Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Chen Mo publicly turns Park Guk-chang’s accusations against him, asking whether Park has been stealing students from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. Jing Hongchen backs him up and threatens to take the matter to the emperor.
• Jing incapacitates Park and his companions with a controlled soul-cannon blast, then prepares to bring them to the palace for judgment. Chen Mo supplies the device they used to infiltrate the academy and urges Jing to preserve surveillance recordings and improve security.
• The next day, Chen Mo tells Meng Hongchen he is unharmed. He plans to return to his sect during the break, visit his master, and hunt for his third soul ring.
• Chen Mo identifies a Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python—a highly intelligent, mental-attribute soul beast living in the Star Dou Great Forest—as his target.
• Meng proposes a wager: if Chen Mo passes the Level 2 Soul Engineer examination before the end of the next term, she will give him a mystery reward. Two days later, Chen Mo leaves for his sect. The chapter ends by noting that Huo Yuhao is having a difficult time at Shrek Academy.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo shows quick wit and confidence, using Park’s own accusations to expose the weakness of his position. He also remains playful with Jing Hongchen, jokingly claiming Jing begged him to become a disciple.
• Jing Hongchen protects Chen Mo, takes charge of the intruders, and promises to seek an official resolution. His banter with Chen Mo reveals both familiarity and affection beneath his stern act.
• Meng Hongchen expresses genuine concern for Chen Mo and shows her fondness by sharing food and hoping he will stay in Mingdu. She eagerly arranges a future visit and challenges him with a new wager.
• Park Guk-chang loses control of the situation after his accusations are turned back on him and is taken into custody with his companions.

Significant themes

• Justice and accountability: The conflict shifts from personal accusations to an official investigation backed by evidence.
• Talent, ambition, and mentorship: Chen Mo’s rapid progress and multiple mentors remain central to his path.
• Friendship and growing affection: Meng’s concern, generosity, and eagerness to spend time with Chen Mo suggest a closer bond.
• Humor amid danger: Chen Mo’s irreverent jokes lighten the aftermath of a serious attempted abduction and attack.

Key plot points and events

• Huo Yuhao loses a challenge against Wu Feng after his predictions and evasions falter as he tires. Wu Feng insults him, stirring memories of his painful past and driving him into a blind, reckless attack. She defeats him decisively.
• Zhou Yi keeps Huo Yuhao as class monitor, but the loss damages his confidence. He breaks down in his dormitory.
• Tian Meng comforts him and urges him to treat defeat as temporary. He reminds Huo Yuhao of his million-year soul ring and second martial soul, and tells him to focus on reaching level 20. Huo Yuhao, currently at level 15, regains his resolve.
• Wang Dong and Bei Bei visit to console him; Tang Ya cannot enter the boys’ dormitory.
• Tian Meng worries that his plan to take Huo Yuhao to the Far North and seek the Ice Empress will be jeopardized because his shed husk—needed to protect them from the cold—has disappeared.
• Three days later, Chen Mo returns to the Body Sect through its concealed entrance. Vina mistakes him for an intruder and challenges him, but he claims to be a returning member. Du Busi then appears and teases him for having run away.

Character developments

• Huo Yuhao is shown to be vulnerable to setbacks and still struggles to control the hatred triggered by his past. Tian Meng’s encouragement helps him recover, though his confidence remains fragile.
• Tian Meng acts as Huo Yuhao’s mentor and motivator, while privately worrying about the practical risks to his larger plan.
• Chen Mo returns to the Body Sect with confidence and familiarity, but his presence is met with suspicion.
• Vina appears disciplined and alert, relying on her exceptional memory to question Chen Mo’s identity.
• Du Busi is introduced as Chen Mo’s powerful master and the Body Sect’s sect leader.

Significant themes

• Resilience after failure: Tian Meng argues that defeat matters less than whether Huo Yuhao gets back up.
• The danger of uncontrolled emotion: Huo Yuhao’s hatred makes him abandon strategy and act recklessly.
• Mentorship and encouragement: Tian Meng’s support helps restore Huo Yuhao’s determination.
• Plans meeting obstacles: Tian Meng’s ambition to guide Huo Yuhao is threatened by the missing husk, while Chen Mo’s return creates a new encounter at the Body Sect.

Character interactions

• Tian Meng comforts Huo Yuhao, though Huo Yuhao’s blunt reply briefly undercuts the attempt.
• Wang Dong and Bei Bei offer Huo Yuhao support after his defeat.
• Vina confronts Chen Mo, who tries to reassure her that he belongs to the sect.
• Du Busi arrives, and Chen Mo answers his teasing by insisting he had left a note explaining his departure.

