Chapter Summaries

After ten months of intense cultivation, Yan Hongchen emerged from seclusion and examined Liu Yueming's damaged sea of spirit, realizing she still could not cultivate. He soothed her spirit and prepared to enroll at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where the family arrived after three days of packing.

• Yan Hongchen examined Liu Yueming's frozen sea of spirit and found that her scattered spiritual power could not restore her ability to cultivate.
• Yan Hongchen used gentle spiritual ripples to calm Liu Yueming's spirit and help her sleep more peacefully.
• Yan Hongchen visited Xiao Hongchen, who told him enrollment would begin in three days and that the family would move to the academy.
• Yan Hongchen learned that the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's team had finished runner-up in the Soul Fighting Tournament against Shrek Academy.
• Yan Hongchen caught up with Meng Hongchen and Yi Hongchen, learning that Yue Hongchen had become a Titled Douluo and Yi Hongchen had reached Rank 86.
• After three days, Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming brought Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Yan Hongchen and his family enrolled at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, collected their supplies, and settled into a villa reserved for senior academy personnel. Jing Hongchen arrived and called the family together to discuss important matters, leaving Yan Hongchen anticipating what was to come.

• Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming brought Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen to the academy and explained its layout, advancement requirements, and soul engineer standards.
• Yi Hongchen gave Lin Jiayi the children’s assessment records and collected their enrollment supplies and storage rings.
• Yi Hongchen led his family across the academy grounds to a private villa Jing Hongchen had secured for them.
• Yan Hongchen settled into his room and thought about the academy, a possible exchange program, and Nana the Ghost.
• Jing Hongchen arrived at the villa and called Yan Hongchen and the others downstairs to discuss several matters.

Jing Hongchen gave Yan Hongchen the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and warned him about its evil influence, while Yan planned to purify it in the Extreme North. Yan also asked Yi Hongchen to investigate Ghost Nana's family and protect them from evil soul masters, and Jing gave Yi a secret Class 8 soul tool for dealing with any threat.

• Jing Hongchen presented Yan Hongchen with the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and explained that it contained part of an ancient evil soul master's soul.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to keep the knife sealed until he obtained his third soul ring, then said he would try to purify it in the Extreme North.
• Yan Hongchen asked whether anyone in the Sun Moon Empire had a martial soul that could let the soul leave the body, and Yi Hongchen identified Ghost Nana's family as possible candidates.
• Yan Hongchen asked Yi Hongchen to investigate the family and protect them from evil soul masters, while warning that those who willingly did evil might have to be eliminated.
• Jing Hongchen gave Yi Hongchen the unrevealed Class 8 Sword of Judgment to use discreetly if he needed to eradicate evil soul masters.

Jing Hongchen told Kong Deming that Zhang Lexuan, Shrek Academy’s captain with a moon Martial Soul, might be connected to Kong’s bloodline and may have been manipulated by Shrek. Yan Hongchen shared what he knew from his supposed dream and asked Kong to investigate and help when Zhang Lexuan appeared in about two years; Kong agreed and expressed interest in taking Yan as his disciple.

• Jing Hongchen revealed that he had invited Kong Deming and explained that Zhang Lexuan’s moon Martial Soul might connect her to Kong’s imperial bloodline.
• Kong Deming arrived and questioned Jing Hongchen’s reasons for inviting him before hearing about Zhang Lexuan.
• Yan Hongchen challenged Kong’s assumption that Zhang Lexuan would never leave Shrek and recounted her family’s massacre and how an old man made her a child bride to Shrek’s heir.
• Yan Hongchen disclosed his gains from meeting the Snow Empress, then urged Kong and Jing Hongchen to investigate Zhang Lexuan’s past and verify her bloodline.
• Kong Deming agreed to investigate and act when Zhang Lexuan appeared in about two years, then invited Yan to call him Grandpa Kong and expressed interest in taking him as his disciple.

Yan Hongchen revealed his vision of Zhang Lexuan’s dangerous attempt to absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and demonstrated his new spiritual detection ability to Kong Deming. Impressed by Yan Hongchen’s abilities and twin martial souls, Kong Deming decided to take him as his disciple.

