Chapter Summaries

Lin You tested Destruction Mode in the Gundam against Di Qiuer, who transformed into her powerful auspicious beast form and overwhelmed the machine in close combat. The fight continued as Lin You set her fur ablaze, prompting her to launch hundreds of golden hairs at him.

• Lin You assured Huo Yuhao that Destruction Mode could expand his Martial Soul's power, then went alone to meet Di Qiuer outside Shrek City.
• Di Qiuer transformed into her true form and challenged Lin You to prove the Gundam could match a titled expert.
• Di Qiuer struck the Gundam with her claws and tail, while Lin You dodged and fired its Vulcan Rays and Beam Rifle at her.
• Di Qiuer used her fate power to make the Beam Rifle malfunction, then shattered Lin You's Beam Sabers with her claws.
• Lin You used the shield's backup Beam Saber and sprayed Di Qiuer with White Phosphorus Fire, scorching her fur.
• Di Qiuer made her fur stand like needles and fired hundreds of golden hairs at Lin You.

Lin You activated Destruction Mode and used the Psychoframe to expand his elemental sensing across Shrek Academy and much of Shrek City. He overwhelmed Di Qiuer with summoned plants and the Ink Domain, but she broke free with Ultimate Light as he prepared a counterattack.

• Lin You activated Destruction Mode, transforming his mecha and expanding his elemental sensing range to five kilometers.
• Lin You summoned armored vines and roots to attack Di Qiuer, turning the surrounding grove into a weapon.
• Di Qiuer used Fate against Lin You, but his Ink Domain spread black mist that disrupted her Soul Power and suppressed her abilities.
• Lin You struck at Di Qiuer from within the mist, explaining that the Psychoframe had greatly enhanced his speed and reactions.
• Di Qiuer unleashed Ultimate Light to disperse the ink mist, and Lin You prepared to answer with the Ultimate Light of magnesium.

Lin You used the Gundam to fight Di Qiuer to a draw, proving that its Destruction Mode could let him contend with powerful opponents despite its strain on his Spiritual Power. After Bi Ji stopped the spar, Di Qiuer asked Lin You for a custom mecha and then settled for learning his Ink Skill.

• Lin You blinded Di Qiuer with the Gundam’s Magnesium Element light and attacked her with a White Phosphorus Fireball.
• Di Qiuer countered with her Golden Dragon Spear and awakened more of her power, while Lin You’s Gundam endured her attacks and fought her to a draw.
• Lin You explained that Destruction Mode overtaxed his Spiritual Power, though the Gundam rapidly replenished his Soul Power.
• Bi Ji intervened and used her green light to repair the Gundam and steady Di Qiuer.
• Di Qiuer begged Lin You to make her a gold, dragon-horned mecha, then asked him to teach her the Ink Skill instead.

After Lin You and Di Qiuer’s sparring match, Mu En and Xuan Zi discussed the Unicorn Gundam and planned Shrek Academy’s exchange to the Sun Moon Empire. Seven days later, Lin You left for the empire after giving Di Qiuer a portable Ink Jet and promising to return within a year or a year and a half.

• Lin You promised to make Di Qiuer a portable Ink Jet, and Bi Ji ended the sparring session for the night.
• Mu En and Xuan Zi inspected the battle’s damage and discussed Lin You’s Gundam, Eternal Fire system, and the academy’s plans for the Sun Moon Empire exchange.
• Seven days later, Lin You met a silver-haired woman at Shrek Academy’s gates as they prepared to depart for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Di Qiuer arrived to see Lin You off, and he gave her the Ink Jet and warned her not to use its ink carelessly.
• Di Qiuer invited Lin You to visit a secret place in the forest when he returned, and Lin You promised to come back within a year or a year and a half.

Lin You traveled toward the Sun Moon Empire in a steam-powered carriage while considering how technology and faith could let him become the God of Industry. He planned to develop a small God Realm and believed he could prepare to face the God Realm with a black hole.

• He Caitou wondered why Lin You had taken a separate route and reflected that the damaged Unicorn Gundam suggested Lin You could contend with a Soul Douluo.
• Lin You rode in a steam carriage he had built, powered by Phosphorus Element and Water Molecules, and considered how it could improve ordinary people's lives.
• Lin You reasoned that spreading technology across the four empires could earn him enough faith to ascend as the God of Industry.
• Lin You considered using Huo Yuhao's undead demiplane as a small God Realm and preparing for enemies from the God Realm with a black hole.

