Vol. 1The Star Tower Rises

Ye Chenxing built the Star Tower while advancing his cultivation, defeating the Holy Spirit Cult, and gaining the power of the Dragon Kings and new Heroic Spirits. The volume ended with Yu Xiaogang returning to Shrek after ten thousand years and banning Soul Tools, while Ye Chenxing prepared a team to challenge the academy.

  • Ye Chenxing revealed his power, gained Kong Deming’s protection, and joined the Sun Moon Empire’s academy while pursuing a suitable soul ring.
  • Ye Chenxing hunted soul beasts with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, as Xiao prepared to attack two Golden Tigers.
  • Ye Chenxing survived an assassination attempt, advanced his soul powers, and gained Soul Engineering knowledge and support.
  • Ye Chenxing demonstrated a machine for automated Soul Tool production, founded the Star Tower, and began planning civilian technologies and communications.
  • Ye Chenxing expanded Star Tower, defeated the Holy Spirit Cult leaders, and allied with the Dragon Kings at the Icefire Yin-Yang Well.
  • Qian Renxue destroyed Tang San’s Divine Thought, and Ye Chenxing began summoning Heroic Spirits.
  • Ye Chenxing summoned Gu Yuena, expanded Star Tower, and prepared a team to challenge Shrek Academy.
  • Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek after ten thousand years and imposed a ban on Soul Tools.
Chapters 1–101 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1The Sun Moon Empire

Ye Chenxing exposed his hidden power, secured Kong Deming’s protection, and entered the Sun Moon Empire’s academy while seeking a suitable soul ring. The arc left him on a soul-beast hunt with Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, as Xiao prepared to attack two Golden Tigers.

  • Xuan Zi brought Ye Chenxing to Shrek Academy, where Ye revealed that his true power came from the Fantasy Tree and gained access to the Golden Tree.
  • Ye Chenxing absorbed the Golden Tree into the Fantasy Tree, freed the Auspicious Beast from a planted soul fragment, and formed a contract with Qian Renxue.
  • Ye Chenxing and Qian Renxue traveled to the Sun Moon Empire, where Ye revealed a disguised Sun Martial Soul with Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire.
  • Jing Hongchen reported Ye Chenxing’s talent to Kong Deming, who took Ye as his disciple and ordered his identity and power kept secret.
  • Ye Chenxing settled into his new life, studied the world’s history, and impressed Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen with his knowledge and ability to absorb Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue.
  • Jing Hongchen gave Ye Chenxing Hongchen’s Blessing and took him, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen to the Jingyang Mountain Range to hunt for a soul ring.
  • Xiao Hongchen charged nearly sixty Third-Level Soul Guidance Cannons at two roughly three-thousand-year Golden Tigers while Ye Chenxing privately mocked him.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2The Rise of Star Tower

Ye Chenxing survived an assassination attempt, advanced his soul powers, and gained the knowledge and backing to pursue Soul Engineering alongside cultivation. After demonstrating a machine capable of automated Soul Tool production, he founded the Star Tower and began planning civilian technologies and communications.

  • Ye Chenxing killed the Silvermoon Wolf King, absorbed its soul ring, and defeated Zhongli Ren with Qian Renxue’s help after surviving an attack by the Holy Spirit Cult.
  • Ye Chenxing returned to Ming Capital, where Kong Deming warned the princes against endangering him, and summoned Archer, who gave him extensive Soul Tool knowledge.
  • Ye Chenxing joined the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, shared his predictions about Soul Guide Devices, and defeated Wang Jiahao with his modified Sun God Needle.
  • Kong Deming tested Ye Chenxing’s engineering skill, and Ye Chenxing demonstrated a Soul-Control Tool Machine that automatically produced Soul Tool components.
  • Ye Chenxing earned a Rank Six Soul Engineer badge, declared he would pursue engineering and cultivation together, and founded the Star Tower with Kong Deming’s support.
  • Ye Chenxing arranged for the Star Tower to remain publicly independent, renamed his Sun God Needle the Sun-Moon Needle, and proposed developing a Soul Guide Satellite.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3The Icefire Dragon Kings

Ye Chenxing expanded Star Tower, defeated the Holy Spirit Cult leaders, and ventured to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, where he allied with the Dragon Kings and gained their power. After Tang San confronted him, Qian Renxue destroyed Tang San’s Divine Thought, and Ye Chenxing began summoning Heroic Spirits.

  • Kong Deming invited the empire’s leading Soul Engineers to join Star Tower, and Ye Chenxing won over several with his advances in Soul Tool technology.
  • Ye Chenxing recruited Ju Zi and Nana, exposed Nana’s Holy Spirit Cult mission, and led her to destroy the cult’s leaders in Ming Capital.
  • Ye Chenxing and Myriad Demon King confronted Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, and Qian Renxue joined Ye Chenxing to form a Twelve-Winged Angel and defeat the brothers.
  • Ye Chenxing traveled to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, allied with the Fire and Water Dragon Kings, and absorbed their power as the Immortal Herbs grew stronger.
  • Ye Chenxing transferred the Icefire Yin-Yang Well and Immortal Herbs into his portable plane, then Myriad Demon King defeated Tang Zhan outside the valley.
  • Tang San’s Divine Thought confronted Ye Chenxing, but Qian Renxue arrived and split it apart with her judgment sword.
  • Ye Chenxing unlocked Level-Limited Summoning and summoned Yu Xiaogang, who fainted from the dragon might and dropped a powerful Noble Phantasm.
Chapters 51–7625 summaries Read

Arc 4The Tower and the Grandmaster

Ye Chenxing summoned Gu Yuena, expanded Star Tower, and prepared a team to challenge Shrek Academy. Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek after ten thousand years and imposed a ban on Soul Tools.

  • Du Busi beat Yu Xiaogang in the Sunset Forest, and Xuan Zi and Yan Shaozhe took him to Shrek after recognizing him.
  • Myriad Demon King sacrificed himself to Ye Chenxing, who gained a Soul Ring and Soul Bone before summoning Gu Yuena with the Living Gold.
  • Jiang Nannan chose to take her ill mother to Star Tower headquarters for treatment, while Qian Renxue discovered and claimed a broken piece of the Angel God’s sword.
  • Mu En told Yu Xiaogang that ten thousand years had passed, Shrek had become the continent’s foremost power, and Tang San had become the Sea God.
  • Ye Chenxing gave Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen Immortal Herbs, then promised Jing Hongchen he would build a tournament team able to match Shrek within a year.
  • Gu Yuena revealed her future to Gu Yue, then answered Ye Chenxing’s call and returned to him as a Heroic Spirit.
  • Ye Chenxing returned to Star Tower, assigned Su Yuntao, Old Jack, and Ye Lingling to support Qiangu Dongfeng, and learned about the organization’s expansion and obstacles.
  • Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek Academy, smashed an Amplifying Soul Tool, and declared that the academy would forbid Soul Tools.
Chapters 77–10125 summaries Read
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