Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yue fused with the Living Blade, gaining a greatly expanded Sea of Spirit and an introductory method for tempering Mental Power from Electrolux. With Tian Meng no longer able to control his body, Jiang Yue planned to hunt a suitable Soul Beast in the Star Dou Forest and seek another way to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.

• The Living Blade pierced Jiang Yue's forehead, fused into his body, and transformed his Sea of Spirit while stabilizing Electrolux's Divine Sense fragment.
• Electrolux appeared as an elderly man, explained his condition, and gave Jiang Yue an introductory method for tempering Mental Power.
• Electrolux warned that Jiang Yue's fusion with the Living Gold prevented Tian Meng from taking control of his body.
• Jiang Yue and Tian Meng discussed hunting a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and searching the Star Dou Forest for Mental Attribute Soul Beasts and Living Gold.
• Jiang Yue decided to buy information from mercenaries before heading into the Star Dou Forest, where he might need to use his trump card.

Jiang Yue returned to the Star Dou Forest after failing to find useful information about ten-thousand-year spiritual-attribute soul beasts in Star Luo City. As Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealed him and searched ahead, Wang Dong took precious fruits from Clear Sky Castle to give a talented friend, while Niu Tian and Titan wondered whether that friend was the person they had been told about.

• Jiang Yue left Star Luo City with only vague leads, rejected the idea of joining Shrek Academy's reserve team, and stopped in a soul hunting town to prepare supplies for his search.
• Wang Dong persuaded Niu Tian and Titan to let her take a basket of Bright Light Tree fruits as a gift for a friend, describing the friend as exceptionally talented and able to break the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Niu Tian struck Titan when Titan complained about the gift, then explained that Wang Dong's friend might be the person they had been told about; he stopped Titan from going to investigate immediately.
• Jiang Yue entered the Star Dou Forest under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's concealment and used its spiritual detection to search for a suitable soul beast.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found no suitable soul beasts in the mixed zone, so Jiang Yue continued deeper into the forest.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion woke from a dream of its own sacrifice and sensed its fate dividing into two paths, while Jiang Yue found a rare spiritual soul beast for his fourth ring. The Sealed Nether Wraith blocked Jiang Yue’s opening strike but did not attack, leaving its strange behavior unexplained.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed two branches in its Fate Line and followed the one that seemed to call to it.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found Jiang Yue a roughly twenty-thousand-year-old spiritual soul beast suitable for his fourth ring.
• Jiang Yue and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm approached a deserted area where Jiang Yue sensed a mass of conflicting emotions.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm identified the creature as a Sealed Nether Wraith formed from the grievances and lingering souls of dead soul beasts.
• Jiang Yue struck at the Sealed Nether Wraith’s core with the Passionate Sword, but spectral heads caught the blade and the creature remained motionless.

Jiang Yue and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm defeated the Sealed Nether Wraith, allowing Jiang Yue to absorb its twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring as his fourth ring. He reached level forty-three and gained Walking Corpse, a skill that randomly seals opponents’ abilities, while recognizing that its unpredictability limits its usefulness.

• Jiang Yue used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Mental Detection and Mental Shock, along with his emotion swords and soul skills, to expose the Sealed Nether Wraith’s core.
• Jiang Yue pierced the core with the Unfeeling Sword and destroyed the Sealed Nether Wraith, which left behind a black Soul Ring.
• Jiang Yue absorbed the twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, broke through the level-forty bottleneck, and rose to level forty-three.
• Jiang Yue discovered that his fourth soul skill, Walking Corpse, could randomly seal an opponent’s soul skills, Soul Bone skills, and self-created skills according to the difference in Mental Power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm praised the skill’s strength, while Jiang Yue noted that its random effect made it unreliable and considered seeking a way to foresee the future.

