Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hongchen finalized the exchange student agreement with Shrek and took temporary charge of Mingde Hall while Jing Hongchen prepared to make a powerful pill. The exchange was set to begin in a year, leaving Xiao Hongchen to arrange a trap for Huo Yuhao.

• Xiao Hongchen negotiated for five permanent cultivation places beneath the Golden Tree, and Xian Lin'er accepted the terms of a one-year exchange beginning in a year.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen an Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone for Meng to absorb and asked whether she could match Xiao Hongchen's strength.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed the Universe Creation Pill recipe and ingredients, explaining that the pill could help a Level 98 Soul Master reach Level 99.
• Jing Hongchen agreed to borrow a pill furnace, then appointed Xiao Hongchen acting Master of Mingde Hall and academy president while he went into seclusion to make the pill.
• Xiao Hongchen told Lin Jiayi to prepare facilities that would make Huo Yuhao's exchange difficult and leave him empty-handed.

Xiao Hongchen invented a Level Seven Soul Tool to suppress Spiritual Power, then successfully completed Soul Forging on a piece of rare metal for his Battle Armor. After leaving Mingde Hall, he met Xu Tianzhen, who had been waiting to bring him a meal.

• Xiao Hongchen created the Locking Hoop, which compressed its wearer’s Spiritual Power range and could be tightened remotely, but he rejected a permanent locking mechanism.
• Xiao Hongchen began forging a new piece for his Two-Word Battle Armor and successfully completed Spirit Forging and Soul Solidification.
• Xiao Hongchen used Blood Sacrifice, his awakened divine beast bloodline, and the Life Evergreen Vine’s vitality to complete Soul Forging, and the golden, Golden Toad-patterned metal merged with his body.
• Xiao Hongchen left Mingde Hall and found Xu Tianzhen waiting outside with a meal she had been unable to bring in.
• Xiao Hongchen told Xu Tianzhen he had already eaten and promised to turn off his communicator during critical work so she would not disturb him.

Xiao Hongchen rejected Xu Tianzhen’s disastrous homemade meal and declined her invitation to Xu Tianran’s banquet. After returning to Ming Capital, he told Ye Guyi to stay home while Jing Hongchen began refining the Universe Creation Pill.

• Xu Tianzhen reheated her lunch with her martial soul and urged Xiao Hongchen to try it, but he spat it out after tasting the awful food.
• Xu Tianzhen tasted the dish herself, realized Xiao Lu had tricked her, and vowed to teach her a lesson.
• Xu Tianzhen asked to live with Xiao Hongchen and invited him to Xu Tianran’s banquet, but he refused both requests.
• Xiao Hongchen returned to Ming Capital and told Ye Guyi to stay home and focus on consolidating her cultivation.
• Jing Hongchen borrowed a ninth-rank pill furnace and began refining the Universe Creation Pill in seclusion.

While Mingde Hall prepared for the Shrek exchange students, Jing Hongchen completed the seven Universe Creation Pills and agreed with Xiao Hongchen on how to distribute them. The group gathered in a sealed chamber to begin taking the pills, with Snow Empress guarding them and the captured hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye present.

• Xiao Hongchen raised the Golden Behemoth cub to the thousand-year tier, advanced his forging, and reorganized Mingde Hall's production areas with surveillance for the Shrek exchange students.
• After forty-nine days, Jing Hongchen completed the Universe Creation Pills and agreed with Xiao Hongchen to distribute them among their allies while reserving one for Xu Tianzhen and Nana.
• Xiao Hongchen declined to take his pill immediately, explaining that he planned to form a Soul Core at the Soul Saint stage and seek a hundred-thousand-year spiritual soul ring.
• Snow Empress captured a newly hundred-thousand-year pure spiritual-type Evil Eye and brought it to Mingde Hall.
• Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ye Guyi, Di Qiuer, and Snow Empress gathered in a sealed cultivation chamber to begin taking the pills.
• Xiao Hongchen reassured Meng Hongchen that the pill would improve their life levels and potential without destabilizing their foundations, and Jing Hongchen and Snow Empress offered to guard them.

After the Universe Creation Pills pushed Di Qiuer, Ye Guyi, and Meng Hongchen past level seventy, Ye Guyi awakened the Angel Domain and a secret technique for fusing Soul Rings. Xiao Hongchen learned the technique and tested its power, then prepared to absorb a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant before helping Meng Hongchen form a Soul Spirit Contract with the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King.

