Chapter Summaries

Mo Yuan attended a closed military meeting in West Mountain, where he presented the Miniature Spatial Energy Storage Core and secured military cooperation for its development. After the meeting, Chen Xinjie stopped him and led him to meet someone.

• Mo Yuan left his laboratory for Mingdu after Chen Xinjie summoned him, leaving Amber to continue the Soul Beast gene sequencing work.
• Gu Yuan gave Mo Yuan the meeting agenda, and they traveled to the Central Legion's secured resort in West Mountain.
• The nine standing legion commanders reviewed routine equipment plans before Chen Xinjie called for a closed technical briefing.
• Mo Yuan explained the Miniature Spatial Energy Storage Core, and the legion commanders agreed to adopt it and cooperate with Anti-Entropy Technology.
• The Federation Academy of Sciences presented its projects, and Zhang Huanyun took the Heavy Ion Ray Gun project for the Blood God Legion.
• After the meeting, Chen Xinjie stopped Mo Yuan and brought him to another room to introduce him to someone.

Mo Yuan visited the Central Legion’s base with Yu Guanzhi and Chen Xinjie, then learned that successful challengers of the God of War Hall could earn rapid promotions. He ended the chapter by asking whether he could challenge it to obtain a general’s rank.

• Yu Guanzhi welcomed Mo Yuan and proposed putting Mo Yuan’s technology to use in the Central Legion’s special unit.
• Yu Guanzhi invited Mo Yuan to tour the Central Legion base, and Chen Xinjie joined them.
• Yu Guanzhi showed Mo Yuan the base’s facilities, while he and Chen Xinjie traded remarks about recruiting talented soldiers.
• Mo Yuan, Yu Guanzhi, and Chen Xinjie reached the snow line near the God of War Hall.
• Chen Xinjie explained that a soldier who cleared all eighteen levels could be specially promoted to Lieutenant General Rank.
• Mo Yuan asked if he could challenge the God of War Hall to get a general’s rank.

Mo Yuan accompanied Chen Xinjie and Yu Guanzhi into the God of War Hall, analyzing its construction and technologies along the way. At the Hall, Chen Xinjie introduced Mo Yuan to the War Gods as a challenger and told them not to hold back.

• Chen Xinjie explained that Mo Yuan could not raise his military rank by challenging the God of War Hall because he was not a Federation military officer.
• Mo Yuan suggested visiting the God of War Hall, and Chen Xinjie verified their identities and led him and Yu Guanzhi through the Gate of Hell.
• Mo Yuan analyzed the Gate of Hell's alloy and the Hall's spatial technology during their descent.
• Guan Yue and the other War Gods greeted Chen Xinjie and Yu Guanzhi when they arrived in the Hall.
• Chen Xinjie introduced Mo Yuan as the Federation's youngest Level-9 Soul Engineer and announced that he had come to challenge the God of War Hall.

Mo Yuan challenged the God of War Hall and defeated Mo Zihong by analyzing and countering the sound waves of his Demon Qin. Ao Rui stepped in as the next opponent, and Mo Yuan brought out the Key of Creation—Abyss Flower as their battle began.

• Mo Yuan accepted Chen Xinjie's challenge and called for a God of War Hall warrior to face him.
• Mo Zihong introduced himself as a Level-96 control-type Super Douluo and attacked Mo Yuan with his Cursed Music Qin.
• Mo Yuan used a metal rod to counter the qin's sound waves, snapping its strings and injuring Mo Zihong.
• Ao Rui helped stabilize Mo Zihong while the other God of War warriors held back, wary of Mo Yuan's quick analysis.
• Mo Yuan challenged the warriors again, and Ao Rui accepted before Mo Yuan summoned the Key of Creation—Abyss Flower.

Mo Yuan overwhelmed Ao Rui with the Abyss Flower’s Spear of Salvation Blossoms, leaving his Battle Armor battered but sparing his life. Guan Yue called Mo Yuan a young Limit, and the chapter ended with him asking Chen Xinjie why he had brought Mo Yuan there.

• Mo Yuan used the Abyss Flower’s Spear of Salvation Blossoms against Ao Rui, whose Battle Armor’s defenses were shattered by the attack.
• Guan Yue stopped Mo Zihong and the other War Gods from rushing into the arena, assuring them that Ao Rui was alive.
• Ao Rui realized Mo Yuan had spared him and bowed to thank him; the remaining War Gods declined to challenge Mo Yuan.
• Guan Yue praised Mo Yuan as a young Limit, astonishing the War Gods and Yu Guanzhi, while Chen Xinjie admitted he had not known Mo Yuan was so powerful.
• Mo Yuan said Guan Yue did not need to be modest, and Guan Yue asked Chen Xinjie whether he had brought Mo Yuan there for an important reason.

