Recaps

Chen Mo intercepted Electrolux's remnant soul before it could enter Huo Yuhao, completing his first system mission and taking Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shed husk as well. He refused to settle the mission when two approaching auras drew his attention.

• Du Busi found Chen Mo's villa empty and read his note saying he had left for school.
• Chen Mo watched Sky Dream Ice Silkworm sacrifice himself to Huo Yuhao and prepared to seize Electrolux's remnant soul.
• Chen Mo used Spatial Interference to redirect Electrolux into his Sea of Consciousness and took Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's shed husk with him.
• Dimo confronted Electrolux, but Chen Mo calmed Dimo as Electrolux promised to restore his essence in Chen Mo's Sea of Consciousness.
• The system announced Chen Mo had completed the mission and earned a special achievement, but Chen Mo refused settlement after sensing two auras approaching.

Chen Mo avoided being blamed for Huo Yuhao’s injuries and left after Huo Yuhao explained that a Wind Baboon had hurt him. Huo Yuhao joined the Tang Sect, while Chen Mo found a secluded spot and collected his system rewards.

• Bei Bei and Tang Ya found Chen Mo beside the unconscious Huo Yuhao and suspected he had injured him, so Bei Bei tried to keep him there until Huo Yuhao woke up.
• Huo Yuhao woke and explained that he had been injured fighting a Wind Baboon, clearing Chen Mo of suspicion; he concealed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s existence after it warned him not to reveal the secret.
• Chen Mo left after Tang Ya apologized, and Tang Ya recruited Huo Yuhao into the Tang Sect by offering its secret arts and an exemption to Shrek Academy’s entrance exam.
• Huo Yuhao told the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that he had not found its shed husk, alarming it about his later plans.
• Chen Mo asked the system to calculate his rewards and received increases to his physique and spiritual power, along with a Prism Ball that guaranteed successful soul-beast contracts and could heal contracted beasts.

Tang San discovered that some of the destiny he had reserved for a rising star had vanished and flew into a rage, while Chen Mo left the Star Dou Great Forest after killing a Mandala Snake. He encountered Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao, and Tang Ya invited him to join the Tang Sect.

• Tang San told Xiao Wu he planned to recruit the Douluo Continent's Child of Destiny to revive the Tang Sect and considered using the auspicious beast's destiny to secure his plans.
• Tang San sensed that part of the rising star's destiny had disappeared, roared in fury, and called on Xiao Wu for help.
• Chen Mo ate a roasted Soft Bone Rabbit, inspected his Prism Ball, and prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.
• A thousand-year Mandala Snake ambushed Chen Mo, but he used his Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils and Soul Burst to kill it with one mental attack.
• Tang Ya, Bei Bei, and Huo Yuhao emerged from the woods, and Tang Ya invited Chen Mo to join the Tang Sect.

Chen Mo rejected Tang Ya’s invitation to join the declining Tang Sect and left, prompting Huo Yuhao to chase him down and demand an apology. Their confrontation ended with Chen Mo effortlessly breaking Huo Yuhao’s Soul Impact and leaving him suffering its backlash.

• Chen Mo refused Tang Ya’s offer to join the Tang Sect and criticized its decline before walking away.
• Tang Ya cried in Bei Bei’s arms, and Huo Yuhao asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to help him find Chen Mo so he could defend her and the Tang Sect.
• A system mission tasked Chen Mo with defeating Huo Yuhao, who soon caught up and demanded that Chen Mo apologize.
• Chen Mo refused to apologize, and Huo Yuhao attacked him with Soul Impact despite the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s warning.
• Chen Mo shattered the attack with his Spiritual Power, causing Huo Yuhao to suffer a painful backlash.

Chen Mo defeated Huo Yuhao and received a million-year Light Dragon King soul ring, but postponed absorbing it and fled when the system warned that Tang San was watching. Huo Yuhao recovered and continued toward Shrek Academy, while Chen Mo joined a merchant caravan bound for the Sun Moon Empire to enroll there.