• Chen Mo returns to the Body Sect: After three months away, he has reached level 30. His master, Du Busi, is impressed but sarcastic about Chen Mo’s absence. Chen explains that he was studying, not working—and reveals he attends the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• A dispute over schools and soul tools: Du Busi is shocked that Chen chose the Sun Moon academy rather than Shrek, which he regards as a better school. Vina, a princess of the Heaven Dou Empire, backs him up: she praises Shrek, dismisses soul tools as scrap, and suggests Chen’s enrollment in an enemy country is disloyal. Chen counters that Shrek is backward and that Vina’s judgment is based on ignorance, not firsthand knowledge.
• Chen identifies Vina and exposes a secret: He recognizes Vina as a princess from her snow-lotus martial soul and infers that she is Du Busi’s granddaughter, connecting her family heritage and Body Sect martial soul to Du Busi’s past romance with a Heaven Dou princess. He says he learned the story from the diary of Du Busi’s older brother, Du Bisou. Embarrassed, Du Busi tries to stop him.
• The argument remains unresolved: Vina demands that Chen justify calling her narrow-minded. He asks whether she knows anything about soul tools or the Sun Moon academy; she admits she has not studied them and has relied on others’ opinions. Chen presses her to explain why she dismisses soul tools, while Vina insists martial-soul cultivation is the proper path and soul tools are merely tricks.
  Character developments and interactions: Chen presents himself as confident and confrontational, challenging the sect’s and empire’s assumptions. Du Busi’s respect for Chen is mixed with old-fashioned skepticism, while his flustered response to the revelation shows a more personal, comic side. Vina’s strong national and institutional loyalties are tested when Chen exposes how little she knows about the subject she condemns.
  Themes: The chapter contrasts tradition with technological progress, questions inherited prejudice and blind institutional loyalty, and uses the characters’ debate to highlight the gap between reputation and firsthand knowledge.

Key plot points

• Chen Mo argues that the Heaven Dou Empire’s contempt for soul-tool technology will eventually lead to its destruction. Vina, a princess of the empire, takes the prediction as an insult and accuses him of attacking the royal family.
• Chen Mo rejects Vina’s claim that the empire enabled his success. He explains that he awakened his martial soul in the Dou Ling Empire because commoners in Heaven Dou face barriers to awakening theirs. Vina is shaken and runs off crying.
• Du Busi tells Chen Mo he will join the sect’s group on a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest in two weeks to hunt soul rings. Chen Mo has already chosen a Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python as the target for his third ring.
• While back at the sect, Chen Mo spends much of his time practicing soul-tool crafting with materials provided by Jing Hongchen, rather than cultivating.
• On the expedition, Du Busi initially scolds Chen Mo for continuing to study soul tools despite the Body Sect’s ban. Chen Mo points out that he has reached a cultivation bottleneck and argues that mastering soul tools will keep the sect’s Young Sect Master from falling behind Sun Moon Academy students. Du Busi is persuaded and urges him to study harder.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo remains blunt and defiant, challenging both Vina’s imperial pride and the sect’s hostility toward soul tools. He defends his own achievements by emphasizing his parents’ support and his experience as a commoner.
• Vina reacts angrily to criticism of her empire, then is devastated by Chen Mo’s account of how it treats commoners. She continues glaring at him during the later journey.
• Du Busi is skeptical of soul tools and protective of sect traditions, but his personal affection for Chen Mo makes him lenient. Chen Mo’s appeal to sect pride even temporarily turns that skepticism into encouragement.
• The other disciples, including Long Aotian, watch Du Busi give Chen Mo special treatment and feel aggrieved that they would likely be punished for the same behavior.

Significant themes

• Tradition versus technological change: The empire and Body Sect resist soul tools, while Chen Mo sees technological progress as essential.
• Class inequality and privilege: Chen Mo challenges Vina’s patriotic assumptions by pointing out the barriers commoners face in Heaven Dou.
• Favoritism and hypocrisy: Du Busi’s rules against soul tools are strict for ordinary disciples but flexible when it comes to Chen Mo.
• Blunt honesty and wounded pride: Chen Mo’s directness exposes Vina’s defensiveness, though his harsh delivery worsens their conflict.

Plot points and events

• The Body Sect group searches for a Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python for Chen Mo’s next soul ring but initially finds none. They discover a hundred-year python being carried as a “spicy strip” by a honey badger, then follow its trail to a pond where pythons have gathered.
• The gathering protects a seventy-thousand-year python as it prepares to break through. Chen Mo chooses it for his third soul ring—an extraordinarily dangerous choice.
• Du Busi subdues the python and brings it to Chen Mo. Using his Jade-Eyed Three-Flower Pupils, Chen Mo takes control of it and commands it to sacrifice itself.
• The python willingly begins the sacrifice. Chen Mo absorbs its black soul ring, using the Soul-Nurturing Art to refine the powerful soul energy and strengthen his body. Du Busi guards the group during the process.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Mo shows confidence and unconventional methods, choosing a seventy-thousand-year beast for his third ring. He can control snake-type soul beasts through his pupils, though only briefly when their spiritual power is comparable to his.
• Du Busi is protective and readily supports Chen Mo’s risky choice, trusting his abilities. He also urges Chen Mo to stop playing with the controlled python and focus on the sacrifice.
• Vina is shocked by Chen Mo’s choice and by the group’s calm reaction. Long Aotian reassures her that she will soon understand their confidence.
• Chen Mo treats the python playfully, ordering it to obey, while Du Busi’s practical supervision keeps the process focused and safe.

Significant themes

• Power and risk: Chen Mo’s ambition pushes beyond conventional limits, but his unusual abilities and preparation make the risk manageable.
• Control and consent: Rather than forcefully killing the beast, Chen Mo uses his power to make it willingly sacrifice itself, avoiding resentment and gaining its origin essence.
• Trust and loyalty: Du Busi and the others accept Chen Mo’s extraordinary decisions because they trust his strength and judgment.

