Recaps

Lin Qing rescued Ju Zi and Keke from the lion pack and helped them secure fifth soul rings, but the Golden Sword Lion King pursued them and badly wounded Lin Qing before Zheng Zhan drove it off with a Repulsion Halo. Back at Mingde Hall, Kong Deming learned of Wang Shaojie's attack and the royal connections behind him, then vowed to deal with the Wang family and eventually capture the Golden Sword Lion King for Lin Qing.

• Lin Qing defeated the remaining Golden and Silver Lions, knocked out two saber-toothed lions, and offered them as fifth soul rings for Ju Zi and Keke.
• The Golden Sword Lion King broke Zheng Zhan's Unbreakable Divine Shield, then learned that Lin Qing had taken the Metal Source and escaped the mountain range.
• The Golden Sword Lion King caught up with Lin Qing, Ju Zi, and Keke and attacked them with Golden Flying Swords, while Lin Qing shielded the girls and suffered a serious shoulder wound.
• Zheng Zhan used a Repulsion Halo to send the Golden Sword Lion King flying, and Ju Zi and Keke tended to the injured Lin Qing.
• Kong Deming confronted Zheng Zhan over the mission's outcome and learned that Wang Shaojie had attacked Lin Qing and was connected to the royal family and Third Prince Xu Tianzhou.
• Kong Deming ordered action against the Wang family and said he would capture the Golden Sword Lion King for Lin Qing once Lin Qing could absorb a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone.

Lin Qing recovered at Zhanghua Garden as Ye Guyi returned from the Iron Sea, revealed her Soul King breakthrough, and considered training under Starry Sky Douluo. Ju Zi and Keke brought Lin Qing a lavish meal, while Ye Guyi left in jealousy; meanwhile, Xu Tianzhou convened a secret meeting over Wang Shaojie's affair and the succession struggle.

• Ye Guyi told Lin Qing that Wang Shaojie had been expelled and abandoned in the Jingyang Mountain Range after his treachery, while she had returned from the Iron Sea and broken through to Soul King.
• Ye Guyi said she had concealed her Holy Angel Martial Soul, absorbed a light-attribute fifth Soul Ring, and was considering becoming Starry Sky Douluo's disciple; Lin Qing left the choice to her.
• Ju Zi and Keke arrived with food for Lin Qing, and Ye Guyi reacted coldly to their visit before leaving to meet Starry Sky Douluo.
• Ju Zi served Lin Qing a lavish meal, accepted his suggestion to use less osmanthus honey in her cakes, and prepared to help change his dressings with Keke.
• Xu Tianzhou summoned his advisers to discuss Wang Shaojie's affair, suspecting that a powerful figure had entered the struggle over the Crown Prince succession.

Xu Tianzhou's faction plotted to exploit Ju Zi and Lin Qing's relationship to weaken Xu Tianran and win support tied to Ultimate Metal. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Lin Qing recovered and prepared to leave Mingdu for vacation, but the Imperial Inspection Squad suddenly moved to arrest Ju Zi.

• Xu Mochen proposed using Lin Qing and Ju Zi's closeness to drive a wedge between Ju Zi and Xu Tianran, and Xu Tianzhou praised the scheme.
• Xu Tianzhou's advisers suggested framing Ju Zi and using the Wang family, while Xu Mochen refused to sacrifice his squad members.
• Xiao Hongchen urged Meng Hongchen to pursue Lin Qing so he could obtain more Ultimate Metal, then asked whether she had found her fifth Soul Ring.
• Lin Qing, Ju Zi, and Keke reported their final-examination results to Xuan Ziwen, who recorded their data and announced the start of vacation.
• Meng Hongchen checked that Lin Qing had recovered, and Lin Qing said he planned to leave Mingdu during the break before agreeing to spar with Xiao Hongchen.
• Imperial Inspection Squad members surrounded the students, black-clad figures appeared behind them, and the temporary captain declared Ju Zi under arrest.

