Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi persuades Di Tian that Soul Spirits could reduce the number of Soul Beasts hunted for Soul Rings. He argues that Soul Master numbers thin sharply at higher ranks, while the hunt for older beasts does disproportionate harm; Soul Spirits could therefore help preserve the population. The Auspicious Beast’s blessing might further strengthen the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Tian remains guarded and demands to witness a Soul Spirit contract firsthand. Lu Yi asks for a dying or weakened Soul Beast of at least ten thousand years old, preferably no older than fifteen thousand, and says Zhou Sichen should be the one to fuse with it.
• Di Tian agrees and assigns the task to the Scarlet King, who is visibly unhappy about being given another errand for a human.
• Di Tian then locates Lu Yi’s party and brings him through a spatial rift. The group has fought a difficult battle: an Evil Soul Master lies dead, several members are wounded, and Elder Gong is away pursuing the fleeing enemies.
• The party is alarmed by Di Tian’s overwhelming presence. He ignores the Soul Douluo’s attempt to thank him and simply orders Lu Yi to bring Zhou Sichen, then returns through the rift.

Character developments

• Di Tian shifts from skepticism toward cautious hope, though he conceals his feelings and insists on proof before trusting Lu Yi’s claims.
• Lu Yi shows confidence in his plan and makes practical use of Di Tian’s cooperation, while privately admiring Di Tian’s powerful spatial ability.
• The Scarlet King resents being made to serve a human’s requests, but obeys Di Tian.
• Zhou Sichen is poised to become the first test case for the Soul Spirit contract, though the chapter does not yet show the fusion.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi makes an ecological and strategic case to Di Tian, who responds with a demand for a live demonstration.
• Di Tian delegates the search to the Scarlet King, whose displeasure contrasts with his respectful obedience.
• The injured party reunites with Lu Yi but remains wary of Di Tian; their relief at Lu Yi’s return is overwhelmed by fear of the Ferocious Beast’s aura.
• Di Tian bypasses the group’s attempted conversation and directs Lu Yi to bring Zhou Sichen.

Significant themes

• Conservation and coexistence: Soul Spirits are presented as a possible alternative to hunting, offering Soul Beasts a path to survival.
• Trust through evidence: Di Tian is willing to consider Lu Yi’s proposal but requires a demonstration rather than relying on promises.
• Power and vulnerability: The humans’ injuries and fear highlight the vast gap between them and Di Tian, while Soul Beast survival remains threatened by human technology and cultivation practices.

Key plot points and events

• After returning safely from his encounter with the Beast God, Lu Yi tells the others that he is discussing Soul Spirits with him and brings Zhou Sichen along, suggesting there may be an opportunity for him.
• Meng Hongchen follows out of curiosity, and her brother Xiao Hongchen trails after her to keep her safe. Lu Yi allows both siblings to come.
• Di Tian takes them through a Spatial Rift to the Lake of Life, where the life force and spiritual energy are exceptionally dense. He warns them not to approach the lake but leaves them free to explore the surrounding area.
• Lu Yi asks Xiao Hongchen about the staffs used by the Evil Soul Masters who attacked earlier. Xiao confirms they were Soul Tools with unusual designs, unlike the technology he knows from the Sun Moon Empire. Lu Yi concludes that Xiao knows little about the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Lu Yi permits the Hongchen siblings to witness what happens next, provided they keep it secret. They agree.
• The Scarlet King returns with two Soul Beasts, while Di Tian arrives with Bi Ji, a powerful Emerald Swan known for her healing abilities. With humans and Soul Beasts gathered, Lu Yi prepares to begin the next stage of his plan.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Hongchen overcomes her fear and follows Lu Yi, driven by curiosity about his connection to the Beast God and the mysterious Soul Spirits.
• Xiao Hongchen is protective of his sister and follows her into danger, while also revealing his expertise in Soul Tool technology.
• Zhou Sichen trusts Lu Yi and follows him despite being uneasy; Lu Yi encourages him to stay alert for the upcoming event.
• Lu Yi takes control of the situation, deliberately letting the siblings observe rather than forcing secrecy, while carefully assessing what they know.
• Di Tian establishes boundaries around the Lake of Life, while Bi Ji’s gentle presence contrasts with the intimidating reputation of the Ferocious Beasts.

Significant themes

• Trust and responsibility: Zhou follows Lu Yi, and Xiao risks entering an unknown place to protect Meng.
• Curiosity and discovery: Meng and Xiao encounter the Lake of Life and learn that Soul Spirits may soon become public knowledge.
• Secrecy and political caution: Lu Yi limits who can share what they witness, mindful of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Contrasts between worlds: The familiar human technology of Soul Tools is set against the extraordinary power and life-rich environment of the Soul Beast domain.

