Chapter Summaries

Lin You faced Prince Qian after the Royal Inquisition Team tried to arrest him, while Song Lao intervened on Shrek Academy’s behalf. Jing Hongchen retaliated against Xu Mocheng, and Song Lao trapped Prince Qian and the others under his pressure as he furiously berated them.

• Lin You released Xu Mocheng and the Inquisition Team from his control, then said Wang Shaojie only needed rest.
• Prince Qian arrived and accused Lin You of attacking his nephew and the Royal Inquisition Team, but Lin You denied the charges.
• Song Lao appeared to protect Lin You, and Jing Hongchen led the confrontation with Prince Qian toward a conference room.
• Jing Hongchen asked Xu Mocheng about the Dragon Peeling Pillar, then crushed one of his bones and took him away.
• Song Lao unleashed his Soul Power in the conference room and cursed Prince Qian and the Sun Moon Empire officials, leaving them unable to move or speak.

Song Lao forced Prince Qian to avert a conflict with Shrek Academy by promising ten tons of rare metals as compensation for Lin You. Lin You’s reputation spread across the academy, and three days later the metals arrived, leaving him pleased with how quickly extortion had made him rich.

• Song Lao tore up the cooperation proposal, threatened Prince Qian with Mu En’s declaration of war, and demanded compensation for the Sun Moon Empire’s hostility toward Shrek Academy.
• Prince Qian agreed to deliver ten tons of rare metals within three days directly to Lin You, and Song Lao left the conference room with Lin You.
• Prince Qian ordered Lin Jiayi to keep the incident secret and, once outside, instructed a subordinate to deal with the five people responsible.
• Lin You became the subject of campus rumors after the Royal Inquisition Team members knelt and Wang Shaojie reportedly dropped out.
• Three days later, a royal convoy delivered ten tons of rare metals to Lin You, who thought extortion was a fast way to get rich.

Lin You received a large payment of rare metals from Prince Qian and discussed his Element Theory with Xuan Ziwen. After warning Ju Zi about the metals’ radiation and offering her some for Soul Tool crafting, he left her considering how to repay him without attracting the Crown Prince’s suspicion.

• Lin You accepted Prince Qian’s rare-metal compensation and told Xuan Ziwen that the imperial family owed it to him.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Lin You to explain his Element Theory and explore making ice through changes to atomic structures.
• Lin You examined the metals in private and absorbed Gold Element energy from an ore.
• Ju Zi visited Lin You, and he stopped her from touching the metals because some contained dangerous radioactive elements.
• Lin You offered Ju Zi metals to make Soul Tools as thanks for their time together in the Jingyang Mountain Range.
• Ju Zi accepted the metals, then decided to make Lin You a Soul Tool while worrying that the Crown Prince might object to her closeness with him.

Xuan Ziwen brought Lin You into Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Lin You examined the vast underground research facility and considered its dangerous lack of escape routes. His open explanations of Element Theory and the principles behind his Self-Circulation System had already made him a subject of intense curiosity among the Soul Engineers.

• Xuan Ziwen led Lin You through the checkpoints and down an elevator into Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• Lin You surveyed the underground hall and wondered whether cutting off its oxygen would trap everyone inside.
• Xuan Ziwen said he would find Lin You a desk while he conducted experiments on air suffocation and water freezing.
• Lin You considered how Soul Engineers had failed to reproduce his Self-Circulation System despite its apparently simple array design.
• Lin You explained how Phosphorus Fire and his refined metal enabled the system to generate and return Soul Power, increasing the teachers' interest in him.

Lin You received access to Illustrious Virtue Hall’s experiment table and used his Martial Soul to investigate the facility and test an oxidation ability on Mithril. He discovered the power could damage internal soul guidance formations, leaving him with a new way to disable soul tools.

• Xuan Ziwen registered Lin You as a Third Level Soul Tool Master and gave him the card needed to use experiment table 1238.
• Xuan Ziwen warned Lin You not to provoke the royal family again, while Lin You privately worried about the coming movements among the three nations.
• After Xuan Ziwen left, Lin You tried to contact Snow Empress but could not reach her through the facility’s shielding.
• Lin You used his Martial Soul to map much of Illustrious Virtue Hall, including secret laboratories, Humanoid Soul Guidance Device research sites, and Ninth-Grade Fixed Soul Guidance Shell warehouses.
• Lin You oxidized a piece of Mithril and found that the effect could damage internal soul guidance formations, potentially disabling or detonating soul tools.