• Huo Yuhao ignored the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s warning, attacked Chen Mo, and was knocked unconscious by a mental blast.
• Chen Mo completed his mission and earned a million-year Light Dragon King soul ring, but decided not to absorb it in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm took control of Huo Yuhao and escaped with him as the system warned Chen Mo that Tang San’s surveillance would arrive.
• After Chen Mo left, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm exaggerated his rescue, and Huo Yuhao promised to stop acting impulsively.
• Bei Bei and Tang Ya found Huo Yuhao, and the three obtained a thousand-year lone bamboo soul ring for Tang Ya before heading to Shrek Academy.
• Chen Mo left the forest and joined a merchant caravan traveling to the Sun Moon Empire so he could enroll there.

Nine-year-old Chen Mo traveled with a caravan to Mingdu, the Sun Moon Empire’s vast, technologically advanced capital, intending to enroll at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. After explaining why he rejected Shrek Academy in favor of soul-tool studies, he arrived near the academy and planned to register the next morning.

• Chen Mo crossed the border with a caravan and reached Mingdu after five more days of travel.
• Chen Mo marveled at Mingdu’s immense size, orderly streets, advanced soul tools, and modern technology.
• Chen Mo reaffirmed his choice of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy over Shrek Academy, citing Shrek’s flaws and the Sun Moon Empire’s technological progress.
• Chen Mo left the caravan near the academy, booked a hotel room, and planned to explore Mingdu before registering the next morning.

Chen Mo began the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s entrance assessment, hoping to impress a high-ranking teacher and earn a better system reward. After Chen Mo entered a device for his physical test, the director of studies saw his application and rushed to tell the dean they had found a treasure.

• Chen Mo explored Mingdu’s bright nightlife, then bought several books on soul tool theory and returned to his hotel.
• The system assigned Chen Mo a mission to enroll at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and become a teacher’s student, with greater rewards for higher-ranking teachers.
• Chen Mo registered truthfully and met his assessor, Tang Shan, whom he initially mistook for Tang San before learning the correct name.
• Tang Shan explained the aptitude and physical assessments, then activated a device with Chen Mo inside it.
• The director of studies read Chen Mo’s application, reacted with shock, and hurried upstairs shouting that the dean needed to see a treasure.

Chen Mo’s entrance test revealed exceptional physical ability and Spiritual Power beyond the instrument’s limit, drawing the attention of Xuan Ziwen. After Chen Mo demonstrated his combat-oriented soul skill, a short, stout man arrived looking for him.

• Tang Shan tested Chen Mo and found his physical strength and resilience near Soul King level before the instrument failed to measure his Spiritual Power.
• Xuan Ziwen identified that Chen Mo’s Spiritual Power exceeded the instrument’s maximum reading of 100 and learned that his martial soul was the mental-attribute body martial soul Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils.
• Chen Mo revealed his two soul rings and demonstrated Spatial Interference, explaining how it could distort space and bypass most defenses.
• Xuan Ziwen, disappointed that Chen Mo’s soul skill seemed geared toward combat, asked Tang Shan to test him on another machine.
• A short, stout man entered the classroom, asked for Chen Mo, and excitedly identified him as a new student with Level 10 innate soul power and a mental-attribute body martial soul.

Jing Hongchen discovered Chen Mo’s extraordinary test results and suspected he came from the Body Sect, but accepted him into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He left Chen Mo with a challenge to earn a Level 2 Soul Engineer badge within a year before Jing would take him as a student, then ordered an investigation into his background.

• The Director of Education told Jing Hongchen about nine-year-old Chen Mo’s rare martial soul and innate soul power, and Jing rushed to see the test results.
• Jing Hongchen learned Chen Mo had spiritual power above one hundred, was a Peak Level 27 Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster, and possessed one purple and one black soul ring.
• Jing Hongchen sent Tang Shan away and confronted Chen Mo about his Body Sect origins, which Chen Mo admitted.
• Jing Hongchen accepted Chen Mo as a new student without requiring him to finish the remaining assessments and offered to teach him soul tool technology if he passed the Level 2 Soul Engineer assessment within a year.
• Jing Hongchen sent Tang Shan to complete Chen Mo’s enrollment and dispatched someone to investigate Chen Mo’s circumstances in the Heaven Dou Empire.

