Chapter Summaries

Jing Hongchen learned that the Sun Moon Empire planned to intercept the exchange students after the exchange, while Su Wen condensed an unprecedented black-hole Soul Core using the Water Dragon King's Dragon Pill and Geocentric Marrow Core. The new Soul Core multiplied his Soul Power and cultivation speed, and he prepared to leave with Nana.

• Jing Hongchen received the Emperor’s decree sparing him punishment, then agreed to recover his grandson after the exchange while Xu Jiangliu outlined a sea route for an interception supported by the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Wen discussed hunting powerful Soul Beasts and condensing a Soul Core with Da Yan and Snow Empress before beginning the process inside Azure Luan’s Pokeball.
• Su Wen fed half his Soul Power, the Water Dragon King's Dragon Pill, and the Geocentric Marrow Core into the forming black-hole Soul Core as Da Yan stabilized it and Little Gold prepared to protect him.
• Su Wen absorbed the completed Soul Core and discovered it could hold about seven times his previous Soul Power while multiplying his cultivation speed.
• Snow Empress warned Su Wen that forming a second Soul Core would be much harder, and Su Wen left with her before teasing Nana after she woke.

Su Wen rejected Jing Hongchen’s offer to stay in the Sun Moon Empire and learned that the imperial family planned to kill him because of his Soul Guidance Device talent. After receiving a warning and completing a powerful dual-attribute sniper rifle with Xuan Ziwen, Su Wen left the chapter with the weapon’s destructive power confirmed.

• Jing Hongchen offered Su Wen a place in Mingde Hall and a marriage to A Meng, but Su Wen refused and pointed out how the imperial family treated outsiders.
• Jing Hongchen told Fan Yu that Huo Yuhao had joined the Holy Spirit Cult, while Chen Ji revealed that he had abducted Zhou Yi to take revenge for her abusive training.
• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that the Sun Moon Empire’s leaders had agreed to kill Su Wen before he left the country, and Ju Zi later left him a warning to beware the royal family.
• Su Wen discussed Ju Zi’s desire to kill Dai Hao and suggested she might get the chance, deepening her trust in him.
• Su Wen read Ju Zi’s warning and completed a dual-attribute Soul Guidance Sniper Rifle with Xuan Ziwen, which pierced a target built to withstand a Titled Douluo’s full-force attack.

Su Wen demonstrated the Ice Wind Enchanted Sniper to Xuan Ziwen, who took it to improve its accuracy and attribute compatibility. Meanwhile, Tang Ya was abducted by a Holy Spirit Cult elder, and Su Wen continued cultivating toward his next breakthrough.

• Su Wen explained the sniper rifle’s three core formations, and tests revealed its exceptional firing speed and range despite its power diminishing at long distances.
• Su Wen named the weapon the Ice Wind Enchanted Sniper, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to optimize its precision and add a Mental Control System-type core formation.
• Xuan Ziwen asked Su Wen to provide gold- and fire-attributed Soul-Refined metal so he could further improve the weapon.
• Tang Ya found herself at the former Tang Sect headquarters, now occupied by the Iron Blood Sect, after a massacre left the surrounding corpses drained of their blood essence.
• A Holy Spirit Cult elder stopped Tang Ya from taking her own life, declared that she had been bound to join the cult, and carried her away.
• After another half month of cultivation, Su Wen reached the peak of Rank 64 while his second Martial Soul advanced to Rank 14, and he considered which hundred-year Soul Beast to pursue.

Xiao Hongchen worried that his sister Meng would lose Su Wen to Shrek’s talented women, while Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen completed a powerful armor-piercing sniper rifle. Su Wen prepared to join an expedition to test a submersible warship and investigate sea minerals, and agreed to try to provide Xuan Ziwen with a sample of ultimate-form Battle Armor.

• Xiao Hongchen wrote to Meng about Su Wen’s ambiguous relationships with several women at Shrek Academy, then asked Lin Xi whether Meng would notice his attempt to warn her.
• Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei told Xiao Hongchen that the Inner Courtyard trial training for the exchange students would begin that afternoon with Dean Yan and Elder Xuan overseeing it.
• Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen completed their Ice-Wind Enchanted Rifle and its armor-piercing projectile, which could strike targets from over thirty kilometers away.
• Ke Ke told Ju Zi and Zi Mu that the group would leave the next day to test a submersible warship and search for metal deposits in the Sun Moon Empire’s western gulf.
• Xuan Ziwen explained that developing Su Wen’s proposed Battle Armor was difficult and asked for a sample of its ultimate form, and Su Wen agreed to try to provide one.