Jing Hongchen and Lin Jiayi dismissed Lin You’s soul-engineering talent, while Lin You explored the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s cultivation base and discovered its pill-centered cultivation system. He asked for the two most expensive pills, and a staff member explained how their medicines and cultivation services were graded.

• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that his support for Prince Qian had been unavoidable and that Lin You could be left to his own devices.
• Lin You learned from the dorm supervisor that the academy’s cultivation zone was inside a restricted Dome Building and obtained permission to enter.
• Lin You found a cultivation base filled with pill rooms and quotations from Jing Hongchen praising pill use.
• A staff member greeted Lin You and explained that pills and cultivation services were divided into five grades based on Soul Ring colors.
• Lin You asked the staff member for the two most expensive pills.

Lin You entered the Sun Moon Empire’s medicine research zone and insisted on taking its strongest cultivation supplements despite warnings about their potency. After swallowing a series of Grade 7 medicines, he began cultivating and found his Soul Power rising rapidly.

• Lin You told the receptionist that his body could handle potent medicines and demanded one of every kind.
• The receptionist recognized Lin You as an Illustrious Virtue Hall official, halved his fees, and led him to a secure room in the Red Zone Cultivation Area.
• The receptionist brought Lin You several high-grade cultivation supplements and left after worrying that he might harm himself.
• Lin You examined a pill with his Spiritual Power, judged its contents to be powerful tonics, and swallowed the medicines one after another.
• Lin You cultivated to digest the medicines and felt his Soul Power rising rapidly, declaring himself naturally resistant to drugs.

Lin You consumed a large quantity of high-grade pills, raising his Soul Power to level thirty-eight, and agreed to cooperate with Illustrious Virtue Hall’s Pill Research Zone in exchange for free pills. Jing Hongchen learned of the arrangement and ordered the monitoring records preserved, while acknowledging that Huo Yuhao remained a formidable rival.

• Lin You absorbed the pills’ medicinal power for three hours and raised his Soul Power to level thirty-eight.
• Li Rong approached Lin You after witnessing his remarkable drug resistance and proposed a pill-testing partnership.
• Lin You identified himself as the Shrek exchange student and founder of Element Theory, then agreed to cooperate if suitable pills were provided free of charge.
• Lin You and Li Rong finalized a special cooperation agreement with the Pill Research Zone.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to preserve the monitoring records and noted that Huo Yuhao’s talent made her impossible to underestimate.

After six months of pill experiments, Lin You reached Soul Power Level forty and prepared to hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring. He left the academy with Snow Empress, intending to find a suitable soul beast while considering a Second Reforging or awakening a New Element Attribute.

• Lin You raised his Soul Power Level from thirty-eight to forty by testing high-grade pills in the Pill Research Zone with Li Rong's assistance.
• Lin You told Snow Empress he planned to use the accumulated energy for a Second Reforging or to awaken a New Element Attribute, and she agreed to accompany him on his Soul Ring hunt.
• Lin You declined Snow Empress's offer to find him a Soul Spirit in the Far North, saying he did not want to accept one into his Sea of Consciousness yet.
• Lin You told Xuan Ziwen he was leaving to hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring, and Xuan Ziwen warned him about the risks of pills and searching for a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
• Xuan Ziwen gave Lin You an improved Communication Soul Guidance Device, and Lin You left the academy to meet Snow Empress outside the city.

Lin You and Snow Empress traveled to Devil Forest to find a suitable soul ring, despite the danger posed by the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord. Lin You killed a Ten Thousand Year Metal Soul Beast, and its dark-black soul ring appeared.

• Snow Empress recommended Devil Forest and said her recovered strength and Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow could help her face the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.
• Lin You agreed to visit Devil Forest, and he and Snow Empress traveled there from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Lin You sensed a Ten Thousand Year Metal Soul Beast with his Gold Element perception and approached it.
• The Metal Soul Beast attacked Lin You, but he blocked its claws with his bare hand.
• Lin You used the Calcium Element to disrupt the Metal Soul Beast's body and killed it, causing a dark-black soul ring to rise from its corpse.