Plot points

• Lu Yi identifies the Hurricane Falcon as a strong fit for Zhou Sichen: its speed, attack power, and enhanced eyesight would add a new dimension to his abilities. Zhou’s existing summoned beasts—bear, tiger, and thorny plant—already provide defense, strength, fire attacks, and control, but are poorly suited to striking an enemy’s rear.
• Before the fusion, Lu Yi explains to Di Tian that Zhou’s Summoning Martial Soul inspired the Soul Spirit concept. Zhou demonstrates that his summoned beasts have little independent thought and fight effectively only when he controls them.
• Di Tian approves the attempt. Lu Yi offers the wounded Hurricane Falcon dried meat and explains how Soul Spirits preserve a beast’s soul in a symbiotic bond with a Soul Master.
• Understanding that fusion will save it from its failing body, the Falcon accepts. Lu Yi begins the Soul Spirit Ritual, with Zhou keeping his Martial Soul active and calming the Falcon as a glowing hexagram appears.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Sichen recognizes the Falcon’s potential and eagerly focuses on it. His limitations as a summoner become clear: he must direct his beasts closely, though Lu Yi expects a Soul Spirit could fight with greater autonomy and free Zhou to use other abilities.
• Lu Yi acts as mediator and guide, openly explaining the risks and rationale to Di Tian, then building trust with the Falcon before starting the ritual.
• Di Tian observes the demonstration and permits the fusion, apparently reassured by Lu Yi’s transparency and confidence.
• The Hurricane Falcon moves from wariness to cautious acceptance after receiving food and learning that a Soul Spirit can retain its soul. The Blood-Red Baboon remains hostile, but it is not the pair’s focus.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and autonomy: Soul Spirits differ from Zhou’s summons because they possess minds of their own, potentially making him a more versatile fighter.
• Trust and consent: Though the contract no longer requires a Soul Beast’s strong willingness, the ritual cannot be forced against active hostility; the Falcon must accept it.
• Survival through transformation: The Falcon chooses a restricted but stable symbiotic existence over the torment of its dying body and likely death.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi completes Zhou Sichen’s Soul Spirit Ritual without complications. He seals away several thousand years of the Hurricane Falcon’s Soul Power so it can be released gradually as Zhou cultivates, helping both Zhou and the Soul Spirit grow.
• Zhou awakens to find a black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring as his fourth ring—an extraordinary result achieved without the pain or Soul Shock he expected.
• The Hurricane Falcon appears as a living, independently acting Soul Spirit. It can take physical form and even lands on Lu Yi’s shoulder.
• The fusion produces an unexpected bond through Zhou’s Tome Martial Soul rather than the usual connection to the Sea of Consciousness. Zhou and the Falcon share senses and intentions.
• Zhou’s new Soul Skill summons a duplicate of the Falcon. The duplicate can act independently at long range, or Zhou can take control and empower it. While doing so, however, Zhou himself is vulnerable.
• Di Tian concludes that the Soul Spirit Contract should be promoted: it could give injured, dying, or aging Soul Beasts a new existence while reducing the need to hunt them for Soul Rings.
• The Hongchen Siblings realize the significance of Lu Yi’s openness and recognize that he does not treat them as representatives of an enemy nation. Xiao Hongchen gives up seeing Lu Yi as a genuine rival.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Sichen is overwhelmed with gratitude and pledges himself to follow Lu Yi. The Soul Spirit gives him a renewed path forward, transforming his uncertain prospects and making his own abilities more consequential.
• Lu Yi remains focused on testing the results, but is surprised by the unusual Martial Soul-mediated bond and the Falcon’s physical presence.
• Di Tian evaluates the ritual pragmatically and supports its wider use; Bi Ji is especially pleased that the Falcon has received a second chance at life.
• The Hongchen Siblings move from astonishment at the technique to a deeper respect for Lu Yi. His decision to let them witness the ritual changes how they understand their relationship with him.

Significant themes

• Mutual growth and renewal: Soul Masters and Soul Spirits can support one another over time, and a Soul Spirit can gain a new life rather than simply die.
• Trust and partnership: Zhou and the Falcon’s shared senses create cooperation without rigid control.
• Power with trade-offs: Zhou gains exceptional range and combat versatility, but controlling and empowering the duplicate leaves his own body exposed.
• Openness across divisions: Lu Yi’s willingness to share the ritual challenges the assumptions and hostilities separating nations.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After seeing the Soul Spirit Ritual, Bi Ji becomes more confident in Lu Yi and invites him to her territory, where injured and dying Soul Beasts might choose to become Soul Spirits. She believes the contract gives them an alternative to simply waiting for death.
• Lu Yi agrees. With support from both Bi Ji and Di Tian, the Star Dou Great Forest joins the Far North as a potential source of Soul Beasts nearing the end of their lives.
• Bi Ji gathers several seriously injured or aging Soul Beasts for Lu Yi and his companions to consider. Meng Hongchen recognizes a Poison-Eating Giant Frog as a strong match for her poison-based Martial Soul; Lu Yi finds no suitable partner for himself among the candidates.
• Meng uses her own poison to gain the frog’s trust. With Bi Ji translating and Lu Yi guiding the ritual, Meng successfully fuses with the thirty-two-thousand-year-old frog without needing medicine.
• The Soul Spirit can consume the toxic buildup in Meng’s body, easing a longstanding problem caused by her Martial Soul. Overjoyed and grateful, she hugs Lu Yi.
• Di Tian sends Zhou Sichen and the Hongchen siblings away, but keeps Lu Yi behind because he still wants to understand Lu Yi’s unusual abilities. He offers to arrange a Soul Beast for Lu Yi’s next Soul Ring.
• Lu Yi lists several possible elemental or mental attributes. Di Tian believes he has identified the explanation for the Golden Tree’s favor and proposes a powerful lightning-type Plant Soul Beast—though he warns Lu Yi that fusing with it may be dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Bi Ji shifts from cautious observer to active supporter of the Soul Spirit system, motivated by compassion for the Soul Beasts she has treated.
• Meng Hongchen gains a Soul Spirit that both complements her Martial Soul and offers a way to remove the poison that has troubled her for years. Her gratitude deepens her connection with Lu Yi.
• Xiao Hongchen is disappointed that he cannot yet obtain a Soul Spirit because he is below the required level. He also misreads Meng’s impulsive hug as a possible romantic shift and suspects Lu Yi may have influenced her.
• Lu Yi continues developing the Soul Spirit system and training Spirit Transmitters, but remains wary of Di Tian’s growing interest in him.
• Di Tian becomes increasingly convinced that Lu Yi is extraordinary. He protects and investigates him, while also offering help that makes Lu Yi uneasy.
• Bi Ji’s approval and Di Tian’s authority make the ritual possible; Zhou Sichen and the Hongchen siblings leave under Di Tian’s orders, trusting Lu Yi will be safe.

Significant themes

• Compassion and choice: Soul Beasts are treated as individuals who can choose a new path rather than as resources or prey.
• Mutual benefit and compatibility: A successful contract depends on trust and a suitable match, not force.
• Healing beyond power: Meng’s Soul Spirit is valuable not only for combat but for resolving a serious personal ailment.
• Trust mixed with uncertainty: Lu Yi earns support from the Soul Beasts, yet Di Tian’s attention and unexplained motives leave him cautious.

Plot and key events

• Lu Yi recognizes Di Tian’s proposed lightning-attribute Plant-type Soul Beast as the Thunderclap Infernal Vine, which cultivates by drawing down lightning. Though powerful, it typically destroys itself before reaching fifty thousand years, and Lu Yi worries that bonding with one could mean being struck by lightning repeatedly.
• Di Tian insists on taking Lu Yi to find one the next day. He hopes the Vine’s response will help determine whether Lu Yi is truly the Child of Nature, since the Myriad Demon King could only confirm that Lu Yi carries an aura like the Golden Tree.
• Bi Ji reassures Lu Yi that the Neutral Zone is safe and leaves him to rest. Lu Yi remains uneasy about Di Tian’s assumptions and doubts he is the Child of Nature.
• While making grilled fish, Lu Yi is joined by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. She initially denies wanting any, but the taste transforms her view of human-cooked food. She devours the fish, returns with more, and asks Lu Yi to prepare it.
• As they eat, Lu Yi reflects on the Auspicious Beast’s possible manipulation by the God King Buddha Tang. He suspects the Beast’s supposed love for Huo Yuhao was influenced by Wang Dong’er’s soul, and believes Buddha Tang may also have engineered events surrounding Qiankun Asking Love Valley. Lu Yi decides to avoid the valley.
• A divination-task notification confirms that Lu Yi has foreseen and actively avoided a major crisis, completing the task.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi is cautious and skeptical: he questions Di Tian’s plan, resists being labeled the Child of Nature, and uses his knowledge of the story’s events to anticipate danger. His playful hospitality also draws the Three-Eyed Golden Lion into a more relaxed, personable exchange.
• Di Tian remains determined to test Lu Yi’s nature, directing the plan without inviting refusal.
• Bi Ji acts as a reassuring host, emphasizing Lu Yi’s safety in the Neutral Zone.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion reveals a less haughty, more curious side through her fascination with cooked fish, though she retains her pride and dismissive attitude toward humans.