After Xiao Hongchen destroyed the Wang Family Deadly Warriors and the Imperial Inspection Squad, Heart Nightmare drew out the group’s hidden desires. Lin Qing and Ju Zi shared their histories of loss and revenge, then formed an alliance to help Ju Zi take control of the army and bring down Shrek Academy.

• Xiao Hongchen used Lin Qing’s machine element to unleash ultimate metal and annihilate the Wang Family Deadly Warriors and the Imperial Inspection Squad.
• Ju Zi recognized the secret drug Heart Nightmare, which revealed the group’s deepest desires, and advised them to wait out its effects in private.
• At Zhanghua Garden, Lin Qing struggled with his desire to kill Taotie Douluo while Ju Zi came to confide in him.
• Ju Zi told Lin Qing how she had survived her parents’ deaths, saved Xu Tianran, and pursued revenge against the White Tiger Duke and the Star Luo Empire.
• Lin Qing and Ju Zi shared their painful pasts and agreed to help one another seek revenge.
• Ju Zi proposed an alliance in which Lin Qing would help her control the army and she would send troops to destroy Shrek Academy; they sealed the pact by clasping hands.

After Ju Zi confided in Lin Qing and pledged to support each other, Lin Qing prepared to return to Dragon City with Unbreakable Douluo Zheng Zhan. He returned to Zhanghua Garden to find Ye Guyi waiting, ready to target the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu Branch.

• Ju Zi shared Xu Tianran’s secrets with Lin Qing, then fell asleep in his bed after the Heart Demon Elixir’s effects overwhelmed her.
• Meng Hongchen told Lin Qing that she had stopped Keke from acting on her desires and calmed her by freezing her in ice.
• Jing Hongchen identified the attackers as Wang Family Deadly Warriors and said the Crown Prince planned to impeach the Third Prince over the attack on Ju Zi.
• Lin Qing told Jing Hongchen and Zheng Zhan that he planned to return to Dragon City, and Zheng Zhan agreed to escort him while seeking a Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad for Meng Hongchen.
• Lin Qing arranged to leave in three days, then returned to Zhanghua Garden and found Ye Guyi watching over the sleeping Ju Zi.
• Ye Guyi told Lin Qing that they would destroy the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu Branch.

Lin Qing and Ye Guyi destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s Mingdu branch and freed the wronged souls, while Nana’s allies prepared to reunite with their loved ones. Later, Ju Zi met Crown Prince Xu Tianran, who questioned her about Lin Qing and considered how to win him over.

• Nana led Lin Qing and Ye Guyi into the branch’s underground altar, where three Evil Soul Masters were waiting.
• Lin Qing’s weapons and domain restrained the enemies while Ye Guyi killed an Evil Soul Emperor and confronted the Evil Soul Saint.
• The Evil Soul Saint unleashed the Holy Spirit Banner, but Lin Qing destroyed it and Ye Guyi executed him with her Holy Sword.
• Ye Guyi purified the freed souls, and Nana wept as the Holy Servants prepared to reunite with their loved ones.
• Ye Guyi confronted Lin Qing about Ju Zi having slept in his bed.
• Ju Zi met Xu Tianran, who discussed the Imperial Inspection Squad’s attack and asked how they might recruit Lin Qing.

Xu Tianran urged Ju Zi to draw Lin Qing into a relationship so he could secure Lin Qing’s loyalty to the Sun Moon Imperial Family, while Lin Qing and Zheng Zhan traveled to Dragon City. There, Nan Qiuqiu rallied the Earth Dragon Sect’s young disciples for their seventh friendly match against the Heavenly Dragon Sect.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that Lin Qing was close to Meng Hongchen and Ye Guyi, and swore that her loyalty to him and desire for revenge against the Star Luo Empire were unwavering.
• Xu Tianran encouraged Ju Zi to win Lin Qing’s love so Lin Qing would protect the future imperial heir, and Ju Zi agreed to obey.
• Ye Guyi told Lin Qing that Nana’s former Holy Servants had sworn to fight the Holy Spirit Cult, and Lin Qing asked her to discourage them from calling him their master.
• Lin Qing and Zheng Zhan left for Dragon City wearing the Unbreakable Divine Mask, and Zheng Zhan accidentally revealed that Kong Deming disliked imperial power struggles before making Lin Qing promise to keep it secret.
• Nan Qiuqiu announced that the Heavenly Dragon Sect had challenged the Earth Dragon Sect’s disciples under fifteen to a seventh friendly match, then rallied her dispirited teammates and promised to defeat Yu Tianlong.