Lin You absorbed a thirty-thousand-year Metal Soul Beast soul ring, gaining far greater control over metal, then camped with Snow Empress in Devil Forest. Snow Empress explained that Di Tian was trying to unite the soul beasts against an unknown crisis, leaving Lin You wondering what upheaval lay ahead.

• Snow Empress explained that the Metal Soul Beast’s soul ring would strengthen Lin You’s control over metal’s physical properties.
• Lin You absorbed the black, thirty-thousand-year soul ring and gained enhanced Gold Element Soul Power and metal perception.
• Lin You demonstrated that he could reshape the Metal Soul Beast’s remains into a floating sphere and stored it away.
• Lin You and Snow Empress camped in Devil Forest, where he asked about Di Tian’s visit to the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord.
• Snow Empress said Di Tian was seeking to unite the continent’s soul beast forces against a future crisis that could worsen their living conditions.

Lin You and Snow Empress spent the night in Devil Forest, where he tried to explain the principles behind his Particle Motion ability and Ultimate Ice. As they prepared to leave in the morning, a wounded Soul Beast fled toward them, pursued by a Hundred-Thousand-Year Evil Eye Tyrant.

• Lin You avoided speculating aloud about the Silver Dragon King and focused on surviving and cultivating.
• Lin You shared hot soup with Snow Empress and explained how understanding water molecules might help her strengthen her Ultimate Ice, but she admitted she did not understand.
• Lin You consolidated his newly absorbed Soul Ring energy overnight while Snow Empress kept nearby Soul Beasts away.
• Lin You and Snow Empress packed their camp and prepared to leave Devil Forest.
• A badly wounded, scaled Soul Beast fled from the forest, and a giant Evil Eye Tyrant attacked it with a red beam before emerging in pursuit.

Lin You confronted the Ten-Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant in Devil Forest, resisting its mental attack and using his elemental abilities to torment it. He left the Tyrant writhing under explosions and burning phosphorus fire.

• The Ten-Thousand Year Evil Eye Tyrant mistook Lin You and Snow Empress for ordinary humans and attacked them with Evil Eye Rays.
• After Snow Empress agreed, Lin You charged the Tyrant, which sent a Mental Shock and controlled the wounded Scaled Armor Soul Beast to attack him.
• Lin You used a helmet Soul Tool made by Grandmaster to block the Mental Shock and Elementalization to let the Scaled Armor Soul Beast's attack pass through him.
• Lin You used Calcium Element and Gold Element to disrupt the Tyrant's body and energy, then caused explosions with Hydrogen Element and Oxygen Element.
• Lin You ignited phosphorus powder on the Tyrant, covering it in blinding, high-heat flames.

Lin You and Snow Empress defeated the Evil Eye Tyrant in Devil Forest, with Snow Empress claiming its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone. After the Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord roared in fury over its child’s death, Snow Empress took Lin You away.

• The Evil Eye Tyrant, tormented by Lin You’s attacks, unleashed its Mental Blast at him.
• Snow Empress froze the Evil Eye Tyrant and shattered its body with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Peerless.
• Snow Empress crushed the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Soul Core, releasing its hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Evil Eye Tyrant Head Soul Bone.
• The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord roared from Devil Forest’s core and demanded to know who had killed its child.
• Snow Empress collected the Soul Ring and Soul Bone, then vanished with Lin You.

After Snow Empress killed Evil Emperor’s son, Evil Emperor feared she and Di Tian might join forces against him and ordered Devil Forest’s creatures to evacuate. Lin You and Snow Empress then reached a metal-rich mountain range, where Lin You prepared to undergo his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange.

• Evil Emperor arrived in Devil Forest and read the Scaled Armor Soul Beast’s memories, identifying Snow Empress as the one who killed his son.
• Evil Emperor suspected Snow Empress and Di Tian might be working together and ordered his offspring to prepare to leave Sun Moon Continent.
• Snow Empress carried Lin You far beyond Devil Forest and landed in a mountain range rich in Metal Element and Calcium Element.
• Lin You told Snow Empress he would undergo his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange to purify his blood, temper his bones, and strengthen his foundation.

