Recaps

Di Tian brought Chen Mo and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the Lake of Life, where the Silver Dragon King examined the Auspicious Beast and confirmed that someone had tampered with her. While Chen Mo waited, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress appeared to protect him from Xiong Jun.

• Di Tian brought Chen Mo and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to the Lake of Life, where Xiong Jun, Bi Ji, and the Myriad Demon King questioned why he had brought a human.
• Di Tian took the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to see the lord and left Chen Mo with the other beasts, telling them to keep him alive.
• Xiong Jun reached for Chen Mo, but the Snow Empress struck him and the Ice Empress appeared to defend Chen Mo.
• The Silver Dragon King examined the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and confirmed that someone had tampered with the Auspicious Beast.

The Silver Dragon King discovered that the Divine Realm had fused something with the Auspicious Beast, but her injuries left her unable to intervene. After Di Tian offered Chen Mo a ladle of water from the Lake of Life, Chen Mo accepted it despite realizing it was effectively the Silver Dragon King's bathwater.

• The Silver Dragon King told Di Tian that the Divine Realm had tampered with the Auspicious Beast and ordered him to keep it close because she could not separate the fused thing while weakened.
• Di Tian brought the Auspicious Beast to the surface and found the Snow Empress overpowering Xiong Jun after he challenged her to a fight.
• The Snow Empress wounded Xiong Jun with her Emperor Sword technique, and Di Tian stopped her next attack by meeting her palm in a draw.
• Di Tian offered Chen Mo a ladle of Lake of Life water as a reward for reporting the Auspicious Beast's abnormality.
• Chen Mo accepted the water after reframing it as naturally nourishing and comparable to ordinary water that had passed through countless cycles.

Chen Mo exploited Di Tian’s promise to take one dipperful of water from the Lake of Life using an enormous dipper. After lifting it with his newly acquired Limit Breakthrough technique, he stored the water and prepared to leave with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.

• Chen Mo confirmed that Di Tian had placed no restrictions on his promised dipperful of Lake of Life water and recorded Di Tian’s words.
• Chen Mo produced a dipper fifty meters in radius, and Di Tian conceded that his own statements allowed Chen Mo to use it.
• Chen Mo filled the dipper, then activated Limit Breakthrough to lift it after Di Tian refused to let the Snow Empress and Ice Empress help.
• Chen Mo stored the water in his Soul Tool and announced that he was leaving with the Snow Empress and Ice Empress.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked Chen Mo to stay, but he declined and gave her candied hawthorn skewers and candy before departing.

Chen Mo returned from the Star Dou Great Forest with a Soul Tool full of water from the Lake of Life, which Du Busi accepted after hearing how he obtained it. At Shrek Academy, Wang Dong complained that the dean was pressuring him to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while Huo Yuhao remained interested in the exchange.

• Du Busi worried that Chen Mo had not returned from the forest and threatened to force his way in if necessary.
• Chen Mo emerged safely, teased the Scarlet King, and gave Du Busi water from the Lake of Life.
• Chen Mo explained that Di Tian had given him the water, and Du Busi left the forest with him.
• Wang Dong told Huo Yuhao and Xiao Xiao that the dean was pressuring him to join the exchange program at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Huo Yuyao admitted he wanted to join because the Sun Moon academy was more advanced in Soul Tool technology.

Bei Bei encouraged Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao to study soul tools at the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, while Tang Ya slaughtered the Iron Blood Sect and joined the Holy Spirit Cult. Bei Bei later failed to find her, and Chen Mo returned to the academy, where a girl collided with him.

• Bei Bei told Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao he planned to study soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire to help restore the Tang Sect, and admitted he hoped Tang Ya would come with him.
• Tang Ya attacked the Iron Blood Sect's former headquarters, killing its members and exhausting herself in a fight with Tie Li.
• A black-robed old man subdued Tie Li, recognized Tang Ya's power as an Evil Soul Master, and brought her to the Holy Spirit Cult after she agreed to join.
• Bei Bei rushed to the Iron Blood Sect after learning Tang Ya had gone there, found everyone dead, and returned to Shrek Academy without finding her.
• Chen Mo returned to the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, where a girl ran into him and apologized.