Lin Qing visited the Earth Dragon Sect and revealed that his sister Lin Lan had died during a Shrek Academy soul-beast hunt, then watched as the sects began their resource-allocation contest. Yu Tianlong opened the first match as a rank fifty-one Soul King, leaving Nan Qiuqiu fearing the Earth Dragon Sect would be overwhelmed.

• Nan Qiuqiu explained her plan to save the Earth Dragon Sect’s fortunes by facing Yu Tianlong last, after he had spent his soul power.
• Lin Qing introduced himself to Nan Shuishui and told her that Lin Lan was among the eight Shrek inner court disciples killed by the Blood Moon Scarlet Flood Dragon.
• Lin Qing privately explained to Zheng Zhan that he had kept his sister’s death from the academy because he did not want to expose his grief for sympathy, and Zheng Zhan agreed to keep it secret.
• Yu Zhentian and Nan Shuishui agreed that seven disciples under fifteen from each sect would fight one-on-one for priority over Dragon City’s newly discovered resources.
• Nan Qiuqiu sent Xu Shenshu to face Yu Tianlong first, but Yu Tianlong revealed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul and five soul rings, including a black ring, marking him as a rank fifty-one Soul King.

Yu Tianlong dominated the Earth Dragon Sect’s team, winning six matches in a row and leaving Nan Qiuqiu desperate to prevent a complete sweep. Lin Qing stepped in as the Earth Dragon Sect’s unexpected challenger, and his formidable soul rings revealed that the fight would be far from easy for Yu Tianlong.

• Yu Tianlong used his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon’s strength and lightning to defeat Xu Shenshu, then continued beating the Earth Dragon Sect’s fighters one after another.
• Nan Qiuqiu sent Feng Jue to face Yu Tianlong, but Feng Jue was overwhelmed as Yu Tianlong neared a seven-opponent sweep.
• Lin Qing offered to fight in Nan Qiuqiu’s place, and she introduced him to the Heavenly Dragon Sect as her fiancé and the Earth Dragon Sect’s prospective son-in-law.
• Lin Qing offered Yu Tianlong a Level Five Milk Bottle, but Yu Tianlong refused it and meditated until he had recovered his strength.
• Lin Qing revealed four soul rings, including a black one, and unleashed rank forty-nine soul power that suppressed Yu Tianlong’s rank fifty-one aura.

Lin Qing used his powerful metal martial soul and soul tools to defeat Yu Tianlong and the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s other contestants, securing the Earth Dragon Sect’s victory. After the match, Nan Shuishui invited Lin Qing to discuss something with her.

• Nan Shuishui considered Lin Qing’s metal abilities a possible solution to the Earth Dragon Sect’s difficulty mining a rare-metal vein beneath a freezing spring.
• Lin Qing used his flying soul tool and Dragon Devourer Cannon to defeat Yu Tianlong, whose Thunderous Hell tactic failed when Lin Qing met his close-range attack with a fused cannon blast.
• Yu Tianlong conceded defeat and warned his companions to drain Lin Qing’s soul power, but Lin Qing went on to defeat the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s remaining contestants.
• Nan Shuishui teased Yu Zhentian about the Earth Dragon Sect gaining the resource allocation rights, and Yu Tianlong told Lin Qing he would challenge him again.
• Nan Qiuqiu tried to remove Lin Qing’s mask, but he dodged her, and Nan Shuishui told her not to repay his help with harm.
• Nan Shuishui asked Lin Qing to come with her because she had something to discuss.