Significant themes

• Identity and uncertainty: Lu Yi’s nature remains unclear, while others interpret his abilities and aura as signs of a special identity.
• Manipulation and agency: Lu Yi questions whether the Auspicious Beast’s feelings and key events in her life were shaped by powerful outside forces.
• Knowledge as protection: Lu Yi’s foreknowledge helps him recognize a danger and avoid it.
• Connection through ordinary pleasures: Sharing food briefly bridges the distance between Lu Yi and the proud Auspicious Beast.

• Plot and events: Lu Yi receives a Divination Crystal Ball as a career-task reward. It can show a future scene, but has strict limits: predictions can be disrupted by involvement, the images offer no sound, and the ball cannot be reused until the predicted time has passed. He tests it on Zhou Sichen and sees that his group appears safe. Later, the Magizoologist task updates: Lu Yi has discovered two endangered Fantastic Beasts and earned the trust of one.
• Character developments: Lu Yi reasons that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion is the Fantastic Beast whose trust he has gained. He also concludes that the Scarlet King is likely the second endangered creature, since Soul Beasts in human form apparently do not count. Lu Yi explains why he prefers being human despite its hardships: people should live according to their nature rather than trade their roots for another way of life. The Auspicious Beast, curious about human life, seems to reflect on his answer.
• Interactions and turning points: The Three-Eyed Golden Lion challenges Lu Yi’s claim about future-seeing, then explores his magically enlarged Tent and casually claims it as her “cave.” While she naps, Lu Yi secretly takes a tuft of her tail fur to use as exceptional Wand-core material. Later, she surprises him as he cultivates and initiates Attribute Guidance, allowing them to experience one another’s memories.
• Themes: The chapter contrasts human and Soul Beast societies—ambition, competition, and short lives against strength-based, simpler living—and questions whether one way of life is truly better. It also explores fate and uncertainty: even a tool that glimpses the future cannot guarantee outcomes. The memory-sharing highlights how a brief human life can contain more variety and change than millennia of routine.
• Ending: Through Lu Yi’s memories, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion sees his unusual past, including a polluted home world, a magical school, and adventures in the Star Dou Great Forest. She recognizes the forest and then asks whether Lu Yi is “not from here,” hinting that she has noticed something strange about his origins.

Key plot points and events

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion admits that she used Attribute Guidance on Lu Yi. He is upset because he had refused it to protect his privacy, but learns that she saw his memories rather than his thoughts.
• Lu Yi gives her a vague explanation for his unusual origins and steers their conversation toward her impressions of the human world. She dislikes it, and he tactfully lets the discussion end with her returning to his tent.
• Attribute Guidance has greatly expanded Lu Yi’s Sea of Consciousness and refined his light and fire attributes, though he does not gain Huo Yuhao’s Eye of Destiny.
• Lu Yi consults Electrolux, who advises him not to overthink the Golden Lion’s interest in humanity. Electrolux also reveals that Lu Yi can begin learning Necromancy after gaining his fifth Soul Ring, but warns him to keep it secret because it resembles an Evil Soul Master’s techniques.
• Di Tian takes Lu Yi to a storm-lashed coastal peak where a Thunderclap Infernal Vine grows. After clearing the clouds, Di Tian guards the area while Lu Yi approaches the plant.
• Lu Yi explains the Soul Spirit Contract and offers the vine a way to retain its intelligence, continue cultivating, and eventually return to life as a rooted plant. This escape is especially valuable because the vine risks exploding as its cultivation rises.
• The vine agrees. Lu Yi begins the contract, relying on his practiced ability to divide his attention. Watching from above, Di Tian wonders what happened to the Golden Tree and why a “Child of Nature” has appeared.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi is unsettled by the Golden Lion’s disregard for his privacy but responds with diplomacy rather than confrontation. His improved spiritual and elemental abilities also give him confidence to pursue the powerful Thunderclap Infernal Vine.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion remains proud and dismissive of human society, yet she accepts Lu Yi’s thanks and returns to the tent satisfied.
• Electrolux acts as Lu Yi’s adviser, confirming his growth and preparing him for the dangerous, secret study of Necromancy.
• Di Tian supports Lu Yi by clearing the storm and protecting him, while growing increasingly concerned about Lu Yi’s connection to nature and the Golden Tree.
• The Thunderclap Infernal Vine communicates cautiously but ultimately trusts Lu Yi’s offer and agrees to the contract.

Significant themes

• Trust and privacy: Lu Yi’s discomfort with the Golden Lion’s access to his memories contrasts with the trust he must build with the vine.
• Mutual benefit and survival: The Soul Spirit Contract is presented as a partnership that preserves the vine’s intelligence and offers it a way to escape its dangerous natural fate.
• Hidden power and responsibility: Lu Yi’s new abilities and forthcoming Necromancy bring opportunity, but also require discretion and careful choices.
• Nature and mystery: Di Tian’s concern over the “Child of Nature” suggests that Lu Yi’s connection to the Golden Tree may signal a larger disturbance.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi completes a difficult Soul Spirit Contract with the Thunderclap Infernal Vine, enduring intense electrical pain as he keeps the ritual steady.
• The vine tells him that the Golden Tree gave him something, but confirms he does not carry a Seed of Nature. Lu Yi is disappointed, though he remains curious about what the gift might be.
• The vine reveals its long history and unusual role: at 37,000 years of cultivation, it has been drawing lightning away from its kin so they can survive. Lu Yi agrees to help a 99-year-old vine reach the century mark and take over.
• With Di Tian’s help in managing the storm, Lu Yi’s Soul Spirit guides lightning onto the successor vine until it reaches 100 years of cultivation. The vine’s kin can now follow their established cycle of succession.
• Lu Yi chooses Forest of Lightning as his fifth Soul Skill, favoring its broad area and control over the more destructive but Soul-Power-intensive Thunderclap Hell. He discovers that he can weave Spells into the lightning and even cast them through guided lightning without his Wand, provided thunderclouds are present.
• Afterward, Lu Yi considers how to acquire other elemental powers. He identifies Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow as a possible route to a top-tier ice attribute, while noting how rare genuinely powerful wind- and earth-controlling Soul Beasts are.
• Lu Yi tells Di Tian that the vine ruled out a Seed of Nature. Di Tian admits he suspected Lu Yi might be the Child of Nature and explains the grave consequences he had feared. Reassured, he agrees they can return.

