Chapter Summaries

Mu En set Shrek Academy’s direction for its Forging and Soul Guidance Departments and prepared Su Wen to inherit leadership, while the Holy Spirit Cult dealt with Zhongli Wu’s defeat. After two months of calm and training, Su Wen was summoned to meet the Sect Master of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

• Mu En required Shrek’s elite missions against Evil Spirit Masters to be led by a Sea God Pavilion Elder, then urged the academy to develop both the Forging and Soul Guidance Departments and arrange student exchanges with Mingde Hall.
• Mu En explained that he was clearing obstacles for Su Wen’s eventual leadership of Shrek before teasing him about giving him descendants.
• Zhang Peng reported the failed attack to Ye Xishui, who accepted Zhongli Wu’s punishment and ordered that Su Wen not be targeted in the Sun Moon Empire.
• Long Xiaoyao left the hall with a familiar letter after Ye Xishui asked him to let the matter end.
• More than two months later, Ma Xiaotao told Su Wen that the Sect Master of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School had come to see him at the Outer Court.

Su Wen met Ning Tian’s father, Ning Hao, who pledged the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School’s support to Shrek and Su Wen’s Forging Department. At the department, Mu Qiu'er arrived to learn forging and stunned Old Du with her strength.

• Su Wen reflected on his growing Soul Power and Golden Core as he headed to the Outer Court.
• Ning Hao thanked Su Wen for giving the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School an Aromatic Silk Beauty and asked that one future child be raised as its heir; Su Wen agreed.
• Ning Hao promised thirty million Gold Soul Coins in annual funding for the Forging Department and gave the Martial Soul Department another million.
• Lou Yingying and Song Hao examined the rare metals Ning Hao had sent, while Old Du urged them to train; Lou Yingying demonstrated a hammer force of over six hundred kilograms.
• Mu Qiu'er arrived at the Forging Department to learn from Old Du, then lifted a two-hundred-kilogram hammer and struck with nearly three tons of force.

Su Wen prepared to leave Shrek Academy for a three-year exchange in the Sun Moon Empire after advancing his cultivation and developing the Forging Department. The exchange party departed Maple Leaf City with Jing Hongchen’s flying Soul Tool, carrying Su Wen toward the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

• Su Wen suppressed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire, then gave her the Fire Dragon King’s dragon pill while she slept.
• Over the next three months, Su Wen reached Rank 56, while Wang Dong'er reached the Thousand-Refinement realm and Su Wen advanced to Soul-Refinement.
• Su Wen arranged for Old Du to teach new Forging Department students during his absence and said the department would regain its former glory when he returned.
• Su Wen said goodbye to Jiang Nannan, Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, Ning Tian, and Wu Feng before traveling with the Shrek exchange students to Maple Leaf City.
• At Maple Leaf City, Su Wen met Ye Xiaosheng and faced Xiao Hongchen’s Sun Moon Empire delegation as Jing Hongchen and Yan Shaozhe exchanged pleasantries.
• Jing Hongchen launched his flying Soul Tool and carried the Shrek group into the sky toward the Sun Moon Empire.

At the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy, Huo Yuhao learned that Su Wen was among the exchange students and resolved to settle his grudges with him and Fan Yu. He remained far weaker than Su Wen, while struggling to control the power he had gained through killing.

• In the academy laboratory, Ke Ke and Ju Zi discussed Su Wen’s tournament victory and his rumored encounter with Meng Hongchen while Huo Yuhao slipped away unnoticed.
• Huo Yuhao told Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the exchange would bring him into contact with Su Wen and Fan Yu, whom he blamed for past injustices.
• Huo Yuhao recalled his rise within the Holy Spirit Cult, his Blood Eye abilities, and how Zhongli Wu’s crippling had left him without his powerful patron.
• Huo Yuhao admitted that killing had accelerated his cultivation to rank fifty-one but warned that its backlash could kill him.
• Huo Yuhao acknowledged that he could only fight a Soul Emperor and was still no match for Su Wen, whom Sky Dream Ice Silkworm believed had reached the Spirit Saint Realm.

