Chapter Summaries

Yan Jingchuan and Jing Hongchen tested his forging theories with Xiao Hongchen, drawing Kong Deming into the project and earning Yan Jingchuan and Xiao Hongchen places as his disciples. On his way home, Yan Jingchuan was surrounded by masked Evil Soul Masters and suspected they were envoys of the Holy Spirit Cult.

• Xiao Hongchen used his Three-Legged Golden Toad Martial Soul to produce Hundred Forged and Thousand Forged metal, and Jing Hongchen saw its potential for Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen brought Kong Deming and Ye Yulin to the Mingde Hall, where Yan Jingchuan explained his ideas for mechas and Battle Armor.
• Kong Deming accepted Yan Jingchuan and Xiao Hongchen as his disciples.
• Yan Jingchuan checked that Meng Hongchen had entered seclusion to absorb the Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Ice Marrow, then headed home.
• A group of black-robed figures surrounded Yan Jingchuan, who recognized their sinister aura as that of Evil Soul Masters and suspected they belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult.

Yan Jingchuan fought off a Holy Spirit Cult-linked attack at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy and ordered the survivors to summon Nangong Wan. After the attack triggered a purge and political uproar, Xu Tianran arrived to inspect the academy, and Yan Jingchuan encountered him while trying to avoid the visit.

• Yan Jingchuan used his Dark Sacred Dragon and Hell Demon Puppet martial souls to defeat most of the attacking Evil Soul Masters, then told a survivor to summon Nangong Wan.
• Yan Jingchuan pretended to be exhausted when academy teachers arrived, and Jing Hongchen ordered a purge after learning the academy had been infiltrated again.
• Kong Deming reprimanded Jing Hongchen, and the attack sparked uproar in the academy and the Sun Moon Empire's imperial court.
• After Xiao Hongchen told him Xu Tianran was coming to inspect the academy, Yan Jingchuan planned to feign illness and wait for the Holy Spirit Cult's response.
• Yan Jingchuan asked Xuan Ziwen for leave, then met Xu Tianran, who greeted him by name.

Xu Tianran tried to recruit Yan Jingchuan and learn about his soul-tool theories, but Yan revealed nothing. Near dawn, Zhongli Wu, leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, appeared in Yan’s dormitory and demanded that he release his second martial soul.

• Xu Tianran, accompanied by Xue Chen and Orange, apologized to Yan Jingchuan and tried to recruit him, but Yan invoked Kong Deming’s backing and stayed guarded.
• Xu Tianran probed Yan about his theories during a tour of the academy, but Yan played dumb and gave him no useful answers.
• Xu Tianran left Yan with rewards and asked Orange to build a relationship with him.
• Yan Jingchuan cultivated through the night, unaware that a stranger had entered his dormitory.
• The stranger suppressed Yan’s soul power and destroyed his defensive soul tools before identifying himself as Zhongli Wu, leader of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Zhongli Wu asked Yan Jingchuan to release his second martial soul.

Yan Jingchuan accepted Zhongli Wu’s offer to become the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son, intending to use the cult’s power while secretly planning to destroy it once he was strong enough. After a month and a half passed, Meng Hongchen emerged from seclusion having reached the level-forty bottleneck.

• Zhongli Wu saw Yan Jingchuan’s Hell Demon Puppet martial soul, puzzled over his unusual inheritance, and invited him to join the Holy Spirit Cult as its Holy Son.
• Yan Jingchuan accepted the appointment while secretly resolving to exploit the cult’s strength and eventually eradicate its evil members.
• Zhongli Wu explained the cult’s hierarchy and its plan to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire, including its decision to abandon the Third Prince and cooperate with Xu Tianran.
• Zhongli Wu left after telling Yan Jingchuan to contact Nangong Wan and visit the cult’s headquarters when convenient.
• A month and a half later, Meng Hongchen emerged from nearly two months of secluded cultivation at the level-forty bottleneck after refining some Ten-Thousand-Year Dark Ice Marrow.