Chen Mo settled into his special single room at Sun Moon Royal Academy and resolved to study Soul Tools, only for the system to raise his goal to passing the Level 3 Soul Engineer assessment within a year. After freshman admissions ended, academy teachers fought over who would teach him.

• Dean Jing Hongchen waived Chen Mo’s assessments, and a senior escorted him to his special single dorm room.
• Chen Mo cleaned and arranged his room, then recalled Jing Hongchen’s condition that he pass the Level 2 Soul Engineer assessment within a year.
• Chen Mo vowed to surpass Huo Yuhao, and the system assigned him a mission to pass the Level 3 Soul Engineer assessment within a year.
• Chen Mo decided to study Soul Tool theory after getting something to eat.
• After admissions ended, teachers argued and offered favors in a bid to claim Chen Mo as their student.

Teachers at Sun Moon Royal Academy argued over who would teach Chen Mo until Jing Hongchen claimed him as his student and arranged his class. Meanwhile, Chen Mo remained unaware of the dispute and studied soul tool theory in his dormitory.

• Old Zhang struggled to control teachers who had gathered in his office to compete for Chen Mo as a student.
• Elder Yi offered to mentor Chen Mo, but Old Zhang revealed that the principal had already claimed him.
• Jing Hongchen entered and said he planned to personally teach a class of new students, prompting Old Zhang to warn him that everyone had heard his interest in Chen Mo.
• Jing Hongchen defended Chen Mo's background and talent, then told Elder Yi he would not yield Chen Mo and challenged him to a match.
• Jing Hongchen gave Chen Mo a class assignment and appointed himself his homeroom teacher, while the other teachers left.
• Chen Mo, unaware of the dispute, studied soul tool theory late into the night in his dorm room.

Chen Mo began his first day at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy after three nights of studying soul engineering. His homeroom teacher, Jing Hongchen in disguise, introduced himself as Golden Toad and left the class with Chen Mo’s blunt definition of a Soul Tool.

• Chen Mo arrived in Class One, where his classmates introduced themselves and discussed a rumor that the dean would teach one of their classes.
• A handsome teacher entered, and Chen Mo recognized him as Jing Hongchen, who concealed his identity and appearance to secure Chen Mo as his student.
• Jing Hongchen introduced himself as Golden Toad, claimed to be a Level 7 Soul Engineer and Soul Saint, and warned the class that his expectations would be strict.
• Jing Hongchen asked the students what a Soul Tool was, and Chen Mo raised his hand and answered, “When poor, strike with precision; when rich, bomb the hell out of them!”

Chen Mo began classes under Jing Hongchen, whose demanding lessons quickly developed Chen Mo’s soul-tool skills. Over three months, Chen Mo progressed from engraving his first Magic Array Core to producing usable Level 1 cores with ease.

• Chen Mo answered Jing Hongchen’s question about soul tools with the saying, “When you're poor, strike with precision. When you're rich, blast the bastards!” and earned the lesson’s participation marks.
• Jing Hongchen dismissed the textbooks, taught advanced soul-tool knowledge, and led Class One through practical formation work.
• Chen Mo used his martial soul to engrave a Magic Array Core that exceeded Jing Hongchen’s expectations, with eight lines within the required deviation.
• Chen Mo followed a daily routine of cultivation and Jing Hongchen’s classes during his first month at school.
• By the second month, Chen Mo could engrave a reasonably well-formed Magic Array Core and had assembled a model Level 1 soul tool.
• By the third month, Chen Mo could easily engrave usable Level 1 Magic Array Cores, surprising Jing Hongchen with his progress.

