Recaps

Lin You and Huo Yuhao proved the Soul Spirit System could be developed with Di Tian’s support, while Lin You built technology that could give ordinary people access to power. After testing the Unicorn Gundam and promising to return to Di Qiuer, Lin You set out for the Sun Moon Empire, planning to spread his inventions and prepare for threats from the God Realm.

• Di Tian agreed to test the Soul Spirit System and backed Mu En’s effort to invite the empires and the Body Sect to negotiations, while Lin You and Huo Yuhao remained in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu Yue approved the Soul Spirit System and ordered Di Tian to keep developing it, and Huo Yuhao’s experiment convinced Di Tian that soul beasts might ascend alongside their soul masters.
• Di Qiuer secretly left the forest with Lin You and Huo Yuhao, and Di Tian gave her his Reverse Scale and sent Bi Ji to protect her in the human world.
• Lin You and He Caitou completed the Eternal Fire Device, demonstrating a self-circulating energy system that could let ordinary people use Soul Tools, and the Three Great Empires agreed to fund his research while controlling its spread.
• Lin You and He Caitou completed the Unicorn Gundam, and Lin You tested its weapons before fighting Di Qiuer in the armor.
• Lin You activated Destruction Mode and fought Di Qiuer to a draw, using elemental attacks and the Ink Domain before Bi Ji ended the match and repaired the Gundam.
• Before departing for the Sun Moon Empire, Lin You gave Di Qiuer an Ink Jet and promised to return, then traveled separately in a steam carriage powered by Phosphorus Element and Water Molecules.
• Lin You considered spreading technology across the four empires to gain enough faith to ascend as the God of Industry, while also planning to use Huo Yuhao’s undead demiplane and a black hole against God Realm enemies.

Lin You joined the exchange at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where his inventions and test results stunned its leaders and researchers. After awakening the Gold Element, he began working with Xuan Ziwen and the students on new technology, with a machine test planned in the Jingyang Mountain Range.

• The Snow Emperor learned that Lin You came from another world, and promised to keep his origins secret.
• Lin You arrived at the exchange in his Steam Carriage, then impressed Jing Hongchen with its design as Shrek and Sun Moon students switched academies.
• Lin You’s physical and reaction tests stunned the Sun Moon Academy staff, and Jing Hongchen ordered that the Shrek students receive normal instruction.
• Lin You showed Xuan Ziwen how Element Technology could generate energy without relying on Soul Power, and Xuan Ziwen made him a research partner.
• After Ke Ke, Wang Shaojie, and Zi Mu mistreated Lin You, Jing Hongchen offered amends, and Lin You persuaded him to let the students stay in exchange for making Soul Tools with him.
• Lin You defeated Wang Shaojie in a Soul Guidance Device duel by repeatedly firing a Class 7 Thunder Giant Cannon, then accepted Ke Ke and Zi Mu’s apology.
• Lin You absorbed the Ultimate Darkness in his Demon King Squid Right Arm Bone and awakened the Gold Element, drawing gold objects and Soul Coins toward him before gaining power over metal.
• Lin You joined Xuan Ziwen’s research on a self-powered six-legged machine, and Ju Zi and Ke Ke agreed to take part in its test in the Jingyang Mountain Range.

Lin You tested soul-guidance technology, cultivated with rare metals and pills, and became entangled in the Sun Moon Empire’s politics. After gaining his Fourth Soul Ring and defeating a young Evil Eye Tyrant, he prepared to undergo his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange.

• Lin You stunned Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and Xuan Ziwen by flying unaided during the All-Terrain Detection Soul Guidance Device test, then made gold rain and won the submission of nearby Soul Beasts.
• While testing the device in Jingyang Mountain Range, Lin You discovered rich metal deposits and cultivated underground until his Soul Power rose from level thirty-five to level thirty-seven.
• Wang Shaojie and Royal Inquisition Team enforcers tried to arrest Lin You, but Lin You forced them to kneel and Song Lao secured ten tons of rare metals as compensation.
• Lin You explored Illustrious Virtue Hall, demonstrated his Self-Circulation System, and discovered that oxidized Mithril could damage soul guidance formations.
• Lin You formed a pill-testing partnership with Li Rong and raised his Soul Power to level forty before leaving the academy with Snow Empress to hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• In Devil Forest, Lin You killed a thirty-thousand-year Metal Soul Beast, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained greater control and perception of metal.
• When a young Evil Eye Tyrant attacked, Lin You weakened it with his elemental abilities, and Snow Empress froze and shattered it, taking its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Evil Emperor identified Snow Empress as his son's killer and suspected her alliance with Di Tian, while Snow Empress took Lin You to a metal-rich mountain range for his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange.

Lin You completed his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange, then used the academy’s sparring matches to demonstrate his extraordinary defenses and elemental control. After five days of victories, he introduced Element Theory to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy and discussed the Empire’s injustices with Ju Zi.

• Lin You completed his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange under Snow Empress’s watch, gaining tougher bones, fresh vitality, and metal-hard skin that withstood powerful Soul Guidance Ray attacks.
• Lin You gave the Evil Eye Tyrant’s frozen hundred-thousand-year Spirit Attribute Soul Ring to Snow Empress to deliver to Huo Yuhao, kept its spiritual skull soul bone, and returned to the academy at Soul Power Level 44.
• Lin You persuaded Jing Hongchen to promote Element Theory, and Jing ordered the academy and Illustrious Virtue Hall to make it a priority after examining evidence of atoms and molecules.
• Lin You accepted Jing Hongchen’s challenge to spar against academy students, and more than three hundred students registered to face him for rewards.
• Lin You defeated his challengers with his elemental transformations, physical strength, and control of the environment, surviving Soul Tools and attacks that left the students astonished.
• Ji Juechen challenged Lin You, but Lin You matched his sword attack and used the technique he named Thousand Mile Tide to stop Ji Juechen’s blade and win.
• Lin You continued fighting students and ended the five-day exchange sparring session undefeated, then demonstrated elemental transformations and taught the gathered students the foundations of Element Theory.
• Lin You shared dinner with Ju Zi and Ke Ke, who had won money betting on his victories, and listened as Ju Zi criticized the Sun Moon Empire’s corruption, exploitation, and oppression of commoners.