Chapter Summaries

Jiang Bai visited Jing Hongchen in Mingdu, explained that he had come to train and buy Soul Tools, and accepted Jing Hongchen’s offer to arrange his identity and a place at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. He settled into a dormitory, and Meng Hongchen agreed to take him to see Xuan Ziwen about making a Soul Tool.

• Meng Hongchen asked Jing Hongchen for money to take Jiang Bai shopping, and Jing Hongchen invited Jiang Bai to his office instead.
• Jiang Bai told Jing Hongchen he had come to train and buy Soul Tools, while concealing Du Busi’s presence by saying his guide had gone off work.
• Jing Hongchen offered to complete Jiang Bai’s identity information and let him attend the academy as a special-talent student.
• Jiang Bai asked about Kong Deming and learned that Kong was occupied with a Soul Tool experiment and wanted to meet him later.
• Jing Hongchen gave Jiang Bai his personal token, and Meng Hongchen took him to a luxurious dormitory and delivered his academy uniform.
• Jiang Bai asked Meng Hongchen to introduce him to Xuan Ziwen so he could request a Soul Tool, and she agreed to take him the next day.

Jiang Bai brought Meng Hongchen to meet Xuan Ziwen and asked him to build a motorcycle from a blueprint. Xuan Ziwen saw that its Soul Tool circuits were feasible but questioned how Jiang Bai would solve its energy needs.

• Jiang Bai told the Ice God he had come to draw the Destruction God King into the conflict, and the Ice God agreed to wait until the next day.
• Meng Hongchen took Jiang Bai to Xuan Ziwen's office after inviting him to meet her teacher.
• Jiang Bai recognized the Godly Zhuge Crossbow on Xuan Ziwen's desk and explained that Huo Yuhao was likely the only one who knew how to make it.
• Xuan Ziwen examined Jiang Bai's motorcycle blueprint and pointed out that its energy source was missing.

Jiang Bai visited Xuan Ziwen to commission Soul Tools, and secured his agreement to study an arm-guard blueprint by offering Frost Crystal. Meanwhile, Jing Hongchen planned how to protect Huo Yuhao from trouble over his fight with Wang Shaojie.

• Xuan Ziwen left with an alarm sounding, and Jiang Bai and Meng Hongchen found Huo Yuhao beside three students he had fought after they bullied him.
• Xuan Ziwen promised to finish Jiang Bai's Soul Tool within a month, then agreed to study the arm-guard blueprint after Jiang Bai offered him fifty grams of Frost Crystal.
• Jiang Bai told Huo Yuhao that he had come to make Soul Tools and agreed that those on Douluo Continent were outdated.
• Meng Hongchen reported Huo Yuhao's fight with Wang Shaojie to Jing Hongchen, who told her to hold Wang Shaojie off if Huo Yuhao got into trouble after returning.

Jiang Bai left the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to help Ye Guyi escape the Mundane Alliance and seek a Soul Ring. He introduced her to Du Busi, who agreed to take her away and help her cultivate by hunting Evil Soul Masters, then carried her and Jiang Bai toward the Jingyang Mountain Range.

• Jiang Bai received leave from Jing Hongchen to hunt Soul Beasts and gave Lie Kong an Ice Element Spirit Fragment to study.
• Jiang Bai asked Meng Hongchen to deliver a Newton’s Cradle to Xuan Ziwen, then left the academy.
• Jiang Bai met Ye Guyi at the black market and told her that Du Busi, a Limit Douluo, could help her escape.
• Ye Guyi revealed her Holy Angel Martial Soul, and Jiang Bai explained that it could grow by hunting Evil Soul Masters up to Rank 98.
• Du Busi agreed to take Ye Guyi to hunt Evil Soul Masters and help her obtain her fifth Soul Ring, then carried her and Jiang Bai toward the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Du Busi helped Ye Guyi hunt a suitable Soul Beast in the Jingyang Mountain Range, where they discovered she was being tracked and encountered Evil Soul Masters. Jiang Bai warned Du Busi about the Sun Moon Empire’s two Limit Douluo, but Du Busi teleported away to investigate, and a distant explosion followed.

