Recaps

Ye Chenxing saved Xiao Hongchen from a Golden Tiger with a precise fire attack, prompting Meng Hongchen to wonder if he had used a Self-Created Soul Skill. He explained that the strike was a simple application of energy and demonstrated his control over flame.

• Xiao Hongchen's barrage weakened the two Golden Tigers, but one of them suddenly attacked him with a golden projectile and leapt at him.
• Ye Chenxing shot a thin beam of fire through the attacking Golden Tiger's mouth and skull, saving Xiao Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen recognized that Ye Chenxing's Ultimate Fire had overwhelmed the metal-attributed beast and suspected he had used a Self-Created Soul Skill.
• Jing Hongchen reprimanded Xiao Hongchen for getting distracted in battle, while Meng Hongchen asked Ye Chenxing how he had made the attack without using a soul skill.
• Ye Chenxing explained that he had compressed and accelerated flame, then shaped a small fireball into a spinning top to demonstrate his control.

Ye Chenxing explained his precise control of fire and argued that Soul Masters should use soul rings to strengthen their attributes rather than duplicate attacks their Martial Souls could already perform. Xiao Hongchen realized that, as a Soul Engineer, he could rely on Soul Tools for damage and use his soul skills to cover his weaknesses.

• Xiao Hongchen asked how Ye Chenxing controlled fire so precisely without a soul skill, and Ye Chenxing attributed it to his unusual spiritual power.
• Xiao Hongchen struggled with his shaken confidence after realizing Ye Chenxing's finger strike could have killed an opponent before they could react.
• Ye Chenxing explained that his first soul ring enhanced his Soul Power and physical strength, then argued that soul skills should reinforce attributes rather than provide attacks.
• Xiao Hongchen objected that ordinary Soul Masters needed attack skills, but Meng Hongchen reminded him that they were Soul Engineers.
• Xiao Hongchen realized he could use Soul Tools for damage and reserve soul skills for strengthening Metal Control, survival, and close-combat weaknesses, then thanked Ye Chenxing.

Jing Hongchen was impressed by Ye Chenxing’s Martial Soul knowledge as the group traveled deeper into the Jingyang Mountain Range. When Meng Hongchen’s poison failed to affect Ye Chenxing during a clash with an eight-thousand-year Gold-Eating Rat King, he prepared a powerful flaming attack.

• Jing Hongchen watched Ye Chenxing explain Martial Soul theory and judged his insight exceptional, though he still wondered whether Ye Chenxing had talent for Soul Tools.
• The group searched the two Gold Tiger corpses, let Xiao Hongchen recover his Soul Power, and continued deeper into the mountains.
• At camp, Xiao Hongchen failed to cook dinner, so Ye Chenxing took over and prepared the meal.
• Near the fifth peak, Meng Hongchen released her poison against a swarm led by an eight-thousand-year Gold-Eating Rat King, killing many of the rats.
• Ye Chenxing walked unharmed through Meng Hongchen’s poisonous mist and formed a compressed golden-red flaming arrow aimed at the Rat King.

Ye Chenxing fought two ten-thousand-year wolf kings with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, aiming to claim the Silvermoon Wolf King as his second soul ring. After badly wounding it, he faced the enraged Golden Wolf King and unleashed a mysterious solar attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Chenxing killed the Gold-Eating Rat King with Ultimate Fire, and Meng Hongchen rejoiced that his poison resistance would let them fight as teammates.
• A ten-thousand-year Golden Wolf King and its Silvermoon Wolf King mate emerged, and Ye Chenxing chose to fight for the Silvermoon Wolf King's soul ring.
• Meng Hongchen used Ice Reflection to evade the Golden Wolf King's attacks while Xiao Hongchen pulled back to prepare a decisive strike.
• Ye Chenxing rushed the Silvermoon Wolf King, stripped away its defenses with Deprivation of Fate, and wounded it with his Hundred Thousand Year Dark Gold Terror Claw.
• The Golden Wolf King abandoned Meng Hongchen and charged Ye Chenxing, who told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to close their eyes before unleashing Solar Flash.

Ye Chenxing and the Hongchen siblings defeated two Ten-Thousand-Year wolf kings, and Ye Chenxing began absorbing the Silvermoon Wolf King's soul ring as his second ring. An ancient Evil Eye spirit entered his mind, intending to seize his body for revenge.

