Chapter Summaries

Yan Hongchen explained to Xiao Hongchen that he had spent three months secretly using purified water and his spiritual power to weaken the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife. He said its vicious aura was nearly gone and he planned to finish purifying it within the next few days.

• Yan Hongchen adjusted to the academy’s rotating lectures, choosing courses according to his needs while pursuing his Soul Engineer assessments.
• Yan Hongchen met Xiao Hongchen at swimming class and heard about Xiao’s busy studies in metal forging and soul skills.
• Yan Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen through Spiritual Sharing that he had been purifying the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife in secret.
• Yan Hongchen explained that he had dripped four or five hundred drops of refined pure water onto the knife over three months while training his spiritual power.
• Yan Hongchen showed Xiao Hongchen a droplet of pure water and said he planned to complete the knife’s purification within the next few days.

Yan Hongchen purified the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife with Pure Water, allowing Electrolux to use the Gold of Life to strengthen his body and open a second spiritual sea. He awakened the Phantom Water Spirit Toad and gained the Eye of Life, then stored some life energy for his family’s Snow Lotus Seeds before preparing to cultivate in seclusion.

• Yan Hongchen rented a private cultivation room at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and began purifying the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife with his third soul skill.
• Yan Hongchen completely cleansed the knife of black energy, and Electrolux awakened and offered to use the Gold of Life to open a second spiritual world.
• Electrolux used the Gold of Life to nourish Yan Hongchen’s body and spiritual sea, and the Phantom Water Spirit Toad awakened.
• The Gold of Life transformed into the Eye of Life on Yan Hongchen’s forehead, while his head soul bone and crown fused more deeply.
• Yan Hongchen used Electrolux’s help to transfer life energy into Jing Hongchen’s spatial bottle and placed the nine Snow Lotus Seeds inside to absorb it.

Yan Hongchen used the Yin-Yang Wood Lotus and Gold of Life to form a Wood Bridge in his body, then introduced Ren Water Essence and Heartblood Jade to create the semi-finished Wood-Nurtured Waterfire Body. After three months of seclusion, he left the cultivation chamber and reunited with Jing Hongchen, who took him home.

• Yan Hongchen nourished the Yin-Yang Wood Lotus with the Gold of Life’s energy and formed a Wood Bridge linking his heart and kidneys.
• Yan Hongchen guided Ren Water Essence into his kidneys with Yi Wood’s help and Heartblood Jade into his heart with Jia Wood’s help, strengthening his Phantom Water Spirit Toad and heartfire.
• Yan Hongchen completed the framework of his semi-finished Wood-Nurtured Waterfire Body and decided to resume refining it gradually rather than remain secluded.
• Jing Hongchen waited outside the cultivation chamber after checking on Yan Hongchen during his three-month absence from class.
• Yan Hongchen hugged Jing Hongchen, apologized for worrying him, and left with him to go home and see his family.

Yan Hongchen returned home after purifying the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and shared its Life Water with his family, which eased their fatigue and helped Xiao Hongchen break through to level thirty-nine. Jing Hongchen told Yan that the investigation into Zhang Lexuan’s case had uncovered powerful figures, and that preparations were underway for an operation that would need Yan’s help.

• Yan Hongchen showed Jing Hongchen the purified Spirit Devouring Carving Knife and the Life Water he had made from its energy.
• Jing Hongchen, Liu Yueming, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen drank the Life Water, and Xiao Hongchen broke through to level thirty-nine.
• Xiao Hongchen gave Yan Hongchen several Soul Tools made from metal he had forged himself and explained that they rivaled some Level Three Soul Tools.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen about Zhang Lexuan’s case, and Jing said the investigation had revealed likely Limit Douluo above Taotie and that preparations for an operation were underway.

Yan Hongchen reached Rank 40 and traveled with Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen to the Evil Forest to obtain a soul ring. Jing Hongchen captured a 48,000-year-old Water Evil Tyrant, and Yan Hongchen had to decide whether he could safely absorb it.

