Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi meets Ning Tian in Nine Treasures City. She is pleased to see him, and they tour the city together.
• Lu Yi admires the city’s blend of historic architecture, technology, and carefully preserved scenery. He buys several bulky Soul Tools for recording images and short-range communication, hoping to improve them later with his own alchemical techniques.
• Ning Tian invites Lu Yi to dinner at her family’s home. As they walk through the vast Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect grounds, she admits she has argued with her father and is unsure whether pursuing Soul Tool research is compatible with becoming a worthy sect master.
• Lu Yi cannot offer a clear answer about how to lead a sect, so their conversation turns awkward. A Flame-Tailed Sparrow catches his attention: although the sect calls it a bird with phoenix blood, Ning Tian regards it as a harmless, fire-attribute creature. Lu Yi suspects its unusual feathers may be useful.
• Wu Feng arrives to escort Ning Tian home, saying the sect master wants her back. She comforts Ning Tian about the quarrel, then recognizes Lu Yi and reacts with surprise.

Character developments

• Lu Yi shows curiosity and practical ingenuity, buying communication devices despite their limited range because he sees potential for improving them. He also remains observant and interested in the Flame-Tailed Sparrow’s properties.
• Ning Tian becomes more relaxed while spending time with Lu Yi, but her confidence falters over the tension between her personal interest in Soul Tools and her family’s expectations for her future as sect master. His visit gives her a reason to return home.
• Wu Feng appears eager to reconcile Ning Tian with her father and presents a notably affectionate, coaxing side when she arrives.

Significant themes

• Personal ambition versus family duty: Ning Tian must reconcile her technical interests with the expectations placed on the sect’s heir.
• Innovation and possibility: Lu Yi sees limitations in existing Soul Tools as challenges to overcome rather than reasons to dismiss them.
• Appearance versus reality: The Flame-Tailed Sparrow is promoted as having phoenix blood, but its true nature—and whether its feathers have practical value—remains uncertain.
• Rest, connection, and support: Lu Yi’s visit and Ning Tian’s companionship begin to ease her gloom, even though neither has an easy answer to her dilemma.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi and Ning Tian exchange teasing, warm conversation as they explore the city; she appreciates his visit and invites him home.
• Ning Tian confides in Lu Yi about her argument with her father and asks for advice. He listens but admits he cannot tell her how to become a good sect master.
• Lu Yi investigates the Flame-Tailed Sparrow while Ning Tian explains what she knows about it.
• Wu Feng takes Ning Tian’s arm, reassures her, and urges her to return—then is startled to find Lu Yi with her.

Plot points and events

• Ning Tian defends Lu Yi when Wu Feng questions why he is visiting, explaining that he is a guest and that she invited him to dinner.
• Wu Feng suspects Ning Tian has romantic feelings for Lu Yi and believes he has influenced her—especially her new interest in Soul Tools. Ning Tian dismisses her suspicions and sends Wu Feng to notify her father.
• Wu Feng tells Sect Master Ning Zheng that Ning Tian has brought home a male classmate. Ning Zheng is surprised but welcomes the possibility of recruiting a talented Shrek student.
• Asked about Lu Yi’s strength, Wu Feng calls them evenly matched: she claims she would win a fair fight, but admits his unusual methods could make him a serious opponent.
• Ning Zheng and Wu Feng go to meet Lu Yi. At the residence, Lu Yi and Ning Tian briefly discuss how the sect discourages pampered heirs and expects its members to handle basic responsibilities.
• Ning Zheng recognizes Lu Yi by reputation and warmly praises his performance in combat. He then sends Wu Feng to make tea, leaving her feeling like an outsider.

Character development

• Ning Tian acts increasingly comfortable and assertive around Lu Yi, defending him and inviting him home. She also explains the sect’s practical expectations for its heirs.
• Wu Feng grows more jealous and suspicious of Lu Yi’s closeness to Ning Tian. Though she distrusts him, she reluctantly acknowledges his abilities.
• Ning Zheng appears open-minded and pragmatic: he welcomes Lu Yi both as a potential recruit and as a possible suitor for his daughter.
• Lu Yi remains polite and composed, choosing not to provoke Wu Feng despite understanding her jealousy.

Character interactions

• Ning Tian repeatedly mediates between Lu Yi and Wu Feng, correcting Wu Feng’s assumptions and apologizing for her behavior.
• Wu Feng’s jealous teasing clashes with Ning Tian’s straightforward explanations; their friendship seems strained by Ning Tian’s growing attachment to Lu Yi.
• Ning Zheng’s interest in Lu Yi contrasts with Wu Feng’s suspicions. His easygoing remarks about young men pursuing Ning Tian—and her own attractiveness—embarrass Wu Feng.

Significant themes

• Jealousy and romantic suspicion: Wu Feng interprets Ning Tian’s attention to Lu Yi as evidence of a deeper relationship.
• Talent and reputation: Lu Yi’s achievements impress Ning Zheng even though Wu Feng finds his strength hard to judge.
• Responsibility and self-reliance: The sect avoids indulging its heirs, expecting them to develop practical habits rather than become dependent on servants.
• Family ambition and courtship: Ning Zheng sees the attention drawn by the sect’s young women as a potential way to attract talented people to the sect.

