Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen collected Immortal Herb treasures and essences for the Body Sect, then consumed Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and raised his spiritual power to the level of a Titled Douluo. He prepared to choose a third Soul Ring, but his attention shifted from the Dark Gold Snake Vine to another plant.

• Lu Chen coerced Aromatic Silk Beauty into surrendering its Immortal Pill and gave it to Du Busi to help him advance.
• Lu Chen collected essences from more than a dozen Immortal Herbs and distributed them to the elders for medicinal baths.
• Lu Chen consumed dewdrops from Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, advancing his Purple Demon Eyes to Mustard Seed and his spiritual power to Titled Douluo level.
• Lu Chen asked Du Busi for a recommendation for his third Soul Ring, and Elder Jin Peng pointed out a sixty-thousand-year Dark Gold Snake Vine prepared by the Sect Master.
• Lu Chen noticed another plant beside the Dark Gold Snake Vine and turned his attention to it.

Lu Chen began his Second Awakening with Immortal Herbs and Soul Beast essence, hoping to strengthen his body enough to absorb a nearly hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Dragon Vine. He achieved a Silver Awakening, and his second Soul Ring began gaining years as the transformation continued.

• Lu Chen chose to wait three months for the Dark Gold Dragon Vine to reach one hundred thousand years, believing his Second Awakening could help him endure its Soul Power.
• Du Busi prepared a cauldron of spiritual medicine, Immortal Herbs, and Soul Beast essence blood, and Lu Chen climbed inside to begin his awakening.
• Du Busi, Jin Peng, and Mo Yuan channeled Soul Power into the cauldron as Lu Chen endured the energy tearing through and reforging his body.
• Lu Chen's Body Martial Soul appeared, silver light formed around him, and Du Busi recognized that he had achieved a Silver Awakening.
• Lu Chen's second Soul Ring began increasing in age as the cauldron's medicinal power poured into it, and Du Busi explained that the awakening would take at least half a month.

Lu Chen completed his Second Awakening, gaining a level 30 cultivation, a Soul Saint-level body, and an eighty-thousand-year second Soul Ring. Li Wujiu also completed his awakening and reached level 96, while Lu Chen prepared to cultivate in the Ice and Fire Spring Eye, where he suspected the Dragon Kings had left Soul Bones.

• Lu Chen awakened from the golden cauldron with a greatly strengthened body and Soul Power, reaching level 30 and raising his second Soul Ring's age by fifty thousand years.
• Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone and Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum praised Lu Chen's potential to become a god, while Infernal Delicate Apricot rejected the idea.
• Li Wujiu appeared after his awakening with two hundred-thousand-year Soul Rings and a level 96 cultivation, astonishing the elders.
• Lu Chen told the elders he had completed his Second Awakening and urged them to undergo their own awakenings.
• Guan Yi offered to help Lu Chen cultivate the Innate Secret Art with gravity, but Lu Chen chose to cultivate in the Ice and Fire Spring Eye instead.
• Lu Chen wondered whether the Dragon King remains beneath the lake contained any Soul Bones.

Lu Chen used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to temper his bones with ultimate cold and heat while the Body Sect elders completed their Golden-Tier Second Awakenings. Two months after Lu Chen entered the spring, the elders gathered at its shore, worried that he had not resurfaced.

• Lu Chen consumed small portions of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot essences, then plunged into the spring to temper his bones as Super Recovery rebuilt his shattered body.
• Du Busi guarded eleven elders as they underwent Golden-Tier Second Awakening over the course of a month.
• Jin Peng emerged at level ninety-eight with two additional Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings, while Mo Yuan gained formidable spiritual power and rose to the peak of level ninety-six.
• The Body Sect elders gained strength across the board, leaving the sect powerful enough to contend with the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Aromatic Silk Beauty and Infernal Delicate Apricot feared for Lu Chen, who had remained underwater for two months, and the elders gathered at the shore to await him.