Key plot points and events

• After killing the seventy-thousand-year Spirit Vein Brocade-Scale Python, Chen Mo spends about seven hours absorbing its soul power and spiritual origin.
• His soul power rises three levels, reaching the peak of level 34. He remarks that the gain feels modest; Du Busi explains that ultimate-martial-soul users cultivate slowly past level 30 because their bodies must withstand and refine their powerful energy.
• Chen Mo tests his new third soul skill, All-Domain Shared Search, on Du Busi. It grants 360-degree detection within 350 meters, or straight-line detection up to 600 meters, and can be shared with allies. Combined with Chen Mo’s Three-Flower Pupils: Illusion Break, it also reveals currents of soul power and life energy.
• The group rests overnight, then leaves the Star Dou Great Forest for the Body Sect. Chen Mo flies ahead using a Level 3 Soul Tool Flying Device, while the others travel by carriage. Du Busi privately reflects that the device may be more useful than he had assumed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo gains a potent, adaptable detection skill and remains modest—or teasingly self-effacing—about its strength. His ability to fly independently also sets him apart from the other disciples.
• Du Busi explains the long-term advantages and physical costs of ultimate martial souls. He agrees to let Chen Mo test the skill, is impressed by its combined effects, and shows growing interest in Chen Mo’s flying device.
• The other disciples envy Chen Mo’s ability to fly before reaching the level normally required for unaided flight.

Significant themes

• Power comes with a cost: ultimate martial souls offer exceptional strength but impose severe physical strain and slow early cultivation.
• Growth through adaptation: the body’s purification and strengthening prepare ultimate-martial-soul users for faster advancement later.
• Innovation and utility: soul tools can give young soul masters abilities that would otherwise require far greater cultivation, while versatile skills can become even stronger when combined.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mo receives a new system mission: reach the Ice Empress before Huo Yuhao and help her survive her four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, due in one month.
• Alarmed by the impossible-sounding task, Chen Mo complains to the unresponsive system.
• Electrolux, whose lingering consciousness Chen Mo saved three months earlier, awakens in Chen Mo’s Sea of Consciousness. He says the Soul-Nurturing Art and the spiritual energy it produces have helped him recover.
• Seeing Chen Mo’s affinity for spiritual power and light, Electrolux offers to become his master. Chen Mo accepts, reasoning that Electrolux’s teachings will complement what his other master, Du Busi, taught him.
• Facing the looming mission, Chen Mo connects the tribulation’s lightning to electrical conductivity and devises a Faraday cage. He plans to build it using materials such as vines from a ten-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine and seeks help gathering supplies.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo shifts from panic to inventive problem-solving. He is eager to take advantage of Electrolux’s expertise, while treating his two masters’ roles as separate and compatible.
• Electrolux wakes with his memory still incomplete but shows gratitude to Chen Mo and begins taking an active role in his development by offering instruction in spiritual power and light.
• Their relationship changes from benefactor and rescued spirit to master and disciple. Chen Mo’s urgent request for materials shows he quickly intends to rely on Electrolux’s help.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity against overwhelming odds: Chen Mo looks for a practical, unconventional solution to a seemingly insurmountable threat.
• Mentorship and mutual benefit: Chen Mo’s cultivation helps restore Electrolux, while Electrolux’s knowledge may help Chen prepare for the mission.
• Destiny and disruption: The system warns that Huo Yuhao’s altered timeline has advanced the Ice Empress’s tribulation, forcing Chen Mo to act sooner than expected.

Plot points

• After two weeks of work, Chen Mo completes a Faraday cage designed to protect someone from lightning tribulations. It is built from conductive metals, insulating material, and rare Soul Beast materials.
• Du Busi arrives with the lightning-attribute Soul Beasts Chen Mo requested. He initially mocks the cage and is appalled that Chen Mo used precious Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine material to make it.
• Chen Mo takes Du Busi and Demon Fist Douluo to the back mountain to test the device. Although Chen Mo offers to sit inside, Du Busi insists on taking his place.
• Chen Mo persuades him to test it without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power, so the results will be accurate. Du Busi realizes he has been tricked but honors his decision.
• The Soul Beasts fire repeated lightning attacks at the cage. The cage remains intact and channels the current into the ground. Du Busi becomes so fascinated that he asks for more attacks until the beasts are exhausted.
• Chen Mo records the results and plans to improve the cage’s resistance and add weight, since a genuine lightning tribulation would be much stronger.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo shows confidence in his invention, practical curiosity, and a playful willingness to manipulate his master into testing it. He remains focused on gathering useful data rather than celebrating its initial success.
• Du Busi shifts from skeptical and angry about the wasted materials to astonished and absorbed in the experiment. His concern for Chen Mo is evident when he objects to the young man testing the cage himself.
• Demon Fist Douluo guards the Soul Beasts and follows Du Busi’s approval before releasing them, wary of provoking the Sect Master.
• The central interaction is the teasing but affectionate master-disciple exchange: Du Busi criticizes Chen Mo’s project and tries to protect him, while Chen Mo turns Du Busi’s own insistence on taking the risk into an opportunity to test the cage.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity and experimentation: Chen Mo applies engineering principles to a supernatural danger and tests his invention systematically.
• Trust and affection: Du Busi’s willingness to supply rare materials—and eventually risk himself—shows his care for his disciple.
• Humor and role reversal: The master, initially dismissive, becomes the eager subject of the test, while the disciple orchestrates the experiment.
• Limits of success: The cage withstands ordinary lightning attacks, but Chen Mo recognizes that a true tribulation will be far more powerful and that further improvements are needed.