• Di Qiuer, Ye Guyi, and Meng Hongchen refined their Universe Creation Pills, and Xiao Hongchen helped stabilize Meng Hongchen while gaining two Soul Power levels.
• The three women broke through level seventy; Di Qiuer reached level eighty after absorbing a hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring, while Ye Guyi reached level seventy-five and evolved into a Six-Winged Angel with the Angel Domain.
• Ye Guyi revealed the Sacred Fusion Technique, which could fuse Soul Rings into one, and passed its knowledge to Xiao Hongchen.
• Xiao Hongchen fused his first five Soul Rings into his sixth and tested the technique by unleashing a greatly strengthened Golden Toad Roar.
• Meng Hongchen asked Xiao Hongchen to make the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King her Soul Spirit, but Xiao Hongchen chose to absorb a hundred-thousand-year Evil Eye Tyrant first so he could prepare for the contract ritual.

Meng Hongchen tested Ice Explosion on the Evil Eye Tyrant, while Xiao Hongchen captured and purified its surviving soul before absorbing its soul ring. After he and Di Qiuer gained powerful spiritual abilities, Meng began asking the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King to become her Soul Spirit.

• Meng Hongchen infused the frozen Evil Eye Tyrant with Ultimate Ice Soul Power and detonated it with Ice Explosion, leaving a huge crater.
• Xiao Hongchen seized the Evil Eye Tyrant's silver soul crystal and used Electrolux's Purification Flame to destroy its soul, producing a blood-red soul ring.
• Xiao Hongchen absorbed the soul ring, reached Rank 70, gained Evil Eye Gaze and Soul Devouring, and raised his Spiritual Power to the peak of tangible yet formless.
• Di Qiuer accepted the Evil Eye Tyrant's skull and gained the Spiritual Suppression Domain and Spiritual Paralysis Ray.
• Xiao Hongchen had the Snow Empress release the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King, and Meng Hongchen approached it to ask for a Soul Spirit contract.

Meng Hongchen successfully fused with the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King as her seventh soul ring, while the others advanced after absorbing Universe Creation Pills. Xiao Hongchen then revealed his plan to take Di Qiuer and the Golden Behemoth to Dragon Valley, a special plane on a third continent, to help the beast grow.

• Xiao Hongchen guided the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad King's fusion with Meng Hongchen, giving her a blood-red seventh soul ring and the Soul Spirit Xiao Zhu.
• Meng Hongchen explained that Xiao Zhu had raised her Ice Toad Poison to Ultimate Poison and could fight alongside her, then prepared to fuse with the torso bone Xiao Zhu condensed.
• Ye Guyi and Meng Hongchen reached rank seventy-five, Di Qiuer reached rank eighty, and Xiao Hongchen reached rank seventy after absorbing the Universe Creation Pill.
• Jing Hongchen prepared to enter seclusion after delivering a pill to Kong Deming, who had begun seclusion to pursue a breakthrough and perfect his Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed the Golden Behemoth and proposed that Di Qiuer enter Dragon Valley so it could secretly devour dragon souls, explaining that Dragon Valley lay on a third continent.

Xiao Hongchen discussed crossing the ocean and recruiting the Sea Princess as a soul spirit, while the Snow Empress warned him about the dangers. As he prepared for a journey to the Star Luo Continent, Meng Hongchen announced she was abandoning Soul Engineer training, leaving Xiao to insist he would carry the Hongchen family’s Soul Tool legacy alone.

• Xiao Hongchen asked the Snow Empress whether she could cross the ocean and persuade the Sea Princess to become his soul spirit, and she warned that the Sea Princess and her merfolk allies would be formidable opponents.
• The Snow Empress refused to help Xiao Hongchen fight the Sea Princess, while Di Qiuer, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi volunteered to protect him.
• Xiao Hongchen said he planned to travel to the Star Luo Continent with only Di Qiuer, his grandfather, and Elder Kong, prompting Meng Hongchen and Ye Guyi to object.
• Meng Hongchen declared she was quitting Soul Engineer training and switching to the Practical Control Department, then urged Ye Guyi to do the same.
• Ye Guyi said she enjoyed designing and assembling Soul Tools, and Xiao Hongchen praised her while lamenting Meng Hongchen’s decision.
• Meng Hongchen argued that Xiao Hongchen could shoulder the family’s Soul Tool work, and he accepted the role with mock tragic resolve.