• Yan Hongchen told Kong Deming that Zhang Lexuan might die after absorbing a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and explained why the Hongchen Family planned to intervene.
• Kong Deming grew angry at Shrek Academy’s apparent treatment of Zhang Lexuan and agreed to discuss countermeasures with Jing Hongchen.
• Yan Hongchen demonstrated his beastified eyes and Spiritual Sharing, allowing those present to share their vision and detect everything nearby.
• Yan Hongchen explained that his martial soul fusion skill with Xiao Hongchen could combine Metal Control and Spiritual Detection.
• Yan Hongchen revealed that he had a heart body martial soul and innate full soul power, astonishing Kong Deming.
• Kong Deming decided to take Yan Hongchen as his disciple.

Yan Hongchen declined Kong Deming’s offer to make him a disciple, explaining that he had chosen to cultivate his Phantom Water Spirit Toad martial soul first and could not abandon his plans for his body martial soul. Kong Deming gave him a moonlight soul tool and set a future trial for Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, leaving the three siblings to prepare for academy life.

• Yan Hongchen told Kong Deming he would not pursue the soul-tool path and explained why he had chosen to cultivate the Phantom Water Spirit Toad first.
• Kong Deming learned that Yan Hongchen might be able to soothe mental injuries and gave him a soul tool that aided spiritual recovery.
• Yan Hongchen asked whether someone else could use the necklace, and Kong Deming allowed him to give it away.
• Kong Deming postponed taking disciples and said Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen would need to pass a trial before he accepted all three siblings.
• Kong Deming asked Jing Hongchen to help investigate Zhang Lexuan’s matter, then vanished from the living room.
• Jing Hongchen told the children to rest before academy life began, and Yan Hongchen gave the necklace to Liu Yueming.

Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen studied soul-tool materials and formations at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, each developing a distinct engraving style and earning a first-rank soul engineer badge. After the three returned to the Hongchen Duke's Estate to prepare for their third soul rings, someone knocked on Yan Hongchen's door.

• Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen attended introductory classes on metals, formations, and practical engraving.
• Xiao Hongchen excelled at controlling the engraving knife, while Meng Hongchen worked carefully and Yan Hongchen used spiritual power to guide his strokes.
• Xiao Hongchen passed the first-rank soul engineer assessment first, and Meng Hongchen and Yan Hongchen passed the following month.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen reached rank thirty, while Yan Hongchen strengthened his azure external soul bone.
• Yi Hongchen brought the three children to the Hongchen Duke's Estate and prepared to take them to the Extreme North for their third soul rings.
• Someone knocked on Yan Hongchen's door after he finished bathing.

Yan Hongchen healed a wounded baron and examined the soul restraints controlling his wife, Na Ning, but could not remove them yet. The family agreed to leave with Yi Hongchen and help Yan study ghost martial souls, and the group set out for the Frost Forest of the Extreme North to obtain soul rings.

• Yi Hongchen brought the injured baron, his daughter Ghost Nana, and his caged wife Na Ning to Yan Hongchen for treatment.
• Yan Hongchen used Spring Rain Brings Life to heal the baron and calmed him and Nana with Gentle Wave.
• Yan Hongchen found a deep soul restriction controlling Na Ning and said he might attempt to remove it after obtaining his third soul ring.
• The baron and Nana agreed to leave the Sun Moon Empire and let Yan study their ghost martial souls in exchange for help protecting their family.
• Yi Hongchen secured Na Ning and arranged rooms for the family, then spent the night beside Yan Hongchen.
• At dawn, Yi Hongchen and the children departed for the Frost Forest of the Extreme North to obtain soul rings.

Yan Hongchen and his family reached Frost Forest to search for soul rings, while he planned a new skill path for Xiao Hongchen. The Snow Empress Token led Yan Hongchen to the Snow Empress, where he arrived as a girl completed the absorption of a fourth soul ring.