Yan Jingchuan prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek Life Gold and help Meng Hongchen find a soul ring, while Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan joined the group after pursuing them. Near the Ming Dou Mountains, they heard fighting between Sun Moon and Star Luo forces and went to investigate, where a tiger's roar suddenly sounded.

• Yan Jingchuan showed Kong Deming his Dragon Halberd blueprint and said he planned to seek high-grade whale gelatin after visiting the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yan Jingchuan secretly arranged for the Nether Lightning Douluo and the Nether Douluo to accompany the expedition alongside Zheng Zhan and Ye Yulin.
• When the academy went on break, Xiao Hongchen celebrated their departure, and Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan pursued Yan Jingchuan's group until they agreed to travel together.
• Near the Ming Dou Mountains, Ye Yulin explained that the fighting was likely another clash between the Sun Moon Soul Engineer Legion and Star Luo's White Tiger Legion.
• Yan Jingchuan decided to investigate the fighting, and a resounding tiger's roar rang out before they reached the scene.

Yan Jingchuan and the others secretly observed a confrontation in the Ming Dou Mountains between Dai Hao’s White Tiger Legion and Wang Yiheng’s Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion. Wang Yiheng demanded that Dai Hao surrender the soldiers who had crossed into Sun Moon Empire territory, and the chapter ended as their dispute threatened to become a fight.

• A Titled Douluo’s tiger roar led Yan Jingchuan to suspect that Dai Hao was confronting another Titled Douluo in the Ming Dou Mountains.
• Ye Yulin used the improved Sun Moon Divine Needle to conceal the group’s presence as they approached the battlefield.
• Yan Jingchuan identified Dai Hao, while Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan recognized Wang Yiheng as commander of the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Legion.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen explained the Sun Moon Empire’s elite soul engineer legions and their equipment advantage over the White Tiger Legion.
• Wang Yiheng accused Dai Hao’s soldiers of crossing the border and demanded that Dai Hao hand them over.
• Dai Hao refused, and Wang Yiheng summoned his mad bull phantom as the confrontation escalated.

Wang Yiheng confronted Dai Hao and the Shrek Inspection Corps, while Yan Jingchuan questioned Shrek’s claim to neutrality. The arrival of Xuan Zi turned the confrontation into a clash with Yan Jingchuan and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces.

• Wang Yiheng advanced on Dai Hao, who used three soul skills before fleeing, until Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming appeared and identified themselves as members of Shrek’s Inspection Corps.
• Wang Yiheng suppressed Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming with his soul pressure, while Zhang Lexuan apologized and asked to leave; Yan Jingchuan ordered Ye Yulin to ready the Sun Moon Divine Needle after Wu Ming invoked Xuan Zi.
• Xuan Zi arrived and attacked Wang Yiheng after Han Ruoruo accused him of bullying them, but Ye Yulin aimed the Sun Moon Divine Needle at Xuan Zi and forced him to look upward.
• Xuan Zi discovered Yan Jingchuan and charged at him, but Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan stepped forward to block his attack.
• Yan Jingchuan greeted Xuan Zi and the three Shrek women as old acquaintances.

Yan Jingchuan and the Sun Moon Empire’s forces confronted Xuan Zi after he attacked them and demanded Yan return to Shrek. When Xuan Zi refused to back down, Ye Yulin fired the Sun Moon Divine Needle, devastating the White Tiger Legion’s encampment and leaving Xuan Zi badly wounded.

• Xuan Zi attacked Wang Yiheng, while Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan held back and Wang Yiheng’s forces prepared to retaliate.
• Zheng Zhan stopped Wang Yiheng’s legion from attacking, and Zhang Lexuan restrained Xuan Zi after invoking Mu En’s name.
• Zhang Lexuan pleaded with Yan Jingchuan to return to Shrek, but he refused and confirmed that Xuan Zi meant to offend the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Jingchuan ordered Ye Yulin to use the Sun Moon Divine Needle, whose golden beam blasted a crater nearly thirty li wide into the White Tiger Legion’s position.
• Yan Jingchuan and the others found Xuan Zi alive but badly wounded, while Dai Hao lay nearby with one arm and one leg blown off.