Mo Yuan explored the God of War Hall’s lower levels, analyzing its Soul Conduction Arrays and using his abilities to bypass the traps. He reached the seventeenth level’s lava lake and provoked the Fire Host Clan, whose first attack came flying toward him.

• Mo Yuan told Chen Xinjie and Yu Guanzhi that he had come to tour the God of War Hall and wanted to continue through its Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Mo Yuan rode the descending platform and used Fenghuang Down and his Analysis authority to study the hall’s structure and mechanisms.
• Mo Yuan passed the first fifteen levels, ignoring the eighth level’s illusion and overcoming the ninth level’s shifting gravity and Soul Guidance Rays.
• Mo Yuan crossed the sixteenth level’s underground river by reducing gravity and flying to the passage beyond its whirlpool.
• Mo Yuan flew over the seventeenth level’s lava lake and called for the Fire Host Clan to appear.
• A huge lava fireball shot from the lake toward Mo Yuan.

Mo Yuan froze the Crimson Magma Sea with Sleep of All Things, then used his knowledge of Huo Tian’s origins to persuade the Fire Host Clan leader that he might help them return to Falan World. Huo Tian agreed to trust him and offered a flame as repayment.

• Mo Yuan used Sleep of All Things to freeze a magma fireball and spread ice across much of the Crimson Magma Sea.
• Huo Tian confronted Mo Yuan, and Mo Yuan revealed that he knew Huo Tian was a leader of the Fire Host Clan from Falan World.
• Mo Yuan asked whether Huo Tian wanted to return to Falan World, and Huo Tian admitted that he did.
• Mo Yuan showed Huo Tian Judgement of Shamash and Sleep of All Things, convincing him that Mo Yuan might one day travel through space and find their home.
• Huo Tian agreed to believe Mo Yuan and offered him a small wisp of flame as repayment.

Mo Yuan accepted the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower Flame and collected biological samples from the Fire Host Clan before leaving the seventeenth level. At the eighteenth level, Chen Xinjie appointed him a special consultant and granted him the rank of Federal Lieutenant General.

• Huo Tian gave Mo Yuan the Seven-Colored Lotus Flower Flame and a token for the Fire Host Clan, and Mo Yuan collected biological tissue from the clan members.
• Mo Yuan left the Magma Fire Purgatory and reached the eighteenth level, where he met Chen Xinjie, Guan Yue, and Yu Guanzhi.
• Mo Yuan told Chen Xinjie and the others about the Fire Host Clan and his plans for the Federation to become a spacefaring civilization.
• Chen Xinjie presented Mo Yuan with a certificate and badge, appointing him a special consultant and granting him the rank of Federal Lieutenant General.

Mo Yuan received an exceptional promotion to lieutenant general and spoke privately with Yu Guanzhi before visiting Mingdu Laboratory. There, he found an unstable Source experiment underway, and Ling Zichen warned him to run just before it exploded.

• Chen Xinjie gave Mo Yuan the rank and insignia of lieutenant general, citing his miniature spatial energy-storage core technology.
• Mo Yuan accepted the promotion and realized Chen Xinjie and Yu Guanzhi had likely arranged it to bring him into the Federation’s military and political sphere.
• Yu Guanzhi spoke with Mo Yuan privately for about twenty minutes, then they left the God of War Hall through a secret passage.
• Mo Yuan rode Heavy Bunny to Mingdu Laboratory and found rare metal blocks extracting Source in an empty laboratory.
• The Sources became unstable, Ling Zichen shouted for Mo Yuan to run, and the experimental device exploded.

Mo Yuan contained an explosion during Ling Zichen’s final experiment and discovered that her team had completed the first six phases of the Source Loop Reaction Array ahead of schedule. He agreed to help with the final verification after revising the plan and ordering the researchers to use Amber’s urgent reporting channel for risky operations.

• Mo Yuan used the Key of Binding: Oath of Judah to contain the explosion before it spread through the laboratory.
• Mo Yuan found Ling Zichen and the researchers unharmed in the central control room and demanded an explanation and the experiment logs.
• Mo Yuan reviewed the records and learned that Ling Zichen’s team had completed the first six phases and was conducting the planned final verification.
• Ling Zichen showed Mo Yuan a progress report sent to Amber, but its vague wording meant it had not been treated as a major operation notification.
• Mo Yuan agreed to help with the final verification, required future risky experiments to await confirmation through Amber’s urgent reporting channel, and revised the plan before checking the equipment.

