Chapter Summaries

After Meng Hongchen bonded with the Icefire Mystic Phoenix and gained wings, Yan Hongchen persuaded Snow Empress to consider a future for soul beasts through soul spirits and accompany him to meet Bi Ji. The group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest, with Yan Hongchen planning to speak privately with Ye Guyi along the way.

• Meng Hongchen awakened with icefire wings and thanked the Icefire Mystic Phoenix for trusting her and sharing its strength.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen and Ye Guyi about her fusion, while Yan Hongchen showed Snow Empress an image of humans and soul beasts balanced on a narrow pole.
• Yan Hongchen admitted he hoped to gain benefits for those around him and argued that Bi Ji might support trying soul spirits.
• Snow Empress agreed to accompany Yan Hongchen to find Bi Ji, warning that she could not protect him from Di Tian.
• Meng Hongchen discovered the Icefire Mystic Phoenix could become physical and carry riders, while Yan Hongchen recalled his Emeraldsong Rain Cranes and Mirror Shadow Beast.
• Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi boarded one crane, while Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Snow Empress rode the Icefire Mystic Phoenix toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Yan Hongchen explained Liu Yueming’s condition to Ye Guyi as the group traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest, where the Snow Empress led them to Emerald Valley. Bi Ji agreed to hear their proposal and invited them inside to examine the unusual Soul Spirits.

• Yan Hongchen reassured Ye Guyi about her earlier reaction and told her how the Snow Empress had helped resolve Liu Yueming’s problem.
• Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi discussed whether Bi Ji would agree to help the injured soul beasts in Emerald Valley.
• The Snow Empress concealed the group’s presence as she led Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• At Emerald Valley, Bi Ji recognized the Mirror Shadow Beast and Icefire Mystic Phoenix as unusual Soul Spirits and agreed to meet with the group.
• Bi Ji invited the Snow Empress and the four humans into Emerald Valley to discuss the soul beasts and the Snow Empress’s coming heavenly tribulation.

Yan Hongchen demonstrated Soul Spirits to Bi Ji by helping Ye Guyi form a contract with a dying Sky Dragon Horse, which revived it and gave Ye Guyi Light Dragon Wings. Bi Ji agreed to support the technique under strict limits, and Xiao Hongchen ended the chapter envying the new bond and powers.

• Yan Hongchen and Bi Ji healed wounded soul beasts together, and Bi Ji questioned him about Soul Spirits and their risks.
• Yan Hongchen explained that Soul Spirits could save dying soul beasts but might also enable exploitation, so Bi Ji and Snow Empress required him to swear that he would not share the technique for now.
• Bi Ji offered a dying Sky Dragon Horse with Light Holy Dragon blood to Ye Guyi, who accepted it and began the Soul Spirit Contract with Yan Hongchen's help.
• The Sky Dragon Horse vanished and then returned fully restored with dragon wings, while Ye Guyi gained a black fifth soul ring and Light Dragon Wings.
• Bi Ji thanked Yan Hongchen after confirming the Sky Dragon Horse was well, while Xiao Hongchen begged Yan Hongchen for a Soul Spirit and similar wings.
• Ye Guyi told Yan Hongchen that her new divine skill showed the Angel God riding a Sky Dragon Horse, and Yan Hongchen urged her to strengthen their bond.

Yan Hongchen helped Xiao Hongchen form a Soul Spirit contract with a wounded Twin-Winged Golden Tiger in Emerald Valley. Xiao gained a thirty-thousand-year Soul Spirit, an eye-shaped External Soul Bone, and the first signs of awakening his Divine Beast Bloodline, and the group prepared to return home for the competition.

• Bi Ji showed Yan Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen a dying Twin-Winged Golden Tiger with metal and spiritual attributes, and Yan offered to help it become a Soul Spirit.
• Yan Hongchen used spiritual healing and Spiritual Sharing to connect Xiao Hongchen with the tiger, which challenged Xiao to a fight before accepting him.
• Yan Hongchen completed the Soul Spirit transformation, giving Xiao a black fifth soul ring and a thirty-thousand-year Soul Spirit.
• Xiao discovered an eye-shaped External Soul Bone and signs that his Divine Beast Bloodline was awakening when he activated his fifth soul skill.
• Yan Hongchen warned Bi Ji about evil soul masters imitating Soul Spirits, accepted one of her tail feathers, and led the group out of Emerald Valley.
• Yan Hongchen quietly suggested that Snow Empress bring items back from the Extreme North, then he and the others set off to prepare for the competition.