Chen Mo met Ju Zi after returning from the Star Dou Great Forest, and she secured his autograph while making an impression on him. She told him about the Sun Moon Empire’s upcoming awards ceremony, then hurried off to buy soul-tool materials.

• Ju Zi bumped into Chen Mo, recognized him as the Tournament-winning genius, and asked for his autograph.
• Chen Mo signed Ju Zi’s notebook and introduced himself to her, while privately recognizing her and suspecting she had deliberately approached him.
• Chen Mo told Ju Zi that Xuan Ziwen and Dean Jing praised her diligence, and she questioned whether he was telling the truth.
• Ju Zi explained that the Sun Moon Imperial Family would hold an awards ceremony in Mingdu Square to honor the Tournament participants.
• Chen Mo told Ju Zi he had returned from the Star Dou Great Forest after hunting for his fourth ring, and she said their meeting was fate before rushing off to buy materials.

Chen Mo let Ju Zi approach him while planning to kill Xu Tianran, and Ju Zi returned briefly to borrow money after forgetting her wallet. In the Divine Realm, Tang San and Xiao Wu discussed Shrek's tournament defeat and Yu Xiaogang's death anniversary, leaving Tang San to answer why he had never brought his teacher to the Divine Realm.

• Chen Mo lent Ju Zi money after she returned from shopping without her wallet, then headed to Jing Hongchen's office.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy had won the tournament after Xuan Zi's failures and cheating, and he said he had sensed the person who harmed the Child of Destiny.
• Xiao Wu reminded Tang San that it was the anniversary of Yu Xiaogang's death, which Tang San had forgotten, and he suggested they observe a moment of silence with Dai and the others.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San why he had not brought Yu Xiaogang's soul to the Divine Realm and secretly resurrected him as he had Da Ming and Er Ming.

Tang San defended his decision not to bring Yu Xiaogang into the Divine Realm, then promised Xiao Wu they would try for another child. Three days later, after the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy received its tournament awards, Chen Mo rejected Crown Prince Xu Tianran’s invitation to meet, wary of being tied to his political ambitions.

• Xiao Wu suggested Tang San could have hidden Yu Xiaogang in the Divine Realm, but Tang San said he had to follow its rules and claimed Yu Xiaogang had been content with his life.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu mourned Yu Xiaogang together, then discussed having another child, and Tang San said a new medicine he and Oscar developed would help.
• Three days later, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s team received one million Gold Soul Coins and a Level 8 Soul Tool each at a ceremony in Mingdu Square.
• Xu Yin invited Chen Mo to meet Crown Prince Xu Tianran, but Chen Mo refused, fearing the meeting would make others believe he supported Xu Tianran’s bid for the throne.

Chen Mo refused Xu Tianran’s attempt to recruit him, while Xu Tianran decided to visit him with gifts instead. Jing Hongchen received Shrek Academy’s exchange-student proposal and grew furious when he saw Chen Mo and Lin Xi named as the academy’s two representatives.

• Chen Mo declined Xu Tianran’s invitation through Xu Yin and went to dance with Meng Hongchen.
• Chen Mo told Meng Hongchen that Xu Tianran wanted to meet him, and she was relieved he had refused.
• Xu Yin reported back, and Xu Tianran decided to visit Chen Mo personally with gifts to win him over.
• Xu Tianran noted that other princes were also trying to recruit Chen Mo, but Chen Mo had refused them all.
• Jing Hongchen read Shrek Academy’s exchange proposal and found Chen Mo and Lin Xi listed as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s two exchange students.