• Ye Chenxing blinded the wolf kings with Ultimate Light, allowing Xiao Hongchen to unleash an enhanced cannon barrage that nearly killed them both.
• Ye Chenxing finished the Silvermoon Wolf King, while Jing Hongchen captured the weakened Golden Wolf King in a living-creature storage soul tool.
• Jing Hongchen praised Ye Chenxing, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen for their teamwork as the siblings argued over Xiao Hongchen's contribution.
• Ye Chenxing began absorbing the Silvermoon Wolf King's Ten-Thousand-Year soul ring as his second ring, despite Jing Hongchen's concern about the risk.
• An ancient Evil Eye spirit entered Ye Chenxing's sea of consciousness and planned to take his body for revenge.

Ye Chenxing confronted the Evil Eye in his Mind Star Sea and learned it was the Evil Emperor’s resentful brother, who had disguised itself as the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring. He destroyed the Evil Eye and absorbed it as a Soul Ring, then confirmed that his Sun Martial Soul was unharmed and gained powerful spiritual abilities.

• Ye Chenxing questioned the Evil Eye and discovered it had lived for hundreds of thousands of years seeking revenge on the Evil Emperor, who had devoured it.
• The Evil Eye admitted it had hidden inside the disguised Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and intended to find a body strong enough to defeat and devour the Evil Emperor.
• Ye Chenxing ended the Evil Eye’s existence, turning it into his Soul Ring and saying he would take it to meet its brother.
• Ye Chenxing opened his eyes with one yellow and one black Soul Ring circling him, and Jing Hongchen praised his unprecedented achievement.
• Ye Chenxing told Jing Hongchen that his Sun Martial Soul was unaffected and that the ring improved his spiritual power and control, while concealing that it granted him the Mental Connection skill.

After absorbing the Evil Eye, Ye Chenxing reached level twenty-seven and gained a major boost to his spiritual power, but a masked group ambushed him and the Hongchen siblings while they hunted in the Jingyang Mountain Range. As a hidden Holy Spirit Cult expert joined the attack and one assailant targeted the youths, Ye Chenxing fled with Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen.

• Ye Chenxing's Soul Power stopped at level twenty-seven, his spiritual power reached the threshold of Soul Saint, and he gained the Evil Eye's Twin Unity trait.
• Jing Hongchen sensed an oppressive presence in the clouds, then confronted four masked strangers who claimed to represent the Noumenon Sect.
• Jing Hongchen fought three Soul Douluo while Ye Chenxing recognized them as the Zhongli Brothers of the Holy Spirit Cult and identified their hidden ally as Dark Cloud Douluo.
• Dark Cloud Douluo joined the battle, and Jing Hongchen realized the attackers were concealing their identities and threatening the youths behind him.
• One of the Zhongli Brothers lunged at Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Chenxing, who grabbed the siblings and fled into the forest.

Ye Chenxing split from Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to draw an Evil Soul Master away, then stopped to confront his pursuer. He identified the masked man as Zhongli and taunted him for being sent instead of a stronger Holy Spirit Cult expert.

• Jing Hongchen unleashed a barrage of high-ranked Soul Guidance Devices, forcing the pursuers to retreat and giving Ye Chenxing and the siblings time to escape.
• Ye Chenxing realized the pursuers were Evil Soul Masters targeting his Ultimate Light and told Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to find a Sun Moon Empire garrison while he drew the enemy away.
• Xiao Hongchen agreed with Ye Chenxing's plan, and he and Meng Hongchen fled in the opposite direction after Meng begged Ye Chenxing to survive.
• Ye Chenxing considered using a Command Spell but chose to stop and face the black-clad pursuer alone.
• Ye Chenxing recognized the masked pursuer as Zhongli and mocked the Holy Spirit Cult for sending him instead of Old Zhongli or Long Xiaoyao.