Jiang Yue raised his third Soul Ring to ten thousand years and fled the Star Dou Forest after the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed his presence and began following him. As the Three-Eyed Golden Lion pursued him, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm prepared to use a powerful teleportation skill to get Jiang Yue to safety.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm raised Jiang Yue's third Soul Ring to ten thousand years and strengthened his first two rings, giving his Passionate Sword a purple, purple, black, black configuration.
• Jiang Yue left the area where the Sealed Nether Wraith had died, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared and searched for the source of a feeling from the Eye of Destiny.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm concealed Jiang Yue with his Mental Power, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion eventually left without finding him.
• Jiang Yue waited half an hour before fleeing toward the edge of the Star Dou Forest, but the Three-Eyed Golden Lion followed the shifting signal from her Eye of Destiny.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm warned that Di Tian might notice them and prepared a long-distance teleportation, while Jiang Yue braced himself for the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's approach.

Jiang Yue escaped the Three-Eyed Golden Lion with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s help, left the Star Dou Forest, and planned his next steps after completing his Living Blade goal. At Shrek Academy, Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to let her compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, but he objected because her evil fire made participation dangerous.

• Jiang Yue had Sky Dream Ice Silkworm use Mental Power to transport them away from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who lost his trail and returned to the Lake of Life.
• Jiang Yue left the Star Dou Forest, reached a Soul Hunting Town, and rested while considering the Snow Empress, the Body Sect, and other future plans.
• Jiang Yue concluded that he had little reason to join the reserve team or compete for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone if Shrek Academy might withhold the reward.
• Ma Xiaotao knelt before Yan Shaozhe and asked to compete in the tournament, claiming she could suppress her evil fire, but Yan Shaozhe warned that competing could cost her life.
• Ma Xiaotao suggested that she could take a place from the Soul Engineer Department when Yan Shaozhe asked where her team spot would come from.

Yan Shaozhe allowed Ma Xiaotao to pursue a place on Shrek Academy’s tournament team despite her dangerous evil fire. Jiang Yue returned to his destroyed village, discovered death energy had corrupted the villagers’ burial site, and left after spending one last night at home.

• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to let her compete, and he agreed to consider her for a qualification match if her condition remained stable.
• Jiang Yue returned to his abandoned village and cleared the overgrown path with his Emotion Swords.
• Jiang Yue found death energy tainting the Blue Silver Grass near the burial site.
• Jiang Yue discovered the villagers’ burial ground had been dug up and that the area was filled with decay and insect corpses.
• Jiang Yue found a human finger bone, sensed the villagers’ anguish, and left the scene in grief.
• Jiang Yue spent the night at his doorstep, then bid farewell to the village and departed.

Jiang Yue received Brightlight Tree fruits from Wang Dong and used them to advance his Mental Power to Four Apertures Steadfast Heart. Mu En then invited him to join Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament.

• Jiang Yue returned to Shrek Academy, registered for the new school year, and cleaned his dormitory.
• Wang Dong brought Jiang Yue ten fruits from a ten-thousand-year Brightlight Tree as thanks for keeping her secret.
• Jiang Yue ate two fruits, breaking through to a new stage of Mental Power and reaching Four Apertures Steadfast Heart.
• Mu En observed Jiang Yue’s strength and remarked that his Mental Power rivaled that of Soul Emperors specializing in it.
• Mu En asked Jiang Yue whether he wanted to join Shrek Academy’s Reserve Team and travel to Star Luo City for the tournament.

Jiang Yue tried to avoid joining Shrek Academy’s tournament reserve team, but Mu En decided to let second-year students compete in the selection. Huo Yuhao broke through to rank twenty and committed to becoming a Soul Engineer, while the students gathered for their advancement assessments and Wang Dong faced teasing over Dai Huabin’s stare.