Key events and plot points

• Ning Zheng reflects on Lu Yi’s public achievements: he won the freshman assessment and academy tournament, injured a powerful opponent while still a Second-Ring Soul Master, became a Level 2 Soul Engineer in six months, and created a fast flying broom and a high-capacity storage bag.
• Impressed by Lu Yi’s talent and modesty, Ning Zheng invites him to stay at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s residence, partly so he and Ning Tian can discuss Soul Tools. Lu Yi accepts, interested in seeing the Flame-Tailed Sparrow.
• Ning Tian apologizes to her father for losing her temper. When Ning Zheng praises her friendship with Lu Yi, she blushes and insists they are only ordinary friends. Ning Zheng then asks why Wu Feng seems hostile toward Lu Yi.
• In his guest villa, Lu Yi consults the Magic Library and studies books on Wand-making. He learns about Wand woods, cores, and their possible combinations, as well as the story of James Steward, a non-magical craftsman who became a Wand-maker and helped found Ilvermorny.
• Lu Yi realizes that traditional Wand materials are difficult to obtain in this world: magical trees are hard to identify, unicorns and phoenixes are scarce, and dragon-heart cores require dangerous harvesting. The Flame-Tailed Sparrow may offer a clue, and he considers using Plant-type Soul Beasts for Wand wood and other Soul Beast materials for cores.

Character developments and interactions

• Ning Zheng shifts from admiring Lu Yi’s accomplishments to wondering whether Ning Tian is worthy of him, though he quickly reaffirms his faith in his daughter. His invitation shows he wants to bring the two closer.
• Ning Tian is embarrassed by her father’s matchmaking undertone and downplays her relationship with Lu Yi. Her apology also shows renewed warmth toward her father.
• Lu Yi remains modest despite his reputation and readily accepts Ning Zheng’s hospitality. His curiosity leads him to pursue Wand-making as a new field of study.
• Electrolux acts as Lu Yi’s knowledgeable librarian, quickly directing him to the relevant books and leaving Lu Yi impressed by his mastery of the Magic Library.
• Ning Zheng’s question about Wu Feng hints at tension between Wu Feng and Lu Yi that has not yet been explained.

Significant themes

• Talent and humility: Lu Yi’s achievements impress others all the more because he does not boast about them.
• Family affection and matchmaking: Ning Zheng’s pride in Ning Tian mixes with his hopes for her relationship with Lu Yi.
• Cross-world adaptation and invention: Lu Yi applies magical knowledge to the resources of a world where familiar Wand materials are rare, opening the possibility of using Soul Beasts instead.
• Learning through research: Lu Yi’s progress depends on study, experimentation, and reconsidering assumptions about how Wands are made.

Plot points and events

• Lu Yi searches Nine Treasures City for wood from Plant-type Soul Beasts and buys four rare logs, intending to make Wands.
• Over several days at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, he practices woodworking, spends time with the Flame-Tailed Sparrow, and eventually collects some of its tail feathers.
• On the fifth day, Ning Tian realizes she has been so absorbed in her own training that she has neglected Lu Yi. She visits his villa and finds him working inside a Tent.
• Lu Yi reveals his handmade Wands and asks Ning Tian to test them. The first three do not respond to her, but the fourth resonates with her and produces a warm light.
• Lu Yi says the Wand suits healing, defensive, and enhancing magic better than offensive spells. Ning Tian is delighted and asks when he will teach her magic, especially a green-flashing spell that could help protect her teammates.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows resourcefulness and patience, investing considerable effort in crafting magical tools from rare materials. He also forms a friendly bond with the Flame-Tailed Sparrow.
• Ning Tian recognizes that her intense focus on training has made her inattentive to Lu Yi, then approaches him to make amends. Her enthusiasm for the Wand reflects her commitment to supporting and protecting her team.
• Their interaction grows more affectionate: Ning Tian hugs Lu Yi in excitement, while he is briefly flustered. They then discuss how the Wand might complement her existing abilities.

Significant themes

• Magic and craftsmanship: Lu Yi applies practical skill and experimentation to create Wands from unusual wood.
• Compatibility and self-discovery: The Wand must choose its user, and Ning Tian’s successful match reveals a potential new path for her.
• Support as strength: Ning Tian welcomes a Wand suited to protection and healing, valuing her role in keeping teammates safe over offensive power.
• Care and consideration: Ning Tian reflects on having neglected Lu Yi, while Lu Yi’s gift demonstrates thoughtfulness and effort.

• Key events: Lu Yi deflects Ning Tian’s eagerness to use the Killing Curse by teaching her Lumos and then the Levitation Charm. She learns Lumos quickly and, after repeated practice, can cast Levitation with inconsistent success. Her first successful spell marks the arrival of a true Wizard in this world. The wand-based Soul Spirit Contract is also presented as a potential way to train many more Spirit Transmitters, once Lu Yi can produce wands in quantity.
• Lu Yi’s plans and principles: Lu Yi wants to build an organization to oversee magic and Spirit Transmission, but rejects the Tang Sect’s coercive rule that members who leave must surrender its secret arts through mutilation. He hopes wands can offer a gentler form of control: revoke a wand and a wayward member loses access to magic. He also wants clear rules, rewards, and proportionate punishments. For now, he is focused on his own cultivation and refining wand-making rather than immediately teaching a large group.
• Ning Tian’s development: Excited by magic and undeterred by failed attempts, Ning Tian considers reducing her focus on advanced Soul Tool studies to cultivate Soul Power and learn spells. She explains that her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul may eventually reach a bottleneck, while magic could give her another useful skill. She asks Lu Yi to keep teaching her and secures his promise that she will be his first official student when he begins teaching.
• Character interactions and tone: Lu Yi gently redirects Ning Tian’s dangerous enthusiasm, then encourages her curiosity while cautioning that Soul Power cultivation remains important. Ning Tian is candid and ambitious, and the two end the conversation playfully: Lu Yi jokingly calls her the Demon Sect’s senior disciple, and she objects to the name.
• Significant themes: The chapter explores responsible control of powerful knowledge, contrasting coercive punishment with a more limited, reversible safeguard; institution-building and accountability; and the pursuit of alternative skills when a person’s existing path may reach its limits.

