Recaps

Ye Luochen helped the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy win the soul beast embryo, then returned to the academy and advanced his Soul Tool work and cultivation. After the tournament, he learned more about the embryo and his evolving Martial Soul, while Wang Yan suggested a divine trial might explain its changes.

• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen helped Ye Luochen secure funds, and Elder Ma won the soul beast embryo for 150 million Gold Soul Coins before sending Ye Luochen back to Sun Moon with it.
• Jing Hongchen identified the embryo as a former Beast King with at least three hundred thousand years of cultivation, then agreed Ye Luochen’s rapid healing might let him attempt the dangerous fusion.
• Ye Luochen met Ju Zi and helped her and Xuan Ziwen improve an automated Soul Tool production line, then saw Xuan Ziwen demonstrate Mechanical Drive Technology that worked without Soul Power.
• The Dark Iron Blade devoured Xuan Ziwen’s new machine, and Ye Luochen discovered his Innate Soul Power had risen to rank seven as Xuan Ziwen proposed that his Martial Soul evolved through major Soul Tool breakthroughs.
• Ye Luochen fought Ji Juechen in the arena, and both entered deep meditation after their clash, with Ye Luochen later recovering at Soul Power level forty-eight.
• Meng Hongchen told Ye Luochen that Sun Moon had won the tournament after Ma Xiaotao lost control and Shrek withdrew, and warned him that Crown Prince Xu Tianran expected him at the award ceremony.
• Meng Hongchen told Ye Luochen that she and Xiao Hongchen valued their friendship more than the embryo, while Ye Luochen explained its risks and accepted the chance to fuse with it.
• Wang Yan explained that Ye Luochen’s Martial Soul evolution most resembled a divine trial, but neither he nor Ye Luochen could identify why a god might have chosen him.