After two months cultivating in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes, Lu Chen completed the first step of Golden Bone by transforming his right palm, then emerged and prepared to pursue a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Dragon Vine for his third Soul Ring. The chapter ended as Elder Li Wujiu presented a black left leg Soul Bone to help him prepare.

• Du Busi reassured the elders that Lu Chen remained safe beneath the lake as Lu Chen endured two months of breaking and reforging his bones.
• Lu Chen gathered the golden essence in his arm into his right palm, completed its transformation into Golden Bone, and decided not to descend farther into the lake.
• Lu Chen surfaced, and Du Busi recognized the power of his Golden Bone as the elders and Immortal Herbs reacted to his progress.
• Lu Chen confirmed that he intended to obtain the hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Dragon Vine as his third Soul Ring.
• Elder Li Wujiu stepped forward and produced a black left leg Soul Bone as Lu Chen prepared to absorb the ring.

Lu Chen received a cache of rare Soul Bones, fused an almost eighty-thousand-year-old one, and challenged the Dark Gold Dragon Vine to become his third Soul Ring. After it attacked him, he and Du Busi subdued it, and Lu Chen’s punch shattered its armor and split the cliff behind it.

• Li Wujiu, Elder White Bone, and Guan Yi presented Lu Chen with eighteen Soul Bones, including several rare high-year bones.
• Lu Chen replaced his forty-thousand-year left leg bone with an almost eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone and felt his Soul Power surge.
• Lu Chen tried to persuade the Dark Gold Dragon Vine to sacrifice itself, but it attacked him with a spiked vine whip.
• Lu Chen caught the whip with his exposed golden bone hand and pulled the Dark Gold Dragon Vine from the cliff, while Du Busi pinned it down with Soul Power.
• Lu Chen unleashed Core Burst—Liberation Punch, shattered the vine’s armor, and split the cliff with the punch’s impact.

Lu Chen absorbed the Dark Gold Dragon Vine’s Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, whose overwhelming power threatened to tear his body apart. He began compressing his Soul Power a second time in an attempt to survive, as his cultivation surged toward level forty.

• Lu Chen awakened the Power Attribute and badly injured the Dark Gold Dragon Vine with his strongest punch.
• Lu Chen destroyed the vine’s core with Void-Splitting Shock, formed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and began absorbing it.
• Lu Chen crushed the vine’s lingering soul in his Sea of Spirit as the Soul Ring’s power drove his cultivation past level thirty-seven.
• Lu Chen’s body began cracking under the excess Soul Power, but he realized his Ultimate Attribute was compressing it into mist.
• Lu Chen forcibly compressed his already transformed Soul Power again, causing his Soul Power pool to undergo a qualitative transformation.

Lu Chen endured a month of violent Soul Power compression and successfully absorbed his third Soul Ring, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. He emerged with liquid Soul Power at Rank 33, while the elders awaited his judgment on the Soul Skill granted by the Dark Gold Dragon Vine.

• Lu Chen compressed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring’s energy until his Soul Power became liquid, while Du Busi and the elders watched over him.
• Du Busi urged the elders to keep strengthening themselves against the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Immortal Herbs were astonished that Lu Chen had survived the absorption.
• After a month of shattering and regeneration, Lu Chen completed the absorption and revealed his first two black Soul Rings and a third red Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Lu Chen explained that compressing his Soul Power into liquid form left him at Rank 33 but made his Soul Power several times denser than that of an ordinary Soul Master at his level.
• Jin Peng asked Lu Chen whether the Dark Gold Dragon Vine had granted him a suitable enhancement-type Soul Skill.

Lu Chen revealed the two Soul Skills granted by his Hundred-Thousand-Year Dark Gold Dragon Vine Soul Ring, then absorbed its Right Arm Soul Bone and demonstrated two powerful Soul Bone Skills. With his new abilities tested and his strength increased, he prepared to leave the area and return to the Outer Sect.