Character developments

• Lu Yi gains a powerful fifth Soul Skill and a new way to use Spells, while learning that the Golden Tree’s gift is unusual but not the Seed of Nature. He also shows consideration for the vine’s species by helping arrange its succession.
• Thunderclap Infernal Vine becomes Lu Yi’s Soul Spirit and entrusts him with protecting its kin’s survival after recognizing it is nearing its own limit.
• Di Tian shifts from suspicion and concern to relief once he learns Lu Yi is not the Child of Nature.

Significant themes

• Mutual responsibility and survival: Lu Yi’s agreement to help the vine protects its entire population, not just himself.
• Power balanced by cost: The new abilities are formidable, but drawing lightning and combining it with Spells consumes substantial Soul Power and requires storm clouds.
• Nature’s fragile balance: The Seed of Nature is tied to the health of the planet, and its emergence would signal severe harm to the Life Core.
• Curiosity and uncertainty: Although Lu Yi gains clarity about what he does not possess, the Golden Tree’s unexplained gift remains a mystery.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi and the vine discuss its nature, cultivation, abilities, and request for help; their exchange becomes a partnership built on trust.
• Lu Yi asks Di Tian to stop dispersing the storm so the vine can complete its task, then thanks him for his assistance.
• Lu Yi questions Di Tian about his interest in the Golden Tree’s aura. Their conversation reveals Di Tian’s fears about the Seed of Nature and ends with his relief.

Plot and key events

• After gaining his fifth Soul Ring and a second Soul Spirit, Lu Yi travels with Di Tian toward the Star Dou Great Forest. Di Tian demonstrates his extraordinary spatial abilities, explaining that his spatial Soul Core lets him cross vast distances at far lower cost than would otherwise be possible.
• At the forest’s Core Zone, Xiong Jun is fighting Xuan Zi, who has come with Yan Shaozhe and Gong Changlong to retrieve Lu Yi. The confrontation began after Xiong Jun taunted the Shrek delegation by claiming a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear might have eaten Lu Yi.
• Di Tian stops the fight and permits Shrek to take Lu Yi, while reminding him to fulfill his promise concerning Soul Spirits. Lu Yi emerges unharmed, confirms he was taken Soul Hunting rather than held captive, and leaves with the Shrek group.
• On the flight back, Lu Yi spots the Auspicious Beast watching him. Worried it may try to take human form, he secretly sends it a Howler intended to spoil its opinion of him.
• The group discusses the risks of sharing Soul Spirit and forging knowledge with Sun Moon Academy’s exchange students. Gong Changlong also challenges Yan Shaozhe about combining the students’ Soul Hunt with a Beast Pen mission; Yan’s real motivation was partly to save the Academy money.
• Yan Shaozhe announces that Zhou Sichen’s success with a Soul Spirit has earned him support on the level of an Inner Court disciple. Lu Yi reveals his new Soul Ring is from a 30,000-year-old lightning-type Soul Beast. Impressed by his age and cultivation, Yan says Lu Yi can begin the Inner Court assessment.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows growing confidence after becoming a five-ring Soul King, earns Di Tian’s respect through his Soul Spirit proposal, and remains courteous even among the Ferocious Beasts. His secret message to the Auspicious Beast reveals his concern about what it might do next.
• Di Tian demonstrates both overwhelming power and pragmatic restraint: he suppresses the battle, releases Lu Yi, and supports his Soul Spirit plans.
• Xuan Zi initially assumes Lu Yi is in danger, but accepts the explanation once he sees him safe. He also recognizes that the unusual situation worked out only because it was Lu Yi who was taken.
• Yan Shaozhe is protective of Shrek’s strategic advantage, though his explanation for the joint Soul Hunt hides a cost-saving motive. He rewards Zhou Sichen and recognizes Lu Yi’s exceptional progress.
• Gong Changlong challenges Yan’s judgment and visibly reacts when Yan calls Soul Beasts petty, given the Academy’s own history with them.
• Xiong Jun provokes the humans and fuels the fight, but Di Tian quickly overpowers him.
• Zhou Sichen benefits from the demonstrated value of Soul Spirits, receiving substantially greater cultivation support.

Significant themes

• Power and restraint: Di Tian’s strength can end the conflict immediately, yet he chooses a peaceful release rather than escalate tensions.
• Trust and negotiation: Lu Yi’s Soul Spirit proposal turns a potentially dangerous detention into cooperation.
• Knowledge as strategic leverage: Shrek and Sun Moon Academy carefully limit what they share, since advances in Soul Spirits or forging could shift the balance between nations.
• Ambition, talent, and institutional support: Lu Yi’s rapid advancement and Zhou Sichen’s improvement show how unusual potential can reshape expectations and earn greater investment.

Plot points and events

• Dean Yan and Xuan Zi urge fifteen-year-old Lu Yi to take the Inner Court entrance examination early. He already exceeds nearly all requirements, but he declines: Inner Court duties could disrupt his schedule, and he wants to travel once his plans are underway.
• The two try to reassure him that he could travel or focus on research as an Inner Court disciple, but Lu Yi remains firm. Xuan Zi suspects his own past failures may have damaged Lu Yi’s trust and stops pressing him.
• Back at Shrek, Dean Yan brings Lu Yi to reassure the ailing Mu En. Instead of persuading him to enter the Inner Court, Mu En accepts Lu Yi’s chosen path and asks him to become a Sea God Pavilion Elder immediately.
• Mu En explains that Lu Yi’s achievements and future influence make him valuable to Shrek—not merely as a powerful fighter, but as the founder of an organization likely to shape the continent. An Elder’s position would preserve a strong connection between Shrek and Lu Yi’s organization.
• The chapter ends with Mu En asking Lu Yi for his answer.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows independence and a clear sense of direction. Despite exceptional talent and prestige, he will not accept a conventional path simply because it is available.
• Xuan Zi and Dean Yan are surprised by Lu Yi’s refusal and try to retain him, then reconsider their approach when they realize persuasion may worsen matters.
• Mu En demonstrates trust in Lu Yi by respecting his choices and treating him as an equal. Knowing his own life is nearing its end, he makes a direct, personal appeal for Lu Yi to take an Elder’s role.
• Mu En recalls why he once considered Lu Yi, Huo Yuhao, and Bei Bei as possible future Sea God Pavilion leaders. He now sees Lu Yi as the strongest candidate for an Elder, while Bei Bei’s commitment to rebuilding the Tang Sect has changed his prospects.