Lin You began his second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange in a metal-rich environment despite Snow Empress’s concerns. After breaking through a dangerous bottleneck through sheer will, he completed the transformation and emerged with stronger bones and renewed vitality.

• Snow Empress warned Lin You that the lack of life force made the reforging dangerous, but Lin You insisted the metal-rich environment suited his cultivation.
• Snow Empress created an isolated ice house and guarded Lin You as he began the second Bone Forging and Blood Exchange.
• After three days, Lin You hit a bottleneck as impurities and violent medicinal energy threatened to overwhelm him, and Snow Empress considered intervening.
• Lin You broke through the bottleneck by concentrating his Soul Power, will, and mental strength, and Snow Empress chose to trust him.
• Three days later, Lin You finished the transformation with tougher bones, fresh vitality, and a powerful aura.

After completing a painful physical transformation, Lin You tested his new durability with the Snow Empress and withstood Soul Guidance Ray Gun shots up to Level Five with little injury. The Snow Empress fired a Level Six beam, and Lin You braced himself to block it.

• Lin You discovered that the Golden Ancient Tree’s life force had helped fuse the medicinal power into his marrow, refining his body and giving his skin a jade-like, metallic quality.
• Lin You asked the Snow Empress to test his defense with a Soul Guidance Ray Gun, and she agreed.
• The Snow Empress fired Level One through Level Four beams, which caused Lin You little more than mild irritation and a slight impact.
• The Snow Empress raised the gun to Level Five, and the beam left a red mark but did not break Lin You’s skin.
• The Snow Empress fired a Level Six beam, and Lin You crossed his arms to meet it.

Lin You tested the toughness of his element-tempered body and examined the Evil Eye Tyrant’s Soul Ring and skull soul bone. Snow Empress explained that she had preserved the Soul Ring by freezing its energy and rules with Ultimate Ice.

• Lin You took a full-force Level 6 Soul Guidance Ray strike on his arms, which left only fading scorch marks.
• Snow Empress felt Lin You’s metal-hard skin, and he explained that he was tempering his entire body with elemental attributes.
• Snow Empress returned the Soul Guidance Ray Gun and showed Lin You the Evil Eye Tyrant’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and spiritual skull soul bone.
• Lin You was shocked that the Soul Ring had not dissipated several days after the Evil Eye Tyrant’s death.
• Snow Empress explained that Ultimate Ice could freeze the Soul Ring’s energy and contained rules to keep it from dissipating, and Lin You marveled at her method.

Lin You chose to keep the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Attribute head soul bone for himself and asked Snow Empress to deliver the frozen soul ring to Huo Yuhao. After Snow Empress left, he returned to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, planning to absorb the soul bone only after his body had recovered.

• Lin You wondered whether his evolving Elemental Body could let him absorb more than six soul bones, and decided that Huo Yuhao would benefit more from the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Attribute Soul Ring.
• Lin You asked Snow Empress to freeze the soul ring and take it to Huo Yuhao while he kept the silver skull soul bone.
• Snow Empress agreed, stored the frozen soul ring in her Storage Soul Tool, and departed to deliver it.
• Lin You decided to return to the academy before absorbing the soul bone so his body could stabilize and he could find a safe place.
• Lin You reached the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy several days later at Soul Power Level 44.

Lin You rejected Jing Hongchen’s request to lead sparring matches between Soul Masters and Soul Engineers, then asked him to promote Element Theory instead. Jing agreed and, after reading Lin You’s materials, was shocked by the theory’s claims about the underlying composition of the world.

• Jing Hongchen summoned Lin You and noted that his Soul Power had risen to level 44 after his trip.
• Jing Hongchen proposed that Lin You lead academy sparring matches to improve Soul Engineers’ combat experience against Soul Masters, but Lin You refused and demanded a benefit for taking part.
• Jing Hongchen offered to consider a reasonable request, while warning Lin You that his quota could not be increased.
• Lin You asked Jing to promote Element Theory within the academy and the Empire’s Soul Engineer community, and Jing agreed.
• After Lin You left, Jing requested the theory’s materials and was stunned as he read its explanation of air, water, metals, and Soul Tool materials in terms of elements, atoms, and molecules.