Lin Qing entered the Earth Dragon Sect’s cold spring to mine rare metals, while Nan Shuishui offered him a share of the vein and tried to match him with Nan Qiuqiu. Deep in the mine, the ice extreme divine crystal willingly gathered to Lin Qing, raising his cultivation to level 50 and helping his Platinum Jade Crystal Essence form Ultimate Metal’s first soul core.

• Nan Shuishui explained that the cold spring concealed a rare-metal vein and offered Lin Qing half the yield, along with Nan Qiuqiu’s hand, if he stayed with the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Lin Qing declined Nan Qiuqiu’s match and agreed to split the mined metals equally with the sect.
• With Zheng Zhan’s approval, Lin Qing descended into the cold spring and opened the route to the underground mining cavern.
• Lin Qing found the ice extreme divine crystal and used the Gold-Eating Beast to absorb the metal that gathered willingly around him.
• The ice extreme divine crystal’s energy raised Lin Qing to level 50 and transformed the Platinum Jade Crystal Essence into his first Ultimate Metal soul core.

Lin Qing condensed his first ultimate metal soul core, fulfilled his mining agreement with the Earth Dragon Sect, and learned of the Formless Golden Demon, a powerful elemental Soul Beast hiding in the Far North. He and Zheng Zhan then entered the Far North to hunt a Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad and search for the Formless Golden Demon.

• Lin Qing absorbed the ice spirit and the ice extreme divine crystal, forming his first ultimate metal soul core at Level 50.
• Lin Qing split the mined ice extreme divine crystal with Nan Shuishui and agreed to process it into powerful Soul Tools for the Earth Dragon Sect after he cultivated further.
• Nan Shuishui told Lin Qing about the Formless Golden Demon, a Gold Element Soul Beast that could mimic other beasts and had escaped into the Far North Ice Plains.
• Lin Qing and Zheng Zhan traveled into the Far North to track a Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad, while Lin Qing used the Gold Luring Device to search for the Formless Golden Demon.

Lin Qing and Zheng Zhan captured the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad and then witnessed the Ice Empress being restrained by Tian Meng. While Lin Qing stayed in the Far North to pursue the Ice Empress as an ally, Tian Meng tried to recruit her to Huo Yuhao, but she rejected his choice of host and resolved to find a more promising human.

• Zheng Zhan caught the Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad in the Unbreakable Divine Net and gave it to Lin Qing for Meng Hongchen.
• Lin Qing and Zheng Zhan continued searching the Far North for the Formless Golden Demon when a surge of spiritual power revealed the Ice Empress being suppressed in the Core Circle.
• Lin Qing persuaded Zheng Zhan to stay concealed and wait, while Zheng Zhan prepared a Level 9 High-Explosive Decomposition Cannon and a teleportation ring as safeguards.
• Huo Yuhao fled toward the outskirts with the imprisoned Ice Empress as Tian Meng recounted his hardships and tried to win her cooperation.
• Tian Meng proposed that the Ice Empress merge with Huo Yuhao to help create a god, but she dismissed Huo Yuhao as unsuitable and vowed to seek a more talented human with the Snow Empress.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm tried to persuade the Ice Empress to become Huo Yuhao’s Soul Ring, but a Level 9 cannon blast freed her and forced Tian Meng to teleport Huo Yuhao to safety. Grateful to Lin Qing and impressed by his ultimate-metal talent and Netherworld connection, the Ice Empress offered to help him fight his enemies.

• The Ice Empress rejected Tian Meng’s god-making plan, and Huo Yuhao angrily gave up on recruiting her after recalling how Shrek Academy had repeatedly judged him by his poor talent.
• Zheng Zhan fired a Level 9 High-Explosive Decomposition Cannon at Tian Meng, who shielded Huo Yuhao and used spatial transfer to escape a hundred li away.
• The cannon destroyed the Spiritual Prison, freeing the Ice Empress, who promised Zheng Zhan and Lin Qing a reward of their choice from the Ice Jade Scorpion territory.
• The Ice Empress escorted Zheng Zhan and Lin Qing to the Extreme North Core Circle, then arranged for a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion to guide Zheng Zhan away.
• The Ice Empress offered to help Lin Qing become a god, but he revealed that the Netherworld had chosen him and that outsiders had seized its authority.
• The Ice Empress decided to help Lin Qing reclaim the Netherworld, offering her aid against his foreign enemies.

