Recaps

After Shrek rejected him, Ye Luochen joined Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and quickly earned recognition for his Soul Tool talent. His work with Xuan Ziwen led to a new production method and an unexpected martial soul evolution, and he set out to obtain a soul ring with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

• Yan Shaozhe left Ye Luochen off the Shrek Seven Devils reserve team because of his ordinary martial soul, so Ye Luochen removed his badge and left Shrek.
• Ye Luochen passed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy entrance assessment by engraving a core array perfectly, and Jing Hongchen welcomed him into Mingde Hall.
• Ye Luochen joined Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s classes, advanced to second-rank Soul Engineer in fifteen days, and defeated Yang Ming by dismantling his Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen granted Ye Luochen broad access to Mingde Hall, where Xuan Ziwen tested him and learned his idea for modular, replaceable Soul Tool components.
• Ye Luochen joined Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory, and the two built a Stamping Machine Tool that could produce core formations automatically.
• Ye Luochen’s Dark Iron Blade absorbed the Stamping Machine Tool, evolved, and raised his Innate Soul Power from Rank 4 to Rank 5.
• After his martial soul stabilized, Ye Luochen’s cultivation accelerated, and he left to obtain a soul ring with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen despite an old man’s warning that taking them along broke the rules.

Ye Luochen survived the Evil Demon Forest, absorbed a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, and joined Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s tournament reserve team. The group departed for the Star Luo Empire, where Meng Hongchen asked Ye Luochen to recommend fun places.

• The gray-robed elder took Ye Luochen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen into the Evil Demon Forest to find Ye Luochen a suitable Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ye Luochen used a Mandala Snake as bait, but an Evil Eye Tyrant exposed the group’s hiding place and trapped them in a mental illusion.
• Ye Luochen and the Hongchen siblings broke the illusion and fought the Evil Eye Tyrant until the elder killed it and ended the expedition.
• Jing Hongchen gave Ye Luochen two Level 9 Mirrors of Protection as compensation and later gathered sharpness-focused soul beasts so Ye Luochen could choose a Fourth Soul Ring.
• Ye Luochen absorbed a twelve-thousand-year Thorn Vine Soul Ring and became a Soul Ancestor, then agreed to join the academy’s tournament reserve team.
• Ye Luochen helped Xuan Ziwen redesign the Soul Tool production line, and his Dark Iron Blade devoured the machines as Ye Luochen’s Innate Soul Power increased.
• Meng Hongchen told Ye Luochen how Xiao Hongchen’s arrogance had been meant to shield her from others’ malice, and Ye Luochen agreed to be friends with both siblings.
• Ye Luochen joined the academy teams as they traveled to the Star Luo Empire, saw their Soul Engineers repel an attack, and crossed the border after the lead teacher paid for passage.

Ye Luochen and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy prepared for Shrek at the tournament, while Ye Luochen’s Dark Iron Blade absorbed the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife’s life energy. Shrek suffered a crushing defeat after Huo Yuhao was injured, and Sun Moon displayed its Soul Tool firepower as the other empires grew concerned.

• Ye Luochen briefed the Sun Moon team on Shrek’s powerful Seven Devils and their limited experience with Soul Tools, then identified the main-team members who arrived in Star Luo City.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong used a Martial Soul Fusion Skill to defeat Tianling Academy, while Shrek’s reserve members competed and Xu Sanshi later defeated three opponents in a one-versus-one match.
• Meng Hongchen bought the Spirit-Devouring Carving Knife for four million Gold Soul Coins after Xiao Hongchen and Wang Yan pushed the auction price higher.
• Huo Yuhao, Ice Empress, and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm attacked Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Luochen in an illusion, but Ye Luochen and the Hongchen siblings escaped behind Soul Tool barriers.
• Ye Luochen let his Dark Iron Blade absorb the carving knife’s life energy, which purged his impurities and injuries and left the knife safe and still ranked-quality for Xiao Hongchen to keep.
• Qianling Academy defeated Shrek’s reserve team after Huo Yuhao was absent, and Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy later won its match with a massive Soul Guidance Cannon barrage.
• Wang Yan told the injured Shrek team that he had ordered them to forfeit after Huo Yuhao returned with serious injuries, but the reserve members and Ling Luochen ignored his plan and all ten Shrek participants were hurt.

Ye Luochen helped Wang Yan arrange a possible defection while Sun Moon prepared to face Shrek and watched the injured team falter. At the auction, a captured Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast transformation embryo drew fierce bidding.

• Ye Luochen told Wang Yan that he had joined Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, then learned that Shrek’s team was badly injured and that Yao Haoxuan had died.
• Ye Luochen and Wang Yan discussed Shrek’s dire position, and Ye Luochen invited Wang Yan to join Sun Moon, though Wang Yan first chose to stay with Shrek.
• Ye Luochen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen defeated Vero Advanced Soul Master Academy’s trio, while the Sun Moon team identified the Body Sect as a formidable rival.
• Ye Luochen absorbed life energy during cultivation and discovered that it had greatly strengthened his body.
• Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yaoheng entered Shrek’s match despite their injuries, and Ma Xiaotao killed five opposing competitors with her flames.
• Wang Yan asked Ye Luochen to help him join Sun Moon and offered to provide intelligence, and Ye Luochen secured Elder Ma’s approval for the plan.
• Xuanzi arrived at Shrek’s hotel, criticized the team’s performance, and told the injured students that the academy would send no replacements.
• At the auction, Ye Luochen assessed Shrek’s students as possible recruits, Elder Ma bought a powerful ice-attribute soul bone, and the auctioneer unveiled a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast transformation embryo that sent bids soaring.