Chen Mo and Jing Hongchen rejected Shrek Academy’s proposed exchange program, while Xu Tianran visited the tournament participants and renewed his effort to win Chen Mo over. The chapter ended with Xu Tianran telling Chen Mo that his earlier refusal had saddened him.

• Jing Hongchen shared Shrek Academy’s exchange proposal, and Chen Mo, Meng Hongchen, and Jing Hongchen rejected it while Xiao Hongchen briefly defended the idea.
• Jing Hongchen replied that Shrek would need to send someone for a face-to-face meeting and that the proposed student list was rejected.
• Xu Tianran arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and praised the tournament participants and Jing Hongchen.
• Xu Tianran greeted Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, then told Chen Mo that he had long admired him and felt saddened by his refusal of the earlier invitation.

Xu Tianran and the other princes tried to recruit Chen Mo, but he refused to join any faction. Half a month later, Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to negotiate a student exchange, though the delegation had yet to be welcomed inside.

• Xu Tianran questioned Chen Mo about refusing his invitation, and Chen Mo said he was not afraid of offending the Crown Prince.
• Xu Tianran praised Chen Mo and left, while Chen Mo privately rejected the idea of joining his faction.
• The other princes visited the academy to approach Chen Mo, but he used his research and Level 4 Soul Engineer examination preparations to turn them away.
• Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo arrived at the academy to negotiate the student exchange after Jing Hongchen rejected Shrek Academy's proposal.
• Xuan Zi grew angry that no one had come out to welcome the delegation, and Qian Duoduo wondered whether the Sun Moon side knew they were coming.

Mu En backed an exchange with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to advance Shrek’s soul tool development, but he condemned Yan Shaozhe’s arrogant proposal and ordered him, Xuan Zi, and Qian Duoduo to negotiate in person. The delegation arrived at Sun Moon and was kept waiting before Old Zhang greeted them with a veiled taunt that Xuan Zi restrained himself from answering.

• Mu En reviewed Sun Moon’s rejection and realized Yan Shaozhe’s proposal had sounded arrogant, especially its demand for two students with ultimate martial souls.
• Mu En overruled the Sea God Pavilion Elders, reprimanded Yan Shaozhe, and ordered him, Xuan Zi, and Qian Duoduo to negotiate at Sun Moon.
• Mu En warned Xuan Zi not to start a conflict unless the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy provoked them first.
• Yan Shaozhe, Xuan Zi, and Qian Duoduo waited half a day before Old Zhang arrived with two companions to receive them.
• Old Zhang introduced himself and alluded to Xuan Zi’s past failure while praising him, and Xuan Zi suppressed his anger before following the group toward the Illustrious Virtue Hall.

Zhang Yang brought Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xuan Zi into the hidden Illustrious Virtue Hall beneath the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. Qian Duoduo discovered that its walls were lined with valuable stellar jade, while Zhang Yang worried that the visitors might try to steal it.

• Zhang Yang escorted the three Shrek visitors to an ordinary-looking testing ground and revealed that it concealed the Illustrious Virtue Hall.
• After Jing Hongchen's special approval, Zhang Yang led the visitors through secured doors and into the underground complex.
• The group descended past advanced Soul Tool laboratories and reached the Illustrious Virtue Hall's interior section.
• Qian Duoduo recognized the stellar jade embedded in the walls and marveled that the academy used such precious material as construction.
• Qian Duoduo told Yan Shaozhe the jade was worth more than money, and Yan Shaozhe suggested prying some pieces off.
• Zhang Yang noticed their greedy interest and resolved to tighten security around the Hall's Soul Tools.

Zhang Yang warned the Shrek delegation that the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s walls were powerful Soul Tools before leading them to meet Jing Hongchen. Yan Shaozhe began negotiating a student exchange, but Jing Hongchen’s evasions and taunts over Shrek’s Tournament defeat left Shrek on the back foot.