Plot points and events

• As the Ice Empress’s 400,000-year lightning tribulation approaches, Chen Mo finishes upgrading his Faraday Cage, strengthening it and sharpening its hooks so they can be anchored in the Far North’s frozen ground.
• He equips himself with heavy cold-weather clothing and travels from the Body Sect toward the Far North, disguising his real destination from Electrolux with a story about sensing a fortuitous opportunity.
• Chen Mo walks into the Core Circle, guided by the system’s navigation, as the tribulation clouds gather.
• The Ice Empress’s tribulation arrives a century early. She suspects this happened because she ate several pieces of ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow, hoping to heal damage from her previous tribulation.
• Unwilling to endanger the Snow Empress, who also faces a major tribulation, the Ice Empress decides to face the danger alone.
• She withstands the first two lightning strikes, but the increasingly powerful bolts wear her down. By the fifth, she is injured and believes she is about to die.
• As the next strike approaches, Chen Mo’s panicked voice is heard: he is sliding uncontrollably across the ice.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo is resourceful and determined, preparing carefully for the cold and the lightning trial. He conceals his plans from Electrolux, who briefly wonders whether Chen Mo’s claim of sensing an opportunity reflects unusual luck.
• The Ice Empress shifts from resolve to despair as the tribulation overwhelms her. Her refusal to ask the Snow Empress for help shows her concern for the other ruler’s survival.
• Chen Mo and Electrolux interact through Chen Mo’s misleading explanation; Chen Mo’s arrival then interrupts the Ice Empress at her moment of greatest peril.

Significant themes

• Preparation and ingenuity: Chen Mo relies on planning and specialized equipment rather than brute strength.
• Sacrifice and responsibility: The Ice Empress accepts the risk of dying rather than jeopardizing the Snow Empress.
• Fate and unintended consequences: The Ice Empress’s attempt to heal herself may have triggered her tribulation early.
• Tension and contrast: The grave, life-threatening trial is abruptly undercut by Chen Mo’s comic loss of control on the slippery ice.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mo rushes toward Ice Empress during her 400,000-year tribulation, using a makeshift sled and Elder Yi’s help. He loses control, crashes near her, and arrives just as she is recovering from a lightning strike.
• Ice Empress demands to know why a human child has entered the Far North during her tribulation and why he carries an aura resembling Tian Meng’s.
• Chen Mo claims that a mysterious premonition led him there to help her survive, and says he found Tian Meng’s shed skin while hunting. Ice Empress rejects most of the story as unbelievable.
• Chen Mo presents a Faraday Cage he built as a tribulation-survival device, claiming it gives her better than a 90% chance of surviving. He admits it has only been tested against ordinary lightning.
• Ice Empress refuses to enter the cage, dismissing it as ugly and unnecessary. Chen Mo realizes persuasion will not work and challenges her to a bet.

Character developments

• Chen Mo is resourceful and determined to complete his mission, improvising a sled and preparing specialized equipment. When honest persuasion fails, he decides to provoke Ice Empress instead.
• Ice Empress is badly injured but maintains her pride and authority. Her skepticism, vanity, and fierce independence lead her to reject help even when she may need it.

Character interactions

• Ice Empress questions Chen Mo aggressively and threatens to eat him; Chen Mo answers with jokes and challenges her contradictory demands.
• Chen Mo tries to persuade her with an elaborate story and the Faraday Cage, while Ice Empress responds with suspicion, insults, and refusal.
• Their exchange highlights the contrast between Chen Mo’s persistence and Ice Empress’s proud, tsundere resistance.

Significant themes

• Pride versus survival: Ice Empress’s self-image makes her reluctant to accept assistance despite her injuries.
• Trust and proof: Chen Mo’s claims are difficult to believe, and his device is untested against the danger at hand.
• Humor amid danger: The sled crash and their bantering, even during a life-threatening tribulation, give the scene a comic tone.