Significant themes

• Self-determination over status: Lu Yi values his own goals more than the prestige of entering the Inner Court.
• Recognition through contribution: Mu En argues that leadership should reflect ability and impact, not just cultivation level.
• Institutional change and mutual interests: Shrek must adapt to Lu Yi’s growing influence and maintain ties with the organization he is building.
• Legacy and succession: With Mu En near death, the Academy’s future depends on the younger generation—and on choosing leaders whose ambitions align with the institution’s needs.

Plot points and events

• Mu En offers Lu Yi a seat as a Sea God Pavilion Elder to keep him at Shrek. Lu Yi declines for now, judging that he is too young and underpowered to handle the position’s responsibilities. Mu En accepts his answer and leaves the offer open.
• Back at his base, Lu Yi reunites with Ning Tian, Xiao Xiao, Zhou Sichen, and Cao Jinxuan. They tease Zhou Sichen for not protecting Lu Yi, though Lu Yi credits Zhou’s compatible Martial Soul with helping demonstrate the Soul Spirit Contract to Di Tian.
• The group asks whether they can receive Soul Spirits. Lu Yi promises that his core team will, but explains that powerful Soul Spirits require strong mental strength. He advises Cao Jinxuan to wait rather than rush into a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit for his fourth ring.
• Lu Yi explains that the team’s non-weapon Tool Martial Souls make them well suited to magic, which will help develop their mental strength. Skilled practitioners may eventually become Spirit Transmitters, conducting Soul Spirit Contracts themselves.
• Cao Jinxuan and Zhou Sichen volunteer to become Spirit Transmitters, competing over whose Martial Soul will make them better at the work. Lu Yi also assigns Ning Tian to arrange mental-strength-enhancing Spirit-Essence Sea Urchins for the team and top-performing non-core members.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows caution in refusing Mu En’s prestigious offer, but remains committed to Shrek’s cooperation if needed. He also reveals a long-term plan that links magic training, stronger mental abilities, and the spread of Soul Spirits.
• Mu En respects Lu Yi’s independence and acknowledges that Shrek needs him more than he needs the Academy.
• Ning Tian demonstrates her spell skill by magically soundproofing the meeting and is entrusted with sourcing costly ingredients, drawing on her sect’s resources and organizational experience.
• Xiao Xiao raises practical questions about mental training and reacts with enthusiasm to the promised Soul Spirits and expensive food.
• Cao Jinxuan accepts the need to wait for a stronger Soul Spirit and eagerly volunteers to help Lu Yi’s future organization.
• Zhou Sichen is defensive about his inability to face Di Tian, but Lu Yi validates the importance of his role. He later competes with Cao Jinxuan over becoming a Spirit Transmitter.

Significant themes

• Independence and responsibility: Lu Yi refuses a title he is not ready to bear, while Mu En accepts that Shrek cannot simply claim his loyalty.
• Cooperation and mutual benefit: The Soul Spirit system requires collaboration between humans and Soul Beasts, and Lu Yi’s plans depend on a team with complementary abilities.
• Long-term preparation: Training mental strength and delaying risky Soul Spirit fusions are presented as investments in future power.
• A self-reinforcing vision: Magic strengthens mental ability; stronger minds support more powerful Soul Spirits; and trained Wizards may eventually help spread the Soul Spirit Contract.
• Resources and organization: Turning Lu Yi’s ambitious plans into reality will require money, logistics, and capable managers—not just extraordinary techniques.

Plot points and events

• Lu Yi names his growing organization the Ministry of Magic and improves its cafeteria meals, providing spiritually infused food to members.
• The organization’s generous wages, lodging, food, and training attract applicants, including many Blacksmith apprentices. Lu Yi expands the forging program, though he expects it will take years to produce even one Thousand Refinement Blacksmith.
• Once the Greenhouse herbs mature, Lu Yi begins a streamlined Potions curriculum. Students learn to brew an ordinary potion in five days, and saleable classroom batches stock a new shop.
• Shrek City residents discover that the potions’ advertised effects are real. The Euphoria Potion becomes the bestseller, while Wit-Sharpening and memory potions are also popular. Lu Yi observes that potions tend to help people more in areas where they are naturally weak.
• After three months, more than twenty members reach Apprentice level in both Spells and Potions. Lu Yi keeps their priority on training rather than turning them into full-time potion producers, despite the shop’s strong profits.
• Meanwhile, the Tang Sect struggles to recruit and fund its revival. Bei Bei and Tang Ya meet with Lu Yi, and Tang Ya asks how they can increase returns without increasing costs.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi prioritizes building his members’ abilities over maximizing immediate revenue. He is willing to spend his wealth on food and training, and refuses to use the Euphoria Potion himself.
• The Ministry’s members grow increasingly invested in the organization’s success, worrying that its generous spending might make it unsustainable.
• Blacksmith apprentices find that Wit-Sharpening Potions help them focus and may aid their progress toward Thousand Refinement.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei recognize that reviving the Tang Sect will require learning beyond their existing methods. Tang Ya approaches Lu Yi for practical advice, while the disparity between the two organizations leaves them envious.

Significant themes

• Investment in people versus short-term profit: Lu Yi treats training and member welfare as the organization’s purpose, not merely as expenses to recover.
• Innovation and practical teaching: Standardized lessons and substitute formulas make magic and potion-making easier to teach and scale.
• Unequal advantages: Lu Yi’s wealth and methods let the Ministry offer benefits the Tang Sect cannot afford, shaping who joins each group.
• Strengths and weaknesses: Potions are most effective when compensating for an individual’s weaker attributes rather than enhancing existing strengths.

