched its attack.

• Xu Tianran questioned Elder Xue about Jiang Yi’s strength and ordered Xu Tianyun sent to the ancestral shrine for discipline.
• Jiang Yi and Meng Hongchen shared a romantic moment, and Meng Hongchen agreed to return with him to Shrek Academy in the future.
• Xu Tianran visited Jing Hongchen to apologize for Xu Tianyun’s harassment of Meng Hongchen and asked about Jiang Yi.
• Xue Chen suddenly shielded Xu Tianran as Jing Hongchen reacted to an attack, while Body Sect’s men detonated explosives beneath Virtue Hall.

Xian Lin'er and Jiang Yi were interrupted by an attack on Virtue Hall, and Jiang Yi sent her to raid a hidden armory beneath Bright City while he headed toward the battle. The Body Sect fought Jing Hongchen’s Soul Engineers underground as Jiang Yi slipped away toward a concealed area of the base.

• Xian Lin'er and Jiang Yi were together in their dormitory when an explosion erupted near Virtue Hall.
• Jiang Yi gave Xian Lin'er a map to a secret armory beneath Bright City and advised her to disguise her soul skills; she flew off to raid it.
• Jiang Yi used Spirit Simulation: Invisibility with Tian Meng and headed toward Virtue Hall.
• The Body Sect attacked Virtue Hall, killing Soul Engineers and destroying the defensive Soul Tools with Du Busi’s corrosive green liquid.
• Jing Hongchen confronted Du Busi, and the two sides fought while Jiang Yi observed before heading toward the underground base.

Xu Tianran was robbed by Jiang Yi, who also stole Virtue Hall’s prototype mecha and replaced the real Sealing God Platform with a fake. The Demon Empress reclaimed the platform, mistook its silence for her daughter’s anger, and unleashed her power against everyone in the underground cavern.

• Xu Tianran sent Xue Chen to the battlefield, then Long Aotian ambushed and robbed him before Xu Tianran vowed revenge on the Body Sect.
• Jiang Yi and Tian Meng stored Virtue Hall’s prototype mecha inside a blue gem.
• Jiang Yi took the real Sealing God Platform from a Body Sect member and left an indistinguishable fake in its place.
• Jing Hongchen attacked the cavern roof to stop the Body Sect, then rushed for the Sealing God Platform as Du Busi intercepted the beam.
• The Demon Empress caught the Sealing God Platform, repelled Jing Hongchen’s attack, and released her power against everyone in the cavern.

A Ferocious Beast’s attack on Sun Moon Royal Academy drew Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao into a battle against the Demon Empress, while Jiang Yi watched from the dormitory with Snow Empress and Ice Empress. The Demon Empress was injured and struggling, leaving Jiang Yi considering a deal involving Lan Fozhi’s embryo as the sisters shared an affectionate moment with him.

• The Demon Empress unleashed a purple tide over Sun Moon Royal Academy, and Du Busi prepared to hold her off while Jing Hongchen and the others escaped.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao appeared and fought the Demon Empress, prompting Du Busi to withdraw the Body Sect while Jing Hongchen stayed to protect the academy.
• Jiang Yi watched the battle through Tian Meng’s shared vision as Snow Empress explained that the Demon Empress was injured and had been hunted after her husband’s death.
• Jiang Yi considered using Lan Fozhi’s embryo to bargain with the Demon Empress if he could suppress her.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress teased Jiang Yi, kissed his cheeks together, and drew an annoyed reaction from Tian Meng.

After fleeing from Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, the Demon Empress discovered that the Sealing God Platform holding her daughter was fake. Jiang Yi returned the real one and offered to help restore Lan Fozhi’s cultivation in exchange for cooperation, leaving the Demon Empress willing to hear his proposal.

• The Demon Empress escaped after fighting Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, whose injuries kept them from pursuing her.
• While recovering in a forest, the Demon Empress examined the Sealing God Platform and discovered that its embryo was an illusion from a fake.
• Jiang Yi revealed himself and explained that the platform was a lower-grade eighth-rank Sealing God Platform, while the Snow Empress and two others appeared to protect him.
• The Demon Empress demanded the platform, and Jiang Yi handed it over, allowing her to confirm that Lan Fozhi was safe.
• Jiang Yi offered immortal herbs to help Lan Fozhi restore her cultivation and proposed cooperation, so the Demon Empress agreed to talk elsewhere.

Jiang Yi offered the Demon Empress a way to avoid her tenth Heavenly Tribulation and pursue godhood in exchange for serving as his guardian for thirty years, and she accepted. Meanwhile, Xu Tianran and Jing Hongchen assessed the devastation at Sun Moon Royal Academy after the Body Sect's attack.

• Jiang Yi explained that the God Realm had vanished and promised the Demon Empress a way to survive her tenth Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Demon Empress confirmed she could not sense the Heavenly Tribulation inside Jiang Yi's alternate space and asked what he wanted in return.
• Jiang Yi asked the Demon Empress to serve as his guardian for thirty years, and she agreed in exchange for the chance to become a god.
• Xu Tianran asked Jing Hongchen about the academy's losses, and Jing Hongchen reported that more than half of Virtue Hall's personnel were killed or injured and its research was buried.
• Xu Tianran promised to explain Jing Hongchen's situation to his father and vowed to kill Long Aotian.

Xu Tianran used the Body Sect’s attack on Virtue Hall to gain Jing Hongchen’s support, while Jiang Yi and Xian Lin'er returned with weapons stolen from Bright City’s armory. News of the attack reached Shrek, where Mu En recognized Long Xiaoyao in Jiang Yi’s footage.

• Xu Tianran told Jing Hongchen that the Body Sect’s real target had been the underground armory and persuaded him to return to the palace.
• Xian Lin'er returned to Jiang Yi’s dormitory with storage Soul Tools, rare metals, and weapons stolen from the armory, including eight Class 9 fixed-installation Soul Tools.
• Jiang Yi reassured Xian Lin'er that Huo Yutong and the others were safe, and she admitted she was worried about the Sun Moon Empire’s Limit Douluo.
• The Sun Moon Empire issued warrants for the Body Sect, and the sect’s return threw the continent’s balance into chaos.
• Shrek received Jiang Yi’s letter and footage, and Mu En recognized Long Xiaoyao before reflecting on him and Xi Shui.