Key plot points and events

• Ning Tian offers Lu Yi support with space, equipment, staff, or funding, but he plans to handle the Magic System’s initial preparations himself and wait until his panel rating reaches Full-fledged Wizard before promoting it.
• Her quick progress—learning two Spells in under an hour—convinces Lu Yi that support, healing, and unusual Tool Soul Masters may be promising Wizard candidates. Their relatively strong mental abilities could be put to practical use through magic.
• Lu Yi outlines the workforce his future organization will need: Spirit Transmitters, Alchemists, Enchanters, Potion Brewers, herb growers, and trusted wand-makers. He intends to train Wizards first, then select the best for Spirit Transmitter work.
• Ning Tian explains Soul Master wages, drawing on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s experience. Lu Yi considers ordinary pay modest and compares it with the much greater earning potential of Soul Engineers.
• He imagines employing skilled Wizards to enchant Flying Broomsticks for mass production. Even after offering workers a share of the profits, he believes the business could yield exceptionally high wages.
• Lu Yi sees the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s established commercial network as an ideal way to distribute and promote the products.

Character developments

• Lu Yi shifts from considering magic chiefly as a system to teach into planning a full organization and commercial enterprise. He is practical, protective of his secrets—especially wand-making—and convinced that high wages can motivate young Soul Masters.
• Ning Tian demonstrates a natural aptitude for Spells and proves useful beyond her magic training by advising Lu Yi on employment and sect compensation.
• The Snow Empress, though absent from the conversation, remains part of Lu Yi’s plans: he intends to meet his promise of training Spirit Transmitters capable of performing the Soul Spirit Contract within five years.

Character interactions

• Ning Tian offers concrete assistance, while Lu Yi politely declines for now, preferring to establish the foundations himself.
• Her Spell-learning progress gives Lu Yi evidence for his recruitment ideas; her knowledge of the Soul Master job market then helps him shape his compensation plans.
• Lu Yi’s plans depend on cooperation with the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, whose network could connect his future workforce and products to wealthy customers across the continent.

Significant themes

• Magic as opportunity: The Magic System could turn mental strength—an underused attribute for many Soul Masters—into practical abilities, especially for support-oriented fighters.
• Work, incentives, and ambition: Lu Yi believes generous pay and the prospect of expensive cultivation resources, such as Soul Bones, can spur young Soul Masters to excel.
• Organization and control: Building a magical industry requires specialized labor, while the closely guarded wand-making process gives Lu Yi a way to protect his system.
• Innovation and commerce: The chapter frames magical production as a business, combining inexpensive materials, enchanting, and a powerful distribution network to create a lucrative enterprise.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi postpones expanding his sales network, explaining that he first needs to train other Wizards so magical items can be produced at scale.
• During two days in Nine Treasures City, he helps Ning Tian complete her first Core Array, using practical shortcuts rather than conventional, repetitive training. He encourages her to take the Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment.
• Lu Yi teaches Ning Tian the Levitation Charm, its quicker combat-friendly form, and the Shield Charm. She masters the levitation spells quickly but needs more practice with the shield.
• Lu Yi, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng tour the city before returning to the Academy. Before leaving, Lu Yi trims the Flame-Tailed Sparrow’s feathers, confident they will regrow.
• Ning Tian passes her Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment and aims for Level 2; Lu Yi sets his own goal at Level 3.
• Two months later, three Inner Court disciples reach Soul Power bottlenecks. Lu Yi performs Soul Spirit Rituals for them using Soul Beasts they have cared for over time.
• The rituals go unusually smoothly: the beasts willingly merge with their companions, allowing the disciples to absorb Soul Rings beyond their normal limits. Two become Soul Emperors, while the third, a Quasi-Soul Sage, gains a powerful Soul Spirit and a Martial Soul Avatar.
• The Academy concludes that long-term, harmonious care between a Soul Master and Soul Beast can raise the Soul Ring age the Master can absorb more efficiently than extensive resource investment. It plans to pair the remaining beasts with suitable Soul Masters.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi develops Ning Tian’s Soul Engineering skills and magical abilities, and identifies Level 3 Soul Engineer as his next milestone. He also recognizes that he needs to improve his ability to seal Soul Ring energy during rituals.
• Ning Tian grows more confident and capable, passing her first Soul Engineer assessment and learning useful spells. She is grateful to Lu Yi, while regretting that she did not show him more of the city.
• Ling Luochеn experiences especially strong compatibility with her Ice Crystal Beast Soul Spirit. The fusion improves her understanding and control of ice and snow, though it does not bring her close to Ultimate Ice.
• Wu Feng accompanies Lu Yi and Ning Tian around the city.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Gong Changlong witness the successful rituals. Yan and Xuan recognize the method’s broader potential; Gong is pleased that assigning beasts to Soul Masters will reduce the workload on his staff.
• The three Inner Court disciples show their gratitude to Lu Yi by summoning their new Soul Spirits and bowing to him.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and trust: The Soul Spirit Rituals succeed because the Soul Beasts willingly accept their partners, showing that mutual attachment matters as much as power or technique.
• Practical innovation: Lu Yi favors efficient methods over rote practice, whether teaching Core Arrays or finding a more economical path to stronger Soul Rings.
• Growth through guidance: Ning Tian’s progress reflects the value of tailored instruction, while the Academy’s new plan applies Lu Yi’s discovery on a larger scale.
• Resourceful advancement: Harmonious relationships may achieve results more efficiently than spending vast resources, changing how the Academy approaches Soul Ring cultivation.