Plot and business developments

• Tang Ya asks Lu Yi how to increase the Tang Sect’s returns without raising costs. He cannot offer a cost-cutting strategy: his own approach is to invest in people and reward successful potion-makers with a share of sales. That incentive has made his Potions Class—and the Ministry of Magic as a whole—highly competitive.
• Tang Ya and Bei Bei explain that their attempts to sell medicines based on the Tang Sect’s inherited recipes failed. The surviving Medicine Chapter contains limited, relatively ordinary remedies; much of the sect’s original knowledge, especially its poison tradition, has been lost.
• Lu Yi proposes a new venture: mass-producing affordable cleaning, deodorizing, skin-care, and hair-care products for ordinary consumers as well as Soul Masters. The Tang Sect will manufacture them, Lu Yi will provide the formulas and secret ingredients, and Ning Tian’s family network will handle sales. Profits will be divided equally among the three parties.
• Ning Tian lends the Tang Sect startup funds. Tang Ya learns the production process, and the sect hires workers, equips a factory, and begins production. The first shipment quickly sells out in Shrek City, earning tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins. Lu Yi and his partners expect much larger profits once production and distribution expand.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows a practical, generous side: rather than keep the business for himself, he gives the Tang Sect a substantial role while retaining control of the key ingredients. He also avoids selling more dangerous potions that could be misused.
• Tang Ya is eager for the opportunity but initially feels conflicted that the Tang Sect’s new direction is personal-care goods rather than Hidden Weapons. After seeing the products’ quality and Lu Yi’s generosity, she and Bei Bei feel deeply indebted to him.
• Bei Bei helps explain the Tang Sect’s failed medicine business and works with Tang Ya to develop the new operation.
• Ning Tian contributes her commercial connections and startup loan. She recognizes that Lu Yi is sharing the opportunity partly to repay her kindness, and feels warmed by his consideration.
• The partnership brings Lu Yi, Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Ning Tian together in a cooperative venture, though the Tang Sect’s gratitude makes the imbalance in their resources especially clear.

Significant themes

• Adaptation versus tradition: The Tang Sect’s decline is linked to its refusal to change, while the new factory represents a willingness to embrace unfamiliar products and business methods.
• Incentives and economic opportunity: Lu Yi’s rewards motivate his members, and the factory creates paid work and a new source of income for the Tang Sect.
• Cooperation and generosity: The venture’s success depends on shared contributions—production, formulas, capital, and distribution—and Lu Yi chooses to share profits rather than maximize his own cut.
• Knowledge, secrecy, and restraint: Lu Yi protects the ingredients that make his products effective and deliberately withholds potions that could enable deception or coercion.

Key plot points and events

• The Tang Sect is thriving thanks to its contract workshop, though members increasingly credit the Ministry of Magic rather than Tang Ya. Tang Ya accepts this as part of the sect’s revival and turns her attention to Soul Tool research.
• Tang Ya sends Lu Yi advanced Soul Tool blueprints from Huo Yuhao. They help him pursue his Magic Craftsman assessment, which requires five Rare Grade magical items. He has already completed two qualifying items and hopes enchanted Soul Tools will count.
• Lu Yi’s studies and abilities impress Shrek’s dean, Yan Shaozhe, who sees him as a potential founder of a major power. Shrek wants to keep him at the Academy despite his lack of interest in the Inner Court, and Yan plans to enlist Zhang Lexuan, who knows Lu Yi well, to help.
• Xiao Hongchen visits Lu Yi’s Ministry of Magic to ask about the metal-forging technique he learned about from Lu Yi. Shrek has concealed the technique from Sun Moon students, but Lu Yi believes it would be difficult for the Sun Moon Empire to reproduce at scale.
• To gain access to the technique and improve his skills, Xiao offers to teach Soul Tool courses at the Ministry. Lu Yi accepts, valuing Xiao’s sincerity and expertise. They tour the headquarters, where Xiao is struck by its distinctive, respectful atmosphere and wonders how Lu Yi has inspired such loyalty.

Character developments

• Tang Ya has become more pragmatic: she accepts that her own talent is ordinary and chooses to focus on Soul Tools rather than awaken the dangerous power in her Martial Soul.
• Lu Yi is building a broad, increasingly mature organization and pursuing advanced Soul Tool design and Enchanting. He treats Xiao fairly and seeks to learn from his expertise.
• Xiao Hongchen has clarified that his future lies in Soul Tool engineering, not becoming a powerful Soul Master. He is eager to learn forging and willing to make substantial compromises to do so.
• Yan Shaozhe recognizes Lu Yi’s exceptional potential and tries to retain him at Shrek through personal connections rather than appeals to school prestige.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism versus ambition: Tang Ya accepts imperfect circumstances when they produce real progress; Lu Yi likewise focuses on practical goals.
• Knowledge, secrecy, and cooperation: Shrek withholds techniques for strategic reasons, while Lu Yi sees value in sharing knowledge and building partnerships.
• Talent and purpose: Characters reassess their strengths and choose paths suited to them—Tang Ya toward Soul Tools, Xiao toward engineering, and Lu Yi toward combining magic with Soul Tool design.
• Leadership and belonging: The Ministry’s culture contrasts with the Academies, suggesting Lu Yi has built a community through respect rather than fear or flattery.

Character interactions

• Tang Ya and Bei Bei coordinate the transfer of Soul Tool blueprints to Lu Yi.
• Yan Shaozhe turns to Zhang Lexuan as a trusted intermediary who may persuade Lu Yi to remain connected to Shrek.
• Xiao approaches Lu Yi with an offer shaped by Meng Hongchen’s advice, acknowledging Lu Yi’s past help to her. Lu Yi responds openly, agreeing to host Xiao’s teaching and learn from him in return.
• During the headquarters tour, Xiao observes the Ministry’s members’ unusual respect for Lu Yi, deepening his curiosity about Lu Yi’s leadership.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi shows Xiao Hongchen the Ministry of Magic’s Soul Tool workshop. Its facilities are limited, so Xiao proposes improved workbenches and lends Lu Yi equipment and plans to copy.
• Lu Yi gives Xiao a booklet explaining Thousand Refinement, revealing that he invented the technique and taught it to Shrek. He argues that it is neither powerful enough nor scarce enough to justify keeping it secret.
• Xiao discovers that sensing metal—a skill he has had since childhood—is central to Thousand Refinement. He begins practicing on Tungsten Gold, though his rusty hand-forging skills force him to rely on traditional hammer techniques.
• Lu Yi considers founding a Blacksmith Association, alongside his plans to spread Soul Spirit technology, and sees the potential for an organization that connects buyers and sellers.
• Lu Yi teaches his advanced magic class. The Ministry uses senior students to mentor newcomers, rewarding effective teachers and helping Lu Yi manage the growing school.
• To spur progress, Lu Yi offers a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone to anyone who meets one of several goals before the next continental tournament: becoming a Soul King before age twenty, completing all magic assessments first, or reliably producing Thousand-Refined metal. The class is energized by the challenge.
• The lesson begins with Transfiguration, described as the most difficult subject.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows confidence in sharing knowledge, prioritizing the spread and practical use of techniques over secrecy. He also thinks strategically about expanding his institutions, training teachers, and creating incentives.
• Xiao Hongchen moves from frustration at Shrek’s secrecy to admiration—and some regret—when he learns Lu Yi is the technique’s inventor. He contributes expertise to improve the workshop, then eagerly tries Thousand Refinement.
• Fan Yu and the young Shrek teacher are the only people besides Lu Yi known to have mastered Thousand Refinement. Lu Yi suspects success depends partly on a focused, undistracted mind; Fan Yu’s single-minded dedication fits that theory, while Qian Duoduo’s busy, scheming nature may hinder him.
• Ning Tian is credited with bringing many younger students into the Ministry, where she is respected and well liked. Senior students also take on teaching roles, while Lu Yi identifies possible future instructors.
• Lu Yi directly challenges Xiao’s fear that the Sun Moon Empire might gain an advantage from the technique, arguing that withholding it would not strengthen its rivals.