After breaking through to level thirty, Chen Mo completed the Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment with an improved Energy-Gathering Soul Guidance Ray Gun. Jing Hongchen watched Chen Mo demonstrate its capabilities and asked him to become his student.

• Chen Mo reached level thirty and went to take the Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment after three months of studying soul tools.
• Chen Mo crafted an Energy-Gathering Soul Guidance Ray Gun, adding two miniature Magic Array Cores despite the tight deadline.
• Chen Mo completed the gun with seconds to spare, and its practical evaluation gave it an excellent rating.
• Chen Mo explained that his modifications improved firing rate, reduced recoil, and prevented overheating, then demonstrated the gun's rapid continuous fire.
• Jing Hongchen examined the gun and asked Chen Mo to become his student.

Chen Mo manipulated Jing Hongchen, disguised as Golden Toad, into accepting him as a student and giving him the Level 9 defensive soul tool Red Dust Protection. After the system rewarded him for completing his enrollment mission and taking Huo Yuhao’s future opportunity, Chen Mo began studying the Soul-Nurturing Art, stirring Electrolux in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Jing Hongchen offered to take Chen Mo as his student, and Chen Mo invoked his earlier bet with Headmaster Jing Hongchen before accepting Jing Hongchen’s offer.
• Jing Hongchen gave Chen Mo the Red Dust Protection, a Level 9 defensive soul tool he claimed to have borrowed from his senior fellow disciple.
• Jing Hongchen helped Chen Mo obtain his Level 1 Soul Engineer badge, completing the enrollment mission and earning him system rewards, including the Soul-Nurturing Art.
• Chen Mo discovered that soul power revealed the Tadpole Script inside the jade slip, then drew the translated characters into his Sea of Consciousness.
• Electrolux stirred faintly as the golden characters entered Chen Mo’s Sea of Consciousness.

Chen Mo’s rapid Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment spread through the academy, prompting Meng Hongchen to wager that he would break Xiao Hongchen’s Level 2 record. Elsewhere, Chen Mo discovered the Soul-Nurturing Art’s benefits and used an Enlightenment Card to comprehend a Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils technique.

• Jing Hongchen spread the news of Chen Mo’s assessment result so he could show off his gifted student.
• Meng Hongchen told Xiao Hongchen that Chen Mo had passed the Level 1 assessment in three months, but Xiao refused to believe Chen could break his records.
• Meng Hongchen challenged Xiao to bet on whether Chen Mo would break his Level 2 Soul Engineer record, and Xiao accepted after they argued over their allowances.
• Chen Mo finished cultivating with the Soul-Nurturing Art and learned that it refined Soul Power, improved recovery, and nourished the soul.
• Chen Mo used a ten-minute Enlightenment Card, witnessed a green-clad woman fighting with the Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils, and emerged able to use Three-Flower Pupils: Illusion Break.

After reaching the peak of rank thirty, Chen Mo studied higher-level soul tools while considering a third soul ring. At the academy library, Meng Hongchen helped him borrow restricted books, and she left thinking her chances of winning were good.

• Chen Mo comprehended the Three-Flower Pupils soul skill Illusion-Breaking Void! Origin Sight! and realized his soul power had reached the peak of rank thirty.
• Jing Hongchen began personally teaching Chen Mo Level 2 and Level 3 Soul Tool knowledge after Chen Mo passed the Level 1 Soul Engineer assessment.
• Chen Mo went to the academy library to borrow soul tool materials and books about soul beasts, but the librarian said first-year students needed approval to borrow Level 2 materials.
• Meng Hongchen offered to register Chen Mo's books under her token, allowing him to borrow them without an application.
• Chen Mo told Meng Hongchen that his teacher was Golden Toad, a Level 7 Soul Engineer close to the dean, and Meng Hongchen wondered about the claim before deciding to ask her grandfather.
• After parting from Chen Mo, Meng Hongchen watched him leave and murmured that her chances of winning were pretty good.