Ye Chenxing exposed Zhongli Ren as a Holy Spirit Cult member and fought him with his Ultimate Light and Six-Winged Angel powers. As Zhongli Ren broke through the Angel Domain and charged, Qian Renxue appeared, and the two began a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Ye Chenxing used Deprivation of Fate to weaken Zhongli Ren after revealing he knew about the Holy Spirit Cult and Zhongli Ren's identity.
• Zhongli Ren failed to seize Ye Chenxing because the Angel Domain stopped him and purified his evil Soul Power.
• Ye Chenxing revealed his Six-Winged Angel form and struck Zhongli Ren with Holy Light Illumination, but Zhongli Ren survived the attack.
• Zhongli Ren summoned the Ghostshadow Leopard Emperor's beast soul and broke through the Angel Domain to attack Ye Chenxing.
• Qian Renxue appeared beside Ye Chenxing, and they joined their powers in a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Ye Chenxing fused with Qian Renxue, revealing a twelve-winged angel whose power overwhelmed Zhongli Ren. Zhongli Ren, fearing the Angel God's inheritor would destroy the Holy Spirit Cult if he grew stronger, prepared to detonate his beast soul to escape and kill Ye Chenxing.

• Ye Chenxing merged with Qian Renxue through his Martial Soul's innate ability, leaving Zhongli Ren stunned by the transformed figure.
• Zhongli Ren fled through the Angel Domain, but Ye Chenxing pursued him with twelve wings and drained his evil Soul Power.
• Ye Chenxing struck Zhongli Ren's Ghostshadow Leopard Emperor with Angel Judgment, nearly destroying the beast soul in one blow.
• Zhongli Ren stopped fleeing and charged Ye Chenxing, convinced his cultivation gave him a chance to fight back.
• Zhongli Ren began swelling and empowering the Ghostshadow Leopard Emperor to detonate it, hoping to injure Ye Chenxing and escape the Angel Domain.

Ye Chenxing defeated Zhongli Ren, a Soul Douluo, after surviving the Ghostshadow Leopard Emperor’s self-destruction with a Rank Nine Soul Guide Device and finishing him with Angel Judgment. Jing Hongchen arrived to find Ye Chenxing exhausted but unharmed, and his concern for the youth deepened beyond mere political or personal interest.

• Ye Chenxing protected himself from the Ghostshadow Leopard Emperor’s self-destruction with a Rank Nine Soul Guide Device, then used Spiritual Connection and Angel Judgment to kill Zhongli Ren.
• Ye Chenxing burned Zhongli Ren’s remains, absorbed his evil soul power into his first soul ring, and collapsed from exhaustion after realizing he had defeated a Soul Douluo.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen reached Xu Ping and reported that Jing Hongchen and a member of the imperial family had been attacked by high-level soul masters, prompting Xu Ping to summon troops and reinforcements.
• Jing Hongchen realized Ye Chenxing had been the attackers’ true target and rushed toward the forest after seeing a flash and hearing an explosion.
• Jing Hongchen examined Ye Chenxing and found him exhausted but uninjured, then recognized him as one of his own juniors rather than merely an asset to the empire.

After surviving an attack by powerful Evil Soul Masters, Ye Chenxing reunited with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen and earned Xu Ping’s respect. He began explaining why he believed the attackers had targeted him rather than Jing Hongchen, but sent Xu Ping away before revealing the rest.

• Meng Hongchen found Ye Chenxing safe and threw herself into his arms, while Xiao Hongchen arrived behind her.
• Xu Ping apologized to Jing Hongchen for failing to protect him and Ye Chenxing, but Jing Hongchen said the attack could not have been prevented.
• Xu Ping realized Ye Chenxing had survived a Soul Douluo’s pursuit and knelt to ask for punishment, then pledged to help him in the imperial city.
• Ye Chenxing told Jing Hongchen that his second soul ring had improved his ability to observe the attackers and that their weak vitality and blood energy suggested they were not from the Noumenon Sect.
• Ye Chenxing paused before explaining further, so Xu Ping offered to escort the group to Ming Capital and left after establishing a connection with him.

Ye Chenxing explained how he detected the attackers and survived the assault, while Jing Hongchen vowed to report the Holy Spirit Cult to Elder Kong. The attackers regrouped at a stronghold, and Xu Tianran told Orange that the emperor’s summons likely meant he would gain more power.