Mo Yuan corrected Ling Zichen’s experimental apparatus and successfully activated a stable Source Loop Reaction Array, whose prototype could power a medium-sized urban district. After he presented the results to Chen Xinjie, Fu Moxin, and Yu Guanzhi, they agreed to pursue a pilot array, while Fu Moxin began considering handing over his position.

• Mo Yuan revised Ling Zichen’s apparatus plan to prevent overlapping variables from causing energy instability, then sent her the changes.
• Ling Zichen and two researchers adjusted the apparatus, and Mo Yuan activated it; the array reached a stable self-sustaining operating state.
• Mo Yuan invited Chen Xinjie to the Eastern Suburbs Laboratory, and Fu Moxin and Yu Guanzhi later joined them to review the operating data.
• Mo Yuan explained that a large Source Loop Reaction Array could supply Mingdu with stable base energy, and Yu Guanzhi and Fu Moxin agreed to pursue a pilot project.
• Fu Moxin recalled his conversation with Chen Xinjie and wondered whether to hand his position to someone who could lead the Federation into a new era.

Tang Wulin struggled to earn enough from blacksmithing to repay Mo Yuan while training with his rapidly improving classmates. Wu Zhangkong announced that Class Zero would compete in the Skysea Grand Competition, and Chen Qi resolved to win the championship for the Alliance Leader.

• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie sparred with Chen Qi and saw how much his strength and defense had improved.
• Chen Qi said he could endure a Soul Ancestor's attacks for forty minutes, while Tang Wulin wondered how he could grow stronger quickly.
• Tang Wulin recalled that a flood of cheap Thousand-Refined Metal had crashed the market and left him unable to earn enough to repay Mo Yuan.
• Gu Yue watched Chen Qi train and recognized that his progress exceeded what ordinary cultivation could explain.
• Wu Zhangkong announced that every Class Zero student would enter the Skysea Grand Competition's youth individual and three-person team matches.
• Chen Qi clenched his fists and vowed to win the championship for the Alliance Leader.

Mo Yuan pressed Xu Tianming for Eastsea City to accept Anti-Entropy’s terms, confident the city would comply as Chen Qi’s abilities became known. He then offered Ling Zichen a new project: building warships.

• Mo Yuan gave Xu Tianming one day to discuss Anti-Entropy’s terms with Li Qingyun before Eastsea City had to respond.
• Ling Zichen questioned whether the Super Mutation Serum could work on her, and Mo Yuan said it was unsuitable for her for now.
• Mo Yuan explained that his long-term goal was to develop Stigmata from a person’s own power, especially for Tool Soul Masters.
• Mo Yuan said Eastsea City would accept his terms, citing Zhu Ming’s silence and Chen Qi’s upcoming appearance at the Skysea Grand Competition.
• Mo Yuan told Ling Zichen that her new project was to build warships.

Ling Zichen agreed to lead the development of Mo Yuan’s small floating warship, while Xu Tianming brought Anti-Entropy’s demanding terms to Li Qingyun. Li Qingyun decided Eastsea City would accept every condition, leaving Xu Tianming to deliver the answer the next day.

• Mo Yuan outlined a sixty-to-eighty-meter floating warship, and Ling Zichen agreed to review the existing designs and lead its construction.
• Ling Zichen asked to be the first to ride the finished ship, and Mo Yuan agreed while joking privately that she could test whether it crashed.
• Xu Tianming hurried to Li Qingyun and presented Anti-Entropy’s terms, including control over private territory, airspace, coastal waters, redevelopment, and City Guard mobilization.
• Li Qingyun weighed Mo Yuan’s influence and the potential benefits for Eastsea City, then ordered Xu Tianming to accept every condition without negotiation.
• Xu Tianming questioned how the people of Eastsea City would view the agreement, and Li Qingyun said they would understand in time.

Mo Yuan analyzed Xie Xie's blood to investigate how his Weapon Martial Souls might mutate into the Space-Time Dragon. He concluded that Martial Souls could arise from hereditary information activated by Soul Power and spiritual power, and wondered whether the unknown encoding might lead to something like Stigmata.

• Mo Yuan asked Amber to analyze Xie Xie's stored blood sample and examined its genetic sequences for anomalies.
• Amber found that unusual recurring fragments in Xie Xie's genome appeared more often in Beast Martial Soul holders than in Weapon Martial Soul holders.
• Mo Yuan hypothesized that Xie Xie carried an unexpressed hereditary fragment related to dragons and that Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King aura might help trigger its mutation.
• Mo Yuan discovered that Douluo Continent's people had more base pairs than ordinary humans, including soul-beast-derived genes that could respond to Soul Power.
• Mo Yuan recorded his hypothesis that Martial Souls were macroscopic products of hereditary information activated under specific conditions.
• Mo Yuan speculated that the unknown information encoding behind Martial Souls might lead to something similar to Stigmata.