Significant themes

• Knowledge versus secrecy: Lu Yi favors sharing Thousand Refinement, believing its benefits are limited and its wider use more valuable than hoarding it.
• Talent and mindset: Physical strength and spiritual power alone do not guarantee mastery; patience, perception, and mental focus may matter more.
• Institution-building and opportunity: The Ministry grows through mentorship, specialized facilities, fair rewards, and practical training that gives students a path to advancement.
• Innovation and cooperation: Xiao’s technical expertise can improve Lu Yi’s facilities, while Lu Yi’s teaching gives Xiao access to a craft Shrek had kept from him.

Plot and events

• Lu Yi begins a Transfiguration lesson with the classic exercise of turning a matchstick into a needle. He explains that Transfiguration is difficult because it involves precise manipulation of matter and energy, even though traditional magical theory often describes it only through observed results.
• He teaches the limits of the art: transformations are most stable when the original and target forms are similar in mass and volume; magic cannot create matter from nothing or turn ordinary substances into complex ones such as real gold or food. Apparent gold can be conjured, but it quickly fades and is easily disrupted.
• Lu Yi connects Transfiguration to other forms of magic. Aguamenti creates water, Summoning converts energy into matter, and Food-type Martial Souls work on a similar principle. He notes that Transfiguration can preserve food by turning it into stone, then restoring it later. The Vanishing Spell remains a theoretical mystery—even Electrolux cannot explain where vanished objects go.
• Students practice transforming matches. The most successful can change objects about the size of a matchbox; most can turn a match into a needle and back. Lu Yi observes that some Martial Soul abilities seem to influence magical aptitude.
• He considers whether understanding the shared principles of Spells and Soul Skills could let him develop new magic. He reflects on how the Magic Library contains Spells created by Snape, including Sectumsempra, Levicorpus, and Langlock.
• At the end of class, Lu Yi distributes concise Transfiguration textbooks, including rules and penalties for abusing the magic. Using Transfiguration on another person carries the maximum punishment: Wand confiscation, memory erasure, and expulsion.
• After class, Lu Yi tests Ning Tian, Zhou Sichen, Cao Jinxuan, and Xiao Xiao on their recent Spells and Occlumency. All four have learned the mental defense, though it is not yet fully mastered. When tested against the Confundus Charm, Ning Tian, Cao Jinxuan, and Xiao Xiao resist well; Zhou Sichen is the only one to lose composure.
• Lu Yi praises them and says he may be away soon, asking them to manage things in his absence.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi demonstrates his command of Transfiguration as both a teacher and theorist. His observations about students’ differing aptitudes lead him to question the relationship between magic and Soul Skills, and he is increasingly interested in developing new Spells. He also shows a firm commitment to safety, enforcing strict rules while keeping powerful mind-reading magic to himself.
• Ning Tian is calm during the lesson and excels in the later tests. Her high cultivation, strong spiritual power, and previous defeat by Huo Yuhao’s Soul Shock have made her especially serious about mental defense.
• Zhou Sichen, Cao Jinxuan, and Xiao Xiao show balanced abilities overall. Zhou Sichen is briefly amused and unsettled by the thoughts Lu Yi plants, while Cao Jinxuan and Xiao Xiao—having experienced the Confundus Charm before—feel the strain but withstand it.
• The class responds first with amazement and hopes of using Transfiguration to make gold, then with disappointment when Lu Yi explains its limits. During practice, their results vary, revealing differences in magical aptitude.

Significant themes

• Magic as an underlying system: Spells may appear to rely on will, but Lu Yi believes they follow precise laws governing energy and matter.
• Limits and responsibility: Magical power cannot simply overcome natural constraints, and Lu Yi pairs instruction with strict safeguards against dangerous misuse.
• Learning through observation: Lu Yi studies how different Martial Souls affect spellcasting, treating teaching as an opportunity to discover broader principles.
• Knowledge, power, and privacy: Legilimency can expose a person’s deepest thoughts, while Occlumency offers protection; Lu Yi’s restraint in using and teaching mind-reading underscores the ethical stakes.
• Connections between disciplines: The chapter suggests that magic, Soul Skills, and Martial Souls may share common foundations, opening the possibility of new spells and techniques.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi inspects his completed island base, intended as the secluded center for his research, experiments, Wand-making, and Necromancy. He rewards the construction crew and pays them through a coin-picking game, using the distraction to erase their memories of the base.
• To protect the location, Lu Yi brings Zhou Sichen to the island night after night, having him stay in every house and become familiar with the grounds. They then perform the Fidelius Charm ritual, making Lu Yi the primary Secret Keeper and Zhou Sichen a secondary one.
• Lu Yi demonstrates the Charm’s effect: from a distance, the island vanishes, and people who do not know its location cannot find or reveal it. Zhou Sichen is amazed and eager to learn the Spell, but Lu Yi says he needs stronger mental abilities first.
• Zhou explains why he is reluctant to keep eating Spirit-Essence Sea Urchin: a recent Spell duel with Cao Jinxuan left him traumatized by a Slug-Vomiting Charm. Lu Yi criticizes Cao’s tactics and suggests a nastier combination of Spells.

