Chapter Summaries

Xuanzi detonated his Soul Core in a desperate attempt to kill Lin Yuan, but Lin Yuan survived the blast and killed him. Mu En then prepared to attack Lin Yuan, who was already badly injured and feared another fight.

• Xuanzi pulled out his Soul Core and charged Lin Yuan, while Mu En stopped Gu Yuena and Yan Shaozhe restrained Jing Hongchen.
• Lin Yuan used his Battle Armor and Qilin Leg Bone to unleash Qilin Step as Xuanzi crushed his Soul Core.
• The clash left Lin Yuan badly injured but alive, while Chaos Power and spatial force weakened Xuanzi's self-destruction.
• Lin Yuan taunted Xuanzi and identified him as the Holy Spirit Cult's Eldest Elder before Xuanzi died.
• Mu En grew furious that Lin Yuan had survived and began gathering power for another attack.

Gu Yuena overwhelmed Mu En and used the Silver Dragon Spear to devour the power of his burning Soul Cores. Mu En was left near death, Yan Shaozhe escaped with a sphere of power, and Gu Yuena’s Soul Power rose to level ninety-seven.

• Gu Yuena used her elemental attacks, Silver Dragon Spear, and Spatial Seal to fight Mu En as he burned his origin and Soul Cores.
• Gu Yuena pierced Mu En’s chest with the Silver Dragon Spear, which drained his Soul Core, life force, and Radiant Holy Dragon origin.
• Mu En compressed part of his power into a sphere, gave it to Yan Shaozhe, and told him to run.
• Yan Shaozhe burned his origin and fled while Gu Yuena continued draining Mu En until he could no longer resist.
• Gu Yuena absorbed the power devoured by the Silver Dragon Spear, raising her Soul Power to level ninety-seven.

After defeating Mu En, Lin Yuan entered Deep Meditation while Gu Yuena guarded him, and Jing Hongchen weighed the battle’s implications for the Sun Moon Empire. At Shrek Academy, the news of Mu En’s death left its leaders shaken as Lin Yuan explored the powers of his two martial souls in his Sea of Spirit.

• Gu Yuena absorbed Mu En’s last remnant soul, and Lin Yuan refused her healing, saying his near-death battle might help him integrate his powers.
• Lin Yuan entered Deep Meditation, so Gu Yuena took him to a mountain cave and stayed to guard him while Jing Hongchen departed.
• Yan Shaozhe returned to Shrek Academy and reported that Mu En had died after failing to defeat Gu Yuena, prompting Xian Lin'er to reject the news in shock.
• Shrek Academy sealed the news and recovered Mu En’s tiny Dragon Core, while Jing Hongchen delayed reporting the battle until Kong Deming emerged from seclusion.
• In his Sea of Spirit, Lin Yuan summoned the Hades Sword and Heavenly Stem Qilin and realized that their powers remained difficult to fuse and that the Qilin was still missing something.

After nearly three months in seclusion, Lin Yuan awakened with his spiritual power transformed to the Formed Yet Intangible realm and recovered under Gu Yuena’s care. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhen urged Xiao Xiao to leave Shrek and consider a future with Soul Tools, but she remained uncertain.

• Lin Yuan awakened with spiritual power that seemed tangible and connected to his Second Sea of Consciousness, though the powers within him had not fully merged.
• Gu Yuena helped Lin Yuan recover with warm water and medicine, then told him that Shrek had become subdued, Xu Tianran had grown less aggressive, and Xiao Zhen was preparing to enter the Sun Moon Empire with persuaded Soul Engineers.
• Gu Yuena said her strength had stabilized enough to hold off Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui together, and Lin Yuan recovered to his peak over the following days.
• Xiao Zhen reminded Xiao Xiao that Shrek had given her little in return despite her sacrifices, and urged her to leave the academy.
• Xiao Xiao asked why her father had changed his stance on Soul Tools and where she could go if she left Shrek; Xiao Zhen explained that Soul Tools could help her follow the path she wanted.