Meng Hongchen returned home and learned that Chen Mo had inspired Xiao Hongchen to pursue the Level 5 Soul Engineer assessment, while Jing Hongchen concealed that Chen Mo’s teacher, Golden Toad, was his junior fellow disciple. That night, Chen Mo discovered he was being followed, but before Jing Hongchen could arrive, Park Guk-chang entered his dorm and tried to recruit him for Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy.

• Jing Hongchen studied Chen Mo’s Level 1 Soul Tool and said its modifications had given him new ideas for Soul Cannons.
• Meng Hongchen told Jing Hongchen that Xiao Hongchen had secluded himself to prepare for the Level 5 assessment because Chen Mo had spurred him on.
• Meng Hongchen said Chen Mo had described Golden Toad as Jing Hongchen’s junior fellow disciple, forcing Jing Hongchen to admit Golden Toad existed.
• Jing Hongchen asked Meng Hongchen what she thought of Chen Mo, and she praised his looks, talent, hard work, and humility.
• Chen Mo used Three-Flower Eyes: Truth-Piercing to spot traces of soul power following him, then hurried to his dorm and messaged Jing Hongchen.
• Park Guk-chang entered Chen Mo’s dorm with several black-robed figures and invited him to join Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy.

Park Guk-chang tried to abduct Chen Mo for Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, but Chen Mo escaped his dorm and survived a lethal pursuit with Jing Hongchen’s Level 9 Soul Tool. Jing Hongchen arrived furious and confronted Park Guk-chang, threatening him with his Soul Cannons.

• Park Guk-chang offered Chen Mo benefits to join Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, then threatened to take him by force when Chen Mo refused to agree.
• Meng Hongchen found Chen Mo’s urgent message on Jing Hongchen’s Soul Tool Token, and Jing Hongchen rushed to help after reading it.
• Chen Mo used his Soul Skills to incapacitate Park Guk-chang’s men and teleport out of the dorm, but they caught up with him as he ran for help.
• Park Guk-chang ordered his men to kill Chen Mo, but Hongchen’s Protection shielded him from their attacks.
• Jing Hongchen arrived, accused Park Guk-chang of attacking his student, and aimed his Level 9 Soul Tools at the group.
• Chen Mo recounted Park Guk-chang’s threats, prompting Jing Hongchen to draw another Soul Cannon and demand an explanation.

Jing Hongchen confronted Park Guk-chang for breaking into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and trying to take Chen Mo. Chen Mo turned Park’s claim that he acted under Princess Xu Tianzhen’s decree into an accusation of treason, leaving Jing and Park stunned.

• Park Guk-chang insisted he had come in good faith, while Jing Hongchen prepared his Soul Cannon and defended the academy and Chen Mo.
• Jing Hongchen listed the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s advantages over Park’s Mingdu Soul Engineer Academy, and Park invoked Princess Xu Tianzhen’s decree to demand Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo challenged Park’s claim that the princess had ordered him to bring Chen Mo back alive, pointing out that Park had tried to kill him.
• Chen Mo argued that either the princess had ordered treason or Park had defied her decree by attacking a gifted student, leaving Jing Hongchen and Park dumbfounded.

Chen Mo and Jing Hongchen stopped Park Guk-chang’s attempt to abduct a student, and Jing Hongchen took the captured group to the palace for judgment. As the term ended, Chen Mo planned to return to the Body Sect and hunt a Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python for his third soul ring, while Meng Hongchen made a wager with him; two days later, he set out.

• Chen Mo accused Park Guk-chang of treason and abducting students, and Jing Hongchen backed him up before knocking Park Guk-chang and his companions unconscious with a soul cannon.
• Jing Hongchen bound Park Guk-chang and his companions and left to take them to the palace, while Chen Mo advised him to bring surveillance recordings and improve academy security.
• Meng Hongchen asked Chen Mo about his holiday plans, and he said he would visit his master at the Body Sect and hunt a Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python for his third soul ring.
• Meng Hongchen promised Chen Mo a mystery reward if he passed the Level 2 Soul Engineer examination before the end of the next term, and Chen Mo accepted the wager.
• Two days later, Chen Mo set off for the Body Sect, while Huo Yuhao was having a difficult time at Shrek Academy.