Key plot points and events

• The Ice Empress rejects Chen Mo’s wager, so Electrolux takes control of Chen Mo’s body and negotiates with her.
• Electrolux proposes that Chen Mo help her survive the lightning tribulation. If she lives, she must serve as Chen Mo’s bodyguard for ten years; if he fails, Electrolux will protect her himself.
• With the fifth strike about to fall and her badly wounded, the Ice Empress accepts. She surrounds them with ice walls for protection.
• Chen Mo has her enter a metal cage fitted with hooks driven into the frozen ground, then retreats. The cage acts as a Faraday cage, conducting the fifth strike safely into the earth.
• The tribulation escalates, launching three more strikes and then a massive World-Destroying Thunder Dragon. Despite the force shattering the Ice Empress’s ice walls, the cage withstands the attack, protected by Electrolux.
• After about half an hour, the thunder dragon dissipates and the tribulation clouds clear. The Ice Empress survives, her wounds begin healing, and her cultivation and lifespan increase—but her essential power remains badly damaged, since she endured the first four strikes directly.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo relies on Electrolux when the Ice Empress refuses to trust him, then puts his unconventional technological solution into practice. His blunt advice initially seems absurd, but proves effective.
• Electrolux demonstrates his formidable strength and negotiating skill, reassuring the Ice Empress by personally accepting responsibility if Chen Mo’s plan fails.
• The Ice Empress shifts from contempt and suspicion to a desperate agreement. She remains wary—adding ice walls for safety—but ultimately trusts Chen Mo’s plan enough to enter the cage. Her survival begins her rise toward becoming a 400,000-year ferocious beast.
• The exchange between the Ice Empress and Chen Mo is marked by mistrust and dry humor; the tribulation itself appears to react angrily to the cage and even to Chen Mo’s taunts.

Significant themes

• Technology versus fantasy: A simple Faraday cage defeats supernatural lightning through practical engineering.
• Trust under pressure: The Ice Empress accepts an uncertain bargain because the alternative is almost certain death.
• Ingenuity and power: Chen Mo’s cleverness complements Electrolux’s strength, while the Ice Empress’s survival comes at a serious cost.
• The cruelty of nature: The tribulation escalates relentlessly, showing the merciless force confronting those who seek to advance their cultivation.

• Key events: The Ice Empress survives her 400,000-year tribulation but collapses from severe, long-standing damage to her essence. She keeps her promise to protect Chen Mo for ten years, though at first her scorpion form would make it difficult for him to take her into human cities. Chen Mo uses a King Ball, which heals her hidden injuries and restores her essence. It also lets her assume human form and binds her to him: she can stay inside the ball, but cannot wander too far away. Chen Mo then leaves the Far North. The system confirms the mission’s completion and grants him boosts to physique, spiritual power, and comprehension, plus an eighth-rank alchemy inheritance, the Bone Chilling Flame, a Black Demon Cauldron, and a random 30,000-year Soul Bone. Days later, an unknown woman arrives at the site, apologizing to “Bing’er” for being late.
• Character developments: The Ice Empress moves from stubbornly dismissing her injuries to accepting Chen Mo’s help and acknowledging that she owes him. Her trust in him grows, though she remains sharp-tongued—slapping him after he shakes the ball while she is inside it. Chen Mo shows concern for her wellbeing and practical foresight, having recorded his route out of the Far North.
• Interactions: Chen Mo, the Ice Empress, and Electrolux discuss her injuries and how she can accompany Chen Mo. Electrolux protects Chen Mo at first and explains the extent of her damage, but cannot heal it himself. The Ice Empress chooses the King Ball herself, and the resulting bond enables her recovery and human form.
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes keeping promises and repaying kindness, as the Ice Empress honors her ten-year commitment and accepts a debt to Chen Mo. It also highlights trust, practical cooperation, and the blend of fantasy systems and creature-bonding mechanics. The final visitor’s apology introduces a note of unresolved concern about the Ice Empress’s past or relationships.

Plot points and events

• Chen Mo begins absorbing a system-rewarded Thirty-Thousand-Year Golden Dragon Left Arm Bone, enduring severe pain as it fuses.
• While the Ice Empress stands guard, she detects an evil soul master sneaking up on Chen Mo. The intruder boasts of making corpse slaves and stealing the soul bone; the Ice Empress freezes him solid before he can attack.
• Chen Mo completes the fusion, reaching soul power level 37 and gaining the soul skill Light Energy Aggregation, which enhances his left arm’s strength, explosive and destructive power, durability, and purification ability.
• Using the new skill, Chen Mo smashes the frozen evil soul master to pieces.
• Chen Mo explains the atrocities committed by evil soul masters. The Ice Empress is outraged and vows to destroy any she encounters. She also condemns Tang San for allowing evil soul masters to escape after destroying Slaughter City, and threatens to punish the Tang Sect.
• As Chen Mo and the Ice Empress prepare to leave, they spot several evil soul masters pursuing a teenage girl. The Ice Empress immediately rushes to intervene.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo shows discipline and toughness through the painful fusion, then tests his new ability decisively against the attacker. His fierce hostility toward evil soul masters is rooted in their crimes.
• The Ice Empress acts as Chen Mo’s protector, effortlessly subdues the intruder, and reveals a strong sense of justice once she learns about evil soul masters’ victims. Her impulsive nature shows when she charges to rescue the pursued girl before Chen Mo can finish speaking.
• The two share a close, easy rapport: the Ice Empress reports what happened, Chen Mo explains the threat, and they jointly express contempt for evil soul masters and Tang San’s legacy.

Significant themes

• Power gained through endurance: Chen Mo’s painful soul-bone fusion yields a major upgrade and a new skill.
• Justice and moral judgment: The chapter portrays evil soul masters as beyond sympathy because of their exploitation and slaughter of innocents.
• Protection and responsibility: The Ice Empress uses her strength to shield Chen Mo and swiftly comes to the aid of a vulnerable stranger.
• Criticism of unchecked consequences: The discussion of Tang San focuses on the harm caused by releasing evil soul masters without eliminating them.