Xiao Xiao reconsidered her loyalty to Shrek after her father warned her that the academy might not value her sacrifices, then decided to withdraw despite Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong's pleas. Meanwhile, Lin Yuan and Gu Yuena entered the Star Dou Great Forest to seek his sixth soul ring.

• Xiao Zhen told Xiao Xiao that Shrek's decline and the future of Soul Tools had changed his outlook, and urged her to consider her own path and the Xiao Family's future.
• Xiao Xiao reflected on Shrek's lack of recognition and chose to withdraw from school, but Zhou Yi dismissed her decision and signed the withdrawal papers.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong tried to persuade Xiao Xiao to stay, but she questioned whether Shrek had valued her or Tang Ya and stood by her choice.
• Xiao Xiao left, while Huo Yuhao was shaken by her questions about the academy's treatment of him and others.
• Lin Yuan and Gu Yuena entered the Star Dou Great Forest to prepare to hunt for Lin Yuan's sixth soul ring.

Lin Yuan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a suitable sixth soul ring while the Silver Dragon King sensed his unusual destructive destiny and wondered whether Gu Yuena shared her origin power. Just as Lin Yuan considered leaving for the ocean, Gu Yuena spotted a tribulation-crossing Azure Dragon that seemed suited to him.

• The Silver Dragon King sensed Lin Yuan’s plane-favored destructive nature and noticed that Gu Yuena possessed her origin power and the Silver Dragon Spear.
• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian to persuade Lin Yuan to enter the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, while Di Tian wondered whether the Silver Dragon King had been split into two.
• Gu Yuena guided Lin Yuan toward the core circle, but their search over two or three days yielded no suitable soul beast.
• Lin Yuan rejected Gu Yuena’s suggestion to enter the core circle and considered leaving the forest to seek a hundred-thousand-year soul beast in the ocean.
• Gu Yuena spotted a cyan dragon gathering a great tribulation on a mountain peak, and Lin Yuan recognized it as an Azure Dragon.

Lin Yuan watched a true-dragon-blooded Azure Dragon undergo a devastating mutated tribulation and, with Gu Yuena’s help, reached it after it was left near death. He ended its suffering and began absorbing its unusual Soul Ring, which turned crimson as it settled onto the Heavenly Stem Qilin.

• Lin Yuan recognized the Azure Dragon’s diluted true dragon and divine beast bloodlines as an ideal match for his Heavenly Stem Qilin and decided to claim it as a Soul Ring.
• The Azure Dragon endured four tribulation bolts before the fifth mutated into a dragon-shaped strike, severely damaging its origin and leaving it withering.
• Lin Yuan nodded to Gu Yuena, who teleported him to the Azure Dragon, while Di Tian obeyed his master’s order and kept the other ferocious beasts from intervening.
• Xiong Jun challenged Di Tian over letting a human hunt the Azure Dragon, but fell silent after Di Tian revealed it was their master’s order.
• Lin Yuan released the Heavenly Stem Qilin, and the exhausted Azure Dragon accepted its fate; Xi activated the Behemoth Claw, ending its suffering.
• Lin Yuan began absorbing the Azure Dragon’s black Soul Ring threaded with blood-red, and it gradually turned completely crimson on the Heavenly Stem Qilin.

Lin Yuan absorbed the Azure Dragon’s mutated Soul Ring and gained a hundred-thousand-year External Soul Bone, reaching rank sixty-six. The Imperial Auspicious Beast arrived to stop him, but Gu Yuena’s spatial prison kept her from interfering, and Lin Yuan sensed a familiar aura from her as a warning sounded.

• Lin Yuan endured a day and night of refining the Azure Dragon’s Soul Ring, then reached the peak of rank sixty-four with greatly strengthened Soul Power.
• A pair of azure dragon wings condensed from the Azure Dragon’s corpse, and Lin Yuan began absorbing them as an External Soul Bone.
• The Imperial Auspicious Beast confronted Lin Yuan, while Bi Ji realized she was missing and Di Tian demanded to know why Scarlet King had failed to guard her.
• Gu Yuena trapped the Imperial Auspicious Beast in a spatial prison, allowing Lin Yuan to finish absorbing the Soul Bone and rise to rank sixty-six.
• Lin Yuan sensed a familiar aura from the Imperial Auspicious Beast as a warning threatened him against harming her.