• Jiang Yue explained to Mu En that reserve team members were usually selected from older core disciples and said he would rather cultivate than enter the tournament.
• Mu En praised Jiang Yue’s insight and decided that second-year students could join this year’s reserve-team selection, leaving Jiang Yue to plan how to avoid being chosen.
• Mu En mistook Jiang Yue’s ten-thousand-year Soul Ring for a reward from the freshman assessment, while Jiang Yue continued practicing Distraction Control.
• Huo Yuhao told Fan Yu he had reached rank twenty, and Fan Yu planned to take him to the Star Dou Forest to hunt for a Soul Ring.
• Huo Yuhao resolved to become a powerful Soul Engineer so he could make White Tiger Duke’s Manor pay for what it had done.
• At the advancement assessment, Wu Feng and Xiao Xiao teased Wang Dong that Dai Huabin’s possessive stare meant he was attracted to him, and Jiang Yue began to suspect it might be true.

During the advancement assessment, Jiang Yue used his fourth soul ring to provoke a powerful draconic beast into attacking the referee, drawing Yan Shaozhe’s attention to his mysterious ten-thousand-year ring. Yan Shaozhe confronted Mu En about taking Jiang Yue as a disciple, and Mu En was devastated when the question exposed a misunderstanding from their conversation the day before.

• Wang Dong and Jiang Yue discussed the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Jiang Yue said he planned to build his strength before choosing a faction.
• Dai Huabin asked Jiang Yue to team up for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Dueling Tournament, but Jiang Yue refused and exposed Dai Huabin’s plan to leave Zhu Lu behind.
• Zhu Lu overheard Dai Huabin dismissing her, and Jiang Yue’s influence briefly left Dai Huabin calm and unable to understand what had happened as Zhu Lu walked away in tears.
• Jiang Yue challenged a thousand-year draconic soul beast and used his fourth soul ring to enrage it until it attacked the referee, who subdued it.
• Yan Shaozhe awarded Jiang Yue full marks for technique and went to Mu En, suspecting that Mu En had secretly accepted Jiang Yue as a disciple.
• Mu En trembled and collapsed into his chair when Yan Shaozhe asked about Jiang Yue, recalling Jiang Yue’s words from the day before and realizing he had misunderstood them.

Mu En punished Yan Shaozhe, reshaped Shrek Academy’s leadership, and demanded support for the Soul Tool Department after warning of the Sun Moon Empire’s technological threat. Meanwhile, Jiang Yue received news about his search for an evil Soul Master and arrived at the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where Zhang Lexuan approached him.

• Zhuang Lao treated Mu En and scolded Yan Shaozhe, but Mu En summoned the Sea God Pavilion elders and ordered Zhang Lexuan to attend.
• Mu En removed Yan Shaozhe as Martial Soul Department Dean and heir, appointed Cai Meier acting dean and Zhang Lexuan vice dean, and ordered Shrek Academy to develop its Soul Tool Department.
• Mu En urged Zhang Lexuan to work hard and not restrict the Soul Tool Department after the elders left.
• Ning Tian gave Jiang Yue the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s investigation results and warned him about a potentially unstable inner-court student on the main team.
• Jiang Yue thanked Ning Tian, read the documents, and went to the Treasure Appraisal Fair, where Zhang Lexuan asked why he would not go inside.

Jiang Yue rejected Shrek Academy’s attempt to compensate him with a costly soul bone, while Mu En began planning reforms under the new vice dean, Zhang Lexuan. The next day, Wang Yan announced a special mission with seven slots and ordered the core disciples to stay after class for the Selection.

• Zhang Lexuan invited Jiang Yue into the Treasure Pavilion, where they discussed a forty-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon head soul bone and the academy’s failure to deliver his freshman reward.
• Zhang Lexuan told Jiang Yue she had become vice dean and offered to help him obtain a soul ring, but Jiang Yue explained why he had never reported Yan Shaozhe.
• Jiang Yue received a one-use card with a fifty-million-Gold-Soul-Coin credit limit, recognized it as an attempted compensation, and destroyed it rather than accept the debt.
• Mu En discussed Shrek Academy’s future with Lin Huiqun and told her to have Zhang Lexuan investigate and remove corrupt outer academy teachers.
• Wang Yan announced that core disciples would participate in a special Selection mission with seven available slots and told them to stay after school.