• Yi Hongchen brought the group to Frost Forest, where Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen began searching for suitable soul beasts.
• Yan Hongchen explained why Xiao Hongchen should pursue Golden Affinity as his third soul skill, and Xiao Hongchen praised his ideas.
• The Snow Empress Token began pointing northwest, so Yan Hongchen left the others and flew toward its signal.
• Yan Hongchen found the Snow Empress beside a girl whose black fourth soul ring was nearing completion.

Snow Empress met Su Tong and considered her as a candidate to inherit the Snow Empress Three Absolutes. She gave Su Tong a Snow Empress Token and two trials, then left with Yan Hongchen while Su Tong set off for her family.

• Su Tong completed absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring, and Snow Empress revealed that she knew of Su Tong's Ice Sky Snow Maiden martial soul and her family's generations of worship.
• Snow Empress examined Su Tong's Deep Blue Emperor Sword and said she might pass her ultimate arts on to Su Tong and the Ice Clan.
• Yan Hongchen emerged from concealment and questioned Su Tong's self-doubt, while Snow Empress stopped Su Tong from pointing her sword at him.
• Snow Empress offered Su Tong discipleship after two trials, gave her a token containing the Emperor Sword cultivation method, and warned her to keep Yan Hongchen's existence secret.
• Snow Empress took Yan Hongchen away, and Su Tong accepted the token and hurried back toward her family.

Yan Hongchen discussed his soul-ring plans and future resources with Snow Empress, who agreed to find him a suitable soul beast and consider giving him soul bones if his treatment of her spiritual sea worked. As Xiao Bai approached, Snow Empress also promised Ice Extremity Divine Crystals and asked him to make a reserve sword for Su Tong.

• Snow Empress showed Yan Hongchen records of the Extreme North’s soul beasts, and he chose a cleansing-type soul skill from a pure water-attribute soul beast within his twenty-thousand-to-forty-thousand-year limit.
• Yan Hongchen told Snow Empress he planned to temper his body before seeking a Water Evil Tyrant for his next soul ring, then offered to test a treatment on her spiritual sea after gaining his third soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen asked Snow Empress for several soul bones to distribute to his family if his treatment succeeded, and she agreed to verify his results before deciding.
• Yan Hongchen declined Snow Empress’s offer to handle his fourth soul ring and requested Ice Extremity Divine Crystals instead; Snow Empress agreed to give him the crystals she had left and asked him to forge a soul-guided sword for Su Tong.
• Snow Empress sensed Xiao Bai approaching through the blizzard and warned Yan Hongchen to prepare.

Yan Hongchen absorbed a Glazed Jellyfish, reaching Rank 35 and gaining a crown-shaped External Soul Bone that could temporarily elevate his water power to ultimate water. After he made slight progress melting the Snow Empress’s spiritual ice, Electrolux’s remnant soul descended into Yan Hongchen’s sea of consciousness.

• Xiaobai brought Yan Hongchen a block of frozen soul beasts, and the Phantom Water Spirit Toad chose a Glazed Jellyfish for him.
• The Snow Empress ordered the Glazed Jellyfish to sacrifice itself, helping Yan Hongchen break through Rank 30 and form his third black soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen gained a deep-blue crown External Soul Bone with a skill that raised his water-attribute power to a level comparable to ultimate water.
• Yan Hongchen gently guided his spiritual power through the Snow Empress’s sea of consciousness, melting a small amount of the ice around its edges.
• A sudden pressure darkened the sky, and gray air entered Yan Hongchen’s open sea of consciousness before forming into the black-robed Electrolux.
• Yan Hongchen stopped the Phantom Water Spirit Toad from attacking Electrolux and greeted the elder respectfully.

Yan Hongchen let Electrolux, a fragment of the Undead Calamity, take control of his body to remove Na Ning’s soul restriction. Afterward, Electrolux and the exhausted Phantom Water Spirit Toad fell asleep in Yan Hongchen’s Sea of Spirits.