Zhongli Wu decided to infiltrate Hongchen Mansion himself to seize Ye Guyi, despite Ten Thousand Souls Douluo warning that it could jeopardize the Holy Spirit Cult’s plans. At the mansion, Xiao Hongchen sensed a Super Douluo entering and prepared to ambush the intruder with Ye Guyi and the Snow Empress.

• Ten Thousand Souls Douluo reported that Nightmare Douluo had disappeared and that Ye Guyi was likely hiding in Hongchen Mansion.
• Zhongli Wu dismissed Ten Thousand Souls Douluo’s objections and resolved to enter Hongchen Mansion alone to abduct Ye Guyi.
• The Snow Empress warned Xiao Hongchen that a Super Douluo had infiltrated the estate, and he told her to block the intruder’s escape while he confronted him.
• Xiao Hongchen woke Ye Guyi, explained the danger, and concealed himself beneath the window as Ye Guyi pretended to sleep.

Zhongli Wu infiltrated Hongchen Mansion to abduct Ye Guyi, but Xiao Hongchen and Ye Guyi struck back and left him gravely wounded. Jing Hongchen joined the fight, and Zhongli Wu unleashed the Bone Dragon King's devastating elemental attack over Ming Capital.

• Zhongli Wu tried to seize Ye Guyi, but Xiao Hongchen's Evil Eye Gaze halted him long enough for her to activate her Battle Armor and unleash Angel's Dance.
• Ye Guyi's attack devastated the courtyard and severely injured Zhongli Wu, who survived by summoning the Bone Dragon King.
• Jing Hongchen arrived at rank ninety-seven and opened fire on Zhongli Wu with his soul tools.
• Zhongli Wu urged the Bone Dragon King to combine wind and fire into a colossal fire tornado capable of devastating Ming Capital.

Jing Hongchen and Snow Empress trapped Zhongli Wu in Emperor Cold Heaven while Ye Guyi and Xiao Hongchen attacked him with the Sword of Judgment. Zhongli Wu countered their assault and launched a deadly Death God Needle at Ye Guyi.

• Snow Empress unleashed Emperor Cold Heaven over Red Dust Manor, trapping Zhongli Wu in a blizzard as Jing Hongchen's fire tornado kept him from escaping.
• Zhongli Wu rode the Bone Dragon King upward to escape the domain, but Ye Guyi struck him with the Sword of Judgment, amplified by her Soul Tool.
• Xiao Hongchen feinted with Evil Eye Gaze, distracting Zhongli Wu long enough for Ye Guyi's sword radiance to force him to defend with his Death God Scythe.
• Ye Guyi and Xiao Hongchen held back and purified Zhongli Wu's surge of Death God power, but a Death God Needle shot toward Ye Guyi.
• Zhongli Wu abandoned his plan to capture Ye Guyi and attacked with intent to kill her.

Xiao Hongchen, Ye Guyi, Di Qiuer, and the Snow Empress fought Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King over Ming Capital. Zhongli Wu used a forbidden escape technique, but the Snow Empress froze him in midair, bringing his fall to an end.

• Xiao Hongchen reflected Zhongli Wu's Death God Needle with his Golden Hawksbill Turtle External Soul Bone, and the needle pierced Zhongli Wu's right arm, forcing him to cut it off.
• Jing Hongchen trapped Zhongli Wu and the Bone Dragon King in the Six-Rod Light Prison, but the Bone Dragon King unleashed Wind's Extremity before Ye Guyi's Emperor Sword split it apart and badly wounded the dragon.
• Di Qiuer activated her Golden Dragon True Body and fought the Bone Dragon King in midair while Xiao Hongchen attacked Zhongli Wu with spiritual tentacles and a Dark Gold Terrorclaw strike.
• Zhongli Wu used the Holy Spirit Secret Art, Blood Soul Escape, to break out of the prison, while the Dark Gold Terrorclaw struck the Bone Dragon King and ended its fight with Di Qiuer.
• The Snow Empress appeared in Zhongli Wu's path and froze him with Emperor Palm, Great Cold No Snow.