Lin Yuan and the Imperial Auspicious Beast underwent Destiny Guidance, combining her Auspicious Power with his Destiny Power and completing his martial soul. As she viewed his memories, Wang Dong suddenly collapsed at Shrek Academy, feeling incomplete.

• The Imperial Auspicious Beast approached Lin Yuan, drawn by a strange feeling that he could help her escape fate's shackles.
• She touched her forehead to Lin Yuan's, triggering Destiny Guidance and flooding his Sea of Spirit with her memories.
• The Imperial Auspicious Beast's Auspicious Power flowed into Lin Yuan and fused with his Destiny Power, completing his martial soul.
• The Star Dou Ferocious Beasts were stunned by the Imperial Auspicious Beast's choice, while Di Tian began to sense something was wrong with Lin Yuan.
• As the Imperial Auspicious Beast saw fragments of Lin Yuan's memories, Wang Dong collapsed at Shrek Academy in pain and told Huo Yuhao she felt incomplete.

During Destiny Guidance, Lin Yuan sensed something strange in the Auspicious Beast’s memories, while Scarlet King carried her back to the Star Dou Great Forest. Lin Yuan reached a critical point in his cultivation but postponed forming a Soul Core, then reunited with Xiao Xiao and brought her to enroll at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Lin Yuan sensed that something had been forced into the Imperial Auspicious Beast during Destiny Guidance, while she saw confusing fragments in his memories that seemed to show her as a tool.
• Scarlet King seized the Auspicious Beast and fled to the Core Circle after Di Tian sent him to retrieve her, while Gu Yuena watched and felt a faint call from her bloodline.
• The Silver Dragon King wondered why Gu Yuena, if she were a split soul or part of her Origin Power, had become a human’s guardian.
• After the Heavenly Stem Qilin claimed the Auspicious Power, Lin Yuan’s two martial souls reached their extremes, making it an ideal moment to condense a Soul Core.
• In Mingdu, Lin Yuan met Xiao Zhen and Xiao Xiao, accepted Xiao Xiao’s enrollment, and took her to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• After hearing about the available departments, Xiao Xiao asked Lin Jiayi and Lin Yuan which one would let her find her own path.

Lin Yuan arranged for Xuan Ziwen to guide Xiao Xiao in the Soul Guidance Department, then resumed secluded cultivation to develop a way to combine the powers of his two martial souls. By following their circulation through his body, he created the Yin-Yang Art.

• Lin Jiayi explained the Soul Guidance Department's branches, but Xiao Xiao struggled to choose a direction.
• Lin Yuan asked Lin Jiayi to bring Xuan Ziwen, who agreed to guide Xiao Xiao in exchange for Lin Yuan's epoch-making blueprints.
• Lin Yuan gave Xiao Xiao into Xuan Ziwen's care, obtained basic blueprints from Gu Yuena, and entered secluded cultivation again.
• Lin Yuan's attempt to condense a Soul Core by compressing the Heavenly Stem Qilin's Auspicious Power and the Hades Sword's slaughter power repeatedly failed.
• Lin Yuan guided both powers through his body with his spiritual power, increasing his cultivation speed and forming a fused Yin-Yang power.
• Lin Yuan used the Heavenly Stem Qilin's inherent Yin-Yang fusion method to create and name the Yin-Yang Art.

Lin Yuan repeatedly failed to fuse the Heavenly Stem Qilin and Hades Sword powers into a Yin-Yang Soul Core, then tried condensing two Soul Core Prototypes separately. As the prototypes grew and accepted Chaos Power, the process became smoother, but an accident interrupted him before he could merge them.

• Lin Yuan attempted to fuse the Heavenly Stem Qilin's power and the Hades Sword into one Yin-Yang Soul Core, but the opposing powers formed two prototypes that exploded.
• Lin Yuan tried beginning with fused Yin-Yang Power, but the resulting mixed Soul Core Prototype also shattered.
• After repeated failures, Lin Yuan decided to condense two Soul Core Prototypes separately and merge them only at the end.
• Lin Yuan formed two tiny funnels that absorbed Heaven and Earth Origin Power, alerting Jing Hongchen, who restricted access to Lin Yuan's residence after sensing Gu Yuena's aura.
• Lin Yuan grew the two prototypes and gradually merged Chaos Power into them, but an accident occurred before he could combine them.

