Recaps

Chen Hong developed Soul Guidance Mithril technology and began creating Soul Guidance Engravings while building ties with Ye Lingling and Spirit Hall. The arc left him pitching his Soul Engine research and a plan for future Soul Tools to Hu Liena and Spirit Hall leaders.

• Chen Hong discovered Soul Guidance Mithril in ore from White Cloud Village and showed its properties to Chen Lin and Bishop Suotuo.
• Chen Hong introduced his Generation 0.2 Soul Engine to Ning Lu and Ye Lingling, explaining his ambition to build technology that could benefit many people.
• Chen Hong and Ye Lingling clashed during a duel, then Ye Lingling healed him after Ning Lu beat him for provoking the fight.
• Chen Hong experimented with Soul Guidance Engravings and used a Soul Power Scalpel to cut through iron, then tested a storage canister that exploded and buried him in rubble.
• Chen Hong completed Generation One of his Soul Engine and joined Spirit Hall’s convoy to White Cloud Village, where Hu Liena invited him into her carriage.
• Hu Liena used her Charm on Chen Hong, but his Sage Time suppressed its effects until he released the skill and blurted out that he was her dog.
• Chen Hong recovered his senses, then pitched the Soul Engine to Hu Liena as an angel-investment opportunity and declared himself a founding master of Soul Tool research.

Chen Hong built the Technology Guild and developed the [Sage]'s Ring while deepening his ties with Ye Lingling and the Ning family. When Qian Yu ambushed the convoy, Ning Quan killed him, but Qian Yu’s soul remained inside Chen Hong and began to change.

• Chen Hong demonstrated the Soul-Powered Wooden Cart to Hu Liena, discovered a valuable ore vein, and later agreed to serve as her subordinate while keeping his work on Soul Engines low-profile.
• Chen Hong advanced his cultivation with Ning Lu and Ye Lingling’s help, established the Technology Guild, and launched road and truck projects that expanded its reach.
• After a crowd overwhelmed his sensitive Spirit Martial Soul, Chen Hong made [Sage]'s Ring to control his Sage Degree and shield himself from mental disturbance.
• Chen Hong built a Soul-Powered Motorcycle, rode with Ye Lingling, and gave her a Clear Heart Bracelet before she left for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• On the way to visit Ning Lu’s family, Chen Hong’s convoy was attacked by Qian Yu and his Blood Puppets, who seized Chen Hong and sealed his powers.
• Ning Lu protected Chen Hong and fought Qian Yu’s attackers until Chen Hong used Sage's Finger to restore her reason, and Ning Quan arrived and killed Qian Yu.
• After Qian Yu’s soul tried to possess him, Chen Hong used Sage Time and [Sage]'s Ring to confront Qian Yu’s memories, leading him into a Downtime State before Chen Hong awoke and heard Qian Yu say he had understood.

After surviving Qian Yu’s attempted possession, Chen Hong studied the remnant soul and Deep Sea Secret Soul Gold while building the Technology Guild’s influence. He reached Shrek Academy with Ning Rongrong, secured control of its Soul Tool Department, and helped Ma Hongjun suppress his Evil Fire as Tang San and Xiao Wu’s story converged with his own.

• Chen Hong survived Qian Yu’s possession attempt, and Jian Chenxin confirmed that Qian Yu’s remnant soul was tied to the Blood Jade Head Soul Bone.
• Chen Hong kept Qian Yu’s Soul Bone for study, developed Sage’s Finger, and wrote the Three Souls Hypothesis while considering how to remove the remnant soul from his mind.
• Ning Rongrong joined Chen Hong and Ning Quan on their journey, and Chen Hong compensated the convoy’s injured and bereaved before recruiting Wang Bu and Li Bei’s mercenary groups.
• Chen Hong discovered that Deep Sea Secret Soul Gold attracted spiritual and soul-related things, then repaired the convoy’s trucks and brought them safely to Suotuo City.
• Chen Hong met Tang San and Xiao Wu at Flender’s curio shop, sponsored Shrek Academy in exchange for a School Board, and found Dragon Whisker Gold hidden in a crystal.
• Chen Hong and Ning Rongrong went to Shrek Academy, where Chen Hong investigated its shortcomings and convinced Flender to put him in charge of the Soul Tool Department.
• Chen Hong used Sage: Big Head Defeats Little Head Technique to quiet Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, leaving Ma Hongjun serene and speaking as someone newly enlightened.
• A shout of “Xiao Wu!!!” came from a nearby courtyard as Chen Hong reflected on the power of his First Soul Skill.

Chen Hong joined Shrek Academy as a teacher and Soul Tool researcher, where his experiments and theories changed his companions’ understanding of cultivation. The group then entered the Star Dou Great Forest for Oscar’s Soul Ring, while Chen Hong tested his Sage’s abilities on a Soul Beast.

• Chen Hong helped Tang San remove the Dragon Whisker Gold needle from Zhao Wuji, who accepted Tang San’s apology and declared the students had passed the assessment.
• Chen Hong introduced himself as a Level 17 mental-type Support Soul Master and used Sage’s Logic Trap to leave Ning Rongrong dazed with an unanswerable question.
• Chen Hong’s Sage State prolonged Ma Hongjun’s Clear Mind Soul Tool effect until his Evil Fire drove him to chase Oscar, so Chen Hong developed the Spirit Infusion Rod to manipulate attention and disrupt mental skills.
• Chen Hong established Shrek Academy’s Soul Guidance Device Academy, advanced his research with a Soul-Containing Crystal, and made Ning Quan an Ice Gold Windbreaker that concealed his aura and sharpened his senses.
• Chen Hong and the others set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find Oscar a Soul Ring, while Chen Hong sold their Soul-Powered Motorcycles and arranged to collect Soul Beast corpses for research.
• Chen Hong challenged the Soul Ring Limit Theory by explaining that its four-hundred-and-twenty-three-year limit came from one ancient survivor rather than an eternal rule, helping Ning Quan reach Human-Sword Unity.
• Chen Hong revived and withered the Withered and Flourishing Vine, then offered it a choice between lucid awareness and instinctive ignorance, and it chose greater awareness.
• After the vine returned to its ignorant state, Chen Hong and the Shrek group captured an over-eight-hundred-year-old Berserk Baboon, and Chen Hong placed his Sage’s Ring over its head.