At the Skysea Grand Competition opening ceremony, Tang Wulin befriended Shrek Academy's Xu Lizhi and agreed to dinner with him and Chen Qi. The meal ended in conflict when Ye Xinglan demanded that Tang Wulin pay, and Chen Qi paid their share and left with him, prompting Ye Xinglan to block their way.

• Mo Yuan's attempts to alter genes related to Martial Souls failed when the changed genes collapsed.
• Tang Wulin shared his snacks with the hungry Xu Lizhi, and they hit it off and planned to have dinner together.
• The Skysea Grand Competition's opening ceremony concluded with the announcement that the competition would begin the next day.
• Xu Lizhi brought Ye Xinglan to dinner with Tang Wulin and Chen Qi, where Ye Xinglan warned him not to trust outsiders.
• After dinner, Ye Xinglan demanded that Tang Wulin pay, but Chen Qi paid their share and tried to leave with him.
• Ye Xinglan blocked Chen Qi and Tang Wulin and demanded to know what Chen Qi had said.

The author explained the revised setting for the origin of Martial Souls, describing Bloodline as information encoding that could interact with Soul Power and spiritual power. The chapter ended with an account of how Weapon Martial Souls first arose and were later inherited.

• The author said the setting treated Bloodline as information encoding within the body, whose expression outside the body was a Martial Soul.
• The author explained that similarities between Bloodline and Soul Beast traits could determine which Beast Martial Soul a person awakened.
• The author said Soul Rings changed a person's Bloodline through compatibility with the Soul Beast's genes, promoting advancement.
• The author proposed that Weapon Martial Souls first formed when spiritual power reshaped Bloodline through imagination, and that inheritance preserved this trait.

Chen Qi defeated Ye Xinglan when she tried to block his way, then left the restaurant with Tang Wulin. Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi were left behind to pay the bill, and Chen Qi explained that he had hit her hard to stop her from pursuing them.

• Ye Xinglan attacked Chen Qi with her Stargod Sword, but he blocked her strikes, disarmed her, and knocked her down with a knee to the abdomen.
• Chen Qi taunted Ye Xinglan, then left the restaurant with Tang Wulin.
• Xu Lizhi tried to help Ye Xinglan, but she refused and insisted they should not let others bully them.
• Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi discovered they lacked enough money to pay, so the owner told them to wash dishes to cover the bill.
• Tang Wulin asked Chen Qi whether his final blow had been too heavy, and Chen Qi said he wanted to keep Ye Xinglan from following them.

Class Zero swept through the opening round of the Skysea Grand Competition, and Chen Qi faced Ye Xinglan in the next match. He defeated her brutally, leaving her unconscious as the spectators erupted in discussion.

• Tang Wulin defeated a one-ring spear wielder, Xie Xie swiftly beat his opponent, Chen Qi knocked his opponent off the platform with two punches, and Gu Yuena quickly won her match.
• Tang Wulin checked the next-round matchups, and Chen Qi went to the arena after being called for his match.
• Chen Qi discovered that his opponent was Ye Xinglan, who accused him of making her wash dishes and vowed to avenge herself.
• Ye Xinglan attacked with her Sword God Star and Sword God Net, but Chen Qi used White Armor Dragon Body to withstand her strikes and charge through her defenses.
• Chen Qi punched Ye Xinglan repeatedly, slapped her off the arena, and left her unconscious; the referee declared him the winner and carried her away.
• Spectators debated the brutal fight and the apparent discrepancy in the contestants' names, while people in a hidden private box watched through one-way glass.

Chen Xinjie watched Chen Qi’s overwhelming victory and learned from Mo Yuan about the technology that granted people Soul Beast abilities. Mo Yuan planned to expand testing through military and civilian volunteers, and Chen Xinjie considered how it might help the Blood God Legion.

• Chen Xinjie questioned the Skysea Grand Competition officials about Ye Xinglan’s participation, then dismissed them and reflected on Shrek Academy.
• Chen Xinjie called Mo Yuan, confirmed that Chen Qi’s performance was what Mo Yuan had wanted him to see, and asked about the purpose of the competition.
• Chen Xinjie described Chen Qi as having the strength of a humanoid Soul Beast, and Mo Yuan explained that his technology granted Soul Beast abilities independently of Soul Rings.
• Mo Yuan outlined plans to test the technology on volunteer soldiers and civilians, including people without Soul Power.
• Chen Xinjie thought that the technology might help strengthen the understaffed Blood God Legion.