• Du Busi and Jiang Bai noticed a tracking Soul Tool hidden in Ye Guyi’s clothes, and Jiang Bai disabled the detection tools as Shangguan Wei'er pursued them.
• Du Busi struck Shangguan Wei'er from a distance, then searched for Ye Guyi’s target, a twenty-thousand-year Mutant Silver Wolf King.
• Du Busi knocked out the Silver Wolf King, and Ye Guyi killed it and absorbed its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring while Du Busi found a light-attribute Soul Bone.
• Du Busi sensed nearby Evil Soul Masters, and Jiang Bai warned him that Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao were two Limit Douluo in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi dismissed the warning and teleported away to take a walk, after which a tremendous explosion sounded in the distance.

After Huo Yuhao was badly injured in an explosion, Du Busi and Jiang Bai found him, and Du Busi left him a token before heading with Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi to an Evil Soul Master nest. Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi infiltrated the Xishui Alliance’s mining operation, where ordinary people were being forced to work.

• Ye Guyi absorbed her Soul Ring and advanced to Rank 51 before Du Busi led the group toward the explosion site.
• Ju Zi and Keke found Huo Yuhao wounded, and Du Busi judged that he would recover after a few days of rest.
• Du Busi gave Huo Yuhao a token and left with Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi to attack the Evil Soul Master nest.
• Ye Guyi froze a Soul Elder guarding the nest, and she and Jiang Bai concealed their auras as they entered.
• Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi saw Xishui Alliance overseers forcing ordinary people to mine and whipping a laborer who collapsed.

Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi attacked an illegal Xishui Alliance mine, fighting its Soul Emperor commander and three Soul Kings. They killed the defenders, but a Titled Douluo’s evil aura emerged from the secret passage.

• Jiang Bai and Ye Guyi found the illegal mine and decided to capture its commander without causing a collapse.
• Jiang Bai froze the cramped cavern while Ye Guyi pierced the Soul Emperor’s heart with her Holy Sword.
• Jiang Bai shattered the Soul Emperor’s Bone Mountain attack and defeated the three Soul Kings, even after they fused into a bone wolf.
• Ye Guyi severed the Soul Emperor’s arm, and Jiang Bai stopped him from self-destructing by freezing his heart meridians.
• Ye Guyi killed the Soul Emperor and reached the peak of level fifty-one, while a Titled Douluo’s evil aura emerged from the secret passage.

Du Busi rescued Ye Guyi and Jiang Bai from the Sixth Elder, a Titled Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult, and learned the location of a nearby branch before crippling him. After Ye Guyi killed the Sixth Elder and gained cultivation, the group cleared the cave, divided its rare-metal haul, and prepared to return.

• The Sixth Elder emerged from a hidden passage, threatened Ye Guyi and Jiang Bai, and tried to recruit Ye Guyi into the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Du Busi appeared behind the Sixth Elder, suppressed him, and forced him to reveal the location and defenses of a nearby branch.
• Du Busi crippled the Sixth Elder and handed him to Ye Guyi, who killed him and advanced to rank fifty-three.
• Du Busi, Ye Guyi, and Jiang Bai dealt with the remaining Evil Soul Masters and found the minerals hidden in the cave.
• Du Busi took seventy percent of the rare metals, Jiang Bai took twenty percent, and Ye Guyi took ten percent; Jiang Bai asked Du Busi to take him back.

Jiang Bai returned to the academy with rare metals, while Meng Hongchen used the Hongchen Family Head Token to stop Wang Shaojie from attacking Huo Yuhao. At Xuan Ziwen's laboratory, Jiang Bai saw that his inventions had inspired a new approach to making Soul Tools, and Xuan gave him a Sealed Milk Bottle.