Key plot points and events

• After six successful Soul Spirit Contracts—including three monitored for over three months—the contracts are judged stable. A select group of Inner Court disciples, teachers, and Shrek City defenders are matched with compatible Soul Beasts and successfully form contracts. Interest spreads, but access remains limited because willing Soul Beasts are scarce and currently found only in the Far North.
• Lu Yi reflects that Di Tian might recognize the importance of Soul Spirits, but he lacks the strength to approach him. He focuses instead on his own development.
• Having passed the Level 3 Soul Engineer assessment, Lu Yi shifts from pursuing higher ranks to combining Soul Tools with Ancient Rune inscriptions. He modifies a level-four Flying Soul Tool with runes for levitation, stabilization, and acceleration.
• Testing shows the modified tool flies just as fast while using much less Soul Power, lowering the required cultivation from above level forty to about level thirty. Tang Ya, a level-thirty-seven Soul Elder, successfully flies it and is astonished by the improvement.
• Lu Yi explains little about his method and considers teaching only a limited set of practical, harmless Spells. More powerful magical disciplines will be restricted to people who join his side.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi demonstrates growing expertise across magic and Soul Engineering, while becoming increasingly deliberate about controlling who gains access to his knowledge.
• Tang Ya starts reluctant to test the Flying Soul Tool, but Lu Yi’s demonstration persuades her. Once airborne, she delights in flying, though she cannot figure out how he improved the device.
• Lu Yi and the wider Soul Spirit circle keep the new contracts largely secret, offering curious onlookers only vague answers.
• Lu Yi and the Tang Sect are positioned on opposing sides: he does not regard the sect as aligned with him.

Significant themes

• Trust and cooperation: Soul Spirit Contracts require willing Soul Beasts; human preparation alone cannot ensure success.
• Innovation through combining disciplines: Ancient Runes complement Soul Tool Core Arrays, improving efficiency without interfering with their operation.
• Control of knowledge: Lu Yi distinguishes between useful, harmless magic that might be taught broadly and advanced or dangerous arts reserved for loyal students.
• Power and responsibility: The potential of Soul Spirits and new magical technology is substantial, but their use depends on scarcity, access, and the strength to manage their consequences.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi tests his Enchanted Flying Soul Tool with classmates of different levels. Even a level-29 Soul Grandmaster can take off and remain airborne, showing that Enchanting greatly lowers the skill threshold for using a Flying Soul Tool.
• He redesigns a Level 4 Soul Tool as a flying shell that can fly on its own, without a Core Array or active propulsion. It responds to mental commands and includes improvements to speed, stability, protection, and safety; an embedded Arresto Momentum spell slows a dangerous fall.
• Lu Yi equips the shell with six Jet Nozzles intended for staged use: none for basic flight, two to reach Level 5 performance, four for Level 6, and all six for Level 7. He demonstrates that the shell can already fly at Level 4 standard without using any nozzles.
• Fan Yu initially doubts the design, assuming six nozzles would require a Level 6 Core Array. After seeing the flight demonstration, he recognizes the shell’s originality and agrees to design and install its Core Array and circuits.
• Fan Yu asks Lu Yi to make eleven more shells for an upcoming exchange visit to Sun Moon Academy. Lu Yi agrees, with Fan Yu offering funding, materials, assistants, and his share of the production fee.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi demonstrates inventive engineering and confidence in experimentation, though he regards his approach—designing the flying form first—as obvious. His ambition extends to making the craft faster through further testing.
• Fan Yu shifts from cautious skepticism to enthusiastic admiration. He recognizes that Lu Yi has challenged the Soul Tool Department’s usual design order, in which engineers build the shell around the Core Array.
• He Caitou and Huo Yuhao witness the demonstration. Caitou is astonished, while Yuhao is more receptive because he has experience with Flying Broomsticks.
• Lu Yi and Fan Yu establish a practical collaboration: Lu Yi supplies the innovative shell design, while Fan Yu contributes Core Array expertise and organizes production for the Academy.

Significant themes

• Innovation through breaking convention: Lu Yi’s shell-first design challenges established Soul Tool practice and opens a new way of thinking about construction.
• Complementary technologies: Enchanting and Soul Tool engineering can be combined to create capabilities neither approach offers alone.
• Efficiency and accessibility: The shell can fly without propulsion, saving Soul Power, while staged nozzles offer greater speed when needed and make advanced flight usable by lower-level cultivators.
• Individual invention serving collective interests: Lu Yi’s creation becomes valuable not only as a personal achievement but also as a potential advantage for Shrek Academy in its exchange with Sun Moon Academy.