• Zhang Yang stopped Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo from removing the stellar jade by revealing that each wall functioned as a Level 8 Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon.
• Zhang Yang brought Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo to a conference room, where Jing Hongchen joined them.
• Jing Hongchen sarcastically praised Xuan Zi’s performance against Du Busi, angering Xuan Zi.
• Yan Shaozhe said Shrek had come to discuss a student exchange, and Jing Hongchen pretended not to know about Shrek’s earlier letter.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen traded barbs about their academies’ Tournament records, and Jing Hongchen got the better of the exchange.

Yan Shaozhe negotiated a student exchange with Jing Hongchen, who used Shrek’s seizure of a Sun Moon student to demand compensation. After accepting two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, Jing agreed to the exchange but blocked Yan’s request to send Chen Mo and Lin Xi to Shrek, claiming he could no longer decide for them.

• Jing Hongchen agreed that Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy should exchange students, then cited Xuan Zi’s seizure of a student as the reason his students distrusted Shrek.
• Yan Shaozhe offered Jing two Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones as local specialties to soothe the students’ emotional wounds, and Jing accepted them.
• Jing dropped his objections to the exchange after receiving the soul bones, but repeatedly redirected Yan when he proposed Chen Mo and Lin Xi for the participant list.
• Yan demanded that Jing send Chen Mo and Lin Xi to Shrek, arguing that the exchange should be fair and that both students had ultimate martial souls.
• Jing claimed it was too late for him to decide for Chen Mo and Lin Xi, leaving Yan frustrated and suspicious.

Jing Hongchen refused Shrek Academy’s exchange proposal and denied that the two soul bones were anything but an apology gift. When Xuan Zi attacked him, the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s defenses stopped the blow, and Jing Hongchen revealed weapons aimed at the Shrek delegation.

• Jing Hongchen rejected Shrek Academy’s exchange proposal and told Yan Shaozhe to take the delegation away.
• Yan Shaozhe demanded the return of the two soul bones, but Jing Hongchen produced them and claimed they were apology gifts for his student.
• Xuan Zi threatened Jing Hongchen and prepared to attack after Jing Hongchen challenged Shrek’s conduct during the tournament.
• Xuan Zi struck the transparent glass around Jing Hongchen, but the barrier barely dented and left Jing Hongchen unharmed.
• Jing Hongchen activated the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s defenses, revealing six soul cannon shells and a Turbine Detonation Device as Xuan Zi’s second attack dissipated.

Jing Hongchen trapped Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo in a reinforced room rigged with six Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells. The three failed to escape, and Jing Hongchen rejected Yan Shaozhe’s attempt to frame the standoff as a threat of war.

• Qian Duoduo recognized the wall-mounted weapons as six Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells, and Xuan Zi realized Jing Hongchen had trapped them with the explosives.
• Jing Hongchen escaped through ceiling openings with Zhang Yang as Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo broke the glass partition too late.
• Xuan Zi failed to break the reinforced walls, while Jing Hongchen explained that the room also blocked spatial teleportation and threatened to detonate the shells.
• Xuan Zi called Jing Hongchen despicable, and Jing Hongchen replied that despicability was an attitude too.
• Yan Shaozhe asked whether the Sun Moon Empire intended to declare war on Shrek, but Jing Hongchen answered that Taotie Douluo had attacked first.

Jing Hongchen frightened Yan Shaozhe, Qian Duoduo, and Xuan Zi into agreeing to negotiate by pretending to trigger explosives, then began using the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s secrets to justify the two Soul Bones. Yan Shaozhe realized Jing Hongchen was dressing up an extortion attempt as compensation.