Su Wen and the Shrek Academy group arrived in Ming City and entered the Sun Moon Empire’s enrollment testing area. A physical examination revealed that Su Wen’s strength rivaled a Soul Douluo’s, leaving both the Sun Moon Empire staff and his classmates stunned.

• Fan Yu watched Su Wen from the shadows, and Su Wen openly grinned at him as their hostility continued.
• Jing Hongchen welcomed the group to Ming City and said the Sun Moon Empire had no need for city walls, though he kept the reason confidential.
• Lin Jiayi guided the Shrek group through the testing area and explained the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer advancement requirements.
• Su Wen volunteered for the physical examination, and the machine recorded his physical strength at Level 89 and resilience at Level 83.
• Lin Jiayi read the results aloud, assessing Su Wen’s physique as peak Soul Sage with Soul Douluo-level strength, and applauded him as the staff and students stared in shock.

Su Wen’s testing at the Sun Moon Empire exposed strength beyond the equipment’s limits, while he planned to target the Holy Spirit Church and recruit Xuan Ziwen for his Soul Tool research. Mu Qiu’er’s attempt to get close to him triggered a powerful evolution of his Eye of Life, and Su Wen pulled them into the Pokeball as a pillar of light erupted.

• Su Wen’s punch destroyed the strength tester, prompting Jing Hongchen to realize the equipment had recorded power on the level of a Titled Douluo.
• Su Wen considered his enemies and plans to enter the Holy Spirit Church headquarters within three years, while also hoping to bring Xuan Ziwen into his Battle Armor research project.
• Mu Qiu’er sneaked into Su Wen’s dormitory, asked him to take responsibility for her, and offered to help evolve his Eye of Life.
• Su Wen and Mu Qiu’er kissed, then joined their foreheads as golden light and surging Soul Power began the evolution.
• Su Wen recognized the danger of the commotion and pulled himself and Mu Qiu’er into the Pokeball as a pillar of light pierced the sky.

Su Wen discovered that the Auspicious Beast’s power had advanced his third eye into the Eye of Destiny, which could analyze Soul Guidance Device formations far beyond his level. At the Sun Moon Empire’s academy, he joined Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory and began a test to prove his talent as a Soul Engineer.

• Su Wen and Mu Qiu’er shared memories and affection beside the Lake of Life, and she asked whether his third eye had advanced.
• Su Wen explained the Eye of Destiny’s abilities, including its capacity to analyze Grade 7 and Grade 8 Soul Guidance Device cores, and thanked Mu Qiu’er for helping him.
• Wang Dong’er found Mu Qiu’er in Su Wen’s bed, argued with her, and stormed away; later, she and Mu Qiu’er clung to Su Wen while continuing to ignore each other.
• Lin Jiayi assigned Su Wen to Xuan Ziwen’s laboratory for the ten-day observation period, and Xuan Ziwen warned that Su Wen’s Soul Master achievements did not prove Soul Engineer talent.
• Xuan Ziwen tested Su Wen by asking him to make the best Soul Tool he could, and Su Wen requested a Grade 6 formation core to analyze with the Eye of Destiny.
• After half an hour studying the core, Su Wen set it down, drew out rare metal, and began carving it with the blue claws emerging from his knuckles.

Su Wen impressed Xuan Ziwen by reproducing a Grade 6 Soul Guidance Formation Core and rapidly advanced through Soul Engineer training. As he began carving a Grade 8 device in the laboratory, Huo Yuhao considered killing him to provoke war between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire.

• Su Wen replicated Xuan Ziwen’s Grade 6 Formation Core perfectly, convincing Xuan Ziwen of his talent and earning access to a laboratory.
• Xuan Ziwen introduced Su Wen to Ju Zi, who recognized him and showed immediate interest in him.
• Over ten days, Su Wen learned to reproduce advanced Grade 7 Soul Guidance Devices, while Lou Yingying and Song Lei joined Mingde Hall and Huo Yuhao became another of Xuan Ziwen’s students.
• Su Wen began engraving a Grade 8 defensive device as Ju Zi and the others watched carefully.
• Huo Yuhao saw Su Wen working and considered killing him to provoke a war between Shrek Academy and the Sun Moon Empire.