Yan Jingchuan refused to kill the badly wounded Xuan Zi, then had Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan beat him before letting him escape. After turning to negotiate with Wang Yiheng, Yan Jingchuan met the Nether Lightning Douluo and the Nether Douluo, who brought him the critically injured Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming.

• Yan Jingchuan stopped Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan from killing Xuan Zi, citing Mu En's threat and the risk of starting a war with Shrek.
• Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan subdued Xuan Zi while Yan Jingchuan took his storage soul tool and claimed its five soul bones.
• Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan deliberately allowed the battered Xuan Zi to escape, and Yan Jingchuan ordered them to bring Dai Hao to speak with Wang Yiheng.
• The Nether Lightning Douluo and the Nether Douluo appeared near the Ming Dou Mountains and presented Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming.
• Yan Jingchuan found Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming near death and Zhang Lexuan barely alive, with half her body destroyed and her martial soul shattered.

After the battle in the Ming Dou Mountains, Yan Jingchuan ordered Zhang Lexuan and her companions kept alive, then settled matters with the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineer commanders. Four days later, his group reached the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Yan Jingchuan ordered Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming sent to Zhongli Wu for treatment, hoping Zhang Lexuan could be turned into a Blood Moon Holy Maiden.
• Yan Jingchuan reassured Ye Yulin that he would not act against the Sun Moon Empire and would reveal more when the time was right.
• Yan Jingchuan apologized to Wang Yiheng, and Wang explained that the White Tiger Legion had crossed the border under the pretext of hunting Evil Soul Masters.
• Meng Hongchen worried that the White Tiger Legion’s defeat could lead to war, but Wang Yiheng and Yan Jingchuan expected the weakened Star Luo Empire to avoid fighting.
• Yan Jingchuan and the others left the Ming Dou Mountains, crossed the Star Luo Empire, and arrived at the Star Dou Great Forest on the fourth day.

Yan Jingchuan slipped away from Ye Yulin’s group in Star Dou Great Forest to pursue a Golden Tortoiseshell, a rare soul beast he needed to find. As Nether Lightning Douluo and Nether Douluo accompanied him, they revealed that Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng was on his way to join them.

• Ye Yulin and Zheng Zhan led the group through Star Dou Great Forest while warning everyone to stay away from its core region.
• Yan Jingchuan persuaded Ji Juechen to help conceal his departure, offering to spar with him in exchange for covering his tracks.
• Ji Juechen activated Yan Jingchuan’s Substitute Soul Tool, allowing Yan Jingchuan to vanish and leave the group undetected.
• Yan Jingchuan met up with Nether Lightning Douluo and Nether Douluo and asked how many more helpers the sect could summon.
• Nether Douluo said Sixth Consecrator Zhang Peng was coming at the Supreme Consecrator’s request, and Yan Jingchuan handed both Douluos several ninth-level Soul Tools.
• A dark, vicious aura approached the three as they continued toward the Golden Tortoiseshell’s habitat.

Yan Jingchuan used his possible family connection to the Grand Consecrator to win Zhang Peng’s support, then led him and the others into the Star Dou Great Forest to search for Life Gold. The group found the Golden Tortoiseshell clan’s lakeside gathering place and identified their weakened target, but many powerful soul beasts guarded it.

• Zhang Peng arrived under orders to take Yan Jingchuan to the Grand Consecrator, but Yan Jingchuan insisted that the Sixth Consecrator help him first.
• After Yan Jingchuan called the Grand Consecrator his great-grandfather, Zhang Peng feared he had offended a powerful relative and pledged to serve him.
• Yan Jingchuan gained Zhang Peng’s support, and the four traveled toward the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The group searched through the night and found more than a dozen Golden Tortoiseshells gathered around a secluded lake.
• Yan Jingchuan identified a weak Golden Tortoiseshell bearing pale-green markings as his target, but saw that numerous ten-thousand-year soul beasts guarded the clan.