Lin Yuan discovered that his Soul Power Level could not support fusing his two Soul Core Prototypes, so Gu Yuena helped contain the backlash. After recovering, he formed a single-attribute Soul Core, leaving him with his first Soul Core successfully condensed.

• Lin Yuan exhausted his soul power while attempting to fuse two Soul Core Prototypes, and Gu Yuena used spatial power to suppress them and limit his injuries.
• Gu Yuena warned Lin Yuan that completing the fusion was nearly impossible for him at his current strength.
• After waking from a long sleep, Lin Yuan apologized to Jing Hongchen for taking such a dangerous risk.
• Lin Yuan decided to condense a single-attribute Soul Core instead of attempting the dual-attribute fusion again.
• The Soul Core Prototype absorbed most of Lin Yuan's soul power and changed from gold to multicolored gold as it connected with his martial soul, becoming his first Soul Core.

Lin Yuan fused his first Soul Core, naming it the Five-Element Soul Core, and gained enough Soul Power to reach the Soul Douluo level. After emerging from seclusion, he gave Jing Hongchen revolutionary Battle Armor blueprints, and their new technologies began spreading until the Star Luo Empire sensed a crisis.

• Lin Yuan fused the Heavenly Stem Qilin's Soul Core in his brow, enduring severe pain and stabilizing its chaotic Yin-Yang five-element power with the Yin-Yang Art.
• Lin Yuan named the result the Five-Element Soul Core, which increased his Soul Power to the Soul Douluo level and showed him that his One-Word Battle Armor needed an upgrade.
• After nearly three months in seclusion, Lin Yuan gave Jing Hongchen Battle Armor blueprints ranging from White Rank to Two-Word Battle Armor and explained their forging requirements.
• Lin Yuan introduced Xiao Zhen to Jing Hongchen, arranged for the Blacksmith Association to help forge rare metals, and created a Soul Guidance Gatling while focusing on his own Two-Word Battle Armor.
• Jing Hongchen forged the first One-Word Battle Armor, Hall of Virtue members began studying the blueprints, and mecha entered military use, prompting the Star Luo Empire to sense a crisis.

The three empires and Shrek Academy gathered in Shrek City to discuss the threat posed by the Sun Moon Empire’s mecha. Du Busi challenged Shrek’s claims about Xuanzi and probed for signs of Mu En’s absence, until a mysterious cyan figure appeared with an explanation.

• The Star Luo Empire invited the three great empires and Shrek Academy to meet in Shrek City and discuss the Sun Moon Empire’s growing mecha threat.
• Lin Lao sent Yan Shaozhe and Xian Lin'er to represent Shrek after the Star Luo Empire invoked the previous All-Continent Elite Soul Master Tournament.
• Yan Shaozhe told the emperors that Xuanzi had entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, and the Heaven Dou Empire’s emperor suggested Xuanzi should lead their efforts afterward.
• Du Busi arrived, questioned whether Xuanzi and Mu En were still at Shrek, and made Yan Shaozhe fear that Shrek’s weakness and Huo Yuhao’s exposed Body Martial Soul might be revealed.
• A cyan figure appeared at the doorway and said that Mu En had gone to help Elder Xuan recover from his injuries.

Song Lao broke through to rank ninety-eight at the cost of her lifespan and helped Shrek join an alliance against the Sun Moon Empire’s war weapons. In Mingdu, Meng Hongchen offered Lin Yuan her cooking, while he remained unsure whether her feelings were genuine.

• Song Lao arrived at the meeting as a rank ninety-eight Super Douluo, and Du Busi inferred that her breakthrough had cost her lifespan and might signal trouble for Xuanzi.
• The Star Luo Emperor refocused the gathered powers on containing the Sun Moon Empire’s war weapons, and Du Busi offered to help if the benefits were sufficient.
• Song Lao agreed that Shrek would help destroy the weapons, and the gathered powers established the Justice Alliance.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy cafeteria, Meng Hongchen offered Lin Yuan the lunch she had cooked, and he accepted while questioning whether she truly liked him.

