Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Chenxing missed class, prompting Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen to seek him out while Qian Renxue concealed something. Meanwhile, Kong Deming gathered the Sun Moon Empire’s top Soul Engineers for a lecture and an announcement, leaving them waiting as he began to explain the two matters.

• Meng Hongchen worried that Ye Chenxing had not come to class, and Qian Renxue said she had parted from him at the school entrance.
• Lin Jiayi agreed to take Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen to Ye Chenxing, warning them to prepare themselves, while other students followed behind.
• Xia Xuanchen and Zheng Zhan discussed Kong Deming’s rare public lecture and the major event he was expected to announce.
• Nearly all of the Sun Moon Empire’s Rank Nine Soul Engineers gathered in the classroom, along with several Rank Eight Soul Engineers.
• Kong Deming entered with his young white-haired disciple, then told the assembled Soul Engineers that he had called them for two matters.

Kong Deming introduced Ye Chenxing’s Star Tower to a skeptical gathering of elite Soul Engineers, then announced that Ye Chenxing would teach them about Soul Tools. The chapter ended with the reluctant audience settling down as Ye Chenxing prepared to begin.

• Kong Deming explained Soul Tools would be the first lesson, then asked the Soul Engineers whether they would join Ye Chenxing’s Star Tower as consecrated elders.
• The gathered Soul Engineers dismissed the offer, but Xu Ping volunteered to join and learned he was Star Tower’s fifth member after Kong Deming named himself, Little Jing, and Little Ye as the other members.
• Kong Deming announced that Ye Chenxing, not himself, would explain Soul Tools, prompting Wang Yiheng to protest.
• Ye Chenxing called for classroom discipline, and Ye Yulin backed him up, forcing Wang Yiheng to sit down and the others to stay.
• Xuan Ziwen doubted that Ye Chenxing could have anything exceptional to teach and leaned back with his eyes closed.

Ye Chenxing presented his vision for Soul Tools to serve ordinary people and demonstrated a Sealed Milk Bottle to the skeptical Soul Engineers. Xuan Ziwen recognized Ye Chenxing’s achievement, joined Star Tower, and left the audience eager to learn more about his plans.

• Ye Chenxing described how Soul Tools could improve everyday life in fields such as medicine, production, communication, and entertainment.
• Ye Chenxing placed an ordinary-looking Rank Four Milk Bottle on the lectern and activated it with Soul Power.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized the Milk Bottle as a successful realization of his Sealing Technology research and bowed to Ye Chenxing.
• Ye Chenxing welcomed Xuan Ziwen to Star Tower and gave him a starry-sky badge.
• Li Haoyu questioned whether Ye Chenxing had truly developed the Sealed Milk Bottle, while Xuan Ziwen silently anticipated what Star Tower would become.

Ye Chenxing demonstrated his Soul Tool expertise to the Sun Moon Empire’s elite engineers, winning Zheng Zhan’s admiration and prompting several masters to seek his help. After the lecture, Meng Hongchen left shaken by how far Ye Chenxing had surpassed her, but vowed to become the person closest to him.

• Ye Chenxing presented Zheng Zhan with a Rank Five imitation of the Indestructible Divine Shield, improved with Memory Metal, and Zheng asked to join the Star Tower.
• Ye Chenxing revealed five more Soul Tools that solved problems faced by prominent Soul Engineers and explained his improvements to their creators.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen watched from outside the classroom, and Xiao struggled to believe Ye Chenxing was instructing the empire’s elite.
• Meng Hongchen felt an overwhelming gap between herself and Ye Chenxing, left with Xiao Hongchen, and vowed to become the person closest to him.
• Ye Chenxing ended the lecture by inviting the Soul Engineers to visit him at the Star Tower, then left with Kong Deming.
• Lin Jiayi ushered the students back to class and considered asking whether acquaintances could receive preferential treatment when joining the Star Tower.

Three months after founding Star Tower, Ye Chenxing had expanded its civilian Soul Tool business, delegated its operations to Qiangu Dongfeng, and planned his next Soul Ring. When Ju Zi and Nana arrived together to join, he recognized both as spies with hidden agendas but considered the opportunity to his advantage.

• Li Haoyu joined Star Tower as a core member after studying the Soul-Control Tool Machine and committing to its civilian Soul Tool mission.
• Ye Chenxing reviewed Star Tower’s growth and plans for wider distribution, while handing its daily operations and research to Qiangu Dongfeng.
• Ye Chenxing rose three levels through feedback from Zhongli Ren’s death and weighed possible healing-type summons for his third Soul Ring.
• A subordinate brought Ye Chenxing information about two prospective members, and he met Ju Zi and Nana in the meeting room.
• Ju Zi said her family had been lost in a Star Luo Empire attack, while Nana said she was an orphan who hoped fewer people would suffer as she had.
• Ye Chenxing recognized Ju Zi and Nana as spies serving different interests and considered using their arrival to his advantage.