Lin You told the Snow Emperor that he was a wanderer from another world who considered the Douluo Continent his second home. After realizing she had misjudged his identity, the Snow Emperor agreed to keep his secret for as long as they lived.

• The Snow Emperor asked whether Lin You's creation would stop without his Phosphorus Fire, and Lin You explained that its Self-Circulation System kept it running.
• Lin You asked why the Snow Woman trusted him and revealed that, like Electrolux, he had come from another world and had no home to return to.
• The Snow Emperor was astonished by Lin You's revelation, having believed his extraordinary power meant he was the incarnation of the plane consciousness.
• The Snow Emperor realized she had been drawn to Lin You himself rather than the identity she had imagined for him.
• Lin You asked the Snow Emperor to keep his origins secret, and she promised to do so until their lives came to an end.

In Maple Leaf City, He Caitou met Soul Tool Department senior Ye Xiaosheng, who was eager to meet Lin You and praised his revolutionary Soul Tool systems. Ye Xiaosheng and the other Inner Academy Soul Engineers decided they would rather return to Shrek Academy than continue the exchange if Lin You did not arrive.

• Yan Shaozhe led the students to a Maple Leaf City hotel and told them to rest before the exchange.
• Ye Xiaosheng called He Caitou over, introduced himself, and asked where Lin You was.
• He Caitou told Ye Xiaosheng that Lin You would arrive the next morning, but refused to share more when Ye Xiaosheng offered to pick him up.
• The other seven Inner Academy students asked what they should do if Lin You did not come.
• Ye Xiaosheng said they would return to Shrek Academy to find Lin You, dismissing the Sun Moon Empire as less advanced than their academy.

Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen met in Maple Leaf City for the academy exchange, but Shrek’s team was missing Lin You until he arrived in a Steam Carriage that nearly struck Xiao Hongchen. His arrival reignited tensions between the teams and caught Meng Hongchen’s attention.

• Yan Shaozhe and Fan Yu brought the Shrek students to Maple Leaf Square, where they met Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy team.
• Jing Hongchen challenged Yan Shaozhe over Lin You’s absence, and Yan Shaozhe began a countdown before a roaring vehicle interrupted him.
• Lin You’s Steam Carriage skidded to a stop inches from Xiao Hongchen, and Lin You climbed out, joking that Xiao Hongchen had wanted to hit the jackpot.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Lin You, who reminded him that he had taught him despair at the Soul Master Competition.
• Meng Hongchen asked Xiao Hongchen to keep calm and exchanged greetings with Lin You, while Xiao Hongchen grew jealous and threatened him in his thoughts.

Shrek Academy and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy completed their student exchange, while Jing Hongchen tried to recruit Lin You after seeing his Steam Carriage. The Shrek students departed for Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Jing Hongchen welcomed the incoming students to Mingde Hall.

• Jing Hongchen examined Lin You’s Steam Carriage and was shocked to learn that Lin You had invented it himself.
• Jing Hongchen invited Lin You to join the Sun Moon Empire’s soul engineering academy, but Lin You said he would consider it; Yan Shaozhe reminded Jing Hongchen to take good care of him.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen agreed to exchange students and promised that each academy would provide strong instruction.
• As the students switched places, Xiao Hongchen threatened Lin You, who taunted him about Meng Hongchen and left him furious.
• Yan Shaozhe departed by walking through the air without releasing Soul Power, shocking the Sun Moon Academy members, while Jing Hongchen reflected on Shrek’s strength.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed Fan Yu and the Shrek students to Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Jing Hongchen flew the Shrek Academy students to Mingdu and showed them the Sun Moon Empire’s advanced Soul Guidance technology. After arriving at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, he left the students with Dean of Students Lin Jiayi and took Fan Yu aside.

• Jing Hongchen displayed his biomimetic Flying Soul Guidance Device, and Fan Yu recognized how far Sun Moon Empire technology surpassed Shrek Academy’s.
• Jing Hongchen enveloped the group in a golden light film and flew them toward Mingdu at high speed.
• The students saw Mingdu’s enormous, modern-looking cityscape as Jing Hongchen introduced it and pointed out the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s grounds.
• Jing Hongchen landed the group at the academy, introduced Dean of Students Lin Jiayi, and asked him to arrange the students’ stay.
• Jing Hongchen took Fan Yu with him while Lin Jiayi prepared to oversee the exchange students.