• Meng Hongchen welcomed Jiang Bai back and offered to take him to eat after he gave her rare metals.
• Wang Shaojie and a Royal Inspection Squad surrounded Huo Yuhao, who blasted several Soul Kings away when they tried to arrest him.
• Meng Hongchen showed the Hongchen Family Head Token and ordered Wang Shaojie and his men to leave, and Wang Shaojie's cousin forced him to kneel in submission.
• Meng Hongchen told Jiang Bai that Xuan Ziwen wanted to see him, and they went to the laboratory while she went to report to Jing Hongchen.
• Jiang Bai found that Xuan Ziwen had used the Godly Zhuge Crossbow as inspiration to make a half-finished version based on physical properties rather than relying entirely on soul guidance formations.
• Xuan Ziwen promised Jiang Bai a vehicle soon, said he was still studying the armguard, and gave him a Sealed Milk Bottle.

Jiang Bai brought ice element spirit fragments to Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen for Soul Tool research, then met Kong Deming and revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had two Limit Douluos. He offered a Divine Beast’s skeleton as Divine-rank material, leaving Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen with a powerful incentive to hear his proposal.

• Jiang Bai gave Jing Hongchen and Xuan Ziwen ice element spirit fragments, and Xuan Ziwen bought thirty jin for experiments.
• Jing Hongchen brought Jiang Bai to Kong Deming, who welcomed his gifts of heaven-cold crystal and spirit fragments.
• Jiang Bai asked Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen what they thought of Evil Soul Masters, and they explained that the Sun Moon Empire would tolerate them until the war ended.
• Jiang Bai revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult had two Limit Douluos, shocking Jing Hongchen while Kong Deming remained calm.
• Jiang Bai said the Sun Moon Empire was not strong enough and offered them a Divine Beast’s skeleton made of Divine-rank material.

Jiang Bai told Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen that two Divine Beasts guarded the Douluo Continent and would arrive within a few years, then gave them divine-grade bricks to study. Kong Deming began preparing to hunt the beasts, while Jiang Bai left their future actions to the two Soul Engineers.

• Kong Deming sealed his office after Jiang Bai revealed that genuine Divine Beasts existed, and Jing Hongchen questioned whether Jiang Bai had mistaken them for hundred-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Jiang Bai said the Divine Beasts guarded the Douluo Continent and would intervene if it faced danger, prompting Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen to recognize them as threats to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Jiang Bai gave Kong Deming two blue-white jade bricks, and Kong Deming judged their material comparable to divine-grade metal after finding it a thousand times harder than the Sun Moon Empire's hardest metal.
• Jiang Bai said the Divine Beasts would arrive in one to three years, or he would reveal their location after four years, and Kong Deming ordered Jing Hongchen to help him study the bricks.
• Jing Hongchen asked whether Jiang Bai knew what the Illustrious Virtue Hall was working on, and Jiang Bai denied it.

Jiang Bai received Kong Deming’s token and a frost-domain necklace, then punished Wang Shaojie for confronting him and went to test Xuan Ziwen’s semi-finished motorcycle. Xuan Ziwen’s attempt to refine its energy system unexpectedly worked, leaving the vehicle close to completion.

• Kong Deming gave Jiang Bai a token and the Snow Spirit necklace, which could unfold a powerful frost domain.
• Wang Shaojie ordered Jiang Bai to kneel, but Jiang Bai slapped him down and forced him to cripple one of his own hands by showing the Hongchen Family and Kong tokens.
• Jiang Bai told his unseen guards to keep Wang Shaojie out of his sight at school, then visited Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Jiang Bai the semi-finished Profound Ice No. 1 motorcycle, which could reach Soul Saint speed and had a flight mode.
• While adjusting the Soul Power Amplifier for the motorcycle’s energy system, Xuan Ziwen accidentally used the right ratio, and the device worked without exploding.