Jiang Yue dominated Shrek Academy’s core disciple Selection with his mental and emotional soul skills, but deliberately let himself be eliminated before the seven finalists were decided. He returned to the dormitory, where he explained the chaotic free-for-all to Mu En and continued waiting for news from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Xuan Zi began a no-rules free-for-all in which the battle would continue until only seven core disciples remained.
• Jiang Yue used his mental power and emotional swords to disrupt the contestants and turn many of them against one another.
• He Caitou equipped his Soul Tools and fired across the arena, while Jiang Yue’s influence made him attack with unnerving accuracy until his Soul Power ran out.
• Jiang Yue fought off a mass attack with Ning Tian’s support, then let Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu’s Hell White Tiger force him out of the arena.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Wang Dong, Wu Feng, Ning Tian, Dai Huabin, and Zhu Lu remained as the seven selected disciples, while the others stayed behind to protest.
• Jiang Yue told Wang Yan and Mu En about the Selection, then returned to waiting for the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s findings about the grave-robbing evil Soul Master.

After He Caitou was eliminated from the Reserve Team selection, the Soul Guidance Department confronted the Martial Soul Department over losing its guaranteed tournament slot. Zhang Lexuan negotiated compensation, and the two departments reached an agreement, though Jiang Yue declined an offer to transfer.

• He Caitou told Xian Lin'er, Qian Duoduo, and Fan Yu that he had performed well but was eliminated after Jiang Yue indirectly controlled Soul Tools during the selection.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo went to confront the Martial Soul Department, while Zhang Lexuan sought Mu En’s support in resolving the dispute.
• Du Weilun brought Jiang Yue to meet the department leaders, where Qian Duoduo praised his potential as a Soul Engineer and tried to recruit him.
• Xuan Zi dismissed the dispute as a matter of one Reserve Team slot, and Zhang Lexuan offered the Soul Guidance Department twenty transfers, priority academy resources for three years, and protection for its slot going forward.
• Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo accepted Zhang Lexuan’s terms, but Jiang Yue declined to transfer and received a Level 5 Trigger-type Defensive Soul Tool from Qian Duoduo.

Jiang Yue learned that an organized group of Evil Soul Masters had been active near the village where people he knew had died, and he suspected they had collected the villagers’ resentful souls for the Holy Spirit Cult. Convinced the group might be heading for the Sun Moon Empire, he left Shrek Academy to pursue them, while Wu Feng covered for his absence.

• Zhang Lexuan relayed Mu En’s conditions to Xuan Zi, who accepted the decision and was told to bring Ma Xiaotao back from the Main Team because her condition was dangerous.
• Jiang Yue returned to class and kept the Academy’s discussion confidential; over the next month, he studied domain skills while the Reserve Team continued training.
• Ning Tian delivered the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s report identifying a disciplined Evil Soul Master group, led by a likely Soul Emperor, that had operated near the border and was last headed west.
• Jiang Yue suspected the group had collected the dead villagers’ resentful souls for the Holy Spirit Cult and immediately prepared to follow them toward the ungoverned border region.
• Jiang Yue traveled through the night using a propulsion Soul Tool and stopped to recover his Soul Power, while Wu Feng requested leave for him at Shrek Academy.

Jiang Yue traveled to a barren border town to investigate Evil Soul Masters and used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Mental Power to locate the town's Soul Power users. After the strongest Soul Master vanished mysteriously, Jiang Yue summoned Electrolux, while the Evil Soul Masters prepared to use trafficked children to restore a Blood Pool.

• Wang Dong learned that Jiang Yue had left Shrek Academy after the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect informed him, then attended training with the Main Team and Reserve Team under Xuan Zi.
• Jiang Yue reached a desolate border town after three days of travel and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to find everyone there who possessed Soul Power.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm detected a Soul Emperor-level Evil Soul Master and several weaker Soul Masters, but the strongest one suddenly disappeared from its detection.
• Jiang Yue suspected other Evil Soul Masters were present and woke Electrolux so he could join the fight.
• That night, Evil Soul Masters unloaded cages of shackled children and discussed using them, along with human and beast remains, to restore the Blood Pool.