• Lu Chen demonstrated [Dark Gold Power], which increased his strength fivefold, and [Dark Gold Battle Body], which let him reshape and extend his body while boosting its toughness.
• Jin Peng suggested cultivating Dark Gold Dragon Vines for the Body Sect, and Li Wujiu extracted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Right Arm Soul Bone from the vine remains.
• Lu Chen cut off his right arm and its existing Soul Bones, regenerated the limb, and absorbed the Dark Gold Dragon Vine Soul Bone, raising his Soul Power from level thirty-two to level thirty-five.
• Lu Chen revealed [Dark Gold Demon Armor], which deflected Du Busi's probing attack and absorbed Soul Power, then formed the [Dragon Vine Annihilation Spear].
• Lu Chen hurled the spear through a cliff and several hills, then combined its power with [Dark Gold Battle Body] as the elders praised his strength.
• Du Busi told Lu Chen it was time to leave, and Luo Wei reassured him that the Outer Sect was running smoothly under Elder Han Yue and the stewards.

The Body Sect held its first public Outer Sect recruitment, drawing commoner youths and noble applicants with its open, free admission policy. When nobles mocked a low-talent candidate, Luo Feng arrived with a force of guards and silenced the plaza.

• The immortal herbs feared that the human who had left would return, and hoped their lord would notice their danger.
• The Body Sect opened its Outer Sect recruitment to applicants under fifteen, regardless of background, Martial Soul, or ability to pay.
• Lin Guangjie endured contempt from Lei Ming and other nobles and resolved that he would enter the Body Sect.
• Shi Zhentian told Du Busi and his daughter that the young sect master had driven the Body Sect to open its gates.
• Wu Linfeng tested at level fifteen with a white Soul Ring and an Ice Silkworm Martial Soul, prompting nobles to ridicule him.
• Luo Feng arrived with armed guards, shouted for silence, and revealed seven Soul Rings, including a dark-red seventh ring.

Luo Feng returned to the Body Sect’s Outer Sect enrollment and defended its recruits from nobles who mocked them. After a dispute escalated with the Frost Wolf Count, an unseen attacker killed the count with a dark golden spear, leaving the square in stunned silence.

• Luo Feng returned from the border, threatened to expel anyone who disrupted the assessment, and silenced the mocking noble youths.
• Xue Ling'er accepted Wu Linfeng into the Soul Engineering Department, and Wu Linfeng eagerly agreed to become a Soul Engineer.
• Luo Feng seized a noble youth who insulted the Body Sect, prompting the Frost Wolf Count to intervene and invoke his imperial status.
• Lang Ya arrived with other Body Sect Soul Douluos and rebuked the count, who apologized and asked Luo Feng to release his son.
• A mysterious attacker immobilized the Frost Wolf Count with overwhelming spiritual force and killed him by driving a dark golden spear through his chest into the square's metal wall.

Lu Chen returned with Du Busi and the Body Sect elders, revealing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his third ring. After killing Frost Wolf Count’s son, he laid down the Outer Sect’s rules and urged the youths to join without regard to status or background.

• Du Busi and the elders returned to the sect, and Du Busi left Lu Chen in charge of the Outer Sect before going into seclusion.
• Lu Chen confronted and killed Frost Wolf Count’s son, impaling him beside his father’s corpse.
• Lu Chen told the recruits that character, perseverance, and conduct mattered more than family background, Martial Soul, or Soul Rings.
• Lu Chen warned that nobles who bullied fellow disciples would face the Body Sect, prompting some noble youths to leave and commoner youths to cheer.
• Xiaoxiao told her father she wanted to join the Body Sect, but he said he would send her to Shrek in two years.

Xiaoxiao arrived at the Body Sect’s recruitment with her father, Xiao Ding, and revealed that she possessed Twin Martial Souls. Lu Chen recognized her exceptional potential and welcomed her assessment, but her Soul Power measured only level thirteen because she had neglected cultivation.