Xiao Hongchen subdued the Bone Dragon King as his mount after Jing Hongchen killed Zhongli Wu during an attack on Hongchen Duke Mansion. Jing Hongchen presented the death as a victory over the Holy Spirit Cult, while Ming Capital’s Rank 9 Soul Engineers gathered and condemned the cult.

• Xiao Hongchen bound the injured Bone Dragon King with a master-servant contract, then secretly stored it in the Undead Semi-Plane after Jing Hongchen staged its destruction for onlookers.
• Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen left evidence of a fierce battle at Hongchen Duke Mansion and displayed Zhongli Wu’s corpse to the Rank 9 Soul Engineers who arrived.
• Ye Yulin and the other Soul Engineers congratulated Jing Hongchen on killing Zhongli Wu and breaking through to Super Douluo, though they suspected the battle had involved more than he admitted.
• Jing Hongchen claimed Zhongli Wu had attacked to abduct Xiao Hongchen and steal the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo, and cited Nightmare’s earlier attack as evidence of the Holy Spirit Cult’s plot.
• Wang Yiheng denounced the Holy Spirit Cult for attacking the mansion and called for its headquarters to be found and destroyed.

Ye Xishui demanded that Jing Hongchen surrender Zhongli Wu’s killer, then attacked him after he admitted responsibility. Kong Deming arrived as a Class 10 Soul Engineer and trapped Ye Xishui and her blood souls in the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, leaving her furious and facing his demand to surrender.

• Ye Xishui threatened the Soul Engineer legion and demanded that Zhongli Wu’s killer step forward, while Xiao Hongchen explained her blood souls and phoenix abilities to the Snow Empress.
• A silver pillar rose over Ming Capital as Kong Deming emerged from seclusion, having reached rank ninety-seven and become the continent’s first Class 10 Soul Engineer.
• Jing Hongchen admitted killing Zhongli Wu in self-defense and invoked Sun Moon Empire law, but Ye Xishui rejected his appeal and launched an attack.
• Kong Deming appeared and enclosed Ye Xishui and her eight blood souls inside the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Kong Deming told Ye Xishui to surrender, but she angrily questioned how he expected her to remain rational.

Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces tried to capture Ye Xishui, but her resistance and Long Xiaoyao’s intervention turned the siege into a standoff. Ye Xishui refused to surrender and revealed the Death God Tower as her trump card.

• Kong Deming ordered the Beast King Soul Engineer Legions to form a linked shield and attack while Jing Hongchen and the others targeted Ye Xishui’s blood souls.
• Ye Xishui used Boundless Blood Sea to withstand the combined assault and threatened to destroy one Sun Moon Empire city each month if she survived.
• Jing Hongchen fired the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell Thunderclap, destroying Ye Xishui’s eight blood souls and wounding her with lingering lightning.
• Long Xiaoyao broke through the linked shield with his Silent Darkness Domain and asked the forces to let Ye Xishui go, while Ye Xishui threatened to take everyone down with her.
• Kong Deming demanded that Ye Xishui swear to spare the people of Sun Moon, but she refused and summoned the peak Level 9 Soul Tool, the Death God Tower.

Xiao Hongchen empowered Jing Hongchen, who overwhelmed Ye Xishui with cannon fire, while Snow Empress fought Long Xiaoyao and gained the upper hand. With the battle turning against them, Xiao Hongchen asked both sides to hear his plan.

• Xiao Hongchen lent Jing Hongchen his Ultimate Gold Soul Power and Spiritual Detection, transforming his grandfather's bloodline and battle awareness.
• Jing Hongchen unleashed more than two hundred Soul Tool cannons, shattered Ye Xishui's Death God's Light, and engulfed her in a barrage.
• Long Xiaoyao transformed into his Dark Holy Dragon Avatar and attacked the linked barrier, but Snow Empress intercepted him with Emperor Palm.
• Snow Empress froze Long Xiaoyao's dragon tail and pressed her advantage, while Jing Hongchen kept Ye Xishui suppressed inside the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Xiao Hongchen asked both sides to stop and hear his plan to settle the conflict and explain the situation.