Huo Yuhao redirected his hatred of Su Wen into Wang Shaojie, whose attempted sabotage ended in a fatal explosion that Su Wen appeared to have arranged. Afterward, Su Wen reflected on his stalled progress with high-grade Soul Guidance Devices and his next cultivation goals.

• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stopped Huo Yuhao from attacking Su Wen, then urged him to provoke Wang Shaojie instead.
• Huo Yuhao stirred Wang Shaojie's possessiveness, leading Wang Shaojie to trigger a Level 3 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon Shell while Su Wen was engraving a formation core.
• Su Wen finished his work before the cannon shell exploded, and Ke Ke recognized Wang Shaojie's apparent attempt to sabotage Su Wen.
• After Xuan Ziwen led the group out, the shell detonated and killed Wang Shaojie; Xuan Ziwen suspected Su Wen had arranged it and decided to suppress the matter.
• Huo Yuhao greeted Su Wen uneasily, and later Su Wen watched a campus report about Wang Shaojie's death with Mu Qiu'er.
• Su Wen considered his bottleneck in studying Grade 8 Soul Guidance Devices and planned to reach Level 57 and deal with Evil Da Yan.

Ji Juechen challenged Su Wen in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy’s Duel Arena, hoping to face someone who could overwhelm him. Su Wen stopped Ji Juechen’s full-force sword strike with two fingers, leaving the crowd stunned by the gulf between them.

• Ji Juechen confronted Su Wen in the cafeteria and challenged him, while Jing Ziyan tried to stop him.
• Su Wen accepted the challenge, and a huge crowd gathered to watch their duel.
• Ji Juechen summoned his six Soul Rings and charged Su Wen with a powerful sword strike.
• Su Wen caught Ji Juechen’s sword between two fingers, and the impact left Ji Juechen bleeding and kneeling.
• The spectators realized Su Wen had overwhelmed Ji Juechen with ease.

Su Wen reunited with Meng Hongchen at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy, where an embarrassing accident brought them closer. After months of studying soul guidance devices and noticing Huo Yuhao’s ties to the Holy Spirit Cult, Su Wen reached level fifty-nine and joined Xuan Ziwen’s team in the Evil Demon Forest to test an improved detector.

• Su Wen defeated Ji Juechen in a duel, advised him to try a different path, and accepted thanks from Jing Ziyan.
• Meng Hongchen reunited with Su Wen, then accidentally tore his pants in front of the gathered students and staff; Xuan Ziwen gave Su Wen three days off.
• Electrolux told Su Wen that fate had tied him and Meng Hongchen together, while their relationship gradually grew more familiar.
• Su Wen studied advanced soul guidance device core formations with Xuan Ziwen and discovered that Huo Yuhao carried the aura of an Evil Spirit Master and had ties to the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Wen reached level fifty-nine after five months, then accompanied Xuan Ziwen’s group to the Evil Demon Forest to test an improved All-Terrain Self-Propelled Detector.

Su Wen joined Ju Zi, Ke Ke, and the others for a barbecue before scouting the Jingyang Mountain Range, while Huo Yuhao confirmed Su Wen’s Beast Taming ability and plotted to lure him into a Holy Spirit Cult altar. Su Wen considered the Evil Emperor’s possible time-space powers and wondered how to persuade the powerful Soul Beast to enter his Pokeball.

• Zi Mu cooked for the group, and the conversation turned from his food to Su Wen’s strength.
• Ju Zi asked whether Huo Yuhao knew Su Wen, and Su Wen answered for him without revealing their awkward history.
• Su Wen told Ke Ke that his Beast Taming martial soul had a limited number of permanent slots, confirming other powers’ suspicions about his abilities.
• Huo Yuhao considered using himself as bait to draw Su Wen to a nearby Holy Spirit Cult altar, where its Altar Lords might be able to kill him.
• After the meal, Su Wen drove the All-Terrain Self-Propelled Detector ahead through the forest while sharing Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Detection.
• Su Wen speculated that capturing and evolving the Evil Emperor could grant him time-space powers, but he was unsure how to gain the beast’s consent.