Su Wen questioned Mingde Hall’s assignment and then reacted to Wang Dong’er’s forging breakthrough amid Mu Qiu’er’s jealous teasing. He refused to take anyone with him on his upcoming mission, while Xu Tianran’s suspicions of Ju Zi deepened and he implied that the emperor’s side had already acted.

• After Xuan Ziwen left, Su Wen wondered why Mingde Hall had abruptly assigned a task to his laboratory and recalled Ju Zi’s warning.
• Mu Qiu’er tried to draw Su Wen’s attention to her uniform and appearance, and the two kissed before Wang Dong’er entered the dormitory.
• Wang Dong’er told Su Wen she had achieved basic Fusion Forging, and he learned that Lou Yingying and Song Lei had reached it as well.
• Su Wen announced he would leave the next day but refused Mu Qiu’er, Nana, and Wang Dong’er’s requests to accompany him.
• Xu Tianran ordered Ju Zi to continue monitoring the others, then told Xue Chen there was no longer any need to act because the emperor’s side had already moved.

Su Wen’s group set out from West Sea Port to explore Sea Minerals aboard his Abyssal Prowler, after Xuan Ziwen brought an obsolete, poorly defended submersible. In the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Palace, Elder Kong suggested that the vessel could be destroyed, leaving the group’s safety under threat.

• Xuan Ziwen hired a fisherman guide and led Su Wen, Ke Ke, and Ju Zi toward an old A1-Type Abyssal Dragon Submersible.
• Su Wen revealed his Abyssal Prowler, which he had bought for ten million Gold Soul Coins, and the group boarded it to descend beneath the sea.
• Black-robed figures reported the group’s departure to their superiors, who cursed them for failing to intercept the submersible.
• Xu Jiangliu and other powerhouses discussed Su Wen’s voyage at the Imperial Palace, where Elder Kong suggested the Abyssal Prowler could be broken.

Aboard the Abyssal Prowler, Su Wen and Ju Zi realized their mission might be a trap involving the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult. Ju Zi feared they would die before she could avenge her parents, but Su Wen revealed he could protect them and had already notified Shrek Academy.

• Xuan Ziwen pushed the Abyssal Prowler to full speed until Ke Ke became seasick, then Su Wen left him at the helm and went to the lounge.
• Ju Zi confessed she served the Crown Prince, and Su Wen said Shrek's intelligence network had been neglected for decades.
• Su Wen and Ju Zi suspected an ambush near Hailuo Bay and feared both a Numbered Legion and the Holy Spirit Cult would target them.
• Ju Zi believed she would die before avenging her parents, then confessed her feelings for Su Wen as they sat together by the Deep-Sea Submersible.
• Su Wen revealed he was confident he could get them out alive and had already notified Shrek Academy, prompting Ju Zi to scold him for hiding it.

Jing Hongchen learned that Kong Deming had secretly sent Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen to sea and tried to stop the mission, but Kong’s faction blocked and confined him. Meanwhile, Su Wen’s team finished its survey and found signs of unusual activity on the seabed.

• Meng Hongchen visited Jing Hongchen and told him Su Wen had gone to sea with Xuan Ziwen, then left him a letter from her brother.
• Jing Hongchen learned from Lin Jiayi that Kong Deming had ordered the voyage kept secret and arranged for Xuan Ziwen to go.
• Jing Hongchen tried to fly out after Su Wen, but Kong Deming and seven Ninth-Level Soul Guidance Masters stopped him and ordered him to remain confined for three days.
• Kong Deming left, and Xu Jiangliu placed Lin Jiayi in temporary charge of Mingde Hall while the factions prepared to take control.
• Su Wen, Ju Zi, Xuan Ziwen, Ke Ke, and Zi Mu completed their survey, then spotted rising bubbles and increasing heat in an unexplored-looking patch of deep seabed.