Plot points and events

• Evil Soul Masters from the Holy Spirit Cult chase Ye Guyi, ordered to capture her dead or alive. Their leader is a Soul Emperor, while their hidden boss is a Soul Sage.
• Ye Guyi uses her holy angel martial soul and several soul skills to resist. She purifies the attackers’ evil energy, strengthens herself, and kills two pursuers, but the group breaks through her formation and the Soul Emperor prepares a fatal strike.
• The Ice Empress intervenes, freezing and destroying the pursuers. She then attacks their boss, only for Chen Mo to reveal that she struck a clone and point out the real body’s escape route. The Ice Empress pursues and claims to kill him.
• Chen Mo and the Ice Empress meet Ye Guyi, who is also traveling to Mingdu. She says the Evil Soul Masters targeted her after she killed some of them attacking a village.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Guyi is shown as fast, capable, and determined, but the numerical advantage of her pursuers puts her in danger. Though grateful to her rescuers, she remains cautious and gives them the alias Ye Yiyi rather than her real name.
• Chen Mo recognizes Ye Guyi from her angel martial soul and calmly assists the Ice Empress by identifying the boss’s clone. Ye Guyi, meanwhile, is struck by Chen Mo’s unusually powerful soul rings and his apparent connection to the Ice Empress.
• The Ice Empress displays overwhelming strength and a fierce, domineering manner. When Chen Mo calls her his “underling,” she hits him until he corrects himself to “great-aunt.” She then ends the conversation and suggests finding shelter before nightfall.

Significant themes

• Light against corruption: Ye Guyi’s holy angel powers purify the Evil Soul Masters’ dark energy, making her a natural enemy of the cult.
• Trust and concealment: Despite being rescued, Ye Guyi withholds her identity, signaling that the new alliance begins with caution.
• Power and loyalty: The Ice Empress’s strength resolves the immediate crisis, while her comic correction of Chen Mo’s wording underscores their familiar, unequal-but-affectionate dynamic.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Mo, the Ice Empress, and Ye Guyi spend the night in a remote cave. After a day of fighting, Chen Mo cooks the Soft Bone Rabbits he hunted; the Ice Empress and, eventually, the hungry Ye Guyi enjoy the meal.
• When Chen Mo and Ye Guyi’s hands touch, Chen Mo’s second Martial Soul, Dimo, activates and their Soul Power resonates and begins to merge.
• At the Ice Empress’s suggestion—and with Electrolux confirming the unusual connection—they press their palms together, summon their Martial Souls, and deliberately guide their powers together. Their Martial Souls fuse, releasing powerful holy light.
• They spend the night cultivating through the fusion. Chen Mo advances to level 38, while Ye Guyi rises from level 44 to 45. They name their new skill Light and Shadow Holy Wings: World-Cleansing Slash.
• The next day, Ye Guyi travels toward Mingdu with Chen Mo and the Ice Empress. Chen Mo invites her to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, but she declines because she still has a personal matter to resolve.

Character developments

• Chen Mo discovers an extraordinary compatibility between his second Martial Soul and Ye Guyi’s, and gains a level through their combined cultivation.
• Ye Guyi shares the same discovery, gains a level, and grows closer to Chen Mo, but remains committed to pursuing her unresolved grievance.
• The Ice Empress shifts from teasing Chen Mo about the food to carefully investigating the Soul Power resonance. She recognizes and guides the pair’s fusion.
• Electrolux detects the resonance and helps strengthen the fusion with light magic.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and compatibility: Chen Mo and Ye Guyi’s perfectly matched Martial Souls produce a fusion neither could achieve alone.
• Growth through partnership: Their shared cultivation rapidly improves both of their Soul Power.
• Duty versus opportunity: Ye Guyi turns down a promising chance to study with Chen Mo because her personal mission takes priority.
• Light and purification: Their fusion’s holy power is potent against Evil Soul Masters.

Character interactions

• Chen Mo cares for his companions by cooking and offering Ye Guyi food despite her embarrassment.
• The accidental hand contact sparks the discovery; their mutual trust allows them to test and develop the fusion under the Ice Empress’s direction.
• Chen Mo invites Ye Guyi to join him at the academy, but respects her decision to refuse.

Plot points and events

• Five days after parting from Ye Guyi, Chen Mo and the Ice Empress reach Mingdu. Ye had declined Chen Mo’s repeated invitations to study at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, though she gave him an address so they could meet again. Chen Mo also decides that bringing her to the academy could expose her unusual Holy Angel martial soul to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• The Ice Empress marvels at the city’s modern buildings and samples candied hawthorn before returning to the Gulou Ball with Chen Mo’s shopping.
• Back at the academy, Chen Mo tells his teacher, Jing Hongchen, that he has reached rank 38 in just over a month. Jing checks him for damage from excessive pill use and confirms that his soul power and foundation are sound.
• Chen Mo reveals his extraordinary third soul ring—a seventy-thousand-year ring—and a soul bone. He demonstrates the ring’s soul skill, which grants exceptionally precise perception, even with his eyes closed, and can grow stronger as he advances. Jing is astonished and delighted by its usefulness to a soul engineer.
• Meng Hongchen enters and finds Jing without his usual disguise. She openly questions why he is with Chen Mo rather than in the dean’s office, exposing his attempt to conceal himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo shows rapid growth, sound judgment about Ye Guyi’s safety, and confidence in demonstrating his new ability. His achievements deepen Jing’s pride in him.
• Ye Guyi remains independent and committed to her own plans, but leaves open the possibility of future contact.
• The Ice Empress displays curiosity about human civilization and a playful appetite for unfamiliar treats.
• Jing Hongchen moves from concern about Chen Mo’s unusually fast advancement to amazement and satisfaction once he confirms Chen Mo’s strength is genuine.
• Meng Hongchen is direct and perceptive, puncturing her grandfather’s secrecy in front of Chen Mo.