After losing to Wu Feng, Huo Yuhao regained his confidence with Tian Meng's encouragement and resolved to cultivate to Level 20, while Tian Meng worried about taking him to the Far North without his missing husk. Three days later, Chen Mo returned to the Body Sect, where Vina mistook him for an intruder before Du Busi appeared and called him a runaway Young Sect Master.

• Huo Yuhao cried after Wu Feng defeated him, and Tian Meng urged him to recover from the setback and reach Level 20.
• Wang Dong and Bei Bei came to comfort Huo Yuhao, while Tian Meng worried that his missing husk would prevent a trip to the Far North.
• Chen Mo flew to Skyfall outside Heaven Dou City and entered the Body Sect through its concealed gateway.
• Vina challenged Chen Mo as an intruder, but he claimed he belonged to the Body Sect and had left before she arrived.
• Du Busi appeared, and Chen Mo reminded his master that he had left a note saying he was going to school.

Chen Mo returned to the Body Sect and clashed with Du Busi and Vina over his choice to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. He challenged Vina’s rejection of soul tools and began explaining why her views were uninformed.

• Vina learned that Chen Mo was the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Du Busi remarked on Chen Mo reaching soul power level thirty in three months.
• Chen Mo told Du Busi that he had enrolled at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, shocking Du Busi and Vina.
• Du Busi questioned Chen Mo’s choice, while Chen Mo criticized Shrek Academy and Vina defended its reputation and accused him of betraying his country.
• Chen Mo identified Vina as a princess through her Snow Lotus martial soul and guessed that Du Busi was her grandfather, citing Du Bisou’s diary.
• Vina demanded that Chen Mo justify calling her narrow-minded, and Chen Mo challenged her to explain soul tools and the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Vina admitted she knew little about soul tools but insisted that martial soul cultivation was the proper path and that soul tools were useless in battle.

Chen Mo clashed with Princess Vina over the Heaven Dou Empire’s resistance to soul tools and its treatment of commoners, then prepared to hunt his third soul ring. Two weeks later, Du Busi led Chen Mo and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Chen Mo’s defense of studying soul tools won his master’s support.

• Chen Mo told Vina that the Heaven Dou Empire risked destruction by rejecting soul tool technology, and she challenged his authority to make that claim.
• Chen Mo called Vina a dumbass and explained that he had awakened his martial soul in the Dou Ling Empire because commoners in Heaven Dou could not awaken theirs; Vina ran away crying.
• Du Busi announced that he would take Chen Mo, Long Aotian, and the others to the Star Dou Great Forest in two weeks, and Chen Mo chose the Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python for his third soul ring.
• Chen Mo returned to his room and practiced engraving a class-two formation with the soul tool materials Jing Hongchen had approved for him.
• Two weeks later, Du Busi scolded Chen Mo for studying soul tools instead of cultivating, but Chen Mo argued that studying would help the Body Sect keep up with Sun Moon students.
• Du Busi embraced Chen Mo’s argument and urged him to study hard, leaving Long Aotian, Vina, and the other disciples aggrieved by the favoritism.

Chen Mo found a gathering of Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Pythons and chose their Seventy-Thousand-Year leader as his third soul ring. He controlled the python with his Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils and began absorbing its willing sacrifice while Du Busi guarded him.

• After Long Aotian finished absorbing his fifth soul ring, Chen Mo and the others followed a Barbarian-Pattern Honey Badger's trail to a pond crowded with Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Pythons.
• Du Busi identified the Seventy-Thousand-Year python emerging from the pond and offered to catch it for Chen Mo, who chose it as his third soul ring.
• Du Busi subdued the surrounding pythons and brought the Seventy-Thousand-Year python to Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo used his Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils to control the python and ordered it to sacrifice itself as his soul ring.
• The python began its sacrifice, and Chen Mo absorbed its black soul ring and soul power while Du Busi guarded the area.