• Electrolux revealed his name and explained that he had entered Yan Hongchen’s Sea of Spirits to find a place to rest and be nurtured.
• Yan Hongchen chose to have Electrolux remove Na Ning’s soul restriction, while keeping the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife for a later, safer time.
• Yan Hongchen awoke on Ice Bear King Xiaobai’s back and reassured the Snow Empress that he was still himself.
• Electrolux took control of Yan Hongchen’s body and used Purifying Fire to destroy the restriction rooted in Na Ning’s soul.
• Electrolux returned to Yan Hongchen’s Sea of Spirits to sleep, and Yan Hongchen found the Phantom Water Spirit Toad asleep there as well.

Yan Hongchen reunited Na Ning with her husband and daughter after removing the soul restriction that had driven her to attack them. The family departed for a safer life near the Extreme North, while Yan Hongchen prepared to choose items from Snow Empress.

• Na Ning regained consciousness in the cage and tried to kill herself, but Snow Empress froze her before she could strike.
• Yan Hongchen assured Na Ning that her husband and Ghost Nana were alive, then flew with Snow Empress and Xiao Bai to Yi Hongchen's location.
• Yi Hongchen opened the cage, and Snow Empress released Na Ning from the ice; Na Ning reunited tearfully with Nana and the baron.
• Yan Hongchen explained that Na Ning's soul restriction was gone and urged the family to spend their time together; Yi Hongchen gave them communication Soul Tools before they left for a nearby town.
• Xiao Hongchen questioned Yan Hongchen's interest in the family, and Yan Hongchen explained that Nana might help him learn about the Body Sect.
• Snow Empress offered Yan Hongchen a choice from the items she had brought, and he thanked her.

Yan Hongchen and his family chose soul bones from the Snow Empress’s collection, while Yan learned more about the protected Mirror Shadow Beasts and the Snow Lotus she had promised him. The chapter left Yan considering a Mirror Shadow Beast soul ring and planning to return for the Snow Lotus when he needed his fifth soul ring.

• The Snow Empress displayed dozens of soul bones and allowed Yan Hongchen’s family to choose among them.
• Meng Hongchen chose a roughly seventy-thousand-year-old Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad right leg bone and began absorbing it.
• Yi Hongchen selected an roughly eighty-thousand-year-old Ice Bear left arm bone to pair with his right arm bone.
• Yan Hongchen found a Mirror Shadow Beast head soul bone, and the Snow Empress explained that the species remained protected in the Extreme North and that one could be obtained for him.
• The Snow Empress confirmed that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus was still intended for Yan and explained that its seeds had been cultivated as Ice God’s Mercy.
• The Snow Empress identified the Mirror Shadow Beast bone’s skill as Mirror Wall Reflection, which could defend against mental attacks and reflect forty percent of one back at an opponent.

Yan Hongchen chose soul bones and received Ice Extremity Divine Crystals and an Ice Flower from Snow Empress before his family departed the Far North. Snow Empress watched them leave and said she still had many things to finish and needed to hurry.

• Snow Empress told Yan Hongchen about the Sea Princesses, their Heart of the Ocean talent, and the restrictions on Titan Snow Demon and Ice Jade Scorpion soul bones.
• Xiao Hongchen chose an Evil Spirit Orca left leg bone and a Titan Snow Demon torso bone, then agreed to keep the torso bone for Yan Hongchen's mother.
• Yan Hongchen selected a yin-attribute right arm bone and accepted Ice Extremity Divine Crystals and an Ice Flower from Snow Empress in exchange for making her a sword.
• Meng Hongchen finished absorbing the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad right leg bone, and Yi Hongchen thanked Snow Empress before flying away with the three youngsters.
• Xiao Bai asked whether they would return, and Snow Empress said they would while she still had unfinished work to complete.

Yi Hongchen returned from the Extreme North with Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen, and Yan used his third soul skill to cleanse years of accumulated impurities from his father's body and meridians. Yi Hongchen left to bathe, while Yan planned to keep practicing the skill as his siblings entered seclusion to stabilize their cultivation and absorb their soul bones.