Lin You and the Shrek Academy students underwent physical testing at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, shocking its staff with their strength. Lin You’s scan returned an astonishing level 91 physical strength, though the teacher suspected the device had malfunctioned.

• Lin Jiayi led the students to the testing grounds, where Lin You learned more about the Royal Academy’s study and graduation requirements.
• Ye Xiaosheng volunteered to undergo the physical examination first, and the academy produced a detailed report on him.
• The Sun Moon Academy teachers grew solemn as the Shrek students’ physical strength far exceeded that of their peers.
• He Caitou’s level 50 soul power, level 70 physical condition, and status as a Level 6 Soul Engineer stunned the teachers and caught the Dean of Students’ attention.
• Lin You restrained his soul power for his scan, and the testing teacher announced his physical strength was level 91 before questioning whether the device was broken.

Lin You's enrollment tests revealed astonishing physical abilities and an unmeasurable skeletal structure, alarming Dean of Students Lin Jiayi and the instructors. The chapter ended with Lin Jiayi cautiously agreeing to proceed with the strength test.

• Lin Jiayi ordered a second scan after Lin You's physical strength registered at Level ninety-one, and it rose to Level ninety-two.
• Lin You's flexibility measured Level seventy-seven and his Soul Power Level measured thirty-five, before the scanner flagged abnormal data and reported extreme weight, bone density, and blood specific gravity.
• Lin You attributed his unusual physical traits to his Martial Soul and special training, while keeping the details of his bodily modifications secret.
• The bone-age scan crashed, and a new high-end scanner crashed as well after scanning Lin You's bones.
• Lin You claimed that all his bones had once shattered and been reassembled, leaving Lin Jiayi shaken and deferential.
• Lin Jiayi abandoned the bone-age test and proposed proceeding with the strength test.

Lin You stunned Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with record-breaking strength and reaction-test results, while the students settled into their new dormitories. Jing Hongchen received the test data and sweated over Lin You’s abilities.

• Lin You punched the Soul Tool Power Tester and received an attack-strength rating of level seventy-five, despite holding back.
• Ye Xiaosheng struggled with the reaction test, while He Caitou achieved an excellent score by lasting until level eight.
• Lin You completed the reaction test with an average reaction time of 0.07 seconds, setting the best record in the academy’s testing history.
• The students were assigned clean single rooms in the Sixth Grade Dormitory Area, and Lin You headed back with He Caitou.
• Jing Hongchen read the test information at Illustrious Virtue Hall and broke into a sweat.

Jing Hongchen investigated Lin You’s extraordinary physical test results and decided the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy would teach the Shrek exchange students normally while withholding its secrets. He remained confident that the Sun Moon Empire would eventually conquer the continent, unaware that Lin You planned to shape that future himself.

• Jing Hongchen demanded an explanation from Lin Jiayi after learning that Lin You’s test results were astonishing.
• Lin Jiayi reported that Lin You was twelve years old and Rank 35, with physical strength comparable to a Rank 91 or 92 soul master, and two soul bones carrying fluctuations of at least one hundred thousand years.
• Jing Hongchen envied Lin You’s soul bones but ordered that the exchange students be taught normally, reasoning that they could not access the academy’s core secrets.
• Jing Hongchen predicted that the Sun Moon Empire would outlast Shrek Academy and eventually rename Douluo Continent the Sun Moon Continent.
• Lin You’s plans threatened Jing Hongchen’s vision, as he intended to support He Caitou as emperor when the Sun Moon Federation unified.

Lin You’s cultivation siphon disrupted the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s students overnight, while he and He Caitou began their exchange studies. The Shrek students were assigned to Sixth Grade teachers and given access to the academy’s experiment zone.

• Lin You used the Heaven and Earth Origin Power he had absorbed overnight to disrupt the academy students’ cultivation, while varying when he cut off the energy.
• He Caitou and Lin You heard students complain that their overnight cultivation had yielded no progress, and Fan Yu realized Lin You was responsible.
• Lin You explained his rotating schedule for cutting off the origin energy, and Fan Yu warned him not to take the prank too far.
• Rumors spread through the cafeteria about the cultivation abnormalities as Lin You and He Caitou ate.
• An academy staff member summoned the Shrek exchange students to the Sixth Grade teaching building to collect uniforms and gather.
• Lin Jiayi assigned the exchange students to the Sixth Grade teachers and opened the experiment zone to them, with materials free for experiments but charged for tools they took away.