• Yan Hongchen helped Meng Hongchen pass her second-rank Soul Engineer assessment while his own body reached Rank 40.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to take him to hunt an Evil Eye Tyrant, and Jing Hongchen agreed to bring Yue Hongchen along.
• Jing Hongchen, Yue Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen traveled to the Evil Forest and waited at a clearing provided through a deal with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jing Hongchen returned with a captured 48,000-year-old Water Evil Tyrant whose spiritual and water attributes matched Yan Hongchen's needs.
• Jing Hongchen asked Yan Hongchen once more whether he was sure he could absorb the soul ring.

Yan Hongchen tested his spiritual power against the Water Evil Tyrant, then accepted Electrolux’s guidance to attack its core and burn it with heart fire. He absorbed its soul ring, reached Rank 44, and returned to Mingdu with Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen.

• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen to suppress part of the Water Evil Tyrant’s spiritual power while he tested his abilities.
• Yan Hongchen used his spiritual longsword and flowing spiritual power to withstand the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Evil Eye Gaze, then asked Electrolux to teach him offensive methods.
• Electrolux took control of Yan Hongchen’s body, pierced the Water Evil Tyrant’s spiritual defenses, and guided Yan Hongchen’s heart fire to burn its crystal nucleus.
• Yan Hongchen regained control as his fourth soul ring formed, absorbed the ring, and reached Rank 44.
• Jing Hongchen urged everyone to leave, and he brought Yan Hongchen and Yue Hongchen back to Mingdu.

Yan Hongchen returned safely to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and explained his newly acquired abilities to Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen. He left to reassure his family while the others prepared to seek Xuan Ziwen’s soul ring storage device for the expedition.

• Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen asked Yan Hongchen to explain his methods, and he described his Simulation skill, defensive techniques, third eye, and soul-burning flame.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Yan Hongchen had fused with the Spirit Devouring Carving Knife because of a dream revelation, and Yan Hongchen agreed that was more or less the case.
• Yan Hongchen identified his fourth soul skill as the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Mental Force Field and said the expedition’s priority was bringing back the person rather than securing a Hundred Thousand Year soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen suggested storing a soul ring, and Yue Hongchen and Jing Hongchen recalled that Xuan Ziwen had designed a soul ring storage device.
• Yan Hongchen went to tell his mother and siblings he was safe, while Jing Hongchen and Yue Hongchen set out to find Xuan Ziwen.

After recovering from obtaining his fourth soul ring, Yan Hongchen completed the final stage of Return-to-Origin Body Forging. The five-element circuit in his body formed a mysterious Primordial Seed, which disappeared into his heart as he prepared for what came next.

• Yan Hongchen returned home and reassured Liu Yueming that the Evil Eye Tyrant had not injured his spiritual sea.
• Liu Yueming explained that she was searching for a suitable soul beast to strengthen Yan Hongchen’s sister’s dual-sword attacks.
• After sleeping for two or three days, Yan Hongchen went to the cultivation room to complete Return-to-Origin Body Forging with Nether Spring Mithril and Thick Earth Spirit Marrow.
• The Phantom Water Spirit Toad and Emeraldsong Rain Crane helped Yan Hongchen control his kidney water and liver wood energies as he refined his spleen and lungs and opened the five-element circuit.
• A Primordial Seed formed in Yan Hongchen’s middle dantian and moved into his heart, completing the first stage of his body forging.
• Yan Hongchen learned that more than three months had passed and left the cultivation room, believing there was still enough time.

Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen convinced Liu Yueming to let them seek Xiao Hongchen’s fourth soul ring and gain experience on their own. After preparing their equipment, the brothers left the academy at dawn and flew toward the Jingyang Mountains.