Su Wen and Ju Zi discovered and collected a Deep-Sea Coral Colony, then drove off a group of Deep Sea Demon Whales with help from Little Gold and his allies. The next day, while the Abyssal Prowler sailed north, Su Wen spotted what appeared to be a dying Demon Soul Great White Shark.

• Su Wen and Ju Zi found a Deep-Sea Coral Colony, and Electrolux and Snow Empress explained that it could increase Spiritual Power.
• Su Wen had Hurricane collect the coral colony, but several hundred-thousand-year Deep Sea Demon Whales rushed toward them.
• Su Wen sent Ju Zi back to the Abyssal Prowler and ordered Snow Empress, Little Gold, and Hurricane to stop the attackers.
• Little Gold wounded the leading Deep Sea Demon Whale, and the group fled; Su Wen and Ju Zi returned safely to the vessel.
• Ke Ke, Xuan Ziwen, Ju Zi, and Zi Mu reacted with astonishment and concern after learning how powerful Su Wen's Soul Beasts were.
• The next day, Su Wen spotted a roughly twenty-meter creature floating ahead and identified it as a dying Demon Soul Great White Shark.

Su Wen and his companions encountered the badly injured Demon Soul Great White Shark Bai Xiuxiu, who was pretending to be dead after fleeing the Deep Sea Demon Whales. After learning her identity and joking that he might be the Sea God, Su Wen began considering the power and resources he could gain by commanding the sea.

• Su Wen, Ju Zi, and Xuan Ziwen spotted an injured great white shark blowing bubbles, while Bai Xiuxiu secretly hoped they would believe she was dead.
• Ke Ke and Ju Zi teased Bai Xiuxiu for pretending to be dead until Su Wen slapped their heads and scolded them.
• Su Wen threatened to roast Bai Xiuxiu, prompting her to reveal that her name was Bai Xiuxiu and that she came from Sea God Island.
• Su Wen asked whether Bai Xiuxiu worshipped the Sea God, then jokingly claimed he might be the Sea God despite lacking a trident.
• Su Wen considered using the Sea God's Trident to command the sea and obtain the resources of the Sea Clan.

Su Wen healed Bai Xiuxiu, evaded the forces hunting him by remaining at sea, and spent two months cultivating until he reached Spirit Saint rank seventy-one. His breakthrough revealed Little Gold’s next evolution and gave it the ability to speak.

• Azure Luan used Holy Light Shine to restore Bai Xiuxiu, who thanked Su Wen and imagined him as her Prince Charming.
• Su Wen decided not to go ashore while the Sun Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult hunted him, and he told Xuan Ziwen to explore the sea for three more months as he pursued the Spirit Saint Realm.
• Bai Xiuxiu excitedly told her mother she had met someone like the Sea God, then got beaten after insisting that Su Wen’s resemblance proved her point.
• After two months of cultivation, Su Wen absorbed life energy from a lake and advanced to rank seventy-one, bringing his six Pet Beasts to their final-stage advancements.
• Su Wen discovered that Little Gold could evolve into an Amethyst Behemoth, and Little Gold announced that it could talk and asked to change its name.

Su Wen watched his Soul Beasts advance to their final forms, then decided to return to West Sea Port with Ju Zi to investigate the Sun Moon Empire’s response and test his own strength. The chapter ended as Ju Zi reacted in shock to his plan to see whether he could rival a Limit Douluo.

• Little Gold chose the name Xuan Ji, while Da Yan asked to change its name and Su Wen refused unless it could deceive space-time correction.
• Azure Luan advanced into the Divine Healing Phoenix, Ice Sovereign became the Lord of Winter, and Hurricane advanced into the Immortal Cloud Flowing Ape.
• Snow Empress took human form, teased Su Wen for staring at her, and joined his six powerful Soul Beasts.
• Su Wen noted that his Second Martial Soul had reached Level 24 without a bottleneck and that he could save his Pokeballs for suitable Soul Beasts.
• Su Wen told Ju Zi they were returning to West Sea Port to learn Jing Hongchen’s situation, find out whether Ye Xishui intended to kill him, and test whether he could rival a Limit Douluo.

Ye Xishui prepared a massive force at West Sea Port to ambush Su Wen, while Su Wen and his companions arrived aboard the Abyssal Prowler. Ye Xishui’s group confronted them, and Su Wen stepped forward as Xuan Ziwen realized they were trapped in a deadly attack.