Yan Hongchen explained soul bone fusion and armor to Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi as they traveled across the Ice Sea. Their discussion ended when they found a powerful Illusory Snake that wanted to devour their Soul Spirits, forcing them to prepare for a deadly fight.

• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen discussed the benefits of their new External Soul Bones, while Ye Guyi thanked her companions for helping her survive.
• Yan Hongchen explained how External Soul Bones could fuse with other soul bones and form Soul Bone Armor, and Ye Guyi revealed that her skull bone was one of the Angel God's Six Soul Bones.
• Xiao Hongchen sensed that the Twin-Winged Golden Tiger and Sky Dragon Horse had encountered an Illusory Snake, so Yan Hongchen organized the group for battle.
• Yan Hongchen identified the Illusory Snake as a sixty-thousand-year soul beast with Teng Snake bloodline and said its soul ring suited him.
• Xiao Hongchen sensed the Illusory Snake's malice toward their Soul Spirits, and the four prepared to fight.

Meng Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Ye Guyi, and Yan Hongchen fought the Illusory Snake at sea, combining poison, soul tools, and martial soul techniques to defeat it. After Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming revealed they had secretly followed the group, Yan killed the frozen beast, and the exhausted party headed to Dongyang City with its soul ring and a right leg bone.

• Meng Hongchen poisoned the Illusory Snake while Xiao Hongchen prepared his soul cannons and Yan Hongchen and Ye Guyi joined their powers to interrupt its Phantom Body.
• Xiao Hongchen escaped the Illusion Domain, and Ye Guyi attacked the Illusory Snake as the group retreated toward land under the beast's waves.
• Xiao Hongchen blasted the Illusory Snake with a Hyper-Concentrated Soul Cannon, then Meng Hongchen and Ye Guyi landed their strongest attacks and left it gravely wounded.
• Liu Yueming froze the Illusory Snake, and Yi Hongchen revealed that he and Liu had tracked the children and watched their fight.
• Liu restored Yan Hongchen's strength, and Yan killed the frozen Illusory Snake with Spiritual Shock as Yi stored its soul ring and collected its right leg bone.
• Yi Hongchen carried Yan while Liu checked on Xiao Hongchen and the two women, and the group set out for Dongyang City.

After returning from the Ice Sea, Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming treated the four children to barbecue and a hot spring in Dongyang City. Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen received the Illusory Snake soul bone and soul ring to absorb before the group returned to Mingdu for the upcoming competition.

• Yi Hongchen and Liu Yueming took Xiao Hongchen, Yan Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi to a local barbecue restaurant, then brought them to their hotel suite.
• Yi Hongchen took Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen to the hot spring and asked whether Snow Empress had accompanied them to the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Hongchen told Yi Hongchen that they had visited Bi Ji and gained Soul Spirits and External Soul Bones, and he revealed that his External Soul Bone had changed his eye.
• Yan Hongchen asked Yi Hongchen to give Xiao Hongchen the Illusory Snake's right leg bone and give him its soul ring, then explained that he would focus on logistics and team support.
• Yi Hongchen advised Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen about respect and responsibility in relationships, then gave them the Illusory Snake's right leg bone and soul ring storage device.

Yan Hongchen absorbed the Illusory Snake’s soul ring, destroyed its remnant soul, and tested his powerful sixth soul skill on Yi Hongchen. Xiao Hongchen gained the Phantom Body soul bone skill, and the siblings returned to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy while their parents stayed behind in Dongyang City.