• Yan Hongchen reunited with Xiao Hongchen and suggested they travel together to obtain Xiao Hongchen’s fourth soul ring.
• Liu Yueming explained that the elders had left with their father and uncle, and that Meng Hongchen had gone to the Extreme North for her fourth soul ring.
• Yan Hongchen revealed that he already had his fourth soul ring, and he and Xiao Hongchen persuaded Liu Yueming to let them hunt on their own.
• Liu Yueming gave the brothers storage bracelets with supplies and a means to summon Uncle Lin if they faced an overwhelming enemy.
• Several days later, Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen departed the academy using Yan Hongchen’s wings and Xiao Hongchen’s Golden Eagle Soul Tool, heading for the Jingyang Mountains.

Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen reached the outskirts of the Jingyang Mountains and fought a thousand-year Silver Wolf to help Xiao Hongchen train. After cooking the wolf, they agreed to explore the area for a few days before heading into the main range to seek a soul beast over five thousand years old.

• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen landed in the branch ranges, recovered their Soul Power, and used Yan Hongchen’s abilities to find a concealed cave occupied by a thousand-year Silver Wolf.
• Xiao Hongchen fought the Silver Wolf with his armored Martial Soul and Soul Tool thrusters while Yan Hongchen supported him and protected himself from its attacks.
• Xiao Hongchen used Golden Affinity to strike the Silver Wolf from beneath and trap it in a metal cage, and Yan Hongchen killed it with his spiritual longsword.
• Yan Hongchen prepared stew from the Silver Wolf, and Xiao Hongchen praised the meal after tasting it.
• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen agreed to spend a few days exploring before entering the main range to search for a soul beast over five thousand years old.

Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen used a Golden Wolf pack’s attack to kill a six-thousand-year Blazing Gold Beast, allowing Xiao Hongchen to gain his fourth soul ring and break through to Rank 42. After they collected the battlefield’s materials, they heard a hostile voice pursuing someone nearby and prepared to investigate.

• Yan Hongchen grew stronger through close-quarters battles and used his healing abilities to treat himself and Xiao Hongchen during their journey through the Jingyang Mountains.
• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen found more than thirty Golden Wolves besieging a Blazing Gold Beast and decided to wait for the battle to weaken it.
• Yan Hongchen suppressed the Golden Wolves with his Mental Force Field while Xiao Hongchen bombarded them with soul tools and killed the Blazing Gold Beast.
• Xiao Hongchen absorbed the Blazing Gold Beast’s soul ring, gained his fourth ring, and advanced to Rank 42 while Yan Hongchen guarded him.
• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen collected the Golden Wolf corpses, then heard someone threatening a woman in the nearby forest and tensed at the sound.

Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen intervened when they found Ye Guyi cornered by three evil soul masters, and Yan recognized her Holy Angel Martial Soul and the purple-dressed woman’s suspected Nine-Heart Begonia. After Xiao killed the bone-flute wielder and Yan healed Ye Guyi, the brothers fused to face the remaining enemies as Ye Guyi prepared to fight the woman.

• Yan Hongchen urged Xiao Hongchen to notify Uncle Lin, and the brothers approached the battlefield under concealment.
• Yan identified the wounded girl as Ye Guyi and suspected that the purple-dressed woman possessed the degenerated Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul.
• Yan pressured the evil soul masters while Xiao unleashed a bombardment from sixty-four Soul Tool cannon barrels, killing the bone-flute wielder.
• Yan purified Ye Guyi’s poison and healed her wounds, restoring her strength to fight.
• When the cloaked Soul King and the purple-dressed woman remained ready to battle, Yan called Xiao into their Martial Soul Fusion, and the fused fighter assigned Ye Guyi the woman as her opponent.

Ye Guyi and the Hongchen brothers defeated the evil soul masters who had attacked her, with Ye Guyi delivering the final blow alongside Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen. After cleaning the battlefield, they accepted Uncle Lin’s arrival and flew with Ye Guyi toward Mingdu.