Lin You tried to prove his unconventional engineering ideas to his assigned instructor, Xuan Ziwen, by showing him devices that operated without continuous soul power. Xuan Ziwen was stunned by Lin You’s self-circulating Nibelungen Eternal Fire, which could transform heat into energy and regenerate its own fuel.

• Xuan Ziwen brought Lin You to his Third Laboratory and challenged him to make an interesting third-level Soul Tool within fifteen minutes.
• Lin You admitted he could not make conventional Soul Tools and said he made devices that ordinary people could use without soul power.
• Lin You demonstrated a miniature Steam Carriage, but Xuan Ziwen dismissed it as fragile and doubted its claimed speed.
• Lin You showed Xuan Ziwen the Nibelungen Eternal Fire and explained how its formations converted heat into energy and regenerated combustible material.
• Xuan Ziwen recognized that Lin You’s device could generate energy through self-circulation without continuous soul-power injections, and he reacted with shock.

Lin You demonstrated a device that appeared to generate energy on its own, captivating Xuan Ziwen and prompting him to show off his inventions. After Lin You suggested a communication base station and pointed out that soul guidance devices depended on soul masters for power, Xuan Ziwen realized Lin You might have a solution.

• Xuan Ziwen doubted Lin You’s energy-generating device, then offered to meet any condition if Lin You would make another in front of him.
• Lin You refused to name a condition, and Xuan Ziwen explained that the device could overturn the foundations of soul guidance research.
• Xuan Ziwen led Lin You into a hidden research room and demonstrated his remote monitoring and communication soul guidance devices.
• Lin You suggested using communication base stations to relay signals, and Xuan Ziwen eagerly recognized the idea’s potential.
• Lin You pointed out that Xuan Ziwen’s devices all required soul masters to supply Soul Power, then picked up materials and prepared to demonstrate a solution.

Lin You demonstrated an unfamiliar Soul Tool technique to Xuan Ziwen by carving strange formations into titanium gold and embedding a bone fragment in the device. A dark-blue flame appeared and drew in Heaven and Earth energy on its own, leaving Xuan Ziwen demanding an explanation as Lin You attributed it to the fundamental laws of the elements.

• Lin You selected titanium gold, softened it with his hands, and rubbed it into a sphere of fine metal flakes, shocking Xuan Ziwen.
• Lin You rapidly carved unfamiliar patterns into titanium gold to form the core and inner shell of a device.
• Lin You embedded a chalky-white bone fragment in the shell and sealed the pieces into a patterned metal sphere.
• The sphere lit up with a stable dark-blue flame and began absorbing Heaven and Earth energy while storing Soul Power.
• Xuan Ziwen excitedly asked Lin You how the device worked, and Lin You said it followed the fundamental laws of the elements.

Lin You explained his element-based technology to Xuan Ziwen, whose fascination led him to seek research support and plan a future visit to Shrek Academy. After Xuan Ziwen left to request access to Illustrious Virtue Hall, Lin You revealed that he intended to use the new discipline to attract every student at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Lin You explained how elements and Element Circuits powered a technology that could overcome Soul Tools’ dependence on Soul Power, astonishing Xuan Ziwen.
• Xuan Ziwen eagerly proposed leaving for Shrek Academy, but Lin You reminded him that Illustrious Virtue Hall would not let a core researcher simply depart.
• Xuan Ziwen made Lin You his research partner and promised to secure funding, an independent laboratory, and permission for him to enter Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Xuan Ziwen said he would visit Shrek Academy after the exchange ended in two and a half years, then hurried off to seek permission for Lin You.
• Lin You revealed that he planned to prepare lessons and models to lure the Soul Engineers at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy into studying his new discipline.

Lin You met Orange at the laboratory and received Level Three Permission after Xuan Ziwen asked her to arrange access for him. After three days studying Soul Guidance theory and planning how to present his Element Technology, Lin You returned to the laboratory and faced three hostile students brought by Orange.

• Orange mistook Lin You for an intruder until he explained that Xuan Ziwen had brought him to the laboratory and shown her his ghostly-blue device.
• Orange received Xuan Ziwen's request and reluctantly gave Lin You a Level Three Permission badge, then told him not to expect her to guide or teach him.
• Lin You spent three days reading advanced Soul Guidance formation theory and devised a plan to present Element Technology as an advanced system supported by particle models and specialized devices.
• Lin You returned to the laboratory and encountered three unfamiliar students with Orange behind them.
• The petite girl angrily rejected Lin You's friendly greeting, turning the encounter confrontational.