• Yan Hongchen burned away the Illusory Snake’s lingering soul from Xiao Hongchen’s soul bone before Xiao Hongchen began absorbing it.
• Yan Hongchen absorbed the Illusory Snake’s soul ring, used his Abyssal Sea to annihilate its remnant soul, and reached level sixty-four with six soul rings.
• Yan Hongchen demonstrated his sixth soul skill on Yi Hongchen, trapping him in an illusion based on an unpleasant memory.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed that his new soul bone skill, Phantom Body, granted immunity to physical attacks and weakened mental attacks.
• Yi Hongchen told Ye Guyi that Uncle Lin and Nana were arriving, and he and Liu Yueming decided to remain in Dongyang City while the young people returned to the academy.
• Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen traveled with Uncle Lin to Mingdu and entered Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Yan Hongchen returned to Mingde Hall and found Su Tong fighting Ji Juechen, whose swordsmanship had drawn him to challenge her. Their duel ended in a draw, and after Yan treated their injuries and apologized for leaving Su Tong alone, Ji Juechen departed with new inspiration for his sword cultivation.

• Yan Hongchen reunited with Jing Hongchen, who explained that he had tracked the grandchildren for Liu Yueming and said he planned to retire after their next competition victory.
• Jing Hongchen told Yan Hongchen that Ji Juechen had challenged Su Tong, so Yan hurried to the training ground and watched them fight.
• Su Tong and Ji Juechen exchanged powerful sword attacks and both declared defeat, prompting the referee to announce a draw.
• Yan Hongchen treated their wounds, apologized to Su Tong for neglecting her, and promised to make it up to her.
• Yan Hongchen offered Ji Juechen advice about finding the sword within his heart, and Ji Juechen left to cultivate before Yan and Su Tong went to get a drink.

Su Tong and Yan Hongchen discussed his recent travels, the upcoming tournament, and Ji Juechen’s likely repeated challenges. They planned to practice martial soul fusion before Su Tong returned home after the tournament.

• Su Tong asked Yan Hongchen where he had been, and he explained that he had helped Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Guyi obtain Soul Rings.
• Yan Hongchen told Su Tong that Ji Juechen might keep challenging her and offered to distract him with an illusion.
• Su Tong said she might return home after the tournament, and Yan Hongchen agreed while promising her a gift when she approached the Soul Emperor threshold.
• Su Tong admitted that learning the Emperor Palm was difficult, so Yan Hongchen suggested they try martial soul fusion to help her understand snow.
• Su Tong accepted the practice as her right as his partner, and they left the drink shop together.

The Hongchen siblings fought a three-on-three match against Ma Rulong, Xiao Xiafeng, and Chen An, revealing the strength of their teamwork and hidden abilities. After the siblings won and Yan Hongchen treated the poisoned fighters, the team prepared to leave for the Star Luo Empire.

• Ma Rulong challenged Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Yan Hongchen to fight his team, and the siblings accepted.
• Yan Hongchen shielded his siblings from poison while Meng Hongchen released her toxin, and she used her Icefire Phoenix Wings to intercept Chen An in the air.
• Xiao Hongchen unleashed 156 Soul Tool cannons against Ma Rulong and Xiao Xiafeng while Yan Hongchen blocked Ma Rulong's attack with Red Dust Blessing.
• Meng Hongchen kept Ma Rulong's ape occupied, and Xiao Hongchen knocked Xiao Xiafeng out of the match with his Evil Orca Axe and continued artillery fire.
• Ma Rulong conceded, Yan Hongchen detoxified the fighters, and the team prepared to depart for the Star Luo Empire.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team departed for Star Luo City, where Xu Jiujiu welcomed them and escorted them to the Starlight Grand Hotel. Shrek Academy’s team arrived on the other side of the city, still worn down by their encounter with the Death God Envoy.

• Elder Ma urged the fourteen team members to defeat Shrek Academy, while Yan Hongchen impatiently interrupted his speech and Xiao Hongchen vowed to take Shrek down.
• Yan Hongchen, Su Tong, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen spent the afternoon shopping, and Yan Hongchen gave his siblings Gold Soul Coin cards.
• Jing Hongchen and Elder Ma brought the team to Star Luo City, where Yan Hongchen discouraged Xiao Hongchen from arguing with people who mocked their academy.
• Xu Jiujiu welcomed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy delegation and led them to the Starlight Grand Hotel, where the team received rooms before the opening ceremony.
• Yan Hongchen and Su Tong left the hotel together to explore Star Luo City, while Shrek Academy’s exhausted team arrived elsewhere in the city.

Yan Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy prepared for the tournament, then watched Shrek face the Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy in the opening match. When Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong revealed their deceptive formation, Yan exposed their tactics and shattered Meng Hongchen’s hopes of winning Wang Dong’s affection.