• Ye Guyi killed the woman with Holy Spirit Slash while Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen fought the Blood Fiend Blade’s owner.
• Xiao Hongchen restrained the Blood Fiend Blade’s owner, and Ye Guyi fused her soul rings to strike him down before Xiao Hongchen finished him.
• Yan Hongchen healed Xiao Hongchen, and Ye Guyi thanked the brothers and agreed to accompany them to Mingdu.
• Xiao Hongchen suggested that Ye Guyi join the Hongchen Family, but Yan Hongchen interrupted him and urged them to return first.
• Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi cleansed the battlefield, then Uncle Lin arrived and took the three of them toward Mingdu in a flying Soul Tool.

Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen returned to Hongchen Duke's Estate with Ye Guyi after surviving a battle with three evil soul masters. Liu Yueming welcomed them, arranged a room for Ye Guyi, and comforted her over the likely deaths of her parents; the brothers then rested together after discussing their distress from killing their enemies.

• Uncle Lin brought Xiao Hongchen, Yan Hongchen, and Ye Guyi back to Hongchen Duke's Estate, where Liu Yueming was waiting anxiously.
• Yan Hongchen sensed Ye Guyi's grief and privately warned Xiao Hongchen not to ask about her parents, who were likely dead.
• Liu Yueming had the three treated by a healing-type soul master, and the brothers recounted killing three evil soul masters and obtaining Xiao Hongchen's fourth soul ring.
• Liu Yueming gave Ye Guyi a guest room and new clothes, then comforted her as she spoke of her parents sacrificing themselves to protect her.
• Liu Yueming found the brothers washing up together and reassured them that their distress after killing evil soul masters was natural.
• Yan Hongchen stayed in Xiao Hongchen's room, and the exhausted brothers fell asleep in the same bed.

Xiao Hongchen prepared to pursue Ye Guyi, but Yan Hongchen explained her Holy Angel Martial Soul and urged him to focus on Soul Tools and forging instead. Yan Hongchen then proposed learning music and composing the purification melody “Pure Heart, Universal Goodness,” which he had actually appropriated from the Phantom Water Fleeting Life Record.

• Xiao Hongchen dressed carefully, and Yan Hongchen teased him about pursuing a girl; Xiao Hongchen admitted he wanted to prove that he liked girls by pursuing Ye Guyi.
• Yan Hongchen explained that Ye Guyi’s Holy Angel Martial Soul grew stronger by killing Evil Soul Masters and argued that she was focused on revenge rather than romance.
• Xiao Hongchen accepted Yan Hongchen’s advice to study Soul Tools and experiment with burning metal while forging.
• Yan Hongchen said he planned to learn music and compose “Pure Heart, Universal Goodness,” and Xiao Hongchen agreed to learn the zither with him.
• Yan Hongchen left, privately acknowledging that the purification melody came from the Phantom Water Fleeting Life Record rather than his own composition.

Yan Hongchen visited Ye Guyi, warned her about the Holy Spirit Cult’s strength and its Mingdu hideout, and learned that she wanted to join his side. She stayed with Yan Hongchen’s group for now and hoped to help them fight the cult.

• Yan Hongchen visited Ye Guyi and offered to help with her troubled mental state, but she declined and kept her distance.
• Ye Guyi explained that evil soul masters had killed her parents and that she wanted to avenge them by killing every evil soul master.
• Yan Hongchen told Ye Guyi that the Holy Spirit Cult had two Limit Douluo and warned that her current strength was nowhere near enough to challenge it alone.
• Yan Hongchen warned Ye Guyi about the Evening Water Alliance, which operated under the name Qingse Hotel in Mingdu, and told her not to let them discover her.
• Ye Guyi thanked Yan Hongchen for saving her, asked to remain with his group, and pledged to stand with them when they fought the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Yan Hongchen left to see whether Meng Hongchen had returned.