• Jing Hongchen threatened to set off the Level 9 shells when Yan Shaozhe hesitated to negotiate, and Yan asked for time to discuss their options.
• Jing Hongchen rushed his countdown and pressed the remote, but fireworks shot out instead of explosives, leaving Xuan Zi, Yan Shaozhe, and Qian Duoduo relieved and humiliated.
• Jing Hongchen began a second countdown, and Yan Shaozhe agreed to discuss any conditions rather than risk a real explosion.
• Yan Shaozhe suggested that Jing Hongchen join them face-to-face, but Jing refused, citing Xuan Zi’s poor credibility.
• Jing Hongchen claimed the two Soul Bones were payment for seeing Illustrious Virtue Hall secrets, and Yan Shaozhe protested that they had seen nothing beyond laboratory doors.
• Jing Hongchen argued that the room, its walls, and the Level 9 shells were also secrets, leaving Yan Shaozhe speechless.

Jing Hongchen extorted three ten thousand year soul bones from the Shrek delegation before negotiating an educational exchange between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. The exchange was agreed to begin in two years and last two and a half years, but Yan Shaozhe ended by asking which students Sun Moon would send.

• Jing Hongchen demanded two ten thousand year soul bones as admission fees for the secret of Illustrious Virtue Hall, and Yan Shaozhe agreed under threat from the fixed-installation soul cannons.
• Jing Hongchen requested another ten thousand year soul bone to address the Sun Moon students' reluctance to become exchange students, and Yan Shaozhe paid it.
• Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe discussed student safety and equal teaching, then agreed Shrek would send at least three students from its tournament main team and Reserve Team to Sun Moon.
• Jing Hongchen required Sun Moon's students to be allowed into the underground world beneath Shrek's Sea God Pavilion, and Yan Shaozhe agreed on the condition that they pass Shrek's internal selection tests.
• The delegations set the exchange to begin in two years and last two and a half years, and Yan Shaozhe asked which students Sun Moon would send.

Jing Hongchen finalized a student exchange with Shrek, securing three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and cultivation slots in the Underground World. He added Lin Xi to the roster as a ruse, while Chen Mo took two soul bones to test a fusion method and Kong Deming promised a device to conceal Lin Xi’s lack of an ultimate martial soul.

• Jing Hongchen agreed to send Ma Rulong, Xiao Hongchen, and Lin Xi to Shrek in two years, while Shrek would send Ling Luochеn, Huo Yuhao, and Bei Bei to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.
• The Shrek visitors left after giving Jing Hongchen three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, and he returned to find Chen Mo, Meng Hongchen, and Xiao Hongchen waiting in his office.
• Jing Hongchen revealed that Xiao Hongchen was on the exchange roster, then gave the three soul bones to him, Meng Hongchen, and Chen Mo before leaving to report to Kong Deming.
• Chen Mo found the soul bones incompatible with him but saw that Meng Hongchen suited both left arm bones, so he took those two to test the Soul Bone Fusion Method and promised her a surprise.
• Jing Hongchen told Kong Deming that the exchange deal had secured soul bones and Underground World cultivation slots, and Kong Deming approved Lin Xi’s inclusion as a way to mislead Shrek.
• Kong Deming said he would give Jing Hongchen a device for Lin Xi to use so Shrek would not easily discover that Lin Xi lacked an ultimate martial soul.

Kong Deming warned Jing Hongchen not to grow complacent after the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s victory and gave him a powerful defensive Soul Tool for Chen Mo. Meanwhile, Chen Mo successfully fused two Soul Bones into one stronger bone, prompting the Ice Empress to question whether he could improve the Soul Bones he had already absorbed.

• Kong Deming cautioned Jing Hongchen that Shrek might become stronger after its Tournament defeat and told him to guard against the Holy Spirit Cult and avoid the Crown Prince.
• Jing Hongchen told Kong Deming that Chen Mo had refused the Crown Prince’s recruitment and promised to guide him carefully.
• Kong Deming gave Jing Hongchen the Crimson Plain Battle Armor to pass on to Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo used the Soul Bone Fusion Method and bone chilling flame to combine two Soul Bones into a forty-thousand-year Soul Bone with both poison and fire attributes.
• The Ice Empress asked how Chen Mo could fuse Soul Bones he had already absorbed, since absorbed Soul Bones could not be removed.