• Yan Hongchen learned that Shrek had brought ten students, including seven under fifteen, and wondered about the Snow Empress and the damage from the Death God Envoy’s attack.
• Xu Jiawei opened the tournament in Star Luo City, and the first match was announced between Shrek Academy and the Heavenly Spirit Advanced Soul Master Academy.
• Ma Xiaotao reassured Shrek’s team before Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong joined the lineup on the platform.
• Huo Yuhao appeared to display six hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings, but Yan Hongchen told Ma Rulong they were an illusion.
• Yan Hongchen told Meng Hongchen that Wang Dong was a girl, and Su Tong confirmed that the Light Goddess Butterfly was gender-specific.
• Jing Hongchen took the heartbroken Meng Hongchen away, while Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Su Tong prepared to leave the stands.

After Shrek’s team won, the exhausted Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong were confronted by Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen, who exposed Wang Dong as a girl and caused both partners to faint. Xiao Xiao then reunited with Su Tong, and Yan Hongchen used his standing at Mingde Hall to secure permission for them to speak privately, leaving the Shrek group in a tense and complicated situation.

• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen blocked Shrek’s return route and challenged Huo Yuhao after recognizing his Simulation soul skill.
• Xiao Hongchen pointed out that Wang Dong’s Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul belonged only to women and accused her of pretending to be a man.
• Huo Yuhao fainted from exhaustion and shock, and Wang Dong also collapsed as the revelation overwhelmed her.
• Xiao Xiao recognized Su Tong and tearfully asked to speak with her, while Ma Xiaotao objected to letting her leave with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy group.
• Yan Hongchen invoked his influence over the exchange student program, and Wang Yan allowed Xiao Xiao to leave with Su Tong while the Shrek group returned.

Xiao Xiao told Yan Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, and Su Tong about Shrek Academy’s dangerous recent events, and Yan Hongchen helped calm her while Xiao Hongchen gave her a defensive Soul Tool. Back at the hotel, Yan Hongchen comforted Meng Hongchen over her lost first love and promised to find her someone better.

• Su Tong encouraged Xiao Xiao to speak, and Xiao Xiao recounted her experiences at Shrek Academy, including the deaths and severe injuries caused by the Death God Envoy.
• Su Tong comforted Xiao Xiao, and Yan Hongchen played Pure Heart, Universal Goodness to ease her fear and distress.
• Xiao Hongchen gave Xiao Xiao a rechargeable Class Four Soul Tool shield, and she accepted it while deciding not to reveal everything from their conversation.
• Yan Hongchen returned to the Starlight Grand Hotel with desserts and found Meng Hongchen in the lobby.
• Yan Hongchen comforted Meng Hongchen with food and music, and she asked him to find her a better man after he had shattered her first love.
• Yan Hongchen promised Meng Hongchen he would help her get what she wanted.

Yan Hongchen and the Sun Moon team prepared for the round-robin stage, studied Shrek’s strengths, and won their first match against Plant Advanced Soul Master Academy. Afterward, Yan received an invitation to a Soul Tool auction and decided to attend with Ma Rulong and a few others.

• Xiao Hongchen and Yan Hongchen shared information about Shrek’s losses and key fighters, while the team discussed its round-robin lineup and plans to target Ma Xiaotao.
• Yan Hongchen used his Phantom Water Spirit Toad to ease the team’s fatigue, and the knockout rounds ended before the round-robin groupings were announced.
• After watching Xu Sanshi defeat Cloud Luo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy, Yan Hongchen proposed that the seniors prepare for him in the finals, and Jing Hongchen recalled the Dark Nether Sect’s debt.
• Li Yan and Lin Xi defeated Plant Advanced Soul Master Academy, securing a first-round round-robin win for Sun Moon.
• A hotel attendant delivered a Star Luo Empire Auction House invitation, and Yan Hongchen chose to attend the Soul Tool auction with Ma Rulong and several others.

Yan Hongchen attended the Starlight Auction House with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and won a ten-thousand-year spiritual-type soul beast dan bead for five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, defeating Wang Yan’s attempt to buy it for Huo Yuhao. The chapter revealed that Huo Yuhao had acquired the Profound Ice Grass as his second Martial Soul in the Extreme North, while Xu Jiujiu planned further tests to uncover Yan Hongchen’s abilities.