Xiao Hongchen used Electrolux’s power to convince Ye Xishui that he was the Death God’s inheritor and negotiated terms for the Holy Spirit Cult’s destruction. Ye Xishui agreed to swear off harming ordinary people and prepare to have her evil Martial Soul purified, though her true intentions remained uncertain.

• Xiao Hongchen revealed Ye Xishui’s Twin Martial Souls, then had Electrolux take control of his body and demonstrate Purification Light.
• Ye Xishui accepted Xiao Hongchen’s proposal, while Long Xiaoyao argued that many Evil Soul Masters had been driven to extremes and refused to reveal the cult’s headquarters.
• Xiao Hongchen condemned the killing of innocents and required Ye Xishui to swear with her Bright Phoenix Martial Soul that she would stop associating with Evil Soul Masters and slaughtering ordinary people without cause.
• Ye Xishui swore the oath and asked Xiao Hongchen to destroy her Blood Soul Demon Puppet Martial Soul so she could live with Long Xiaoyao.
• Xiao Hongchen ordered Ye Xishui to release her evil Martial Soul so Ye Guyi could purify it and the Death God Tower, and Ye Xishui questioned whether an angel’s purification was truly different from an Evil Soul Master’s devouring.

Ye Guyi purified Ye Xishui and accepted the pure light power she transferred to help her form a Soul Core prototype. Afterward, Ye Xishui revealed her ties to Long Xiaoyao and Yan Shaozhe, leaving Shrek to face a public scandal.

• Ye Guyi used her Holy Light Domain to free the vengeful souls imprisoned in the Death God Tower and purified Ye Xishui’s evil martial soul.
• Kong Deming restrained Long Xiaoyao, while Xiao Hongchen proposed that Ye Xishui transfer her pure light power to Ye Guyi; Ye Guyi initially resisted but accepted after Xiao Hongchen reassured her.
• Ye Xishui transferred her Soul Power to Ye Guyi, helped establish a Soul Core prototype at her brow, and raised her cultivation to Rank 80.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed that Ye Xishui had once been Yan Xishui and demanded that she publicly identify Yan Shaozhe as her grandson.
• Ye Xishui admitted her relationship with Long Xiaoyao and revealed Yan Shaozhe’s background before disappearing, while Jing Hongchen welcomed the scandal as a blow to Shrek.

After helping Ye Guyi condense a light Soul Core, Xiao Hongchen set the Sun Moon Empire’s forces against the Holy Spirit Cult. Kong Deming led the assault toward the cult’s headquarters as its members began evacuating, leaving a confrontation with the Evil Emperor looming.

• Xiao Hongchen guided Ye Guyi through condensing a light Soul Core, completing the last step toward her becoming a three-ultimate Title Douluo.
• Kong Deming sent forces to raid the Holy Spirit Cult’s strongholds in Ming Capital and ordered the city’s exits secured.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen persuaded Emperor Xu Guoren to deploy the Royal and Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legions against the cult.
• Jing Hongchen warned the court that he would investigate anyone who had colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult, and Xu Guoren ordered the ministers confined to the hall.
• Kong Deming led four Beast King-level Soul Engineer Legions toward the cult’s headquarters, while its members organized an evacuation after Nangong Wan and Netherworld Douluo brought back news of the empire’s attack.

Xiao Hongchen entered the battle against the Holy Spirit Cult wearing his Three-Word Battle Armor and faced Mask Douluo. He overcame Mask Douluo’s spiritual attacks and destroyed him with a barrage of hundreds of amplified soul cannons.

• Xiao Hongchen volunteered to fight first, and Kong Deming allowed him to go as long as he secured a victory.
• Xiao Hongchen appeared on the battlefield in golden armor and challenged the Holy Spirit Cult’s fighters.
• Mask Douluo attacked Xiao Hongchen with his Demon Maggot martial soul and tried to seize his soul, but Xiao Hongchen’s Seven-Colored Spirit Protection nullified the spiritual attack.
• Mask Douluo slowed Xiao Hongchen’s movements and unleashed his ninth soul skill, Return of Ten Thousand Maggots.
• Xiao Hongchen used Psychic Power to repel the maggots and aimed hundreds of soul cannons at Mask Douluo.
• Xiao Hongchen fired the cannons together, blasting Mask Douluo and his Martial Soul Avatar into dust.