Key plot points and events

• Fan Yu has Core Disciples reproduce the Flying Soul Tool’s shell from Tungsten Steel. Their carefully forged, Hundred-Refinement parts are far heavier and weaker than Lu Yi’s originals.
• Fan Yu finishes the Soul Tool’s interchangeable Level Five, Six, and Seven propulsion arrays. Lu Yi tests it: his current cultivation lets him reach about 240 km/h, faster than his broom and comparable market models.
• Lu Yi explains that he made the original shell from metal refined a thousand times. He demonstrates Thousand Refinement, hammering Tungsten Steel until it glows and hums, and distinctive patterns appear on its surface.
• Recognizing the method’s potential, Lu Yi proposes creating a separate blacksmith profession within the Soul Engineer system. Fan Yu rushes to report the idea to the department’s leadership, though he will first need to learn the technique himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi decides to share Thousand Refinement rather than spend his own limited time forging materials. He is confident that his more important advantage lies in the shell’s permanent Enchantments and Ancient Runes, which lighten and strengthen the metal and help the frame fly.
• Fan Yu moves from dissatisfaction with the replicas to amazement at Lu Yi’s method. He quickly grasps its institutional potential and acts on it.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, alongside Fan Yu, initially find Lu Yi’s description of Thousand Refinement implausible. Watching him demonstrate it convinces them of the method’s reality.
• Lu Yi suggests that physically strong Soul Masters—such as He Caitou—could specialize in forging, while Soul Engineers focus on designing and assembling Soul Tools.

Significant themes

• Specialization and innovation: Dividing material forging from Soul Tool design could make the field more accessible and improve its overall development.
• Sharing knowledge: Lu Yi chooses to reveal a technique originating on the continent rather than guard it as a personal secret.
• Limits of conventional technology: Thousand-Refinement metal and magical Enchantments can achieve results that ordinary Soul Tool materials and methods cannot.
• Potential versus effort: The method could transform Soul Engineering, but it is difficult to master and demands substantial time and labor.

Key plot points and events

• Fan Yu abandons much of his usual work to learn Lu Yi’s Thousand Refinement technique. After a week of practice, he succeeds in forging Thousand-Refined Heavy Silver, though the effort leaves him exhausted.
• Lu Yi judges the result to be a middling-grade Thousand-Refined piece and is surprised Fan Yu learned the method so quickly. Fan Yu recognizes the technique’s advantages over Hundred Refinement and pushes to spread it.
• The Soul Tool Department gathers its teachers for a demonstration. Fan Yu’s first piece is turned into a forging hammer, and the teachers learn how to recognize Thousand-Refined metal.
• The department surveys its teachers about establishing Blacksmithing as a profession. Nearly 90 percent support the idea in principle, but only one volunteers to become a blacksmith.
• With Fan Yu due to leave for a two-year exchange at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, the department needs someone who can teach forging in his absence. He begins training the sole volunteer, a teaching assistant with a strength-related Martial Soul.
• Fan Yu concludes that future blacksmiths should be recruited from Outer Court students choosing their specializations, especially those with strength-type Martial Souls. Qian Duoduo enthusiastically agrees to take the proposal to the Sea God Pavilion.

Character developments and interactions

• Fan Yu proves skilled and determined, mastering Thousand Refinement far faster than expected. He shifts from experimenting with the technique to planning how the department can teach and expand it.
• Lu Yi remains the source of the breakthrough and advises Fan Yu, but is considered too young—and too reluctant—to take charge of teaching.
• Xian Lin’er and Qian Duoduo support the effort to establish Blacksmithing and find a successor for Fan Yu. Qian Duoduo is especially eager to secure more students for the department.
• The teachers admire Thousand Refinement’s value but mostly refuse to learn it themselves, citing lack of talent and the time they have already invested in Soul Engineering.
• The volunteer teaching assistant takes a gamble on forging because he feels stuck as a Soul Engineer. Fan Yu believes his strength-related Martial Soul makes him a promising student.

Significant themes

• Creating value through skilled work: Fan Yu’s reasoning contrasts Soul Masters, who consume resources, with Soul Engineers and blacksmiths, who transform materials into valuable products.
• Principle versus personal commitment: Most teachers support creating a Blacksmith profession but avoid taking on the difficult work themselves.
• Talent, opportunity, and institutional change: Expanding forging depends on identifying suitable students and giving them room to develop a different specialty.
• Urgency and continuity: Fan Yu’s long absence makes training a replacement and recruiting new blacksmiths a pressing priority.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi finishes enchanting the shell components for a Flying Soul Tool, reducing their weight by over 90%. Fan Yu says the Core Array is still missing, but Lu Yi’s part is complete.
• Shrek Academy introduces blacksmithing as an elective for Outer Court students from their third year. Students who produce Thousand-Refined metal can earn extra Credits and advantages in the Inner Court assessment; exceptional smiths may receive Core Disciple or Inner Court status.
• Fan Yu explains that blacksmith apprentices can remain in the Martial Soul Department while the Soul Tool Department funds their training and receives the forged materials. The arrangement is meant to strengthen cooperation between the departments and help Soul Engineers specialize.
• Fan Yu assigns Huo Yuhao and He Caitou to learn blacksmithing alongside their other training. He Caitou welcomes the opportunity, since stronger Soul Tools require better materials.
• Lu Yi recognizes that blacksmithing offers talented students a viable career beyond competing for limited places as Soul Masters or becoming Soul Engineers. He also reflects that the field’s demanding manual work is less appealing to him than his own enchanting craft.
• Lu Yi’s cultivation is nearing rank forty-eight. He needs only one more successful Potion test to qualify as a Wizard Candidate and unlock the mysterious trial on his panel.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi completes his work for the Flying Soul Tool and sees the wider implications of the Academy’s new policy. He remains focused on his own progress and eagerly anticipates the trial.
• Fan Yu reveals that Lu Yi’s earlier conversation helped inspire the policy. He clarifies the benefits to the Soul Tool Department and takes responsibility for teaching the new course.
• He Caitou is enthusiastic about learning blacksmithing, seeing it as essential to producing durable, powerful Soul Tools for Huo Yuhao. He initially questions whether the department is losing out, then accepts Fan Yu’s explanation.
• Huo Yuhao is included in the new blacksmithing training as part of the Ultimate Individual Soldier Plan, though he has little direct interaction in the chapter.