Su Wen used Hurricane to destroy a Golden Wolf pack and Silver Moon Wolf King that had trapped the group in the Jingyang Mountain Range, then learned the Sun Moon royal clan blamed him for Wang Shaojie's death. He warned Xuan Ziwen about a new approach to Soul Tools through metal forging, leaving Xuan tempted by the prospect of pursuing the research at Shrek Academy.

• Huo Yuhao detected a Silver Moon Wolf King and a large Golden Wolf pack surrounding the All-Terrain Self-Propelled Detector, but Su Wen decided to face them.
• Su Wen summoned Hurricane, whose tornado scattered the wolves and terrified the Silver Moon Wolf King into fleeing.
• Su Wen spared the unconscious Silver Moon Wolf King, and the group returned to the laboratory unharmed.
• Xuan Ziwen warned Su Wen that the Sun Moon royal clan had connected him to Wang Shaojie's death and advised him to stay at Mingde Hall.
• Su Wen proposed that Xuan Ziwen pursue metal forging to improve Soul Tools, explaining that Shrek Academy could provide the resources and freedom for the research.
• Xuan Ziwen resisted Su Wen's pitch despite his evident excitement about restarting the research topic.

Huo Yuhao went to the Holy Spirit Cult’s branch, where Su Wen ambushed him after killing its senior members. Su Wen killed Huo Yuhao and instantly refined Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, leaving Huo Yuhao’s revenge for Ju Zi.

• Huo Yuhao left the academy after discussing with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm his worries about Su Wen’s disappearance and the branch’s sudden summons.
• Fan Yu met Huo Yuhao and revealed that he had secretly brought Zhou Yi, who was in a vegetative state, to Ming City.
• Huo Yuhao entered the Holy Spirit Cult branch and realized that its Great Holy Spirit had not appeared in person to deliver the message.
• Su Wen appeared beside a pile of dead Holy Spirit Cult experts, and Huo Yuhao tried to escape before the young guide was killed.
• Huo Yuhao offered Su Wen everything, including Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, in exchange for help avenging the White Tiger Duke, but Su Wen said Ju Zi might take revenge instead.
• Su Wen tore Sky Dream Ice Silkworm from Huo Yuhao’s mind and refined him instantly, then watched Huo Yuhao die.

Su Wen destroyed the Ming City Branch Altar and sent Nana’s parents’ souls into reincarnation, while Electrolux considered claiming the world’s incomplete laws of death. Ju Zi then reported Su Wen’s immense strength and Soul Tool talent to Xu Tianran, leaving the Crown Prince alarmed by his potential.

• Su Wen confronted Nana, learned that Huo Yuhao had recruited her by promising to free her parents, and spared her despite her fear.
• Su Wen and Electrolux gathered the altar’s wandering souls and sent Nana’s parents into reincarnation, prompting Nana to thank Su Wen.
• Electrolux said he might become the God of Death by claiming the world’s unclaimed laws of death.
• Ju Zi met Xu Tianran at the imperial palace and reported Su Wen’s strength, restraint, and rapid rise to eighth-level Soul Engineer.
• Xu Tianran reacted with alarm to Su Wen’s talent as Ju Zi privately struggled with her growing attachment to him.

After rescuing Nana’s parents and destroying the Holy Spirit Cult’s Sacred Altar, Su Wen found Nana determined to become his servant, while he and Xuan Ziwen began exploring how advanced metal forging could improve Soul Tools. The chapter left Nana joining Su Wen’s circle and the new research project gaining momentum, even as Xuan Ziwen’s loyalties continued shifting toward Shrek Academy.

• Ju Zi relayed Xu Tianran’s order to keep contacting Su Wen and report useful information.
• Nana decided to repay Su Wen by becoming his Holy Servant and asked him to take her as his master.
• Su Wen explained that he had spared Nana because she had retained her goodness and could help take revenge on the Holy Spirit Cult, but Nana insisted on serving him.
• Xuan Ziwen teased Su Wen about Nana, while Ke Ke jokingly offered to become another maid and was turned down.
• Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen discussed combining metal forging with Soul Tool technology, including tests showing that Thousand-Refinement Deep Silver could greatly enhance long-range Soul Tools.

Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen discovered that Soul-Refinement greatly increased a soul tool’s power, then began planning to obtain a secret Humanoid Soul Tool from an underground depot. After several days, Su Wen joined Gu Yuena in the Evil Demon Forest, where she explained the Evil Emperor’s origins and hinted at its spatial abilities.

• Su Wen and Xuan Ziwen tested forged metals with soul tools and found that Soul-Refinement increased a Grade 8 device’s power by 4.3 times.
• Su Wen revealed that he could perform Soul-Refinement, and Xuan Ziwen agreed to investigate how they could access a Humanoid Soul Tool.
• Su Wen returned to his dormitory, where Nana welcomed him as his maid, served him dinner, and warmed his bed.
• Xuan Ziwen located the Sun Moon Empire’s latest Humanoid Soul Tool in an underground arms depot east of Ming City, and Su Wen decided to wait until after the Evil Demon Forest trip to act.
• Su Wen and Gu Yuena entered the Evil Demon Forest, where Gu Yuena warned that its ruler, the Evil Emperor, might not welcome them.
• Gu Yuena told Su Wen that the Evil Emperor had spatial abilities and speculated that capturing it might reveal whether it could develop Time-Space Power.

Su Wen and Gu Yuena traveled through the Evil Demon Forest to find the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, while Little Gold crushed a Devourer Beast that attacked them. The Evil Emperor struck Su Wen with its Light of Time and Space, but Azure Luan’s protection kept him alive; Gu Yuena subdued the Evil Emperor, and Su Wen tried to capture it in a Pokeball.

• Gu Yuena told Su Wen that defeating the Golden Dragon King would let her become the Dragon God, and the two discussed human technology in the Evil Demon Forest.
• When the Devourer Beast charged Su Wen, Little Gold pinned it down and crushed it, then Su Wen and Gu Yuena continued toward the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord.
• Su Wen and Gu Yuena passed the Holy Spirit Cult’s headquarters without attacking, then reached the Evil Demon Forest’s core region.
• The Evil Emperor recognized the Dragon Pill in Su Wen and attacked him with Light of Time and Space, but Azure Luan’s Blood Lock skill and healing kept him alive.
• Gu Yuena revealed her Silver Dragon form and seized the Evil Emperor, while Su Wen threw a Pokeball at it and ordered it beaten until it agreed to enter.

Su Wen captured the Evil Emperor and discovered that its new Void Key form wielded terrifying time-space abilities. As Su Wen and Gu Yuena left the Evil Demon Forest with its resources, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Zhang Peng approached to investigate the battle.

• The Evil Emperor agreed to join Su Wen’s Pokeball after Gu Yuena defeated it, and Su Wen captured it.
• Su Wen learned that the Evil Emperor had evolved into Void Key, gaining Time-Space Reset, Time-Space Imprisonment, and Time-Space Retrospection.
• The Evil Emperor explained that Time-Space Reset could reach any timeline, while Su Wen insisted on calling it Da Yan instead of Void Eye.
• Da Yan left instructions for a powerful Evil Eye Tyrant to guard its territory, and Su Wen took the forest’s rare metals as he and Gu Yuena departed.
• Zhang Peng, Long Xiaoyao, and Ye Xishui arrived to investigate the battle, and Ye Xishui proposed approaching the victors.

Su Wen tested his Time-Space Power at the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy and used time stasis to approach Long Xiaoyao undetected. He met Long Xiaoyao at a tavern, where the elder began to suspect that Su Wen’s ability involved time.

• Su Wen considered Da Yan’s explanation that Time Reset could send him ten thousand years into the past and had only a three-month cooldown.
• Nana gave Su Wen a meal, and he promised to spend the night with her.
• Su Wen froze time across the cafeteria, appeared beside Long Xiaoyao on the roof, and invited him to a tavern.
• Long Xiaoyao explained he had come to check on Su Wen because of Mu En’s instructions, not because of the Evil Demon Forest.
• Long Xiaoyao asked whether Su Wen had spatial abilities, and after Su Wen denied it, he wondered if the power involved time.