• Ye Xishui waited at West Sea Port with a vast fleet and Soul Engineer force, confident she could kill Su Wen when he arrived.
• Ye Xishui detected Su Wen approaching and ordered the forces to prepare, then praised the Sun Moon Empire’s advanced Linked Soul Guidance Array.
• Ke Ke, Zi Mu, Ju Zi, and Xuan Ziwen traveled with Su Wen aboard the low-fuel Abyssal Prowler toward West Sea Port.
• Xuan Ziwen sensed the Linked Soul Guidance Array and spotted a fleet heading toward them as Ye Xishui and several black-robed figures appeared in the sky.
• Ye Xishui’s wave sent the passengers tumbling inside the submersible, and Xuan Ziwen realized the powerful attackers had come for Su Wen.
• Su Wen stepped forward and reassured Xuan Ziwen that everything would be fine, while Ju Zi covered her mouth in fear.

Su Wen faced Ye Xishui and the Sun Moon Empire fleet, which had encircled the Abyssal Prowler to capture or kill him. The Snow Empress froze the surrounding sea and ships, and Hurricane shielded Su Wen from the soldiers’ Soul Cannon barrage as the confrontation escalated.

• Ye Xishui taunted Su Wen and revealed that Jing Hongchen had been removed as Mingde Hall’s master and imprisoned in Ming City.
• Ye Xishui overwhelmed a Sun Moon Empire commander with her pressure, then summoned dark red waves to crush the Abyssal Prowler.
• The Snow Empress appeared beside Su Wen and froze the waves and the surrounding warships across a vast stretch of sea.
• Ye Xishui summoned the Death God’s Tower as the Snow Empress condemned the Holy Spirit Cult and declared it must be destroyed.
• After the fleet’s weapons failed to break free of the ice, the commander ordered the soldiers to abandon their ships and attack Su Wen.
• Hurricane formed a towering tornado that swept up the Soul Cannon barrage and shielded Su Wen.

Su Wen fought Ye Xishui and the Holy Spirit Cult, then faked his death to escape after the battle nearly killed him and severely wounded his Pet Beasts. He and his companions decided to abandon the Sun Moon Empire and head to Shrek Academy.

• Xu Ce ordered his troops to retreat, but Hurricane annihilated more than two thousand imperial elites.
• Ye Xishui sent the Holy Spirit Cult's Title Douluo after Su Wen, while Su Wen summoned Azure Luan, Ice Sovereign, Da Yan, and his other Pet Beasts to fight back.
• Ye Xishui unleashed the Death God Tower's full power, and Su Wen's Pet Beasts' attacks met it in a massive blast that left the Holy Spirit Cult believing Su Wen had died.
• Su Wen revealed that he had survived by escaping with his Pet Beasts and explained that he had faked his death because he could not defeat Ye Xishui.
• Ke Ke, Xuan Ziwen, Ju Zi, and Zi Mu agreed to go with Su Wen to Shrek Academy.

Shrek Academy's Elders believed Su Wen had died in the Sun Moon Empire's trap and debated whether to retaliate, until Mu En exposed suspicious details in Fan Yu's letter and questioned the Empire's motives. Su Wen then appeared alive, and Mu En revealed that he had escaped Ye Xishui and become powerful enough to defeat Xuan Zi.

• An Elder urged Mu En to kill Xiao Hongchen and Ma Rulong and start a war after Fan Yu reported Su Wen's death.
• Mu En pointed out that Zhou Yi had disappeared months earlier and that Fan Yu's letter gave little detail about how he had learned of Su Wen's fate.
• Mu En concluded that the Sun Moon Empire had likely ordered Fan Yu to write the letter to provoke Shrek and frame the Empire's conflict as a defensive war.
• The Elders realized they had overestimated Jing Hongchen's influence and discussed how the Xu Family might use him as a pretext to eliminate him.
• When Yan Shaozhe and the other Elders demanded revenge for Su Wen, Su Wen appeared alive in the conference hall.
• Mu En said Su Wen had escaped Ye Xishui and could now defeat Xuan Zi, leaving the Elders shocked.