Chen Mo gave Meng Hongchen a fused forty-thousand-year Soul Bone to ease the fire poison in her Martial Soul. He then agreed to help Xiao Hongchen fuse a Soul Bone he had already absorbed, secretly treating him as a test subject for the method he hoped to use on himself.

• Chen Mo realized he might fuse an absorbed Soul Bone with another by refining his arm in the Furnace Cauldron, but decided he needed to prepare and test the risky method first.
• Chen Mo gave Meng Hongchen a Soul Bone made by fusing two Soul Bones, and explained that the Body Sect’s secret method had combined their age and fire and poison attributes.
• Meng Hongchen began absorbing the fused Soul Bone while Chen Mo and Xiao Hongchen guarded her.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Chen Mo to fuse another Soul Bone with one he had already absorbed, and Chen Mo agreed.
• Chen Mo told Xiao Hongchen to find another right leg bone, while privately considering him a useful test subject.

Chen Mo refined his first second-rank pill and told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress about a pill that could let Soul Beasts take human form without losing their cultivation or lifespan. The two urged him to become strong enough to refine it, leaving their hopes for the Transformation Pill in his hands.

• Meng Hongchen teased Xiao Hongchen for doubting Chen Mo, and Xiao Hongchen hurriedly assured Chen Mo of their bond.
• Meng Hongchen gained the Venom Beam Soul Skill after absorbing her Soul Bone, which reduced the potent poison in her body by more than half.
• A month later, Chen Mo emerged from a cave with a second-rank Body-Protecting Pill, and he explained its uses to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress grew excited when Chen Mo mentioned pills that could let Soul Beasts take human form without side effects.
• Chen Mo explained that he could not refine the seventh-rank Transformation Pill until he met its cultivation and alchemy requirements and obtained transformation herb.
• The Ice Empress urged Chen Mo to cultivate and improve his alchemy, and he agreed to do his best.

Chen Mo fused Xiao Hongchen’s Soul Bones in the Black Demon Cauldron, then used the same method to fuse his own left-arm Soul Bones with profound ice marrow. Xiao Hongchen’s fusion succeeded, and Chen Mo’s Soul Bone unexpectedly advanced to the Hundred Thousand Year level.

• Chen Mo persuaded Xiao Hongchen to put his right leg into the Alchemy Furnace and began fusing his Soul Bones with the Bone Chilling Flame.
• After six hours of agonizing refinement, Xiao Hongchen guided his soul power to complete the fusion, gaining a forty-five-thousand-year Soul Bone and an enhanced Metal Heating skill.
• Chen Mo then placed the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone, profound ice marrow, and his left arm in the Black Demon Cauldron to fuse his own Soul Bones.
• Chen Mo’s Soul Bone fusion succeeded, reaching the Hundred Thousand Year level and strengthening Light Energy Aggregation while granting him the Ice Storm Technique.

Chen Mo met Ye Guyi at a restaurant, where she asked him to team up with her in an underground soul-fighting event for a million Gold Soul Coins and a class-seven light-attribute melee soul tool. He agreed, and they set out to buy him inconspicuous clothes before the event began that day.

• Chen Mo received five days of leave from Jing Hongchen along with the class-nine Crimson Plain Battle Armor, then followed Ye Guyi's invitation to a restaurant in the western district.
• Ye Guyi told Chen Mo she had become a Soul King by fighting underground matches and hunting weaker evil soul masters, and that she had joined the Ordinary Alliance for a place to stay.
• Ye Guyi asked Chen Mo to be her teammate in a two-person ring-defense challenge that awarded prizes for winning ten matches in a row, and Chen Mo agreed without asking for a share.
• Ye Guyi explained that the event started that day and took Chen Mo to buy ordinary clothes so his Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy uniform would not attract attention.