Lin Qing brought the Ice Empress into the Netherworld to attack the Reincarnation Gate, and she overwhelmed the Three-Headed Hellhound and its pack. The Golden Iron Triangle then appeared to oppose them, ending with Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong activating their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Lin Qing explained the Netherworld and the invaders to the Ice Empress, who agreed to help him reclaim the Reincarnation Gate.
• Lin Qing opened a gateway with the Nether Emperor Sword and led the Ice Empress into the Netherworld, where he explained how its reincarnation laws affected departed souls.
• Lin Qing and the Ice Empress confronted the Three-Headed Hellhound, which revealed that Yu Xiaogang had taught its clan the Multi-in-One Fusion Skill.
• The Ice Empress defeated the empowered Three-Headed Hellhound and froze its pack, while Lin Qing used the Nether Emperor Sword to harvest the Hellhounds' lives.
• Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong arrived and explained that they sought control of the Netherworld to revive Bai Chenxiang; then they formed the Golden Sacred Dragon with their Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

The Golden Iron Triangle fought Lin Qing’s allies in the Netherworld, where Electrolux’s necromancy broke their defense and Flender died protecting Liu Erlong. Bo Saixi defeated the Ice Empress and drove Lin Qing’s group back to the Douluo Continent, while Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong vowed revenge and the injured Ice Empress admitted her pain to Lin Qing.

• The Golden Iron Triangle transformed into the Golden Sacred Dragon and battled the Ice Empress, whose Eternal Frozen Domain met Yu Xiaogang’s fart-based soul skills.
• Electrolux used necromancy to destroy the Golden Iron Triangle’s triangular defense, and Flender took the attack while shielding Liu Erlong.
• The weakened Golden Sacred Dragon’s final attack was frozen by the Ice Empress, but Bo Saixi arrived and defeated the Ice Empress almost instantly.
• Lin Qing opened a gate to the Douluo Continent, and Electrolux carried the Ice Empress and the frozen Three-Headed Hellhound through it.
• Bo Saixi told Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong that Flender could not be saved, and Flender’s soul dissolved as they stayed beside him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong vowed to avenge Flender, while the injured Ice Empress later insisted to Lin Qing that she was fine before crying out in pain.

Lin Qing and the Ice Empress agreed to protect the Snow Empress and then pressured the Three-Headed Hellhound to cooperate with a plan to empower the Nether Emperor Sword. The Hellhound begged for his life and revealed that the God King intended to unite the netherworlds under the Divine Realm and rule over a complete Netherworld.

• Lin Qing warned the Ice Empress that the Snow Empress could be captured during secluded cultivation, so the Ice Empress assigned Ice Bear King Xiaobai to guard her and vowed to protect Lin Qing herself.
• The Ice Empress agreed to accompany Lin Qing in the human world, hoping he would inherit the Netherworld godhood and later save the Far North's Ferocious Beasts from their heavenly tribulations.
• Electrolux explained that the Three-Headed Hellhound could willingly become a Soul Ring for the Nether Emperor Sword, but Lin Qing and the Ice Empress instead threatened to kill him for his energy.
• The Three-Headed Hellhound pleaded for his life and offered to serve the Netherworld, then revealed the God King's plan to connect the netherworlds of a hundred worlds and rule over a complete Netherworld.

Lin Qing turned the Three-Headed Hellhound into the Nether Emperor Sword’s First Soul Ring and absorbed its left arm Soul Bone. Afterward, he and the Ice Empress confronted a Formless Golden Demon that had followed the Gold Luring Device into her territory.