Mu En discussed Su Wen’s possible succession as Sea God Pavilion Master and his plans for Shrek Academy, while Zhang Lexuan attacked Smiling Dust after claiming Su Wen had died. In Ming City, Xu Jiangliu entered Jing Hongchen’s prison and told him the same news.

• Mu En asked Su Wen about Jing Hongchen and raised the possibility of Su Wen succeeding him as Sea God Pavilion Master, but Su Wen wanted to wait and stabilize the Forging Department first.
• Su Wen said Shrek should probe Jing Hongchen before trying to recruit him, since his expertise could help the academy but his loyalties could cause trouble.
• Smiling Dust, Bei Bei, and Xu Sanshi finished a sparring session and prepared to continue training together.
• Zhang Lexuan seized Smiling Dust by the neck, and when Bei Bei tried to stop her, she said Su Wen was dead.
• Xu Jiangliu entered Jing Hongchen’s cell in Ming City and told him that Su Wen had died.

Xu Jiangliu tried to provoke Jing Hongchen into breaking out by claiming Shrek Academy had killed Xiao Hongchen, but Meng Hongchen exposed the lie and revealed Xiao was alive. At Shrek Academy, Su Wen suddenly returned and reunited with Zhang Lexuan, leaving Xiao Hongchen bewildered.

• Xu Jiangliu taunted Jing Hongchen with false news that Shrek Academy had killed Xiao Hongchen, hoping to make him break his restraints and die.
• Meng Hongchen entered with Elder Kong's token and told Jing Hongchen that Xiao Hongchen was alive; Xu Jiangliu abandoned his scheme and left.
• Meng Hongchen told Jing Hongchen that Xu Tianran had approached her, and Jing Hongchen decided he would seek help from Teacher.
• A palace consort delivered Xu Tianran the emperor's order to stay away from Meng Hongchen, enraging him and prompting him to blame Jing Hongchen.
• At Shrek Academy, Zhang Lexuan nearly killed Xiao Hongchen while grieving Su Wen, but Su Wen appeared alive and comforted her.
• Su Wen carried Zhang Lexuan toward the Inner Courtyard residences while Xiao Hongchen stared at him in disbelief.

The Holy Spirit Cult celebrated Su Wen’s apparent death while Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao argued over the danger Mu En posed. Su Wen revealed to Xiao Hongchen and the others that he had survived and was beginning his revenge against the cult, leaving Xiao Hongchen to consider Shrek Academy as a refuge for his family.

• The Holy Spirit Cult’s leaders celebrated Su Wen’s apparent death, while Long Xiaoyao worried that Mu En might seek revenge and Ye Xishui accused him of hiding Su Wen’s strength.
• Tang Ya wondered why Su Wen’s name felt familiar, and Nangong Wan reassured her that he had been an enemy of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Wen explained to Xiao Hongchen that he had survived his clash with Ye Xishui and forced her to expend her stored souls, though Xiao Hongchen warned that the cult might intensify its soul harvesting.
• Su Wen announced that he would return to the Sun Moon Empire as the God of Death and begin his purge of the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xiao Hongchen asked Su Wen to protect his grandfather and Meng, offered to persuade the other nine to stay at Shrek Academy, and said he would no longer oppose Meng marrying Su Wen.

Su Wen reunited with Zhang Lexuan and explained the injuries and team-wide enhancement he gained during his battle with Ye Xishui. At the Forging Department, Xuan Ziwen showed Old Du their Battle Armor research, and Old Du questioned whether relying on God Forging would make the armor too rare to serve Shrek Academy.

• Zhang Lexuan comforted Su Wen about his near-fatal fight and asked him to stop taking unnecessary risks.
• Su Wen gave Zhang Lexuan a flower and told her his Seventh Soul Skill enhanced his whole team’s attributes by one hundred percent.
• Old Du demonstrated God Forging for Xuan Ziwen by refining a Star Silver Ore Heart.
• Xuan Ziwen showed Old Du the Grade 8 Ice Wind Enchanted Sniper research and described how God Forged metal could greatly improve Battle Armor.
• Old Du warned that Battle Armor based solely on God Forged metal would depend on having a Divine Craftsman and might not fulfill Su Wen’s goal of strengthening Shrek Academy.