Significant themes

• Specialization and cooperation: The Academy’s policy aims to bring the Martial Soul and Soul Tool Departments closer together by letting each focus on its strengths.
• Alternative paths to success: Blacksmithing gives students—especially those with strength-based Martial Souls—a route to status and security outside the fierce competition to become powerful Soul Masters.
• The value of scarce skills: Because Thousand-Refined metal is difficult to produce and always in demand, skilled blacksmiths can gain influence and opportunity.
• Ambition and anticipation: Lu Yi’s practical achievements contrast with his excitement over the unknown trial awaiting him.

Plot points and events

• Ning Tian tells Dean Xian Lin’er she is giving up her place in the exchange program at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Though the Academy made an exception to let her attend as a Level 2 Soul Engineer, Ning Tian believes another student could make better use of the opportunity.
• Xian Lin’er accepts her decision and, with the exchange beginning in three days, announces a new assessment to select a replacement.
• Ning Tian’s choice has deeper motives than she gives the dean. She has considered her father’s objections and her own cultivation limits, but she is also reluctant to take time away from Lu Yi, whose demanding work and steady progress have inspired her to train harder herself.
• Back at the Soul Tool Department’s testing ground, Ning Tian finds Lu Yi, Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and other exchange candidates testing newly designed Flying Soul Tools. He Caitou praises Lu Yi’s designs and explains that the students have been tasked with building suitable Core Arrays.
• Huo Yuhao offers to look out for Ning Tian during the exchange, only to learn she has withdrawn. The broadcast then calls Level 4-or-higher students under twenty to a fresh assessment, with the top performer earning the vacant place. The candidates hurry to compete.

Character developments

• Ning Tian shows generosity and sound judgment by relinquishing a rare opportunity, while her private thoughts reveal both self-doubt about her cultivation and a deepening commitment to her own training.
• Xian Lin’er moves from surprise to admiration, recognizing Ning Tian’s maturity, and takes responsibility for finding a replacement.
• Lu Yi remains intensely dedicated to his work and serves as an example that motivates Ning Tian; he understands her decision and is not surprised by it.
• Huo Yuhao shows concern for a teammate, while He Caitou expresses enthusiastic respect for Lu Yi’s engineering ability.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter emphasizes selflessness and opportunity: Ning Tian gives up a coveted place so a more qualified student can benefit.
• Ambition balanced by limits runs through her decision: she values Soul Tool study but recognizes her cultivation and competing responsibilities.
• Hard work and inspiration connect Ning Tian to Lu Yi, whose relentless schedule pushes her to improve.
• The key interactions are Ning Tian’s candid discussion with Xian Lin’er, the friendly exchange among Ning Tian, Lu Yi, Huo Yuhao, and He Caitou, and the candidates’ reaction to the newly announced competition.

Plot and events

• Huo Yuhao, He Caitou, and eight other Shrek Inner Court students depart for the exchange program at Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, led by Fan Yu and Dean Yan Shaozhe.
• They travel using Flying Soul Tools designed and built by Lu Yi, with Core Arrays made by the students. Though the tools look heavy and ordinary, they prove remarkably fast, light, efficient, and comfortable. The students realize the shells—not their own cores—are responsible for much of the performance.
• Yan Shaozhe and the students recognize that the tools could transform warfare by enabling rapid long-distance travel, reconnaissance, and attacks from unexpected directions. Their military potential is immense, though mass production seems impossible.
• The group reaches Maple Leaf City, where Shrek and Sun Moon exchange students. The meeting turns hostile when Jing Hongchen mocks Shrek’s tools, and Yan Shaozhe retaliates by criticizing Sun Moon students’ use of drugs to advance their cultivation.

Character developments and interactions

• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou, who understand how the tools were made, are especially impressed by their capabilities. Huo Yuhao also continues concealing his true Soul Engineer ability behind a lower-level badge.
• The Shrek students gain a new appreciation for Lu Yi’s engineering and begin thinking strategically about the tools’ military uses.
• Yan Shaozhe moves from supervising the journey to recognizing the tools’ broader strategic importance. He also defends Shrek sharply during the exchange.
• Jing Hongchen remains outwardly composed when Yan Shaozhe’s insult touches a longstanding weakness in Sun Moon’s training methods, but privately resolves to make the Shrek students’ journey more difficult.
• The exchange between Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen is outwardly courteous but marked by longstanding rivalry and mutual provocation.

Significant themes

• Technology and warfare: A seemingly simple travel tool could reshape military strategy and make traditional defenses inadequate.
• Innovation and craftsmanship: The students discover that a tool’s design and construction can matter more than the component they considered most important.
• Rivalry and institutional pride: Both academies use the exchange to compete and taunt one another.
• Progress at a cost: Sun Moon’s reliance on drugs to accelerate advancement is effective but leaves students with unstable Soul Power, a vulnerability Shrek exploits.