• Yi Hongchen returned to the Hongchen Duke's Estate with the three children after their journey to the Extreme North.
• Meng Hongchen announced she would cultivate after absorbing the Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad right leg bone and reaching level thirty-seven, while Xiao Hongchen gave Yan Hongchen the Titan Snow Demon torso bone and went to cultivate.
• Yan Hongchen reassured Yi Hongchen and brought him to the main hall to test his new External Soul Bone and third soul skill.
• Yan Hongchen used Purifying Spirit Baptism on Yi Hongchen, cleansing accumulated toxins and metallic residue from his body and easing his restless state of mind.
• Yan Hongchen explained that his head External Soul Bone temporarily enhanced his water abilities to ultimate purity, and Yi Hongchen praised the ability before leaving to bathe.
• Yan Hongchen asked the servants to clean the hall and planned to practice Purifying Spirit Baptism on Yi Hongchen again while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen cultivated in seclusion.

Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen returned to the academy and reunited with their family, sharing their gains from the trip. Yan Hongchen gave Liu Yueming and Yi Hongchen soul bones, then arranged for Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen to forge the Deep Blue Emperor Sword for Snow Empress's prospective disciple, Su Tong.

• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen stabilized their Soul Power, reaching Ranks 36 and 37, and the family returned to the academy.
• Yi Hongchen embraced Liu Yueming, while Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen went inside to tell Jing Hongchen about their gains.
• Yan Hongchen gave Jing Hongchen a space bottle, offered Liu Yueming a one-hundred-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon torso bone, and gave Yi Hongchen a Mirror Shadow Beast skull soul bone.
• Yan Hongchen explained that Snow Empress wanted a Deep Blue Emperor Sword for her prospective disciple, Su Tong, and Jing Hongchen and Yi Hongchen agreed to study the design and forge it.
• Yan Hongchen showed the family the Ice Extremity Divine Crystal and explained that it had been nurtured by the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow ice flower.

Yan Hongchen showed the Hongchen family how Ice Extremity Divine Crystal could resonate with martial souls and proposed that they learn to create better metals by studying their impurities. He persuaded Xiao Hongchen to lead the experiments, leaving Xiao Hongchen determined to forge his own path and surpass Kong Deming.

• Yan Hongchen revealed the Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow and discussed diluting it to cultivate the snow lotus, while Jing Hongchen considered improving the bottle used to contain it.
• Yan Hongchen had Jing Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Liu Yueming test Ice Extremity Divine Crystal; Liu Yueming's Snow Jade Ice Toad stored and released a piece of it.
• Yan Hongchen named the ice-spirit metal Living Metal and suggested the family might learn to produce similar materials, prompting Jing Hongchen to propose studying metal impurities and forging methods.
• Yan Hongchen explained that impurities accumulated in both bodies and metals, and Jing Hongchen agreed to organize research into metal production.
• Yan Hongchen assigned Xiao Hongchen to lead the metal-forging experiments, then encouraged him to become a founder in the field rather than remain beneath Kong Deming.
• Xiao Hongchen regained his confidence and vowed to take on the work and surpass Kong Deming.

Yan Hongchen and his family discussed solutions to Meng Hongchen’s poison-attribute martial soul, finding that her Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad right leg bone could store her toxins while Yan’s soul skill could purify excess poison. The family settled in for the night, with Meng taking responsibility for helping their mother and the others preparing for their future tasks.

• Yan Hongchen reviewed his family’s problems and told Liu Yueming that he would handle Meng Hongchen’s martial soul poison.
• Liu Yueming explained that a soul bone could store Meng’s poison, and Meng realized her Vermilion-Eyed Ice Toad right leg bone could serve that purpose.
• Yan offered to use his Purifying Spirit Baptism to clear excess poison from Meng’s soul bone so she could store it again.
• Yan explained that an External Soul Bone could provide Meng with a lasting way to contain and use her poison, while Xiao Hongchen teased him about having two External Soul Bones himself.
• Yan told everyone to rest, and Meng promised to handle their mother’s needs while the family dispersed for the night.