Significant themes

• Growth and discipline: Rapid advancement is impressive only when backed by a stable foundation, not shortcuts.
• Talent and opportunity: Chen Mo’s rare abilities strengthen Jing’s belief that he made the right choice in taking him on.
• Caution amid danger: Ye’s unusual martial soul makes her potential exposure at the academy a serious risk.
• Culture and change: The Ice Empress’s wonder at Mingdu highlights how dramatically human society has developed.

Key plot points

• Jing Hongchen reveals that “Golden Toad” was a false identity: he is the dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, master of the Illustrious Virtue Hall, and a Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• Chen Mo admits he knew Jing’s identity from their first meeting, thanks to his Truth-Piercing ability, but played along. Jing counters that Chen himself had hidden his status as the Body Sect’s Young Sect Master.
• Meng Hongchen learns the truth about their mutual deception and discovers Chen Mo’s position in the Body Sect. Chen explains that he was genuinely born a commoner and became Young Sect Master later.
• A few days afterward, Meng takes Chen to the academy’s sparring grounds. They find fifth-year students Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan fighting. Their bout ends when Jing Ziyan gives up after Ji’s sword attack cuts her hair.
• Meng warns Chen that the two are talented members of the Illustrious Virtue Hall and that provoking them can lead to persistent trouble. Jing Ziyan spots Meng, approaches her, and asks where her brother is before noticing Chen.

Character developments and interactions

• Jing Hongchen drops his disguise once exposed, but is embarrassed to learn Chen had seen through him all along. His teasing confrontation with Chen reveals a familiar, argumentative rapport.
• Chen Mo remains composed about Jing’s revelation and openly acknowledges his own status, while clarifying the truth about his humble birth.
• Meng Hongchen shifts from bafflement to understanding, then grows closer to Chen by spending more time with him. She is also visibly wary of being caught by Jing Ziyan.
• Ji Juechen is portrayed as intensely devoted to swordsmanship and blunt in battle, regardless of his opponent’s gender. Despite a modest martial soul and low innate soul power, his discipline has made him exceptionally strong.
• Jing Ziyan is capable and eager to fight, but readily complains when exhausted or when Ji damages her hair. Her interactions with him suggest an ongoing, combative familiarity; she also recognizes Meng and hopes to spar with her brother.

Significant themes

• Hidden identities and honesty: Jing and Chen both conceal information, but each knows the other’s secret; their exchange treats deception as a playful contest.
• Effort overcoming limitations: Ji’s rise despite an unimpressive martial soul and low starting potential emphasizes dedication and personal conviction.
• Rivalry and camaraderie: The sparring pair’s sharp exchanges show how competition can coexist with familiarity, while Meng’s warnings hint at the trouble their intensity can cause.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Meng Hongchen introduces Chen Mo, a new First Grade student who passed the Level One Soul Tool Assessment after only three months, to the combat-obsessed Jing Ziyan and Ji Juechen.
• Jing Hongchen deliberately provokes a match by pairing Ji Juechen with Chen Mo against Jing Ziyan and Meng Hongchen. Ji agrees eagerly; the others reluctantly accept.
• Ji refuses Chen Mo’s offer to provide support, confident he can defeat two Soul Kings alone. The match begins with Ji charging at the opposing team.
• Jing Ziyan blankets the arena in smoke while Meng uses a fixed soul cannon to attack. Ji counters the smoke once, but the women repeatedly use it to obscure their positions and create openings.
• Chen offers Ji support through his psychic martial soul. With Chen’s all-around vision, Ji can see through the smoke and spot the women’s vulnerabilities. Chen also uses spatial interference to redirect Meng’s cannon shells.
• Empowered by this support, Ji drives Jing Ziyan out of the arena. Meng then turns to attack Chen, but he disrupts her with a mental attack. Ji clears the smoke and moves to confront her. Chen declares that Meng has lost.

Character development

• Chen Mo begins wary of attracting attention and reluctant to fight. Once the match starts, however, he proves to be an effective tactical support fighter, combining perception, spatial manipulation, and mental disruption.
• Ji Juechen is initially dismissive of Chen and insists on fighting alone. He comes to rely on Chen’s support, which lets him counter tactics that would otherwise hinder him.
• Meng Hongchen tries to protect Chen from an unfair matchup, then recognizes his abilities and adjusts her strategy by targeting him.
• Jing Ziyan accepts the match because she believes her team has the advantage. Her smoke-based tactics fail once Chen helps Ji locate her.
• Jing Hongchen acts as a mischievous instigator, arranging the match and enthusiastically refereeing it.