• Jing Hongchen sent Yan Hongchen, Elder Ma, Ma Rulong, and two others to observe the auction and see which academies acquired Soul Tools.
• The auction’s final lot was a ten-thousand-year spiritual-type soul beast dan bead that could strengthen mental power, and Elder Ma offered to buy it for Yan Hongchen.
• Wang Yan urged Huo Yuhao to pursue the bead, and Huo Yuhao recalled how the Snow Empress forced him to take Blue Silver Grass as his second Martial Soul’s first soul ring, creating the Profound Ice Grass Martial Soul.
• Yan Hongchen and Wang Yan bid against each other until Yan Hongchen offered five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Huo Yuhao gave up on the bead.
• Yan Hongchen bought the bead and planned to cultivate with it, while Xu Jiujiu learned who had won and decided to test Yan Hongchen’s spiritual attribute and investigate his abilities.

Shrek Academy defeated Qianling Advanced Soul Master Academy and then Zheng Tian Academy as the tournament continued. Xiao Xiao and He Caitou won their match through Xiao Xiao’s desperate defense and He Caitou’s powerful cannon blast, leaving both unconscious.

• Ma Xiaotao shattered Qianling Academy’s defensive formation with a combined soul-skill attack, and Shen Ce surrendered to prevent further injuries.
• Xu Sanshi and Jiang Nannan won the opening match against Yu Mengdi and Yang Yifan, drawing Xiao Hongchen’s interest in Xu Sanshi’s power.
• Xiao Xiao blocked Tang Xiaolei and Blood Wolf while He Caitou charged his Super-Concentrated Soul Tool Cannon.
• Xiao Xiao unleashed Cauldron’s Might and Cauldron’s Tremor to hold the opponents in place, then evaded He Caitou’s cannon blast.
• The referee blocked the cannon’s devastating attack, declared Shrek Academy the winner, and Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao carried the unconscious Xiao Xiao and He Caitou off the stage.

Yan Hongchen guided Xiao Hongchen in absorbing the Dan Pearl and learning Spiritual Detection while the round-robin stage concluded. After Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced, Qingya invited the team to a top-tier auction, interrupting their meeting about the round of sixteen.

• Yan Hongchen gave Xiao Hongchen the Dan Pearl and taught him Spiritual Detection, asking him to prepare Living Metal for a natal Soul Tool in return.
• Xiao Hongchen absorbed the Dan Pearl and improved his spiritual power and Rift-Sundering Golden Eyes.
• Dai Yueheng led Shrek to a seven-to-zero victory in its final round-robin match, and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy advanced as its group’s top team.
• Elder Ma told the team that Dou Ling Royal Academy, with five Soul Kings and two Soul Ancestors, would be their round-of-sixteen opponent.
• Qingya arrived during the team meeting and gave Yan Hongchen sixteen invitations to the Starlight Auction House’s top-tier auction.
• Yan Hongchen distributed the invitations, and the team paused its meeting to prepare for the auction.

Jing Hongchen and Shrek Academy competed for soul bones at the Starlight Auction, where Huo Yuhao won the Spiritual Immunity Skull and Yan Hongchen secured the Ice Jade Scorpion bone. Xu Jiujiu closed the auction with a large profit, while she and Xu Jiawei worried that the Sun Moon Empire might win the upcoming competition and claim more soul bones.

• Qingya escorted Jing Hongchen, Old Ma, and their companions to a private room as Xu Jiujiu opened the auction with the Tyrant Tiger Soul-Refining Blade.
• Jing Hongchen declined to reclaim the blade, then bid on several soul bones and rare metal while Yan Hongchen assessed the auction’s offerings.
• Xu Jiujiu presented the Spiritual Immunity Skull, and Jing Hongchen raised its price before stopping; Xian Lin'er won it for Huo Yuhao at twenty million Gold Soul Coins.
• Yan Hongchen and Ling Luocheng bid for the Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone and its Ice Explosion Technique, but Jing Hongchen’s higher bid secured it for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Jiujiu returned to the palace with the auction proceeds, and she and Xu Jiawei discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and the coming competition.