• Ye Chenxing claimed his Ultimate Light could sense evil soul masters and said he had exchanged a few moves with the Soul Douluo before the attacker retreated.
• Jing Hongchen decided to report the assassination attempt to Elder Kong, while Xiao Hongchen resolved to challenge Ye Chenxing at soul tool assembly and aiming instead of fighting him.
• Ye Chenxing teased Meng Hongchen, then saw Xu Ping approaching with a flying soul engineer squadron and said they were going home.
• Dark Cloud Douluo and the injured Zhongli brothers reached a Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, where they realized Zhongli Ren was missing and were persuaded to return to the Cult rather than search for him.
• Xu Tianran told Orange that the emperor had likely summoned him to approve his war plans and grant him more authority, urging her to grow so he could entrust her with greater responsibility.

After surviving the assassination attempt, Ye Chenxing and Kong Deming confronted Xu Tianran, who concealed his role while vowing to deal with Ye later. Back at his residence, Ye prepared his second Heroic Spirit Summoning, using the Sun Moon Empire as a catalyst to call forth the embodiment of Soul Tool engineering.

• Kong Deming revealed that Evil Soul Masters had attacked Ye Chenxing, and Ye appeared alive before the princes, stunning Xu Tianran.
• Kong Deming warned the princes that he would personally punish anyone who endangered Ye or the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Tianran smashed his antiques in fury, and Ju Zi calmed him as he resolved to make long-term plans against Ye.
• Ye concluded that Xu Tianran had ordered the assassination and planned to expose his secret when Xu was close to taking the throne.
• Ye discovered that Kong Deming had filled his storage ring with defensive Soul Tools, then returned to his residence with Qian Renxue.
• Ye began a second Heroic Spirit Summoning at Level Twenty, using the Sun Moon Empire as the medium to summon the originator of Soul Tool engineering.

Ye Chenxing summoned an Archer who embodied the concept of Soul Engineers and possessed Qiangu Dongfeng’s future body. He learned that Qiangu Dongfeng had been chosen as Archer for destroying Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect with Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, and asked whether Archer could reproduce Godslayer-Class shells.

• Ye Chenxing performed the summoning ritual and called forth a powerful-looking middle-aged man who identified himself as Archer.
• Archer explained that he had no specific historical identity and was an embodiment of the Soul Engineer concept.
• Archer revealed that the body he possessed was named Qiangu Dongfeng, leaving Ye Chenxing shocked by the future identity.
• Archer said he qualified as Archer because Qiangu Dongfeng had used Fixed Soul Guidance Shells to raze Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect headquarters in the future.
• Ye Chenxing asked whether Archer could reproduce Godslayer-Class Fixed Soul Guidance Shells.

Ye Chenxing contracted Archer and gained extensive Soul Tool knowledge, an appraisal ability, and the power to project weapons, though his limited Soul Power restricted what he could create. He decided to head for Illustrious Virtue Hall to study its Soul Tools and rare-metal reserves.

• Archer explained that he could reproduce launching Soul Tools from his era but could not use Soul Power or Martial Soul abilities himself.
• Ye Chenxing contracted Archer and absorbed knowledge of Soul Tools spanning twenty thousand years, gaining the Soul Guidance Appraisal Eye and the ability to learn how to make a Soul Tool from its concept.
• Ye Chenxing projected several weapons, including a level-three Soul Guidance Ray gun and the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon, before exhausting his Soul Power.
• Ye Chenxing discovered that his Soul Tool knowledge stopped at Qiangu Dongfeng's era and learned that Archer's knowledge depended on Ye Chenxing's own understanding.
• Ye Chenxing set his sights on Illustrious Virtue Hall at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy for its collection of Soul Tools and rare metals.

Four transfer students joined Class One, where Wang Jiahao challenged their placement and Ye Chenxing agreed to face him in a practical assessment. During the first lesson, Lin Jiayi taught the class about the empire’s history and Soul Tools, while Wang Jiahao tried to restore his standing by answering a question.