Ye Guyi joined the Hongchen family and revealed that her Holy Angel martial soul could help them fight the Holy Spirit Cult. Jing Hongchen agreed to support her, while he and Yan Hongchen discussed her training and possible plans to use her against evil soul masters.

• Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen took Ye Guyi to the rear courtyard, where Meng Hongchen and Jing Hongchen returned from their journey.
• Xiao Hongchen introduced Ye Guyi as someone he and Yan Hongchen had rescued, and Ye Guyi told Jing Hongchen about her Holy Angel martial soul and desire to fight the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed Ye Guyi and asked her to conceal her identity as needed, then sent her out with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen.
• Jing Hongchen questioned Yan Hongchen about meeting Ye Guyi, and Yan Hongchen insisted their encounter had been a coincidence.
• Yan Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen to help Ye Guyi advance and obtain a fourth soul ring, and Jing Hongchen agreed to consider capturing evil soul masters for her.
• Yan Hongchen suggested disguising Ye Guyi and framing Shrek's Supervisory Group for attacks on evil soul masters, and Jing Hongchen agreed to discuss the idea later.

Yan Hongchen tested Ye Guyi’s disguise, learned from Electrolux how to use Reversal at the Extremes, and revealed his Twin Martial Souls to her. When Ye Guyi and Yan Hongchen joined their powers, the heartfire and holy light merged without conflict and awakened a strange force.

• Ye Guyi disguised herself as an ordinary young woman and demonstrated that she could conceal her Holy Angel Martial Soul and aura.
• Electrolux sensed divinity and fragments of divine power in Ye Guyi, then taught Yan Hongchen the method of Reversal at the Extremes.
• Yan Hongchen asked Ye Guyi about evil attributes and offered to help her disguise her power; she swore not to reveal his secret.
• Yan Hongchen revealed that his Twin Martial Souls were spiritual power and water, and his heart, which possessed fire.
• Ye Guyi felt her Holy Angel power drawn to Yan Hongchen’s heartfire and asked to merge their powers.
• Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi joined their Soul Power, and their holy light and heartfire blended as a strange force sent ripples through the air.

Yan Hongchen discovered signs of martial soul resonance with Ye Guyi, then hurried away and told his siblings what had happened. Xiao Hongchen set aside his interest in Ye Guyi for now, and the three siblings promised to work hard and stay safe as Yan prepared to focus on their mother's condition.

• Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi's martial souls resonated faintly when they touched, and he used Spiritual Sharing to teach her a technique before rushing back to Jing Hongchen.
• Yan Hongchen told Jing Hongchen about the resonance, and Jing arranged for Ye Guyi to stay with him while she worked toward becoming a Soul Ancestor.
• On the train, Meng Hongchen gave Yan Hongchen news and a communication Soul Tool from Liu Yueming, while Xiao Hongchen confronted him about questioning his romantic interests.
• Yan Hongchen confessed that he and Ye Guyi might be compatible for a martial soul fusion, and Xiao Hongchen agreed to leave the matter undecided for now.
• Yan Hongchen said that resolving their mother's condition was his priority, and the three siblings promised to work hard and keep safe.

Yan Hongchen joined Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen in the forging room, where Xiao Hongchen attempted Thousand Forging with Yan Hongchen’s Soul Power support. Xiao Hongchen succeeded in creating Thousand Refined Heavy Silver, then planned to show it to their grandfather.

• Yan Hongchen agreed to visit Xiao Hongchen’s metal-forging session with Meng Hongchen after music class.
• Xiao Hongchen explained that he had learned to communicate with Living Metal and asked Yan Hongchen to support him with Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen refined Heavy Silver through Hundred Forging, then rested and replenished his strength with Water of Life and Yan Hongchen’s Soul Power.
• Xiao Hongchen used his spiritual power to communicate with the metal and continued hammering until he completed Thousand Forging.
• Yan Hongchen identified the result as Thousand Refined Heavy Silver, and Xiao Hongchen decided to take it to their grandfather for examination.