Lin Yuan helped Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen with their Battle Armor designs at the Hall of Virtue, then sensed an impending danger and warned the researchers. Four sudden explosions tore through the experimental base, killing dozens of Soul Engineers and leaving Lin Yuan to realize the ambush had come far earlier than expected.

• Lin Yuan ate the meal Meng Hongchen had prepared and asked her to bring him stir-fried shrimp and eel the next day.
• Xiao Xiao watched Lin Yuan and Meng Hongchen together and felt a faint jealousy as she continued learning about Lin Yuan’s past.
• Lin Yuan explained Meng Hongchen’s Battle Armor blueprints and later helped optimize Xiao Hongchen’s designs.
• After sensing danger through his Heavenly Stem Qilin martial soul, Lin Yuan shoved Xiao Hongchen under a table and warned everyone nearby.
• Four explosions struck the Hall of Virtue experimental base, killing thirty or forty Soul Engineers despite protective barriers and Lin Yuan’s timely Soul Skill.

The Five-Party Allied Army attacked the Hall of Virtue, but its Soul Engineers countered the ambush with Mechas and Battle Armor. Lin Yuan summoned Gu Yuena, who quickly suppressed Du Busi and Song Lao, while Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe arrived as the battle continued.

• More than two hundred black-clad Soul Sages and stronger fighters erupted from underground and attacked the Hall of Virtue.
• Lin Yuan recognized Cheng Gang among the attackers and realized that the three empires, the Body Sect, and Shrek Academy had likely joined forces.
• The Hall of Virtue deployed Soul Tools and Soul Guidance Gatlings, while its Soul Engineers entered Mechas and Battle Armor and began countering the allied army.
• Song Lao and Du Busi emerged from the crater, and Lin Yuan summoned Gu Yuena to confront them.
• Gu Yuena suppressed Du Busi in a single exchange and forced Song Lao to join the fight.
• Jing Hongchen arrived with Level-Nine Soul Engineers, and Yan Shaozhe fixed an angry gaze on Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan unveiled his extraordinary Two-Word Battle Armor as Yan Shaozhe charged him, seeking revenge for Ma Xiaotao and Mu En. Their clash ended with Yan Shaozhe shocked that his true-body strength matched Lin Yuan’s.

• Yan Shaozhe joined the mission to seize the Mecha and targeted Lin Yuan, blaming him for the deaths of Ma Xiaotao and Mu En.
• Lin Yuan summoned a powerful Two-Word Battle Armor forged from six divine treasures, bringing his Soul Power foundation close to the Titled Douluo realm.
• The onlookers were stunned that Lin Yuan, a level-sixty-six Soul Emperor, had mastered a Soul Core and possessed a hundred-thousand-year sixth soul ring.
• Yan Shaozhe activated his Light Phoenix True Body Possession and attacked Lin Yuan in midair.
• Lin Yuan and Yan Shaozhe collided, and Yan Shaozhe realized their strength was evenly matched.

Lin Yuan fought Yan Shaozhe to a standstill, then used his control over yin-yang and the five elements to unleash Chaos Power. Yan Shaozhe was left badly wounded and his Soul Power thrown into chaos.

• Yan Shaozhe recognized that Lin Yuan had condensed a Soul Core and exposed his killing intent.
• Lin Yuan used Heavenly Stem Escape Technique to evade Yan Shaozhe's punch, then struck him with Yimu Kui Water Spear and Jitu Ding Fire Arrow.
• Yan Shaozhe spread his Light Domain and unleashed the Ember Entanglement domain to attack Lin Yuan with phoenix embers.
• Lin Yuan used Chaos Heavenly Stem Break to crush Yan Shaozhe's flames and defenses.
• Chaos Power tore through Yan Shaozhe's Soul Power pathways, and Yin-Yang Backlash made his light and fire powers repel each other, leaving him drenched in blood.