Character developments and interactions

• Lu Yi shows careful planning and strong secrecy instincts, while also treating the workers generously. He trusts Zhou Sichen with the base’s protection and patiently explains the Fidelius Charm.
• Zhou Sichen is proud that Lu Yi chose him, then awed by the Charm’s power. His enthusiasm for magic grows, though his memory of the humiliating duel makes him dread the food needed to improve his mental strength.
• Cao Jinxuan does not appear directly, but his retaliatory Slug-Vomiting Charm is recounted. The exchange began when Zhou used the Bat-Bogey Hex on him.
• Lu Yi and Zhou share an easy, candid rapport: Zhou asks questions and confesses his discomfort, while Lu Yi responds with frank advice—and unsettlingly inventive combat tactics.

Significant themes

• Secrecy and trust: The base’s security depends on controlling knowledge and choosing trusted Secret Keepers.
• Magic’s extraordinary power: The Charm hides a place so completely that it seems not to exist, surpassing ordinary concealment.
• Consequences of power: Even “minor” Spells can humiliate and provoke retaliation, making judgment as important as magical skill.
• Commitment to learning: Zhou’s desire to master magic is tested by the unpleasant effort required to strengthen his abilities.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi explains to Zhou Sichen that spells excel not in raw power but in versatility and in combinations. As opponents grow stronger, he must move beyond surprise attacks and learn to chain spells effectively.
• Having completed and concealed a secret base, Lu Yi can begin receiving Electrolux’s Necromancy inheritance. He leaves Zhou Sichen at the Shrek City station and meets Electrolux at the hidden lake-island base.
• Electrolux begins with two spells suited to Lu Yi’s current abilities. Time Rewind retrieves memories from a soul, including incomplete traces left by the dead. Lu Yi learns its theory and method but has no soul available for practice.
• Electrolux next teaches Heart of Undead Annihilation, which suppresses all emotion for twelve double-hours while sharpening spiritual perception. Lu Yi successfully casts it and discovers that his magic panel classifies it as Advanced Soul Magic.
• In the spell’s detached state, Lu Yi considers upgrading its casting speed or duration. He decides duration could be useful and, after consulting Electrolux, learns that the spell may assist him in opening a Soul Aperture. He spends his upgrade point to increase its duration by 20%.

Character developments

• Lu Yi is advancing from relying on individual, unexpected spells toward strategic spell combinations. He also formally begins Necromancy training and quickly masters its first self-targeted spell.
• Heart of Undead Annihilation reveals a more unsettling side of Lu Yi’s magic: without emotion, he becomes exceptionally clearheaded, but his “best” solutions tend to be inhumane. He notices the state feels like another personality taking over.
• Electrolux becomes Lu Yi’s formal Necromancy teacher. He shows confidence in Lu Yi’s potential and carefully starts with magic Lu Yi can understand and tolerate.

Significant themes

• Adaptability over brute force: Magic’s strength lies in selecting the right spell and combining effects, not merely matching a Soul Skill’s power.
• Knowledge and versatility: Lu Yi’s broad spell repertoire gives him options that conventional Soul Masters lack.
• The cost of power: Heart of Undead Annihilation improves perception and judgment by removing emotion, but that clarity risks making Lu Yi cold and inhumane.
• Learning through gradual mastery: Electrolux emphasizes that Lu Yi must begin with manageable Necromancy before attempting its full inheritance.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi reassures Zhou Sichen that his advice about spell use is instruction, not cruelty, then sends him back to the station.
• Electrolux explains Necromancy’s limits and teaches Lu Yi its first spells, adapting his instruction to Lu Yi’s readiness.
• Lu Yi consults Electrolux about opening a Soul Aperture. Electrolux outlines the roles of talent, spiritual energy, Soul Power, and location, suggesting that Lu Yi’s cultivation and access to places such as the Golden Tree or Lake of Life could make success possible.

Key plot points and events

• Lu Yi progresses quickly in light-infused Necromancy under Electrolux’s guidance, learning seven or eight spells during a single vacation. He has confidently mastered only a few, and several others require access to departed souls or evil spirits before he can practice them.
• To find suitable subjects, Lu Yi considers hunting Evil Soul Masters but lacks reliable intelligence. He refuses to join Shrek’s Inspection Corps: he distrusts its secretive, politically vulnerable structure and does not want to become a tool for others.
• Electrolux approves Lu Yi’s plan to go out and gain experience, then gives him a powerful safeguard: the Gate of the Undead, which opens into Electrolux’s incomplete Undead Demiplane. There, dead creatures become undead, and Lu Yi is granted authority over its inhabitants.
• Lu Yi opens the gate, discovers a bleak realm filled with bones and undead, and successfully commands a Skeleton Soldier. Electrolux explains that the plane contains hundreds of thousands of undead, with strength ranging up to Titled Douluo level. Lu Yi can summon them through Undead Scourge, though his own strength limits what he can call forth.
• The gate is identified by Lu Yi’s system panel as an upgradable Space Magic spell. He hopes its enhancements will reduce its lengthy casting time.
• The demiplane inspires Lu Yi to imagine making a beautiful, private space of his own. He also considers relaxing his restrictions on enchanted, expanded spaces for fixed properties such as houses, while continuing to limit portable versions.

Character developments

• Lu Yi shows both ambition and restraint. He wants to develop his Necromancy and exploit the system’s upgrades, but rejects the Inspection Corps and has no desire to unleash an undead army for its own sake. He is more intrigued by creating useful spaces than by conquest.
• Electrolux acts as teacher and protector, sharing his expertise and entrusting Lu Yi with access to a formidable undead force. Lu Yi recognizes this as a profound expression of trust.

Significant themes

• Power and responsibility: The demiplane could enable world-scale devastation, yet Lu Yi treats it cautiously.
• Institutional integrity and autonomy: Lu Yi opposes a law-enforcement body that operates secretly and may serve political agendas; he favors public accountability and independence.
• Learning through practice: Lu Yi’s theoretical progress is limited until he can test spells in real situations.
• Trust and inheritance: Electrolux passes on both knowledge and dangerous authority, relying on Lu Yi’s judgment.

Character interactions

• Lu Yi reports his progress and difficulties to Electrolux, who encourages him to gain experience and supplies the Gate of the Undead as a means of escape.
• Electrolux explains how the demiplane and undead summoning work; Lu Yi tests his new authority by issuing commands to a Skeleton Soldier.
• Lu Yi’s earlier disagreement with Xuan Zi over joining the Inner Court’s Inspection Corps shapes his decision to handle his search for Evil Soul Masters privately.