• Lin Jiayi introduced Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ye Chenxing, and Ye Xue as new Class One students, and Wang Jiahao objected to their direct placement.
• Xiao Hongchen revealed his three soul rings to silence Wang Jiahao, who then challenged Ye Chenxing to prove he deserved a place in the class.
• Ye Chenxing requested a temporary placement assessment and agreed to fight Wang Jiahao during the practical lesson; Qian Renxue took the seat beside Ye Chenxing before Meng Hongchen could.
• Lin Jiayi began the class with a lesson on the Sun Moon Empire’s history and the role of Soul Tools.
• Wang Jiahao declared that Soul Tools would let the empire crush the Three Douluo Kingdoms, earned Lin Jiayi’s approval, and turned provocatively toward Ye Chenxing.

During a class discussion, Ye Chenxing argued that Soul Guide Devices could eventually serve ordinary people and transform civilization far beyond their current uses. The class was left stunned by his vision, while Wang Jiahao dismissed his ideas as invented terms.

• Meng Hongchen argued that Soul Guide Devices should serve civilian needs as well as military ones, and Lin Jiayi praised her perspective.
• Lin Jiayi invited Ye Chenxing to share his thoughts, and Ye Chenxing said Soul Guide Devices did not have to be used only by soul masters.
• Ye Chenxing explained that improved Milk Bottle Technology or natural energy sources could let ordinary people operate Soul Guide Devices.
• Ye Chenxing predicted that Soul Guide Devices might lead to autonomous machines, mechanical immortality, Artificial Soul Rings, interstellar travel, and mastery of space and time.
• Wang Jiahao accused Ye Chenxing of making up the terms, and Ye Chenxing told the class not to deny the future of Soul Guide Devices.

After Ye Chenxing stunned his classmates with bold ideas about Soul Guide Devices, Lin Jiayi reported his insights to Jing Hongchen, who recognized his extraordinary potential. Ye Chenxing and Wang Jiahao then faced each other in the Soul Duel Arena, where their assessment was about to begin.

• Lin Jiayi announced that the practical session would be replaced by an observation of Ye Chenxing and Wang Jiahao's entrance duel, then hurried to report to Jing Hongchen.
• Ye Chenxing answered his classmates' questions and followed Wang Jiahao to the Soul Duel Arena after Wang challenged him.
• Jing Hongchen heard Lin Jiayi's account of Ye Chenxing's ideas and became convinced that Ye Chenxing had exceptional talent as a Soul Engineer.
• Ye Chenxing and Wang Jiahao stepped onto the arena before an audience of freshmen and upperclassmen, while Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi watched from the stands.
• Wang Jiahao accused Ye Chenxing of being all talk, and Ye Chenxing replied that they would soon see who was the Golden Sacred Dragon and who was Luo Sanpao.

Ye Chenxing used a modified Sun God Needle to reveal the power of his Soul Guide Device expertise during a duel with Wang Jiahao. After an old Soul Engineer saved Wang Jiahao from the blast, he rushed to Ye Chenxing and begged to examine the device, offering a ninth-rank Soul Guide Device in exchange.

• Wang Jiahao opened the duel with eight Soul Guidance Cannons, but Ye Chenxing dodged every shot without releasing his Martial Soul.
• Wang Jiahao switched to close combat with two bladed discs, yet Ye Chenxing continued to evade him effortlessly.
• After Wang Jiahao taunted him, Ye Chenxing flicked a silver orb into the sky, where it expanded and charged while the audience mistook his throw for a miss.
• Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi recognized the orb as a modified Sun God Needle as it fired a devastating golden-and-silver beam toward Wang Jiahao.
• An old man appeared and shielded Wang Jiahao from the blast, then grabbed Ye Chenxing and offered him a ninth-rank Soul Guide Device to examine his creation.

Ye Chenxing won the entrance examination after demonstrating an astonishing talent for Soul Tools, shocking Rank Nine Soul Engineer Ye Yulin. Ye Yulin and Jing Hongchen then fought over whether Ye Chenxing should join Ye Yulin’s team, and they flew off with him to ask Elder Kong to decide.

• The referee declared Ye Chenxing the winner, and Ye Yulin learned that he was Elder Kong’s disciple.
• Ye Yulin reacted with disbelief when Ye Chenxing admitted he had built and improved the Sun God Needle himself, despite having no prior Soul Tool training.
• Ye Yulin described his dreams and pleaded with Ye Chenxing to join his team and inherit his research and legacy.
• Jing Hongchen kicked Ye Yulin and argued that Ye Chenxing’s cultivation plan and Martial Soul talent made him unsuitable for Ye Yulin’s team.
• Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin each grabbed one of Ye Chenxing’s arms and flew with him toward the Hall of Consecration to settle the dispute with Elder Kong.