• Shi Zhentian persuaded Xiao Ding and Xiaoxiao that the Body Sect would suit her, and Xiaoxiao eagerly agreed to join.
• Lu Chen continued the recruitment assessment and awarded a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from a count as the prize for an Outer Sect Soul Fighting Tournament.
• Xiao Ding introduced his daughter Xiaoxiao to Lu Chen, and Lu Chen asked her to join the assessment line rather than make an exception.
• Xiaoxiao revealed the Three-Life Soul-Calming Cauldron and the Nine-Phoenix Ceremonial Flute, astonishing the crowd with her Twin Martial Souls.
• The testing device showed that Xiaoxiao had only level thirteen Soul Power at age eight, and Xiao Ding explained that she had refused to cultivate because she loved playing.

Lu Chen returned from his journey and reunited with the Body Sect’s companions, who learned of his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and his killing of a Soul Douluo. He revealed that he had brought Immortal Herb essences to strengthen their bodies and powers, and explained how several were suited to specific companions.

• Xiaoxiao joined the Body Sect, and the first day of its three-day Outer Sect recruitment ended.
• Tang Ya, Xue Ling'er, and Luo Feng asked Lu Chen about his journey as the group left the recruitment grounds.
• At Lu Chen’s house, Bei Yuxuan and Shi Potian bickered before Long Aotian asked whether Lu Chen had a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and had killed a Soul Douluo with one spear.
• Lu Chen produced Immortal Herbs and essences and explained their effects, identifying the Dew of Gazing Through Autumn for spiritual power and Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum essence for physical strength.
• Lu Chen told Meiying that Aromatic Silk Beauty could evolve her Spectral Shadow Cat into a Netherworld Cat and let her use Void without burning her life force.

Lu Chen gave Immortal Herb Essences to his companions and absorbed several himself, helping the group strengthen their bodies, evolve Martial Souls, and rapidly raise their Soul Power. The chapter ended with Lu Chen reaching level 39, close to becoming a Soul Ancestor.

• Lu Chen assigned Immortal Herb Essences to his trusted companions and explained how the herbs could transform their constitutions and boost cultivation.
• The companions accepted Lu Chen’s gifts and began absorbing the essences while Lu Chen cultivated with an Eight-Petal Orchid and other herbs.
• Meiying evolved her Spectral Shadow Cat into a Netherworld Cat, while the others underwent physical and Martial Soul changes as their Soul Power rose.
• Xue Ling’er reached level 40, Bei Yuxuan, Shi Potian, and Long Aotian became Soul Ancestors, Vina reached level 30, and Luo Feng and Tang Ya also advanced.
• Meiying’s Soul Power settled at level 40, and Lu Chen broke through to level 39, just short of Soul Ancestor.

Lu Chen tested Meiying’s evolved void ability and learned that mental attacks could disrupt it, while Xue Ling’er revealed her greatly expanded detection range and the Soul Engineering Department’s new recruits. The group prepared to strengthen the Body Sect’s Outer Sect and await Du Busi’s return from seclusion, while the chapter shifted to a meeting in Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion.

• Lu Chen asked about everyone’s progress, and Meiying demonstrated her evolved Martial Soul’s ability to become untouchable while still grabbing Tang Ya.
• Lu Chen used Purple Demon Eyes and Soul Shock to briefly disrupt Meiying’s void ability, revealing that it was vulnerable to mental attacks.
• Xue Ling’er said her Mental Detection reached three kilometers in radius and seven kilometers in a focused line, and reported that Viper had recruited three Level Seven and five Level Six Soul Engineers.
• Lu Chen told the group to stabilize their Soul Power and wait for his master to emerge from seclusion before they went to obtain Soul Rings.
• Long Aotian celebrated Du Busi’s attempt to break through to Limit Douluo, and the scene shifted to Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion, where several elders were meeting.

At a Sea God Pavilion meeting, Shrek's leaders learned that the Body Sect was attracting applicants by opening an Outer Sect and that its young sect master, Lu Chen, had extraordinary power. The chapter ended with news that Lu Chen had killed a Soul Douluo with one strike and possessed a hundred-thousand-year third Soul Ring, leaving Mu En and the elders stunned.