Yan Jingchuan’s plan let the Holy Spirit Cult elders capture the Golden Tortoiseshell while its protectors were distracted. As they fled the Star Dou Great Forest, Yan Jingchuan killed it and revealed that it was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, taking its Soul Bone and Life Gold.

• Yan Jingchuan explained his strategy to Zhang Peng, Ming Lei, and Youming, who prepared to seize the Golden Tortoiseshell.
• Zhang Peng summoned his Martial Soul Avatar and Twelve Beast Envoys to hold back the powerful Soul Beasts while Ming Lei attacked a Golden Tortoiseshell as bait.
• The Nether Lightning Douluo struck the Golden Tortoiseshell containing Life Gold and captured it as the Soul Beasts struggled to protect it.
• Yan Jingchuan dropped a Shrek Academy badge, used Dark Condensing Soul Devourer to cover the group’s escape, and ordered Ming Lei to kill the captured beast.
• Yan Jingchuan killed the Golden Tortoiseshell and removed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Bone and Life Gold after a red Soul Ring revealed its true age.

After the Sun Moon Empire group discovered Yan Jingchuan had secretly left, they learned he planned to return on his own while Di Tian investigated the death of a Golden Tortoiseshell. The discovery that the beast had been a hundred-thousand-year soul beast led Di Tian to identify Shrek as responsible and vow vengeance.

• Zheng Zhan berated Ji Juechen after Ye Yulin discovered that Yan Jingchuan had left the group using a Substitute Soul Tool.
• Meng Hongchen finished absorbing her fourth Soul Ring, reached Soul Power Level forty-four, and learned Yan Jingchuan was missing.
• Ji Juechen revealed that Yan Jingchuan had kept the Tracking Communication Soul Tool on and planned to find his way back.
• Myriad Demon King told Di Tian and Bi Ji that humans had captured and killed a Golden Tortoiseshell, prompting Di Tian to order humans in the core area killed.
• Myriad Demon King discovered the Golden Tortoiseshell's corpse and revealed it had been a hundred-thousand-year soul beast, not a thirty-thousand-year one.
• Di Tian examined a Shrek badge found near the corpse, crushed it, and declared Shrek's name with murderous intent.

Yan Jingchuan escaped the Star Dou Great Forest with the Sun Moon Empire group and revealed that he had killed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Tortoiseshell, then gave its trunk bone to Xiao Hongchen. After Xiao absorbed it, Yan Jingchuan traveled to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters, where the cult leader welcomed him as their long-awaited Holy Son.

• Yan Jingchuan hurried everyone out of the Star Dou Great Forest, and they later learned the beast riot had been limited to the core area.
• In Star Luo City, Yan Jingchuan told Zheng Zhan and Ye Yulin that he had killed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Golden Tortoiseshell and proved it by showing its Soul Bone.
• Yan Jingchuan gave the Golden Tortoiseshell Trunk Bone to Xiao Hongchen, who absorbed it and broke through to Rank 40.
• The group returned to Bright City without Yan Jingchuan, who went with Zhang Peng and the others to the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters in Evil Forest.
• Zhongli Wu welcomed Yan Jingchuan before the cult’s gathered leaders and called him the Holy Son they had long awaited.

Yan Jingchuan demonstrated his exceptional cultivation and twin martial souls to the Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders, then met his great-grandparents, Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui. The reunion ended with Ye Xishui confessing her guilt and Long Xiaoyao saying he did not blame her.

• Yan Jingchuan revealed his Dark Sacred Dragon martial soul, Level 27 cultivation, and thousand-year second soul ring, astonishing the Holy Spirit Cult’s elders and enshrined guardians.
• Yan Jingchuan unveiled his Hell Demon Puppet twin martial soul, winning the leaders’ recognition as the Holy Son.
• Zhongli Wu and Zhang Peng took Yan Jingchuan to meet Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao in a secret room.
• Long Xiaoyao embraced Yan Jingchuan after he called him great-grandfather, and Ye Xishui wept when Yan Jingchuan acknowledged her as his great-grandmother.
• Ye Xishui admitted that she had deceived and wronged Long Xiaoyao, who said he did not blame her.