Meng Hongchen reacted with jealousy to Ye Chenxing’s remarkable talent, while the Silver Dragon King learned of his actions and decided to approach him herself. The chapter ended with her taking human form and declaring, “I’ll go myself.”

• Meng Hongchen teased Xiao Hongchen about Ye Chenxing’s talent and worried that other girls might get close to him.
• Di Tian reported Ye Chenxing’s deeds to the Silver Dragon King, including absorbing the Golden Tree and blocking the God Realm’s perception of Douluo Star.
• The Silver Dragon King concluded that Ye Chenxing was likely an immensely powerful being from another world and ordered Di Tian to seek cooperation with him.
• The Silver Dragon King decided Myriad Demon King could sacrifice himself to Ye Chenxing, but agreed that the Auspicious Beast should not be put at risk.
• The Silver Dragon King took human form above Lake of Life and announced that she would go to Ye Chenxing herself.

Ye Chenxing stunned Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and Ye Yulin by crafting Soul Guide Devices across five grades and revealing a rare External Soul Bone. He assembled the devices into a Soul-Control Tool Machine that could automatically mass-produce first- through fourth-grade Soul Guide Devices, leaving the two Rank Nine Soul Engineers enthralled.

• Kong Deming supervised Ye Chenxing’s secret Soul Engineer rank test as he swiftly crafted five Soul Guide Device components, one for each grade from first to fifth.
• Ye Chenxing began a sixth-grade core formation, used his dark-golden Palm-Type External Soul Bone as a carving tool, and stopped when his soul power ran out.
• Kong Deming recognized that the five completed components were designed to work together, and Ye Chenxing assembled them into a Soul-Control Tool Machine.
• Ye Chenxing demonstrated the machine using a Milk Bottle Soul Guide Device, and it automatically produced components for first- through fourth-grade Soul Guide Devices.
• Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin rushed to inspect the operating machine, marveling at its automated production capabilities.

Ye Chenxing earned his Rank Six Soul Engineer badge and chose to pursue Soul Guide Devices and Martial Soul cultivation together. He proposed using his invention to improve civilian life and ease tensions between nations, and Kong Deming helped him found a new faction called the Star Tower.

• Kong Deming awarded eleven-year-old Ye Chenxing a Rank Six Soul Engineer badge and urged him to choose between pursuing Soul Guide Devices and cultivating his Martial Souls.
• Ye Chenxing declared that he would pursue both paths and aim to become a Rank Ten Soul Engineer who could reach Limit Douluo.
• Kong Deming realized Ye Chenxing's Soul-Control Tool Machine could mass-produce weapons and lead to war, but Ye Chenxing insisted he would control its uses.
• Ye Chenxing proposed developing civilian Soul Guide Devices and sharing them with the original Three Douluo Kingdoms to improve ordinary people's lives and reduce support for war.
• Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming pledged resources to Ye Chenxing's civilian projects, and Kong Deming proposed establishing a new faction with him.
• Ye Chenxing named the new faction the Star Tower.

Ye Chenxing secured approval to establish the Star Tower as an independent organization and impressed the empire’s leading Soul Engineers with his inventions and ideas. Kong Deming hinted that he had a plan to recruit Soul Engineers for the Star Tower, which Ye Chenxing would learn about the next day.

• Ye Chenxing asked Kong Deming to keep the Star Tower independent on the surface so its products could reach the Three Douluo Kingdoms, and Kong Deming approved an outer-city headquarters in Ming Capital.
• Ye Yulin examined Ye Chenxing’s Rank Five Sun God Needle, praised its design, and renamed it the Sun-Moon Needle.
• Ye Chenxing proposed developing a Soul Guide Satellite to support long-range Soul Guide communications, prompting Ye Yulin, Jing Hongchen, and Kong Deming to join a lengthy discussion.
• Kong Deming praised Ye Chenxing’s talent and said he had devised a way to persuade Soul Engineers to join the Star Tower, but told him to wait until tomorrow to find out.