• Qian Duoduo reported that high-quality applicants had fallen by nearly twenty percent, and the elders linked the losses to the Body Sect's new Outer Sect.
• Yan Shaozhe told the elders that Lu Chen had absorbed a Ten-Thousand-Year first Soul Ring, killed a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast as a Soul Scholar, and removed Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire.
• Mu En confirmed Yan Shaozhe's account, and the elders worried that Lu Chen's talent could threaten Shrek and alter the balance of power.
• An admissions teacher reported that Lu Chen had killed Frost Wolf Count, a Soul Douluo, with a single strike during the Body Sect's public admissions ceremony.
• The teacher revealed that Lu Chen had two black Soul Rings and a red hundred-thousand-year third Soul Ring, and Mu En reacted with grave shock.

Shrek's elders discussed Lu Chen's rise and agreed to strengthen the academy's Soul Engineering Department as the continent faced growing turmoil. At the Body Sect's research institute, Lu Chen arrived as three Soul Engineers argued over whether to dismantle a valuable eighth-level core, and Qin Ming called for Xue Ling'er's help.

• Mu En warned Shrek's elders that Lu Chen's influence and the Body Sect's embrace of Soul Tools signaled a major upheaval.
• Xuan Zi dismissed Lu Chen as a threat, but Mu En argued that his ability to change the Body Sect's thinking was more significant than his strength.
• Mu En ordered the academy to prioritize its Soul Engineering Department, while Qian Duoduo reported that rare-ore smuggling routes had been cut off.
• Mu En told Qian Duoduo to establish new supply channels through the Heavenly Soul imperial family and investigate the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xue Ling'er showed Lu Chen and Bei Yuxuan the Body Sect's fortified Soul Engineering Research Institute, where Li Yan and Qin Ming argued over an eighth-level core.
• Qin Ming saw Xue Ling'er arrive and asked her to help him replicate the core formation.

Lu Chen apologized to the three Soul Engineers and offered them a Level Eight Soul Tool Core to study, while Xue Ling'er demonstrated how her newly strengthened Mental Domain could reveal its intricate formation. Qin Ming began analyzing the core with her guidance, giving him hope of reaching Level Eight and the Body Sect a path toward producing advanced Soul Tools.

• Lu Chen greeted Qin Ming, Li Yan, and Zhao Shen, apologized for bringing them to the Body Sect by force, and promised resources in return for their teaching Xue Ling'er.
• Qin Ming, Li Yan, and Zhao Shen said they valued their work at the sect and praised how Xue Ling'er's Mental Detection Sharing helped their Soul Tool research.
• Lu Chen gave Qin Ming permission to study a Level Eight Soul Tool Core and told Xue Ling'er to assist him.
• Xue Ling'er activated Mental Domain, revealing spiritual power at Soul Saint level and making the core's tiny formation channels and flaws visible to everyone in the shared domain.
• Xue Ling'er pointed out redundant nodes in the formation, and Qin Ming began carving with renewed confidence that he could reach Level Eight.

Qin Ming used Xue Ling'er’s Mental Domain and Lu Chen’s support to replicate a Level-Eight Soul Tool core, reaching Pseudo-Level Eight. The core appeared to belong to an Ultra-High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool, and Lu Chen ended the chapter by asking whether the Sun Moon Empire also had guidance-type Soul Tools.

• Qin Ming successfully replicated the Soul Tool core with Xue Ling'er’s microscopic assistance, while Lu Chen replenished her Soul Power.
• Xue Ling'er collapsed from exhaustion, and Lu Chen caught and steadied her as she blushed and recovered.
• Qin Ming admitted he had reached only Pseudo-Level Eight and identified the core as likely belonging to an Ultra-High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool, though he lacked the blueprints to complete it.
• Zhao Shen explained that the detectors could secretly observe armies from above three thousand meters, alarming Bei Yuxuan and Xue Ling'er.
• Lu Chen explained the detectors’ limits and asked Qin Ming whether the Sun Moon Empire had guidance-type Soul Tools.