Yan Jingchuan listened as Ye Xishui recounted a distorted version of her past with Long Xiaoyao, then received a hundred-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon Head Soul Bone as a gift. He entered seclusion to absorb Life Gold first, but its life force surged uncontrollably into his body, leaving him on the verge of bursting.

• Ye Xishui portrayed herself as a victim while explaining her past to Long Xiaoyao, and Yan Jingchuan stayed silent because he feared no one would believe him.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui decided not to bring Yan Shaozhe back from Shrek and agreed that Yan Jingchuan belonged with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Long Xiaoyao asked about the hundred-thousand-year Golden Tortoiseshell and its Soul Bone, and Yan Jingchuan said he had given the Soul Bone to Xiao Hongchen.
• Ye Xishui gave Yan Jingchuan a hundred-thousand-year Fear Demon Dragon Head Soul Bone, and Long Xiaoyao sent him to absorb it in a quiet chamber.
• Yan Jingchuan chose to absorb Life Gold before the Soul Bone, but the Life Gold flooded into his body and made him swell as if he would burst.

Yan Jingchuan survived absorbing the Life Gold, which evolved the Hell Demon Puppet and awakened its Life-and-Deathless Domain. After absorbing a Fear Demon Dragon Head Soul Bone and breaking through to level thirty, he emerged to Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui’s praise.

• Yan Jingchuan used the Hell Demon Puppet to extract excess life force from his body and survived the Life Gold’s dangerous absorption.
• Yan Jingchuan discovered that the Hell Demon Puppet had evolved, grown incomplete blood-red wings, and awakened the Life-and-Deathless Domain, which weakened enemies, strengthened him, and drained life force.
• Yan Jingchuan absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Fear Demon Dragon Head Soul Bone, gaining two levels, Titled Douluo-level spiritual power, and the skills Fearful Gaze and Shadow of Fear.
• Yan Jingchuan planned to test his new fear-infused combination against Ji Juechen, then cultivated until he broke through the level-thirty bottleneck.
• Yan Jingchuan left the quiet room after four hours, and Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui praised his achievement at age six.

Yan Jingchuan asked Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao to help him obtain a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his third ring, and they agreed after discovering his extraordinary physical strength and spiritual power. As they left the Holy Spirit Cult, Yan Jingchuan spotted Yan Feng and formed a plan involving Shrek.

• Yan Jingchuan declared that he wanted a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for his third ring, and Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao tested his strength and spiritual power.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao found that Yan Jingchuan had a body near Soul Emperor level and Titled Douluo-level spiritual power, then agreed to help him choose a soul beast.
• Ye Xishui told Zhongli Wu to oversee the Holy Spirit Cult while she and Long Xiaoyao took Yan Jingchuan to obtain a soul ring.
• Long Xiaoyao told Zhongli Wu that Yan Jingchuan would cultivate under him and Ye Xishui, leaving Zhongli Wu confused.
• Yan Jingchuan noticed Yan Feng meditating beside the council hall and began devising a plan to scheme against Shrek.

Yan Jingchuan traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest with Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, gained a ten-thousand-year soul ring, and planned to develop his Demon Puppet Martial Soul for spiritual control. The chapter left him seeking Ye Xishui’s advice on how to use that power to control Yan Feng and infiltrate Shrek.

• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui took Yan Jingchuan to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable dragon-type soul beast.
• On the journey, Yan Jingchuan considered using Yan Feng’s Bone Dragon Martial Soul to get him into Shrek and undermine the academy’s reputation.
• Long Xiaoyao subdued a roughly sixteen-thousand-year-old Bloodraged Earth Dragon, and Yan Jingchuan absorbed its soul ring.
• Yan Jingchuan gained Dragon Shadow Devour, an instant offensive skill that formed a Dark Sacred Dragon and could devour other soul skills to grow stronger.
• Yan Jingchuan asked Ye Xishui which soul beasts could give his Hell Demon Puppet spiritual control skills, revealing his plan to control Yan Feng himself.