• Lin Qing demanded that the Three-Headed Hellhound prove its loyalty by sacrificing itself to become the Nether Emperor Sword’s First Soul Ring, and it agreed.
• Electrolux used Necromancy to transform the Three-Headed Hellhound into a Soul Ring, while the Ice Empress concealed the Netherworld energy with her Ultimate Ice.
• The Three-Headed Hellhound’s soul entered the Underworld Emperor Rebirth Domain, and Lin Qing absorbed its left arm Soul Bone.
• Electrolux returned to the Nether Emperor Sword to recover and told Lin Qing to begin studying Necromancy when he next awakened.
• Lin Qing and the Ice Empress found a Formless Golden Demon that had killed a Mirror Shadow Beast and followed the Gold Luring Device into Ice Jade Scorpion territory.
• The Ice Empress transformed into the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion after the Formless Golden Demon shouted at her, but she refused to tell Lin Qing what it had said.

Lin Qing defeated and absorbed the Formless Golden Demon, then returned to Mingdu with the Ice Empress as his bodyguard. He brought her home under the cover story that she was Bing'er, his late sister’s close friend.

• The Ice Empress crushed the Formless Golden Demon, and Lin Qing killed it and obtained the Formless Demon Eye external soul bone.
• Lin Qing absorbed the Formless Golden Demon’s soul ring while the Ice Empress arranged for the Ice Bear King to protect the Snow Empress’s territory during her absence.
• The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Huo Yuhao to recruit a ninety-nine-thousand-year Ice Flood Dragon as his second martial soul.
• Unbreakable Douluo Zheng Zhan returned to Mingdu with Lin Qing and gave him the Unbreakable Divine Mask in exchange for keeping their Far North exploits secret.
• Lin Qing met the Ice Empress outside Mingdu and agreed to introduce her at home as Bing'er, his late sister’s close friend.

Lin Qing treated the Ice Empress to Mingdu’s food and delivered gifts and a Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad to the Hongchen family, where Meng Hongchen prepared to absorb her fifth soul ring. At the academy, Lin Qing tested his new Machine Cycle skill against Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan, renewing his strength and transforming Ji Juechen’s sword before facing the Sword Enthusiast’s powerful attack.

• The Ice Empress sampled Mingdu’s insect snacks and ice cream, then retched after Lin Qing tricked her into drinking Gray Juice.
• Lin Qing assigned the Ice Empress a courtyard beside his own, and she spent the night wondering how he knew about her feelings for the Snow Empress.
• At the Hongchen family home, Lin Qing gave Jing Hongchen ice extreme divine crystal walnuts and gave Meng Hongchen a Vermilion-Sun Ice Toad for her fifth soul ring.
• Meng Hongchen invited Lin Qing to breakfast, while Xiao Hongchen received three Ultimate Metal Experience Cards.
• Ji Juechen revealed that he had become a Six-Ring Soul Emperor, and Lin Qing used Machine Combustion in their sparring match.
• Lin Qing tempered and transformed Ji Juechen’s Heavenly Meteoric Iron Sword, then used his fifth soul skill, Machine Cycle, to renew his machine element and counter Ji Juechen’s sword strike with Myriad Forms.

Lin Qing used the Formless Demon Eye to copy Ji Juechen’s sword intent, then trained with the Ice Empress to adapt her Eternal Frozen Domain into his steel machinery domain. The chapter ended when Ye Guyi returned and found Lin Qing exhausted beside the Ice Empress in the underground space designed as her private chamber.

• Lin Qing’s copied Man and Sword as One overwhelmed Ji Juechen’s original, and Ji Juechen accepted the spar as a chance to learn.
• The Ice Empress advised Lin Qing to use Myriad Forms to study her ultimate ice techniques and improve his ultimate metal and Nether Emperor Sword.
• The Ice Empress demonstrated Eternal Frozen Domain, and Lin Qing copied it before transforming its principles into the steel machinery domain.
• Lin Qing trained with the Ice Empress through the night until his soul power and spiritual power were depleted.
• Ye Guyi returned home and found the exhausted Lin Qing emerging from her private chamber with the Ice Empress.

Lin Qing trained with the Ice Empress and Ye Guyi, completed a pair of powerful extreme-ice swords for Meng Hongchen, and promised to help the Ice Empress survive her next heavenly tribulation. Meanwhile, the Duke of Splendor's household prepared to rebel by assassinating the ultimate metal soul master and framing Crown Prince Xu Tianran, and the duke gave his approval.