Jiang Yue followed Evil Soul Masters through a hidden passage into a small world and discovered that it was Slaughter City, where the Hell Slaughter Arena still stood. After the Evil Soul Masters vanished into the arena’s blood pattern, Jiang Yue and Tian Meng discussed the city’s dangers and the divine inheritances once housed there.

• An Evil Soul Master delivered children into a tavern and led them down a concealed passage, while Jiang Yue secretly followed under Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s disguise.
• Jiang Yue entered a small world filled with fresh bloodlust, and Electrolux assured him he could tear open a way out if they could not find an exit.
• Jiang Yue reached a black, ruined city and recognized it as Slaughter City, with the circular structure ahead identified as the Hell Slaughter Arena.
• Jiang Yue saw the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King’s pattern in the arena and confirmed that he could still summon his martial souls, though the Passionate Sword was suppressed more than the Unfeeling Sword.
• The Evil Soul Masters and children vanished into the arena’s blood pattern, and Tian Meng could not sense where they had gone.
• Tian Meng explained that Slaughter City had once held two divine inheritances, then urged Jiang Yue to focus on finding a way out.

Jiang Yue entered Hell Road to investigate the Evil Soul Masters and the possibility of earning Divine Slaughter's Domain. After finding them sacrificing children into the Blood Pool, he killed one and defeated their Soul Emperor, leaving the Evil Soul Master helpless as his soul skills vanished.

• Jiang Yue entered Hell Road through the fading pattern and resisted the blood mist with his silver radiance.
• Jiang Yue and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm spotted two Evil Soul Masters chaining children over the Blood Pool and throwing the dead into it.
• Jiang Yue killed the Soul Ancestor-level Evil Soul Master with his Unfeeling Sword and confronted the Soul Emperor.
• The Soul Emperor transformed into a skeletal lizard and attacked Jiang Yue with a bone tail, but Jiang Yue disrupted his soul skills and fought back with his swords.
• Jiang Yue broke the Soul Emperor's crude imitation of Divine Slaughter's Domain, shattered his Martial Soul Possession, and left him bleeding beside the Blood Pool.

Jiang Yue killed an Evil Soul Master in Hell Road, rescued the chained children, and discovered the long-dead Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King in a cave. He found that it had left behind an External Soul Bone, a pair of bat wings.

• Jiang Yue questioned the Evil Soul Master, cut off his finger, and killed him when he refused to speak.
• Jiang Yue stored the Evil Soul Master's head, threw his corpse into the Blood Pool, and led the children along Hell Road.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sensed a motionless source of dense blood aura near the exit, and Jiang Yue chose to investigate it.
• Jiang Yue and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm found a cave full of dead blood bats and the skeleton of the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
• Jiang Yue searched the skeleton and discovered its External Soul Bone: Bat Wing.

Jiang Yue absorbed the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's wing-shaped External Soul Bone, gaining mental and clone-type soul skills as his body grew stronger. After leaving Hell Road, he briefly sensed killing intent around the Unfeeling Sword, but it faded before Divine Slaughter's Domain could form.

• Jiang Yue found the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's blackish-red Bat Wing External Soul Bone and decided to absorb it.
• The Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King's lingering blood aura attacked Jiang Yue's Sea of Spirit, but the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm suppressed it and Living Gold's Life Force cleansed it away.
• Jiang Yue endured repeated cycles of muscle damage and healing until he completed the soul bone absorption and gained a sturdy pair of wings with a mental-type skill and a clone-type skill.
• Jiang Yue left the cave and passed through the white light screen, emerging in a pure white world before waking in withered grass.
• Jiang Yue sensed a faint trace of killing intent around the Unfeeling Sword, but it disappeared without forming Divine Slaughter's Domain.