Jiang Bai tested the upgraded Mystic Ice car, picked up Meng Hongchen, and headed to watch Huo Yuhao’s Soul Engineer competition. He arrived at the competition grounds and sensed two familiar auras.

• Xuan Ziwen finished modifying Mystic Ice, and Jiang Bai discussed its speed and low production cost with him.
• Jiang Bai drove to Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Jing Hongchen gave him an apology gift from Wang Shaojie’s family and said Meng Hongchen was still packing.
• Jiang Bai picked up Meng Hongchen and drove with her to Huo Yuhao’s competition.
• Jiang Bai arrived at the competition grounds and sensed two familiar auras.

Du Busi watched Huo Yuhao’s matches at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy and spotted talents he wanted to take back to the Body Sect. Huo Yuhao sensed a major event approaching and ended the chapter preparing to wipe out an Evil Soul Master camp.

• Du Busi detected Jiang Bai and watched Huo Yuhao compete, while Huo Yuhao refused Tian Meng’s suggestion to go to the Body Sect because he sensed something big was coming.
• Electrolux told Huo Yuhao to focus on his matches as he and the others prepared for the looming event, and Huo Yuhao crushed his opponent.
• Du Busi and Ye Guyi noticed Ghost Nana’s Evil Soul Master aura, and Du Busi decided he wanted to capture her and have her teach his disciples to use Soul Tools.
• Jiang Bai warned Du Busi not to make major moves against Illustrious Virtue Hall, whose security had tightened, and Du Busi admitted he had been robbing black-market branches.
• Du Busi saw Ji Juechen’s swordsmanship and deep meditation and decided to take him away, while Huo Yuhao gained insight from their match and resolved to wipe out an Evil Soul Master camp that night.

Huo Yuhao and Nana infiltrated a Holy Spirit Cult branch, where Huo Yuhao revealed his power and summoned a Holy Domain. As the battle began, Nana recognized her long-lost parents among the holy knights, while the Soul Douluo faced Huo Yuhao and a mysterious girl with a Holy Angel Martial Soul.

• Nana led Huo Yuhao through a secret passage into the Holy Spirit Cult’s underground branch, where two Holy Spirits sensed an intruder.
• Huo Yuhao froze the two Soul Emperors and blasted them into the Holy Altar, drawing out two Soul Saints and a Soul Douluo.
• A girl in a gold-and-white cloak arrived with a Holy Sword as Huo Yuhao’s eyes turned sacred gray.
• Huo Yuhao invoked the Holy Domain, transforming the evil energy and summoning thirteen holy-light knights from the tortured souls in the altar.
• Nana recognized her parents among the knights, and the Soul Douluo realized the cloaked girl possessed a Holy Angel Martial Soul.
• Huo Yuhao used Demon Cleansing to send the holy knights against the two Soul Saints while he and the girl prepared to face the Soul Douluo.

Du Busi, Jiang Bai, Huo Yuhao, and Ye Guyi confronted a Holy Spirit Cult branch, where Huo Yuhao’s Holy Domain helped Ye Guyi defeat a Soul Douluo. Afterward, Du Busi offered Nana and the other rescued Holy Servants a place in his plans in the Sun Moon Empire.

• Du Busi subdued the Holy Spirit Cult’s Seventh Elder and questioned him about the Sixth Elder’s death.
• Jiang Bai explained to Du Busi that Ye Guyi controlled the holy power in Huo Yuhao’s domain to activate her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Ye Guyi used Angel Judgment to kill the Soul Douluo while Huo Yuhao supported her with the Holy Domain.
• Huo Yuhao stopped Ye Guyi from attacking the Holy Servants, recognizing that they had been forced into serving the Evil Soul Masters.
• Du Busi offered Nana and the other Holy Servants a role in his planned intelligence station, and they agreed to go with him.

A year after the Holy Spirit Cult branch was destroyed, Jiang Bai supplied Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers with Ice Mirrors for their secret God-Slaying-Level Soul Tool project. He warned Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and Ye Yulin that two people would arrive within two years, leaving them to prepare.