• The Ice Empress introduced herself to Ye Guyi, who welcomed her into Zhanghua Garden after hearing that she had trained Lin Qing and that he planned a candlelit dinner with her.
• Lin Qing spent his vacation developing soul skills with the Ice Empress, while Ye Guyi joined their combat training after learning the Ice Empress's identity and revealing her Holy Angel martial soul.
• Lin Qing forged Meng Hongchen a pair of Level 6 extreme-ice swords, and the Ice Empress defeated Ye Guyi in a sparring match before asking Lin Qing for ten-thousand-year profound ice marrow.
• Lin Qing promised to take the Ice Empress to an ultimate-ice treasure land and protect her through her four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, with the possibility of later sharing profound ice marrow with her and other Far North soul beasts.
• Zhao Yang and Wang Yi urged the Duke of Splendor to support a rebellion, proposing to kill the ultimate metal soul master and frame Xu Tianran; the duke finally told them to proceed.

As the new term began, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy opened Second Team selection to students under twenty who were at least Level 4 Soul Engineers. Jing Hongchen chose a one-battle melee, and Lin Qing’s allies assembled around him as the contest began.

• Xuan Ziwen announced Mingde Hall registration and the Academy’s relaxed age rules for Second Team selection.
• Xiao Hongchen warned that Mingde Hall’s under-twenty Soul Kings would compete, and eligible students rushed to register.
• Jing Hongchen asked Lin Jiayi to serve as Acting Dean while he escorted the Academy’s team to the tournament, then persuaded Ye Yulin to accompany him.
• Jing Hongchen announced that 108 students would fight in a single melee, with the last seven standing forming the Second Team.
• Meng Hongchen poisoned opponents, Xiao Hongchen fought toward Lin Qing, Ye Guyi attacked from the air, and Ju Zi urged Keke to join Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing, Ye Guyi, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, Keke, and Nana assembled as a seven-person team at the start of the melee.

Lin Qing’s team fought the Sun Moon students while thirty-six Mingde Hall Soul Engineers surrounded him, hoping to secure tournament places. Lin Qing countered their massed attack with his Steel Machinery Domain and Azure Four Absolutes, then unleashed One Blade as his enemies’ Soul Tools failed.

• The students joined forces against Lin Qing’s team, while Lin Qing declined Xiao Hongchen’s request to combine their ultimate attributes.
• Meng Hongchen, Nana, Ye Guyi, Ju Zi, Xiao Hongchen, and Keke fought together and steadily overwhelmed their opponents.
• Thirty-six Mingde Hall Soul Engineers abandoned the wider melee and surrounded Lin Qing, using Soul Tool Turret Tactics to bombard him.
• Lin Qing raised the One Wood machine shield, which withstood the Mingde Hall attack, then crushed their shields with One Hammer.
• Lin Qing used One Machine to disrupt the enemy Soul Tools and formed One Blade from machine element, preparing to strike the Mingde Hall Soul Engineers.

Lin Qing led the Hongchen Class to victory in the Sun Moon Second Team selection, then trained Ju Zi in combat before sensing that someone had trapped him inside a Sealing Barrier. The chapter ended with Lin Qing and the Ice Empress aware that an unknown group was following him.

• Lin Qing stopped his Azure Four Absolutes strike before it hit the Mingde Hall Soul Engineers, and their leader conceded defeat for his group.
• Lin Qing, Ye Guyi, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ju Zi, Keke, and Nana defeated the other students and secured all seven places on the Sun Moon Second Team.
• Jing Hongchen announced that the Second Team would begin pre-tournament training alongside the First Team the next morning.
• Ju Zi asked Lin Qing to teach her to fight, struggled with swordsmanship and the Dragon Devourer, then committed herself to cannon training so she could confront Dai Yueheng.
• After leaving the academy, Lin Qing sensed someone following him and identified a Sealing Soul Tool barrier around the area.