Key plot points and events

• Jing Hongchen escorts Shrek’s delegation toward Mingdu and is startled when their standard flying devices lift off without visible Soul Power or exhaust.
• After Fan Yu signals the group to activate their thrusters, Jing remains puzzled by the unexplained initial lift. He demonstrates Sun Moon technology with an advanced, nearly silent biomimetic flying Soul Tool, then presses Shrek’s group for information. They reveal nothing, and most of them do not know how the technology works.
• Jing recognizes that Shrek’s device may complement Virtue Hall’s research goals—efficient, affordable flight—and resolves to trace its creators, especially through Huo Yuhao and his companion.
• Meanwhile, Yan Shaozhe leads the Sun Moon exchange students toward Shrek. They must stop every three hours to replenish their Soul Power, giving Yan a quiet sense of superiority.
• As the group nears Shrek, Xiao Hongchen dwells on his humiliating defeat by Lu Yi two years earlier and vows to reclaim his pride.

Character developments and interactions

• Jing Hongchen shifts from dismissing Shrek’s technology to respecting its promise. His technical curiosity outweighs his pride, though he tactfully probes Fan Yu and the students for answers.
• Fan Yu understands the technological gap between the academies and recognizes Jing’s questioning as an attempt to extract secrets. He keeps Shrek’s information guarded.
• Xiao Hongchen remains bitter about Lu Yi’s victory and the crowd’s praise of him. His resentment has fueled two years of intense training; he is now a Soul Emperor and Level 7 Soul Engineer.
• Yan Shaozhe quietly relishes the contrast between Sun Moon’s need to recharge and Shrek’s apparent ease of flight.
• Xiao’s feelings are also shaped by Meng’s defense of Lu Yi: she sees his actions as a fair response to her use of poison, leaving Xiao feeling isolated in his grievance.

Significant themes

• Technological rivalry and innovation: Shrek’s unexplained flight system challenges Sun Moon’s established expertise and may offer technology that advances Virtue Hall’s ambitions.
• Pride versus curiosity: Jing is willing to admit uncertainty, while Xiao’s wounded pride keeps him focused on revenge.
• Humiliation and moral perspective: Xiao sees Lu Yi’s actions as a public insult, while others regard them as justified or even admirable.
• Power and dependence: The journey highlights differences in efficiency, resources, and Soul Power consumption between the two academies.

Plot points and events

• Lu Yi successfully brews a Strength Potion by substituting a Blazing Giant Lizard’s blood for the recipe’s Fire Salamander blood. The breakthrough unlocks the Wizard Candidate rank and makes the full-fledged Wizard exam available.
• His progress follows months of searching for replacement ingredients, including buying Soul Beast remains through Shrek City’s underground black market.
• The exam requires him to select Wizard professions and complete their tasks before choosing a main profession and receiving its talent and bonuses.
• Although the tasks might be incompatible with life on Douluo Continent, Lu Yi selects all nine professions, deciding that the potential rewards are worth the risk.

Character development

• Lu Yi’s persistence pays off after a long stretch of stalled experiments.
• He is ambitious and opportunistic, taking every available task rather than settling for one path. At the same time, he weighs the risk that some tasks may be impossible in his world, then accepts the gamble.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi has little direct interaction with others in the chapter, but his dealings with black-market sellers—and with people who begin sourcing scraps for him in exchange for finder’s fees—support his research.
• His choices are shaped by the exam panel’s rules and the uncertain connection between the Wizarding World and Douluo Continent.

Significant themes

• Persistence and experimentation: Progress comes through adapting recipes and patiently testing substitutes.
• Ambition versus risk: Lu Yi pursues every opportunity despite the possibility of failure.
• Adaptation across worlds: He must determine whether Soul Masters and Soul Beasts can fulfill tasks designed for Wizards and Fantastic Beasts.
• Specialization and breadth: The professions offer distinct bonuses, from combat-focused Auror skills to the broad, balanced benefits of a Magic Professor.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi reflects on the profession talents he may eventually earn, wondering whether “main profession” implies that secondary professions can also be unlocked. The system gives him no answers.
• While brewing Potions in a secluded part of the woods, Lu Yi is visited by Ning Tian. She tells him that Sun Moon Academy’s exchange students have arrived and that the Hongchen siblings are already asking about him, likely seeking a rematch after his past victory over Xiao Hongchen.
• Ning Tian notes that Lu Yi has kept a low profile, so few students know him. Lu Yi realizes that being better known could help him achieve his aims and decides to meet the exchange students.
• At the Outer Court cafeteria, Lu Yi and Ning Tian find an announcement for a Soul Fighting “exchange” that is really a public challenge to Shrek’s Martial Soul Department. The visiting students invite anyone under twenty to fight them one-on-one and specifically name Lu Yi and four former tournament teammates.
• The visitors will forgo long-range Soul Tools and use close-combat and defensive equipment, framing the event as a genuine test of Martial Soul cultivation. The announcement angers Shrek’s students, many of whom head for the arena.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan join Lu Yi. When Zhou asks about the visitors’ strength, Lu Yi says the Hongchen siblings are about seventeen and around Soul Emperor level. His answer shocks both boys.

Character developments

• Lu Yi moves from quietly concentrating on his research to recognizing that a public reputation could be useful. He remains confident about Xiao Hongchen and the coming challenge.
• Ning Tian shows concern for Lu Yi and warns him about the visitors’ likely motives, while also reacting with comic dread to the prospect of drinking his strange-smelling Potions.
• Zhou Sichen eagerly sees the challenge as a chance to prove himself, though he has little idea how formidable the opponents may be.

Significant themes

• Reputation versus privacy: Lu Yi’s low profile protects him from trouble but may limit what he can accomplish.
• Rivalry and rematches: Xiao Hongchen’s lingering resentment and the visitors’ pointed challenge revive the consequences of Lu Yi’s earlier victory.
• Competition as a test of growth: By setting aside their strongest Soul Tool approach, the exchange students present the event as a meaningful test of Martial Soul ability.