Ju Zi and Nana joined Ye Chenxing's Star Tower, though Ju Zi secretly planned to use the opportunity to protect her revenge against the White Tiger Duke. Ye Chenxing exposed Nana as a Holy Spirit Cult undercover agent, controlled her, and learned that the cult had a small branch in Ming Capital.

• Xu Tianran, alarmed by Ye Chenxing's growing influence through the Star Tower, ordered Ju Zi to join and report on him.
• Ju Zi accepted Xu Tianran's assignment while planning to place herself near Ye Chenxing and preserve her path to revenge against Dai Hao.
• Ye Chenxing welcomed Ju Zi and Nana into the Star Tower, then arranged for them to register in separate rooms.
• Ye Chenxing revealed Nana's undercover role and used Mental Connection to suppress her Martial Soul and control her movements.
• Nana disclosed that the Holy Spirit Cult's Ming Capital branch had only a few core members, including a Soul Saint elder, and that she had been ordered to approach Ye Chenxing.

Ye Chenxing accompanied Nana on her return to the Holy Spirit Cult stronghold, where he exposed himself and attacked its leaders. He killed the Second Holy Spirit and the Great Holy Spirit, while Nana watched in shock.

• Ye Chenxing recruited Nana into Star Tower and told her he would help her withdraw from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Three days later, Nana entered the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy's Holy Spirit Cult stronghold while Ye Chenxing followed her in disguise as Third Holy Spirit.
• At a meeting with the Great Holy Spirit and Second Holy Spirit, Ye Chenxing revealed his identity and attacked them with his Angel Domain and holy sword.
• Ye Chenxing beheaded the Second Holy Spirit after suppressing his power, then pursued the fleeing Great Holy Spirit.
• Ye Chenxing used Mental Link to disorient the Great Holy Spirit and killed him with another slash, while Nana watched in astonishment.

Ye Chenxing confronted Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, who revealed themselves in the Ming Capital stronghold after his earlier killing of Zhongli Ren. As Zhongli Di attacked with his beast souls, Ye Chenxing summoned countless golden gates filled with Soul Tools and unleashed a devastating volley.

• Nana reached Ye Chenxing after he defeated the two Evil Soul Emperors, but he warned her that the danger was not over.
• Ye Chenxing exposed Zhongli Tian and Zhongli Di, the elder brothers of Zhongli Ren, who recognized his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Zhongli Di confirmed that Zhongli Ren was dead and erupted into fury, summoning his Eight-Level Soul Tool and attacking with blood-colored beast souls.
• Nana tried to protect Ye Chenxing, but he pulled her away and told her to put away her Martial Soul.
• Ye Chenxing opened countless golden gates and revealed Soul Tools aimed at the Zhongli brothers.
• Zhongli Tian shouted for Zhongli Di to recall the beast souls, but the gates infused the weapons with sacred light and unleashed a barrage.

Ye Chenxing and Nana faced the Zhongli brothers after the brothers survived his Soul Tool bombardment. Qian Renxue joined Ye Chenxing, and their Six-Winged Angels fused into a Twelve-Winged Angel as the Evil Soul Douluo transformed and charged.

• Ye Chenxing’s bombardment destroyed Zhongli Di’s beast souls but failed to seriously injure him or Zhongli Tian.
• The Zhongli brothers prepared to attack Ye Chenxing together, while Nana braced herself to help.
• Ye Chenxing summoned Qian Renxue, whose holy aura drove back the deathly energy, and told Nana to hide.
• Qian Renxue clasped Ye Chenxing’s hand, and their Six-Winged Angels fused into a Twelve-Winged Angel.
• Zhongli Di and Zhongli Tian activated their Martial Soul Avatars, became enormous Netherworld Serpents, absorbed the beast souls, and charged the Twelve-Winged Angel.

Ye Chenxing defeated the Zhongli brothers with holy attacks, but Mask Douluo emerged from Zhongli Di’s body and stole the kill. Ye Chenxing attacked Mask Douluo, whose mask resisted his sword, and began releasing Saber Qian Renxue’s Noble Phantasm.

• Ye Chenxing wounded Zhongli Di with Supreme Holy Slash, then stunned Zhongli Tian and killed him with the projected Holy Fierce Shell.
• As Ye Chenxing approached the dying Zhongli Di, Mask Douluo attached himself to him, took over his body, and claimed to have devoured him.
• Angered that Mask Douluo had stolen his Soul Power reward, Ye Chenxing charged at him and resisted his spiritual attack.
• Ye Chenxing struck Mask Douluo’s mask with his holy sword, but it remained intact while holy power burned Mask Douluo from within.
• Ye Chenxing lifted his sword into the sky and prepared to unleash the Noble Phantasm formed from Saber Qian Renxue’s legend.