Significant themes

• Teamwork over individual pride: Ji’s confidence is formidable, but Chen’s support proves decisive.
• Adaptability and tactical counterplay: The battle shifts as each side responds to the other’s methods.
• Hidden talent and underestimated ability: Chen appears physically outmatched, yet his specialized skills reshape the fight.

Character interactions

• Chen’s modesty contrasts with Jing Hongchen’s loud praise, which draws Ji’s attention and sets the match in motion.
• Meng tries to shield Chen from Ji, while Chen gratefully acknowledges her intervention.
• Ji initially rejects Chen’s assistance, but Chen’s abilities earn his cooperation during the fight.
• Meng and Jing Ziyan coordinate their smoke-and-cannon strategy, then recognize that Chen is supporting Ji and redirect their attacks toward him.

Key plot points and events

• After the battle, Chen Mo, Ji Juechen, Jing Ziyan, and Meng Hongchen review how they won. Chen Mo explains that his detection skill can be combined with Three-Flower Pupils: Illusion Break, allowing him to locate Jing Ziyan through her fog. He also redirected Meng Hongchen’s Soul Cannon shots, helping secure Jing Ziyan’s elimination.
• Jing Ziyan concedes defeat and says Chen Mo would have to be targeted first in any future match. Jing Hongchen is pleased: Chen Mo’s abilities could greatly improve the academy’s chances against Shrek at the next tournament. However, Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan are already over the competition’s age limit.
• The students return to school, where Chen Mo continues to make an impression.
• In the Divine Realm, Tang San discovers that Huo Yuhao’s fate and planned development have changed dramatically. He goes to the Divine Realm Center, apparently intending to intervene, but finds the God of Destruction there.
• The God of Destruction accuses an unnamed god of repeatedly meddling in the mortal world, especially in Tang San’s homeland. Tang San denies involvement and tries to shift suspicion onto Destruction.
• Destruction counters by proposing that both God Kings be investigated and barred from the Center until the matter is resolved. Tang San has little choice but to leave, privately vowing revenge.
• Two months later, Chen Mo completes a Level Three Formation Core in the academy’s laboratory.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo demonstrates that his strength lies not only in powerful Soul Skills but also in combining them strategically and supporting his teammates. He remains modest despite Jing Ziyan and Meng Hongchen praising him.
• Jing Ziyan moves from skepticism to wholehearted acceptance of defeat, recognizing Chen Mo as a major threat in team combat.
• Meng Hongchen confirms Chen Mo’s crucial role in the victory, especially his ability to redirect her cannon fire.
• Jing Hongchen sees Chen Mo as a potential key to defeating Shrek, while acknowledging the age restrictions on other strong students.
• Tang San is alarmed when his careful plan for Huo Yuhao is disrupted. His confident manipulation gives way to frustration and suspicion as the God of Destruction blocks his access to the Divine Realm Center.
• The God of Destruction openly challenges Tang San and uses the threat of a formal investigation to prevent him from acting unchecked.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and tactical synergy: Chen Mo’s abilities make his teammates’ attacks more effective and shape the outcome of the battle.
• Power and accountability: The Divine Realm conflict raises the question of whether gods should interfere in the mortal world for personal purposes.
• Plans disrupted by change: Tang San’s elaborate schemes are thrown off course, while Chen Mo’s steady progress suggests new possibilities.
• Talent and opportunity: Chen Mo’s skills could reshape the academy’s competitive prospects, though age limits constrain who can participate.

Key plot points and events

• After seven months at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy—five months of study, excluding vacation—Chen Mo tells Jing Hongchen he is ready to take the Level Two Soul Engineer assessment.
• Jing Hongchen is delighted by Chen Mo’s progress. He has already completed a Level Three formation core, but has kept that achievement quiet while practicing its techniques.
• Jing arranges the assessment and warns that, despite their teacher-student relationship, Chen Mo will fail if his work does not meet the standard.
• First- and second-year students gather to watch. The education director explains that he arranged the demonstration so they could learn; Jing permits them to observe from a room where they cannot interfere.
• Xuan Ziwen learns what Chen Mo is there to do and is astonished. Regretting that he once passed up the chance to teach Chen, he contacts his own teacher, Kong Deming, to share the news. Kong reacts with immediate alarm and excitement.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Mo remains confident and disciplined. He has advanced rapidly in soul-tool engineering while also prioritizing martial-soul cultivation, recognizing that soul power is essential to using soul tools.
• Jing Hongchen takes pride in his student’s talent but maintains professional standards, insisting that Chen must earn the qualification properly.
• Xuan Ziwen reveals lingering regret over not taking Chen as a student and hopes he might still become a junior fellow disciple.
• Kong Deming, a renowned Level Nine Soul Engineer, is introduced through his call with Xuan Ziwen; his dramatic response signals the importance of Chen’s achievement.
• The students are positioned as an audience for Chen’s assessment, turning his personal milestone into a teaching opportunity.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent and rapid advancement: Chen’s progress is extraordinary even by the academy’s high standards.
• Discipline and balance: Technical skill matters, but Chen also recognizes the need to cultivate the soul power that underpins it.
• Merit over favoritism: Jing’s affection for Chen does not exempt him from the assessment requirements.
• Mentorship and missed opportunities: Xuan’s regret highlights how quickly a gifted student can become the object of competition among teachers.