• Meng Hongchen asked Jiang Bai why Xuan Ziwen and Jing Hongchen had been absent, while Jiang Bai knew they were secretly researching a God-Slaying-Level Soul Tool.
• Xuan Ziwen summoned Jiang Bai alone, and Jing Hongchen, Kong Deming, and Ye Yulin met him in Xuan Ziwen’s office.
• Kong Deming explained that the project’s weapon barrel burst when it fired and asked Jiang Bai for a material that could reflect its power.
• Jiang Bai provided three Ice Mirrors made with ultimate ice and divine power, and Kong Deming agreed to trade him two Ninth-Level defensive Soul Tools.
• Ye Yulin offered Jiang Bai a Ninth-Level Soul Tool for another Ice Mirror, but he refused and said the mirrors were precious.
• Jiang Bai warned the three elders that two people would come within two years at the latest and urged them to prepare.

Jiang Bai visited Kong Deming’s secret underground laboratory and learned about the Moon-Silver God-Slaying Ray, a God-Slaying Rank Soul Tool designed to kill the two Divine Rank Soul Beasts. Meanwhile, the Holy Spirit Cult tried to uncover Kong Deming’s project, and Jiang Bai’s fathers asked to meet his friend in six months.

• Jing Hongchen masked Jiang Bai’s Martial Soul aura and led him to the underground experimental base with Kong Deming and Xuan Ziwen.
• Kong Deming showed Jiang Bai the Silver-Light God-Slaying Cannon, a God-Slaying Rank Soul Tool powered by the two bricks Jiang Bai had supplied.
• Kong Deming explained that the plan relied on shock bombs to disrupt the beasts’ spatial abilities, giving the cannon a chance to hit them.
• Zhongli Wu asked Xu Tianran about Kong Deming’s secret project, but Xu Tianran said he knew nothing and promised only to ask about it.
• Jiang Bai’s two fathers asked to accompany him to meet his friend in six months, and Jiang Bai protested that they were only ordinary friends.

Fan Yu led Huo Yuhao to meet Wang Dong and his two uncles, Niu Tian and Tai Tan, who tried to force him to Clear Sky Castle. Huo Yuhao resisted, and a battle erupted outside Mingdu as allies intervened and the Sun Moon Empire prepared to act.

• Fan Yu brought Huo Yuhao out of Mingdu to a testing area, where Wang Dong introduced Niu Tian and Tai Tan as his elder uncles.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan pressured Huo Yuhao to visit Clear Sky Castle, but Huo Yuhao sensed their malice and attacked them with the Snow Empress's techniques.
• A dark green figure blocked Niu Tian's punch, and two more figures appeared to help Huo Yuhao escape while holding off the attackers.
• Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen detected the battle and readied the Sun Moon Empire's forces to seize their opportunity, following Jiang Bai's plan.
• Du Busi appeared beside Jiang Bai and handed him the Body Seed, saying he was in deep trouble.

Du Busi fled with Huo Yuhao while the Snow Empress and the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineers fought to stop Niu Tian and Tai Tan. Kong Deming killed both divine beasts, but a golden streak stole their divine rings and Divine Bones, leaving Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao in pursuit.

• Du Busi followed Huo Yuhao’s directions as he carried him away, while the Snow Empress stayed behind to hold off Niu Tian and Tai Tan.
• The Snow Empress froze the space around the two beasts, then escaped and left them to face Kong Deming’s Soul Engineers.
• Kong Deming’s Moon-Silver God-Slaying Ray killed Tai Tan and Niu Tian, and Jing Hongchen ordered the Dissection Soul Engineer Corps to dissect their bodies.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao confronted Kong Deming and demanded the divine rings, but a golden streak seized the rings and Soul Bones before anyone could stop it.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao pursued the golden streak, while Kong Deming declined to chase them.