Chapter Summaries

A Yin served Ye Chenxing at his residence before he left with the Hongchen siblings to visit the Illustrious Virtue Hall. On the way, Meng Hongchen admired Ye Chenxing’s knowledge, while Xiao Hongchen resolved to challenge him in their practical class.

• A Yin brought Ye Chenxing warm milk and told him that the Hongchen siblings had arrived.
• A Yin helped Ye Chenxing get ready, and he greeted Qian Renxue before opening the door to Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen.
• Meng Hongchen spotted Qian Renxue inside and hurried Ye Chenxing away so they would not keep Hall Master Jing waiting.
• As the siblings and Ye Chenxing walked to the Illustrious Virtue Hall, Meng Hongchen eagerly chatted with him and admired his knowledge.
• Xiao Hongchen failed to impress Ye Chenxing with his own knowledge and vowed to beat him with soul tools in the next day’s practical class.

Ye Chenxing and the Hongchen siblings absorbed purified Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, while Jing Hongchen revealed plans for a special class taught by Rank Nine Soul Engineers. After his unusually long absorption, Ye Chenxing realized his upcoming second soul ring could not follow the Sun Martial Soul’s established path and began considering his Dual-Ultimate Martial Soul instead.

• Jing Hongchen introduced his personal chef, Old Mushroom, and gave Ye Chenxing, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen purified Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue to absorb.
• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Rank Nine Soul Engineers would take turns teaching a special class for outstanding students.
• Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen finished absorbing their Whale Glue before Ye Chenxing and were astonished by his efficient absorption and natural physical strength.
• Ye Chenxing finished absorbing the Whale Glue and suspected Jing Hongchen had given it to him before arranging his second soul ring.
• Ye Chenxing realized the Sun Martial Soul’s established soul-ring research did not apply to his Hall of Heroes and considered choosing soul beasts for his Dual-Ultimate Solar Martial Soul himself.

Ye Chenxing explained why he wanted a spiritual-type soul beast for his second soul ring, and Jing Hongchen approved his reasoning. Jing Hongchen arranged a trip to Jingyang Mountain Range with Ye Chenxing and the Hongchen siblings, then gave Ye Chenxing a small metal box as a token.

• Jing Hongchen entered the office and asked Ye Chenxing how he felt after consuming Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue.
• Ye Chenxing told Jing Hongchen that choosing a spiritual-type soul beast could strengthen his foundation without disturbing the balance between his Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Light.
• Jing Hongchen praised Ye Chenxing's insight and urged Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to learn from him.
• Jing Hongchen decided to take Ye Chenxing and the Hongchen siblings to Jingyang Mountain Range that afternoon to hunt for a soul ring and gain combat experience.
• Jing Hongchen stopped Ye Chenxing as he was leaving and handed him a small metal box as a token.

Jing Hongchen gave Ye Chenxing the ninth-grade defensive Soul Tool Hongchen's Blessing and flew him, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen to the Jingyang Mountain Range for a soul beast hunt. As the group settled in for the night, Meng and Ye Chenxing grew closer, while Xiao joined their teasing conversation.

• Jing Hongchen gave Ye Chenxing Hongchen's Blessing, a triggered defense Soul Tool with an Invincible Shield that needed recharging after use.
• Jing Hongchen carried Ye Chenxing, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen to the Jingyang Mountain Range on his flying Soul Tool.
• Jing Hongchen chose a campsite on the outskirts of the range and told the three youths to rest before hunting soul beasts the next morning.
• Meng Hongchen asked Ye Chenxing about his sister Ye Xue, then relaxed when he explained that they were ordinary siblings.
• Meng Hongchen asked Ye Chenxing to call her Meng, and Xiao Hongchen awkwardly asked him to call him Xiao as the three joked around the campfire.

Jing Hongchen led Ye Chenxing, Xiao Hongchen, and Meng Hongchen deeper into the Jingyang Mountain Range, letting the young people fight while he secretly watched over them. When two Thousand-Year Golden Tigers attacked, Xiao Hongchen prepared a volley from dozens of Soul Guidance Cannons, unaware that Ye Chenxing was focused on making fun of his three-legged Martial Soul Possession.

• Jing Hongchen told the three young people he would not intervene unless they faced a crisis they could not handle, though he remained anxious about their safety.
• The group traveled into the Jingyang Mountain Range’s main range, where Xiao Hongchen eagerly drove off lesser soul beasts with his Soul Guidance Rays and Cannons.
• Two roughly three-thousand-year Golden Tigers burst from the shrubs, and Xiao Hongchen insisted on fighting them alone.
• Xiao Hongchen used Martial Soul Possession and his Soul Skills to form nearly sixty Third-Level Soul Guidance Cannons around himself.
• Xiao Hongchen charged the cannons to unleash a simultaneous volley, hoping to impress Ye Chenxing, who was instead privately mocking his appearance.

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.