Character interactions

• Ning Tian teases Lu Yi about his Potion-making and then warns him about the Hongchen siblings.
• Lu Yi accepts her warning without anxiety and invites her to accompany him.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan discuss the challenge with Lu Yi; Zhou speculates that the visitors are targeting former tournament members, and Lu Yi confirms it before revealing the Hongchen siblings’ strength.

Summary

This supplementary chapter lists wizarding professions, their specializations and talents, and the tasks required for each. Specializations rank from S to SSS and offer extra benefits to learning, research, spellcasting, or crafting without weakening other abilities. A profession’s talent is also granted upon selection.

Extremely difficult

• Auror: Gather clues about ten notorious Dark Wizards, then find and defeat them.
• Magic Professor: Teach ten magically talented newcomers until they reach Advanced Apprentice level in four foundational subjects.

Difficult

• Potion Brewer: Brew seven types of Potent Grade Potions.
• Alchemist: Refine five types of high-purity elemental substances.
• Magic Craftsman: Create five different magical items of Rare Grade or higher.

Moderate

• Magizoologist: Gain the trust of three endangered Fantastic Beasts, or care for them in captivity.
• Herbologist: Grow supplied herbs and Fantastic Plant seeds with at least a 95% survival rate.
• Witch Doctor: Heal three gravely injured people.
• Diviner: Foresee a major crisis and take action to avoid it.
  The chapter emphasizes that task difficulty is judged by Wizarding World standards, so the challenges may differ in difficulty in the Douluo World. Choosing a primary profession is permanent, making the decision an important one. The author notes that the information is supplementary and need only be skimmed.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi reveals that the Hongchen siblings were already Soul Kings at fifteen and are now likely Soul Emperors. Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan, both far less advanced, abandon any thought of challenging Sun Moon Academy.
• Lu Yi reassures them that the visiting students have agreed to fight without their usual ranged methods, and says he intends to accept Xiao Hongchen’s challenge himself.
• The Sun Moon students wait in the Soul Fighting Arena, joking about Shrek’s high prices and cramped dorms. The ten exchange students are all under twenty; five are at least Soul Kings, while the others have reached Soul Ancestor level or higher.
• Xiao Hongchen waits for the Shrek students named in the challenge announcement. When Lu Yi and Ning Tian arrive, he blocks their way and taunts Lu Yi. Lu Yi answers by recalling Xiao’s loss and injury from their previous encounter.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Sichen feels increasingly overshadowed by Lu Yi, whose strength has risen dramatically since they first met. His joking comment about a “thick barrier” between them reflects both affection and insecurity; Cao Jinxuan teases him about challenging the exchange students later.
• Lu Yi is confident and eager to test himself against the visitors, while also trying to steady his friends.
• Xiao Hongchen remains proud and resentful, believing the other named Shrek students are avoiding him. His confrontation with Lu Yi revives their rivalry.
• Ning Tian accompanies Lu Yi as he arrives at the arena; the scene ends with Lu Yi and Xiao trading barbs.

Significant themes

• Talent, effort, and status: The gap between Lu Yi and his friends—and between the Hongchen siblings and ordinary peers—underscores how exceptional cultivation can unsettle even capable students.
• Rivalry and pride: The exchange match is framed as both a chance to train and a contest over each academy’s reputation.
• Changing relationships: Zhou Sichen’s “barrier” remark captures how rapid growth can create distance between friends, even when their bond remains warm.

Plot and events

• Xiao Hongchen confronts Lu Yi, still bitter about losing to him two years earlier. Now a Soul Emperor, he demands a rematch under restricted conditions: Xiao will not use long-range Soul Tools, and Lu Yi will not use Invisibility.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan mock Xiao Hongchen, provoking him to reveal his six Soul Rings. They refuse his challenge when they realize how outmatched they are.
• Lu Yi accepts Xiao Hongchen’s terms. Xiao, impressed, says he will wait for him in the tournament’s final match and promises not to kill him, acknowledging that Lu Yi once showed restraint.
• Ning Tian reassures the others that Lu Yi had held back in their earlier fight. Xiao Xiao and a newly energized Wang Dong arrive; Wang Dong wants to compete too, eager to prove she was not absent from the earlier Finals because she lacked ability.
• Wu Feng joins the group and encourages Lu Yi to defeat the Sun Moon Academy team. Lu Yi brushes aside her attempt to ingratiate herself and leads everyone toward the Soul Fighting Zone.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Hongchen remains driven by his old defeat, but his challenge also reveals respect for Lu Yi’s willingness to face him fairly.
• Lu Yi shows greater confidence than before: he believes he can rely on his strength as well as his tactical skill.
• Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan use humor to defend Lu Yi, then sensibly withdraw when they recognize the danger.
• Wang Dong is eager to prove herself after feeling overlooked in the previous Finals; her cultivation has advanced substantially.
• Wu Feng is uneasy about her place in the group and about Lu Yi’s influence over Ning Tian, so she approaches cautiously.
• Ning Tian openly backs Lu Yi, while Xiao Xiao arrives curious about the commotion.

Themes

• Growth and redemption: Xiao Hongchen seeks to overturn an old defeat, while Lu Yi and Wang Dong demonstrate how much they have grown.
• Fairness and restraint: The fighters agree to limit their strengths, and Xiao acknowledges Lu Yi’s earlier mercy.
• Rivalry and reputation: The coming match offers a chance for the characters to prove themselves before their peers.
• Belonging and insecurity: Wang Dong wants recognition, while Wu Feng feels excluded from Ning Tian’s new circle.